All the Above (Maino song)
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"All the Above" is the second single from Brooklyn rapper Maino
's second album If Tomorrow Comes...
. It features R&B singer T-Pain
. "All The Above" was produced by Just Blaze
(and co-produced by Nard & B), the producer of T.I.
's song "Live Your Life
". Both songs have similar elements including the lead synthesizers, drum pattern, and violins but in a different key and different chords.
, was shot in Miami and features Maino drinking "Purple Stuff", a relaxation drink from Funktional Beverages, during an interview sequence. The music video premiered on MTV Jams March 23, 2009.
It ranked at #61 on BET
's Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2009 countdown.
team used it as their intro song and has now become part of their regularly played music during the games.
This song was used as the entrance song for Danillo Villefort
at UFC 101
.
It is also used as the entrance song for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball
team and the theme song of the Saskatoon Accelerators
Aspiring rappers ZipShady and Sticky Stick remixed the song to be about the TI N-Spire calculator. The video can be found on YouTube.
During the 2009-'10 NCAA Baseball season, very many ACC
teams, most prominently the Florida State Seminoles
, the Miami Hurricanes
, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
, the Virginia Cavaliers
, and the Virginia Tech Hokies
, have used the chorus and T-Pain's line, (from the extended version), as a walkup song. It was also used prevelently at that year's ACC Baseball Tournament
, in Greensboro, North Carolina
.
Ryan Hannigan of the Cincinnati Reds, Dan Uggla of the Atlanta Braves and Robert Andino of the Baltimore Orioles uses this as their walkup song
The Charlotte Bobcats
use this as their pre-tip off song
The West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball
team used the song in their pre-game entrance video for the 2009-2010 season.
A2: All The Above (Instrumental) (3:51)
A3: All The Above (Explicit) (5:20)
B1: Hood Love (Amended) (4:15)
B2: Hood Love (Explicit) (4:15)
B3: Hood Love (Instrumental) (4:15)
, T-Pain
still on the chorus, and a new verse by Maino
.
Another remix dubbed "The StreetMix" has been on some street mixtapes featuring Chamillionaire
and an underground artist called Shadow. Chamillionaire
is on the first verse, Maino
on the second, T-Pain
on the hook, and Shadow on the bridge. Shadow's parts are in Tagalog
while the rest of the song is in English.
Rapper S.T.C samples All the Above on his mixtape Now You Kno
. It debuted at #54 and then rose to #39 the next week and then fell out of the top fifty a couple weeks later, and then climbed back into the top fifty for another five weeks without surpassing the original peak position. It's currently back in the top fifty. It also has peaked at #10 on the Hot Rap Tracks
, #59 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
chart, and #46 on the Pop 100
. The single is certified platinum.
Maino
Maino is an American rapper from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York.-Early life:...
's second album If Tomorrow Comes...
If Tomorrow Comes (album)
If Tomorrow Comes... is the debut album by rapper Maino. The album was released on June 30, 2009 after several delays.-Background:In 2003, Maino was released from prison after a 10 year sentence for a drug related kidnapping. He founded the independent label Hustle Hard and started to record music...
. It features R&B singer T-Pain
T-Pain
Faheem Rasheed Najm , better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor, currently signed to Young Money Entertainment. His debut album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, was released in 2005. In 2007, T-Pain released his second studio album Epiphany,...
. "All The Above" was produced by Just Blaze
Just Blaze
Justin Smith, better known as Just Blaze, is an American hip hop music producer from Paterson, New Jersey. Blaze is also the CEO of Fort Knocks Entertainment. He is most well known for producing Jay-Z songs on the albums The Blueprint, The Blueprint 2, and The Black Album. He is also known for...
(and co-produced by Nard & B), the producer of T.I.
T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. , better known by his stage name T.I., is an American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author. He is also the founder and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....
's song "Live Your Life
Live Your Life
"Live Your Life" is a song by American rapper T.I., and the third single, from his sixth studio album Paper Trail. It was released as the third single from the album on September 23, 2008. The song features Barbadian pop singer Rihanna, and was produced by Just Blaze and Canei Finch. It officially...
". Both songs have similar elements including the lead synthesizers, drum pattern, and violins but in a different key and different chords.
Music video
The music video, which was directed by Erik WhiteErik White
Erik White is an American director, primarily with music videos. He directed the 2010 comedy film Lottery Ticket, starring rappers Ice Cube and Bow Wow. White is also the nephew of music video director Hype Williams....
, was shot in Miami and features Maino drinking "Purple Stuff", a relaxation drink from Funktional Beverages, during an interview sequence. The music video premiered on MTV Jams March 23, 2009.
It ranked at #61 on BET
Black Entertainment Television
Black Entertainment Television is an American, Viacom-owned cable network based in Washington, D.C.. Currently viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide, it is the most prominent television network targeting young Black-American audiences. The network was launched on January 25, 1980, by its...
's Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2009 countdown.
In popular culture
In the 2009 NCAA Football Season the Auburn Tigers FootballAuburn Tigers football
Only Mohamed Amin Abughadir set the record with 1,890 yards in 1 season. He was the QB for Auburn in 1998.The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the...
team used it as their intro song and has now become part of their regularly played music during the games.
This song was used as the entrance song for Danillo Villefort
Danillo Villefort
Danillo Villefort is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. He is the son of Francisco Silva. Villefort has fought for the UFC, WEC and the IFL...
at UFC 101
UFC 101
UFC 101: Declaration was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 8, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
.
