“Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” is the first single off Puff Daddy’s hugely successful debut album No Way Out. Although Puffy was already an accomplished producer and music executive at the time of the song’s release, this was his first solo record. The song began a No. 1 Billboard hit in 1997 and kicked off a year where Puff and the Bad Boy Family dominated the charts.

Ma$e recalled the writing of the song in GQ’s oral history of Bad Boy saying:

My verses on Puff’s first few singles from No Way Out were records I wrote in that one-bedroom apartment in Harlem before I even got to the label. I gave them to Puff, because he was the one with the hot hand.