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Sun Come Up (song)

2009 single by T-Pain, Rick Ross, Birdman, Glasses Malone

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7638245 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Sun Come Up" is a song by American rapper Glasses Malone, released as the third single from his third studio album, Beach Cruiser. The track is produced by Bigg D and features Birdman, T-Pain, and Rick Ross. It is a hip hop song that samples Freddie Jackson's "Have You Ever Loved Somebody". On Beach Cruiser, the song is listed under the title "Til da Sun Come Up".

Music video

A music video was shot and released on June 5, 2009. The video was filmed on Miami Beach and was directed by Josh Logue.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sun Come Up (song)” is 2009 single by T-Pain, Rick Ross, Birdman, Glasses Malone. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Come, song and single, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-05-12. For this dossier, Come, song and single is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sun Come Up (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.