Help Me (Tinchy Stryder song)

{{Infobox song

| name = Help Me

| cover = Help Me – Cover.png

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Tinchy Stryder

| album =

| released = 30 September 2012

| recorded = 2012

| studio =

| genre = Hip hop

| length = 3:36

| label = Takeover Entertainment Limited

| writer =

| producer = Art Bastian

| prev_title = Bright Lights

| prev_year = 2012

| next_title = Lights On

| next_year = 2013

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|HukI_-Vaa6E|"Help Me"}}

}}

"Help Me" is a song by British rapper Tinchy Stryder, and was released on 30 September 2012, as the fourth single from his cancelled fourth studio album Full Tank. Full Tank was scrapped so Help Me became a non-album single. The song, produced by Art Bastian, was written by Tinchy Stryder, Camille Purcell and Ollie Jacobs, and features uncredited vocals by Camille Purcell.

Background

The single was announced during an interview with Digital Spy, uploaded on 12 July 2012,{{cite web|title=News: Tinchy Stryder – Help Me |author=Chris Younie |url=http://www.4music.com/news/news/5670/Tinchy-Stryder-Help-Me |work=4Music |date=August 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623194331/http://www.4music.com/news/news/5670/Tinchy-Stryder-Help-Me |archivedate=June 23, 2013 }} and Tinchy Stryder announcing he is now reinvented, and that with "Help Me" – It reaches out religiously to God. "Help Me" is incorporated with female verses and vocals.

The track was co-written by Kwasi Danquah III, Camille Purcell and Ollie Jacobs, and was produced by Art Bastian.{{cite web|title=Help Me by Tinchy Stryder (Review)|author=|url=http://musiceyz.co.uk/2012/08/15/help-me-by-tinchy-stryder-review/|work=musiceyz|date=August 15, 2012|accessdate=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914203834/http://musiceyz.co.uk/2012/08/15/help-me-by-tinchy-stryder-review/|archive-date=September 14, 2012|url-status=dead}}

Music video

A music video was made for "Help Me", and it was filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana. The accompanying music video sees Tinchy Stryder performing the track in a poverty-stricken neighbourhood.{{cite web|title=Tinchy Stryder debuts new single 'Help Me' music video – watch|author=Lewis Corner |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a399580/tinchy-stryder-debuts-new-single-help-me-music-video-watch.html |work=Digital Spy|date=August 15, 2012|accessdate=}}{{cite web|title=Tinchy Stryder – 'Help Me' – Music Video |author= |url=http://www.soulculture.co.uk/music-blog/musicvids/tinchy-stryder-help-me-music-video/#axzz23eFsMcBM |work=soulculture|date=August 15, 2012|accessdate=}}

Other scenes focus on Christian iconography, statues and buildings, directly representing the chorus's lyrics of "God, help me".

Credits and personnel

Songwriter – Kwasi Danquah III, Ollie Jacobs, Camille Purcell
Production – Art Bastian
Mixing – Jeremy Wheatley
Label – Takeover Entertainment Limited

Release history

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" \|+Release history and formats for "Help Me" !scope="col"\|Country !scope="col"\|Date !scope="col"\|Format !scope="col"\|Label
scope="row"\|Various \|30 September 2012 \|Digital download \|Takeover Entertainment Limited

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|+Release history and formats for "Help Me"

!scope="col"|Country

!scope="col"|Date

!scope="col"|Format

!scope="col"|Label

scope="row"|Various

|30 September 2012

|Digital download

|Takeover Entertainment Limited