| "Rescue Me" | ||||
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| Single by Skepta featuring Agent X | ||||
| from the album Doin' It Again | ||||
| Released | 27 June 2010 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||
| Genre | Breakstep, dubstep, grime | |||
| Length | 3:13 (radio edit) | |||
| Label | Boy Better Know, 3 Beat, All Around The World | |||
| Writer(s) | Joseph Junior Adenuga | |||
| Producer | Agent X | |||
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"Rescue Me" is a single by British grime artist, Skepta. It released 27 June 2010 for digital download. On 10 July 2010 it charted number 14 on the UK Singles Chart, beating the chart position of Skepta's previous single, "Bad Boy". The track is produced by Agent X - who had also produced "Bad Boy". It is the second single released from his third album. It may be referring to Skepta's fear. In magazine The Guardian Skepta was interviewed saying he used to run through the crowd to get to his stage, but got worried as to whether he would get hurt like many of his fellow rappers. Doin' It Again.
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Fraser McAlpine of BBC Chart Blog gave the song a positive review stating:
Ha! Brilliant! For reasons too complicated to explain, my first experience of this song was a dodgy YouTube link which I was trying (and mostly failing) to watch on a crowded train on a really hot day. I knew this was the latest club banger from Skepta, an MC with a lot of love riding on his back. Unfortunately, I could only watch the first 21 seconds (which might sound like the feed line for a So Solid Crew joke, but it's not), and could not work out what on Earth was going on.
I mean, acoustic guitar? Earnestly-sung lyrics about self-development and things going wrong? Isn't that the preserve of your rock-type people? Surely someone has mis-labelled the YouTube clip? Surely there's been some kind of MISTAKE?
And then, in a miraculous parting of the binary clouds, letting pure information shine through, the rest of the video suddenly arrived. And that's when things started to become very clear..[1]
| iTunes Digital download[2] | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Rescue Me" (Radio Edit) | 3:13 | |||||||
| 2. | "Rescue Me" (Sigma Mix) | 5:36 | |||||||
| 3. | "Rescue Me" (Hervé Trust Me Mix) | 4:24 | |||||||
| 4. | "Rescue Me" (Melé Mix) | 5:32 | |||||||
| 5. | "Rescue Me" (Ruff Loaderz Mix) | 5:48 | |||||||
On 10 July 2010, "Rescue Me" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 14 - which is Skepta's highest chart position currently. The next week it slipped down to number 19.
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[3] | 14 |
| UK R&B (The Official Charts Company)[4] | 6 |
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