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Keri Hilson caught one with “Knock You Down,” the fourth single from her 2009 effort, In a Perfect World. The song featured both Ne-Yo and Kanye West and discusses the topic of love so inescapable and consuming that it “knocks you down.” Hilson’s music video, directed by Chris Robinson, took the subject a bit further, with scenes depicting the artists being knocked down in widescreen shots to represent how deep in love the character was.
106 & Park gobbled the video up, and after 60 No. 1 spot entries, Terrence and Rocsi announced that they were officially retiring the video. The duo interviewed Keri Hilson live on the show about the milestone, and asked her if she knew it was going to “be a monster hit that it is.” Keri responded by saying that she did and that “this was one of the rare times that I called the hit.”
“I heard this without Kanye and Ne-Yo, I heard the track and it….was an amazing record. I said ‘This is a hit, I have to do this.’ And my album was already about to close, but I fought to record this song and finish it,” Hilson said during the show.