Come with Me (Puff Daddy song)

"Come with Me"
Single by Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page
from the album Godzilla: The Album
Released	July 21, 1998
Format	Vinyl, CD
Recorded	1998
Genre	Rap rock
Length	6:11 (Album Version) 4:31 (Radio Edit)
Label	Epic Records/Sony Music
Writer(s)	Jimmy Page, Sean Combs, Mark Curry
Producer	Sean "Puffy" Combs
Puff Daddy chronology
"Victory" (1998) "Come with Me" (1998) "P.E. 2000" (1999)

"Come with Me" is a song by Puff Daddy & Jimmy Page that was featured on the soundtrack for the 1998 Godzilla film. The song recreates the 1974 Led Zeppelin song "Kashmir", with Jimmy Page's approval. Page and producer Tom Morello also supplied live guitar parts (Morello also played bass on the song). The song also features heavy orchestral elements. It reached #2 in the UK and #4 in the US. In France, when football club Olympique Marseille scores a goal, this song is played.

A music video featuring both Puff Daddy and Jimmy Page was made for the song.

This collaboration was number twenty-seven on VH1's "Least Metal Moments"^[1] in a segment subtitled "It's All About the Zeppelin", because many metal fans and musicians didn't like the remake. Nick Menza formerly of Megadeth called the Puff Daddy/Jimmy Page collaboration "a blasphemy".^{[citation needed]}

In 1998, Brett Scallions of the band Fuel (who had also offered a song for the soundtrack to Godzilla) said that the "Kashmir" remake put him off the entire film, saying: "It seems like anyone can take a classic rock song from the '60s, '70s or '80s and rap over the top of it and make a million bucks."^{[citation needed]}

It was Puff Daddy's 5th consecutive top 5 single.

Charts and certifications

End of year charts

End of year chart (1998)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2]	47

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Germany (BVMI)[3]	Platinum	500,000^
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

1. ^ http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/86676/episode_featured_copy.jhtml^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1998". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1998. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 
3. ^ "German single certifications – Puff Daddy – Come with Me" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=Come+with+Me&strInterpret=Puff+Daddy&strTtArt=single&strAwards=checked.