Critical reception
Fraser McAlpine ofHa! 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..
Track listing
Chart performance
On 10 July 2010, "Rescue Me" entered theWeekly charts
References
{{Authority control 2010 singles Skepta songs 2010 songs All Around the World Productions singles Songs written by Skepta Songs written by Greg Bonnick 3 Beat Records singles