Bonkers (song)

"Bonkers"
Single by Dizzee Rascal and Armand van Helden
from the album Tongue n' Cheek
B-side"Butterfly"
Released17 May 2009
Recorded2009
Genre
Length2:56
LabelDirtee Stank
Composer(s)Armand van Helden
Lyricist(s)Dizzee Rascal
Producer(s)Armand van Helden
Dizzee Rascal singles chronology
"Toe Jam"
(2008)
"Bonkers"
(2009)
"Holiday"
(2009)
Armand van Helden singles chronology
"Ski Hard"
(2009)
"Bonkers"
(2009)

"Bonkers" is a song by English rapper Dizzee Rascal and American producer Armand van Helden. It is the first single released from Rascal's fourth studio album, Tongue n' Cheek. Rascal released the track under his own record label, Dirtee Stank Recordings on 17 May 2009 in the United Kingdom, entering at the top of the UK Singles Chart, marking Dizzee's second number-one single, third top-ten single and eleventh top-forty hit on the chart. This was also Van Helden's third number-one single, his first in ten years (with "You Don't Know Me" being his previous number-one single). In October 2011, NME placed it at number 59 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".[2]

  1. ^ Reynolds, Simon (25 May 2009). "It's all gone bonkers: the dizzy rise of Dizzee Rascal | Simon Reynolds | Music". theguardian.com. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  2. ^ 150 Best Tracks Of The Past 15 Years. NME.

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