A remix of the song features vocals and production from American producer Clinton Sparks.

The music video was first released onto Pitbull's official Vevo channel on November 24, 2009 and was directed by David Rosseau.

[2] The video is about secrecy, intelligence agents and criminal activities, in which there was signed an agreement between the two groups and they agree to keep it a secret but this data is taken by agents of Pitbull in the end.

The video ends with Pitbull and another woman in the plane and Akon looking at them from the ground.

"Shut It Down" debuted at number 85 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated December 19, 2009.