Puff Daddy ft Mase Cant Nobody Hold Me Down ( Explicit)

Can t Nobody Hold Me Down the debut hit single by rapper Sean Puff Daddy Combs. It appears on Combs debut album No Way Out and it was released as the first single in 1997. Combs was already a successful songwriter, producer and record label owner (Bad Boy Records) before he released his debut album as a performer. His first U. S. chart single, No Time, was a toptwenty hit for Lil Kim on which Puff Daddy was credited as a featured vocalist. Can t Nobody Hold Me Down was the debut chart appearance for Harlembased rapper Mase. The song combines elements of several previous singles, the most obvious being a sloweddown rhythm track sampled from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five s The Message. The track s chorus is an interpolation of Break My Stride, a topfive single by Matthew Wilder from 1983. Can t Nobody Hold Me Down entered the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 at number thirtytwo in early 1997 and eventually spent six weeks at number one. It was the beginning of Combs and Bad Boy Records c