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| Single byGame featuringChris Brown,Tyga,Wiz Khalifa andLil Wayne | ||||
| from the albumJesus Piece | ||||
| Released | September 2, 2012 (2012-09-02) | |||
| Genre | West Coast hip-hop | |||
| Length | 4:49 | |||
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"Celebration" is a song by American rapperGame featuring fellow American rappersTyga,Wiz Khalifa, &Lil Wayne and American singerChris Brown, released as thelead single from the former's fifth studio albumJesus Piece. "Celebration" premiered on Los Angeles' Power 106 on August 22, 2012. The song samplesBone Thugs-n-Harmony's hit single "1st of tha Month", which in return samples theChapter 8 andAnita Baker song "I Just Want to Be Your Girl".
Celebration was written byGame (credited as Jayceon Taylor),Lil Wayne,Tyga,Chris Brown andWiz Khalifa. Production of the song was handled byCool & Dre and their protégé SAP.Celebration samplesBone Thugs-n-Harmony's hit1st of tha Month produced byDJ U-Neek. Game said, "I grew up in Compton, California, and I'm a huge fan of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. This is my fifth album, and my whole career I've been trying to figure out how to flip '1st of Tha Month' and I finally did it... I wanted to keep the feel of the song without taking too much of the original."[1]
In an early version of the song, Game says he's "scoopin' upDrake and hittin' the freeway" instead of "scoopin' up Chris."[2] "Drake" was replaced with "Chris" on the album version due to the feud between the two artists that had erupted a few months after the song was recorded. This version of the song also does not have a verse from Wiz Khalifa.
David Jeffries from Allmusic wrote: "The breezy and nostalgic closer "Celebration" feels more like a Sunday picnic than a Sunday sermon."[3] Pitchfork called this song "catchy Bone Thugs redux."[4] Jon Dolan called this song "redemptive."[5] USA Today listed this song in Download This list.[6] XXL was positive: "Most instrumentals on the record are, appropriately, soulful but not identical, as highlights more thump, such as the album's first single "Celebration."[7]
"Celebration" managed to attain chart success, debuted and peaked at number 82 on theBillboard Hot 100, number 22 on US Rhythmic chart and number 24 on the Hot Hip-Hop/R&B chart.Lil Wayne's contribution earned him his 109th chart entry, surpassingElvis Presley's record for the most chart entries. It re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of November 22, 2012 at number 100. The song spent a total of 12 weeks on the Hot 100 and 20 weeks on the Hip-Hop/R&B chart.
The music video was directed byMatt Alonzo and produced by Tara Razavi, Michael Busalacchi and KeElviyn Craver. Game toldMTV news that fans could expect a similar feel and visual from his mentorDr. Dre's hit singleNuthin' but a 'G' Thang (featuringSnoop Doggy Dogg).
"The concept of the video is Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang my videos, I don't like them to be fake or feel like anybody gotta act, so we're really having a barbecue out here," Game said. "It's real food, it ain't no prop food, it's real water guns — everything real."[1]
Game, Chris Brown, Tyga, Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa all appear in the video performing their part of the song. Game's son Harlem andWarren G are cameos in the video. Themusic video was released on September 18, 2012.
As of April 2021, the video has over 60 million views on YouTube.[citation needed]
Shortly before their set at Rock the Bells' San Francisco Bay area on Sunday night,Bone Thugs-n-Harmony said they were appreciative of Game's new single which samples both their music and stylings.
"I feel like any song that we do that someone remixes we may have looked at as being disrespectful back when we were young and getting in the game," Wish Bone said from the tour stop in Mountain View, California. "But us being in the game for 20 years and younger cats coming up behind us doing our style, a style that we invented, that's kind of a compliment."
Game posted a picture on his Twitter showing the word "bone" structured withcannabis.[8] Game later confirmed that he is working in the studio with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony on a remix for "Celebration". On October 28, an official remix, featuring all five members of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony was released by Game. It was positively received by the critics. The Game and the Bone Thugs filmed a music video for the track on November 14, 2012 in Los Angeles.[9]
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| New Zealand (RMNZ)[15] | Gold | 15,000‡ |
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| Canada | September 2, 2012[16] | Digital download | DGC/Interscope |
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| United States | September 2, 2012[17][18] | Rhythmic contemporary radio | |
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| September 2, 2012[19] | Contemporary hit radio |
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