“Can't Hold Us” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton

"Can't Hold Us" first surfaced on August 16, 2011, more than a year before Macklemore & Ryan Lewis finally dropped The Heist, and it wound up as the second single from that debut. Lewis composed and produced the track, Macklemore wrote the words, and the two recorded and mixed it themselves. Ray Dalton is the featured singer, Tyler Andrews, Victoria Fuangaromya and Camila Recchio add voices, and Owuor Arunga's trumpet, Greg Kramer's trombone and Andrew Joslyn's violin stoke the stampede.

It was a sleeper that kept gathering steam through 2012 and 2013 until it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 2013, the duo's second US chart-topper and their third in a row in Australia. Spotify named it the most-streamed song of 2013, and the video picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Music Video.

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