2013Released
4:32

Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about Survival. By Songfacts®.

This track was premiered in the trailer for the video game, Call of Duty: Ghosts. The clip starts in a snow-covered forest with footage from the violent military game before Liz Rodrigues sings accompanied by rock guitars, "This is survival of the fittest. This is do or die." Eminem jumps in accompanied by the sounds of gunshots flying, "Wasn't ready to be a millionaire. .I was ill-prepared. I was prepared to be ill though, the skill was there." Em said: "The song's about fighting back and it seems like it fits 'Ghost' perfectly.

This was the third time an Eminem song had been used to promote a Call of Duty game. "'Till I Collapse" was used in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 trailer, and "Won't Back Down" in the Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer.

This was the first solo track dropped by Eminem since his 2010 Recovery album though he had appeared on singles with labelmates 50 Cent, Slaughterhouse and Skylar Grey since. Em snarls over DJ Khali's gritty, ominous rock and roll beat. "I'm fu--ing back again With another anthem, why stop when it doesn't have to end? It ain't over 'til I say it's over – enough when I say enough." Yes Slim Shady's back and he's not given up rapping yet - as he said during his performance with the Shady Records roster at the 2011 BET Awards: "Imma rap till' I'm fossil fuel."

Top Listeners

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Survival.
DKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
176BPM

Album

The album Survival is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Survival.
Aftermath
© 2013 Aftermath Records
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records

See your Spotify stats (with number of plays and minutes listened) and discover new music.

Music data, artist images, album covers, and song previews are provided by Spotify. Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB.

6MArtists
75.1MSongs
12.6MAlbums
6.5KGenres
2.6MLabels
494.7KPlaylists