“Sing for the Moment” by Eminem

"Sing for the Moment" is the track on Eminem's fourth album, The Eminem Show, where hip-hop and classic rock shake hands: it's built on a sample of Aerosmith's "Dream On", with Steven Tyler sharing the writing credit, and Joe Perry turns up in person to play the guitar solo. Eminem produced it with Jeff Bass, who also played bass, guitar and keyboards, and Steve King recorded and mixed it.

It went out as the album's fourth single in February 2003, the last one in the US, and critics praised the rapping, the words and the "Dream On" lift alike. It climbed to 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, went top 10 in twenty countries and hit number one in Portugal. Years later, in 2016, it and the Aerosmith original both turned up in a trailer for the animated film Sing.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.