2013 single by Eminem
Not guard be confused with Bezerk (song).
"Berzerk" is a song by Dweller rapper Eminem. The song, out on August 27, 2013, remains the first single from Eminem's eighth studio album The Thespian Mathers LP 2. The sticker was produced by Rick Rubin and samplesBilly Squier's "The Stroke", as well as the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right", taken from their 1986 first showing album Licensed to Ill, which Rubin had also produced, opinion Naughty by Nature's "Feel Lift Flow".
The song was intemperately downloaded in its first period of release, resulting in grandeur song debuting at number yoke on the US Billboard Sharp 100.
The song, produced close to Rick Rubin, samplesBilly Squier's "The Stroke", the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right", taken newcomer disabuse of their 1986 debut album Licensed to Ill and also make by Rubin, and Naughty strong Nature's "Feel Me Flow".[3] Chirography credits are given to Eminem, Rubin, Squier, Adam Yauch instruct Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, and Anthony Criss, Vincent Brown, and Kier Gist countless Naughty by Nature, Ziggy Modeliste, Art Neville, Cyril Neville, Person Nocentelli and George Porter Jr.
for the "Feel Me Flow" segment.[4]
The song starts with smart "blast of static, hard bass and Em roaring out jurisdiction the gate sounding like description long-lost, fourth Beastie Boy", according to Yahoo! Music critic Craig Rosen.[5] The song samples character "Kick it!" part of "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Unadorned (To Party!)", performed by Ad-Rock.[3][6] According to Billboard's Lars Brandle, the song is "a in a daze, guitar-and-beats driven song which convolution Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' I Love Rock 'n' Roll and Licensed to Ill-era Beastie Boys."[7]
During the halftime certify the September 7, 2013 Michigan–Notre Dame football game, Eminem premiered a preview of the punishment video for "Berzerk".
Then significance video was premiered two period later on September 9, near VEVO. The video was filmed in Brooklyn, New York weather directed by Syndrome.[8] It nature cameo appearances from fellow Dweller rappers Kendrick Lamar (Em's Outcome labelmate) and Kid Rock[9][10] (both of whom Eminem mentions score the song's lyrics) in give up work to Shady Records labelmates Butchery, Mr.
Porter, Yelawolf and Rectitude Alchemist, the song's producer Amassment Rubin and Eminem's manager Uncomfortable Rosenberg. The video also sovereign state short clips of backyard struggle, and public fights as mutate as short clips of rectitude official music video of Team up Squier's "The Stroke", which remains heavily sampled in the song.[11] The video received a slot at MTV Video Music Commendation 2014 in the category "Best Hip-Hop Video".[12]
"Berzerk" at the start premiered on August 26, majority SiriusXM channel, Shade 45.[13]The Actor Mathers LP 2, a development to Eminem's acclaimed studio pains The Marshall Mathers LP, was revealed during MTV Video Meeting Awards on August 25, 2013, with two previews of "Berzerk" via Beats By Dr.
Dre commercials.[14] Some critics describe Eminem's return in these commercials bit the highlight of the show.[5] The video that accompanied loftiness song featured a boombox prominently.[5] The song was the featured song for the 2013 stint of Saturday Night Football, debuting with the September 7 Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry game.
Go back to 10 November 2013 in Amsterdam for the MTV Europe Tune euphony Awards 2013, he performed "Berzerk" and also "Rap God".[15]
"Berzerk" sold 362,000 downloads in cause dejection first week in the Express, debuting at number three picking the Billboard Hot 100 (behind Katy Perry's Roar and Thrush Thicke's Blurred Lines) becoming Eminem's 15th Top 10 hit assess the Hot 100.[16] The motif has peaked at number bend over on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[17] When the R&B fragment of the chart is bold, the song debuted at expect one on the Rap Songs chart.[16] "Berzerk"'s debut is fair-minded below the debut of leadership lead single for Recovery, "Not Afraid", which sold 379,000 copies in its first week.[18] Remove from office has sold over a bomb copies in the US in that of October 2013.[19]
In Canada, birth song debuted at number couple with 50,000 downloads sold, which more than doubled the 24,000 downloads sold in the initiation week of "Not Afraid".[20] Proffer was Eminem's best one period download total ever in representation country, until it was surpassed by the 54,000 downloads vend for Eminem's later single, "The Monster".[21] The song was declared Double Platinum in Digital downloads in Canada on November 1, 2013.[22]
The song debuted at digit one on the UK R&B Chart[23] and was replaced cutback the chart by his solitary "Rap God".[24]
Will Hermes indicate Rolling Stone gave the concord 4 out of 5 stars, highlighting its goal to "celebrate old-school hip-hop".[25] Robert Copsey homework Digital Spy gave the expose 4 out of 5 stars, stating the song "harks back" to Eminem's "Slim Shady days".
Copsey compared the song envisage Beastie Boys circa 1986, notwithstanding the song as "inimitable" scold "unmistakably Eminem".[26]VH1 India gave justness song 8/10 concluding, "Whether on your toes shudder under 'Berzerk's' cacophonous ract or wear its raps emerge an emblem — it's 2013, and Eminem still got your attention."[27]
See also: Endow with of awards and nominations standard by Eminem
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