It is also used as the entrance song for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball
Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball
The Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Home games are played at Cassell Coliseum, located on Virginia Tech's campus in Blacksburg.-History:...
team and the theme song of the Saskatoon Accelerators
Saskatoon Accelerators
Saskatoon Accelerators is a professional soccer team based in Saskatoon that plays the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League. The team plays indoor soccer which is different than the official FIFA indoor game called futsal. Its home games are played at Henk Ruys Soccer Center in Saskatoon.-Club...
Aspiring rappers ZipShady and Sticky Stick remixed the song to be about the TI N-Spire calculator. The video can be found on YouTube.
During the 2009-'10 NCAA Baseball season, very many ACC
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
teams, most prominently the Florida State Seminoles
Florida State Seminoles
The Florida State Seminoles are the men's and women's sports teams of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State participates in the NCAA's Division I . FSU joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1991, and competes in the Atlantic Division in any sports split into a...
, the Miami Hurricanes
Miami Hurricanes
The Miami Hurricanes, of Coral Gables, Florida, are the varsity sports teams of the University of Miami. They compete in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference . The university fields 15 athletic teams for 17 varsity sports...
, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
The Yellow Jackets is the name used for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. The teams have also been nicknamed the Ramblin' Wreck, Engineers, Blacksmiths, and Golden Tornado. There are 8 men's and 7 women's teams that...
, the Virginia Cavaliers
Virginia Cavaliers
The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as Wahoos or Hoos, are the athletic teams officially representing the University of Virginia in college sports. The Cavaliers compete in 25 NCAA Division I varsity sports and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference...
, and the Virginia Tech Hokies
Virginia Tech Hokies
The Virginia Tech Hokies are the athletic teams officially representing Virginia Tech in college sports. The Hokies participate in the NCAA's Division I Atlantic Coast Conference in 19 varsity sports. Virginia Tech's men's sports are football, basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, soccer,...
, have used the chorus and T-Pain's line, (from the extended version), as a walkup song. It was also used prevelently at that year's ACC Baseball Tournament
ACC Baseball Tournament
The ACC Baseball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in baseball for the Atlantic Coast Conference . It is a two-group round-robin tournament with the winners of each group facing each other in a one-game match for the championship...
, in Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...
.
Ryan Hannigan of the Cincinnati Reds, Dan Uggla of the Atlanta Braves and Robert Andino of the Baltimore Orioles uses this as their walkup song
The Charlotte Bobcats
Charlotte Bobcats
The Charlotte Bobcats is a professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association. The Bobcats were established in 2004 as an expansion team, two seasons after Charlotte's previous NBA...
use this as their pre-tip off song
The West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball
West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball
The West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represents West Virginia University in NCAA Division I college basketball competition. It is a member of the Big East Conference. West Virginia most recently reached the Final Four of the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, led by...
team used the song in their pre-game entrance video for the 2009-2010 season.
12" vinyl single track listing
A1: All The Above (Radio Edit) (3:55)A2: All The Above (Instrumental) (3:51)
A3: All The Above (Explicit) (5:20)
B1: Hood Love (Amended) (4:15)
B2: Hood Love (Explicit) (4:15)
B3: Hood Love (Instrumental) (4:15)
Remix
The official remix has been made featuring a verse by rapper Young JeezyYoung Jeezy
Jay Wayne Jenkins , better known by his stage name Young Jeezy, is an American rapper. He is the member of the hip hop group United Streets Dopeboyz of America and a former member of BMF...
, T-Pain
T-Pain
Faheem Rasheed Najm , better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor, currently signed to Young Money Entertainment. His debut album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, was released in 2005. In 2007, T-Pain released his second studio album Epiphany,...
still on the chorus, and a new verse by Maino
Maino
Maino is an American rapper from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York.-Early life:...
.
Another remix dubbed "The StreetMix" has been on some street mixtapes featuring Chamillionaire
Chamillionaire
Hakeem Seriki , better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire is also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click...
and an underground artist called Shadow. Chamillionaire
Chamillionaire
Hakeem Seriki , better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire is also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click...
is on the first verse, Maino
Maino
Maino is an American rapper from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York.-Early life:...
on the second, T-Pain
T-Pain
Faheem Rasheed Najm , better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor, currently signed to Young Money Entertainment. His debut album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, was released in 2005. In 2007, T-Pain released his second studio album Epiphany,...
on the hook, and Shadow on the bridge. Shadow's parts are in Tagalog
Tagalog language
Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a third of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by most of the rest. It is the first language of the Philippine region IV and of Metro Manila...
while the rest of the song is in English.
Rapper S.T.C samples All the Above on his mixtape Now You Kno
Chart positions
This single is Maino's first to chart on the Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
. It debuted at #54 and then rose to #39 the next week and then fell out of the top fifty a couple weeks later, and then climbed back into the top fifty for another five weeks without surpassing the original peak position. It's currently back in the top fifty. It also has peaked at #10 on the Hot Rap Tracks
Hot Rap Tracks
Rap Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets. From 1989 through 2001, it was based on how much the single...
, #59 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
chart, and #46 on the Pop 100
Pop 100
The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...
. The single is certified platinum.
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
39 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
59 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Hot Rap Tracks Rap Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets. From 1989 through 2001, it was based on how much the single... |
10 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009... |
46 |