M.O.P.’s “Ante Up (Robbin Hoodz Theory)” is the lead single from their Warriorz album and has become the group’s most popular song, showing up in television commercials and movie soundtracks. In a 2016 interview with Zilla Rocca for Passion of the Weiss, Billy Danze revealed the inspiration and meaning behind “Ante Up”:

It’s a saying that we got from my mother, every time someone comes through the door she’s like, ‘Where it’s at? Ante up.‘ Just the fact that we took it from the street corner—there was two meanings to the record. It was ante up, we’ve been in this game too long you guys see how we demolish the stage, how we make short work of the main major artists when we get on their records and you still won’t give us the props and the recognition that we deserve. The other side was kind of where we came from. We need money, ante up, take that off, take your shirt, but nobody knows the first part of it.

The beat is based around a sample from the Sam & Dave song “Soul Sister, Brown Sugar”. The horns that were chopped can be heard right at the beginning:

D/R Period had produced a lot of M.O.P. material prior to “Ante Up” and was instrumental in forming their distinctive sound. He breaks down the creation of the well-known “Ante Up” beat in this video: