We Made It

"We Made It" is a promo single by rapper Busta Rhymes featuring American rock band Linkin Park. The song was to be on Busta Rhymes's eighth studio album Back on My B.S., but was then cancelled off the track list because the album was released on a different label as "We Made It" was Busta Rhymes's last song on Interscope. The song was produced by Cool & Dre, with additional production by Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson. The song was released on April 29, 2008. It was Busta Rhymes's final release on Aftermath Entertainment.

The track debuted and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 charts at #65.^[1] The song debuted at #14 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Rhymes' 12th and Linkin Park's 10th top 20 hit in the United Kingdom. The single peaked at number 10 and remained there after the physical release. The single also had significant success in Germany peaking at #11 on the German Singles Chart.

Background and inspiration

Busta Rhymes said that the inspiration for this song was from what happened to T.I. after the BET Awards:

The record was inspired by the situation that transpired with T.I. right after the BET Hip-Hop Awards. My legal situations were current, and his legal situations were current, and Akon had his, you know, history of legal situations in the past ... We wanted people to — as bad as things might look for us sometimes — just know that it ain't over until you say it's over at the end of the day. 'Cause nobody can really dictate what the outcome of your destiny, what your life is going to end up becoming, unless you let it happen that way.^[2]

Dre originally sang the hook, until Rhymes listened to the beat and Linkin Park kept "popping up in his head".

The song was first performed on May 2, 2008 during Busta's concert at Club Index in Germany. However, he was more or less introducing the song to them, as the studio version was played and Busta occasionally sang over the song, or lip synced to it while holding his microphone down. The first performance with Linkin Park was at their rehearsal studio Third Encore on May 25, 2008, to an audience of 14 members of the Linkin Park fan club who were brought there by surprise. During the Projekt Revolution 2008 tour the song's performance featured Adam Monroe of Ashes Divide on the keyboard and Spliff Star on backing vocals and was played during Linkin Park's set. During Busta Rhymes' concerts, where Linkin Park isn't present, the studio instrumental is played and Busta usually tells the audience to move their arms up and down during Mike Shinoda's verse.

The song appears on the soundtrack of Madden NFL 09 and it is used as the theme song for its coverage of the 2008 NBA Western Conference Finals. This marked the second time a Shinoda song was used during the NBA play-offs, the first being "Remember the Name" by Fort Minor. The song was also used in the 2008 Philadelphia Phillies home World Series game before the team took the field in Games 3, 4, and 5 and as part of a video reel of highlights for the team leading up to the World Series, with a road in the background as the team took their playoff run "on the road".

Upon watching Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential election victory, Busta began cheering and singing the chorus of "We Made It".^[3]

Chamillionaire created his own version of the song called "The Real Thang" with a similar theme. The song is available on his Mixtape Messiah 4.

Music video

The music video premiered all day on BET on Tuesday, April 29, the same day as the video for its first single, "Don't Touch Me (Throw da Water on 'em)." The video also premiered for 24 hours only on Yahoo! Music on April 29. That same day, "We Made It" went to radio stations worldwide. The video also featured cameo appearances from Styles of Beyond, Bishop Lamont and Lamar Odom. Chris Robinson directed the video. * The warehouse in which the parts of the music video was filmed is the same location at which Linkin Park's Meteora album artwork and album cover were done. The video starts with the credits saying Busta Rhymes and Linkin Park and then the titles We Made It appear on the screen. Then you see Linkin Park walking through the warehouse and Busta Rhymes in a New York City flat. Then it cuts to scenes of people walking through the streets and people running a race through the rain.

This video also marks one of the first appearances of the Beats audio headphones.^[4]

Track listing

CD single
No.	Title	Length
1.	"We Made It" (Album Version)	3:58
2.	"We Made It" (A Capella) (Edit)	3:00
3.	"We Made It" (Instrumental)	3:58
4.	"We Made It" (Video)	4:31

iTunes EP
No.	Title	Length
1.	"We Made It" (Album Version)	3:58
2.	"We Made It" (A Cappella) (Edit)	2:59
3.	"We Made It" (Instrumental)	3:58

Personnel

Busta Rhymes - rapping
Chester Bennington - vocals
Mike Shinoda - rapping, guitar
Brad Delson - guitar
Eddie "Crack Keys" Montilla - keyboards
Cool & Dre - all other instruments
Neil Pogue - Mixing Engineer
Gina Victoria & Rande Johnson - Recording Engineers

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	37
Canadian Hot 100	40
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	65
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	47
Irish Singles Chart	12
UK Singles Chart	10
New Zealand Singles Chart	13
Swedish Singles Chart	24
Danish Singles Chart	3
German Singles Chart	11
Norwegian Singles Chart	11

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)	Rank
German Singles Chart^[5]	91
UK Singles Chart^[6]	89

References

↑ "Music: Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart".
↑ http://hiphopdx.com, HipHopDX -. "Busta Rhymes Comments On Star-Studded Remix, Album".
↑ Busta Rhymes Reaction To Obama Win on YouTube
↑ "We Made It (Official Video) on YouTube". From VEVO's YouTube Channel
↑ Archived July 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ "2008 Year-end Charts" (PDF). UKChartsPlus. British Phonographic Industry.

Busta Rhymes
Discography
Albums	The Coming When Disaster Strikes... E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front Anarchy Genesis It Ain't Safe No More... The Big Bang Back on My B.S. Year of the Dragon E.L.E.2 (Extinction Level Event 2)
L.O.N.S. albums	A Future Without a Past... T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind's Eye)
Flipmode albums	The Imperial
Compilations	Total Devastation: The Best of Busta Rhymes Turn It Up! The Very Best of Busta Rhymes The Artist Collection: Busta Rhymes Rich Gang (with YMCMB)
Singles	"Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" "It's a Party" "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" "Dangerous" "Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up" "Gimme Some More" "What's It Gonna Be?!" "Break Ya Neck" "Make It Clap" "Pass the Courvoisier, Part II" "I Know What You Want" "Where's Your Money?" "Touch It" "I Love My Bitch" "New York Shit" "In the Ghetto" "Don't Get Carried Away" "Don't Touch Me (Throw da Water on 'em)" "We Made It" "Arab Money" "Hustler's Anthem '09" "Respect My Conglomerate" "World Go Round" "Why Stop Now" "Twerk It" "Thank You" "Calm Down"
L.O.N.S. singles	"Case of the P.T.A." "Sobb Story" "The International Zone Coaster" "Scenario" "What's Next" "Classic Material"
Flipmode singles	"Everybody on the Line Outside" "Cha Cha Cha"
Featured singles	"Hit 'Em High (The Monstars' Anthem)" "Victory" "Fire" "What's Happenin'" "Don't Cha" "Hurt" "Run the Show" "Peace Sign/Index Down" "Rotate" "C'mon (Catch 'em by Surprise)" "Look at Me Now" "Welcome to My Hood (remix)" "Worldwide Choppers" "The Woman You Love" "Pride n Joy" "Take You There"
Other songs	"We Are the World 25 for Haiti"
Related articles	Native Tongues Conglomerate Records

Linkin Park songs
Discography Awards and nominations
Hybrid Theory	"Papercut" "One Step Closer" "Points of Authority" "Crawling" "Runaway" "In the End" "A Place for My Head"
Reanimation	"Pts.OF.Athrty"
Meteora	"Somewhere I Belong" "Lying from You" "Faint" "Breaking the Habit" "From the Inside" "Numb"
Collision Course	"Numb/Encore"
Minutes to Midnight	"Given Up" "Leave Out All the Rest" "Bleed It Out" "Shadow of the Day" "What I've Done" "No More Sorrow"
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	"New Divide"
A Thousand Suns	"Burning in the Skies" "Waiting for the End" "Blackout" "Wretches and Kings" "Iridescent" "The Catalyst"
Living Things	"Lost in the Echo" "In My Remains" "Burn It Down" "Lies Greed Misery" "I'll Be Gone" "Castle of Glass" "Powerless"
Recharged	"A Light That Never Comes"
The Hunting Party	"Keys to the Kingdom" "All for Nothing" "Guilty All the Same" "Wastelands" "Until It's Gone" "Rebellion" "Final Masquerade"
One More Light	"Nobody Can Save Me" "Good Goodbye" "Talking to Myself" "Battle Symphony" "Invisible" "Heavy" "Sorry for Now" "Halfway Right" "One More Light"
Featured songs	"We Made It" "Darker Than Blood"
Other songs	"Not Alone" "Rolling in the Deep" "White Noise"
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