Fighting My Demons

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"Fighting My Demons"
Song by Ken Carson
from the album A Great Chaos
ReleasedOctober 13, 2023
Length2:30
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Kenyatta Frazier Jr.
  • Anton Martin Mendo
  • Bart van Hoewijk
  • Olle Elvis Zijstra
  • Tobias Dekker
  • Warren Hunter
Producer(s)
  • Bart How
  • Lvis
  • Outtatown
  • Starboy
  • Warren Hunter
Music video
"Fighting My Demons" on YouTube

"Fighting My Demons" is a song by American rapper Ken Carson. It was released on October 13, 2023, from Carson's third studio album, A Great Chaos . [1] It was collaboratively produced by Bart How, Lvis, Outtatown, Star Boy, and Warren Hunter. Star Boy's producer tag is used near the song's climax.

Contents

Critical reception

Writing for HipHopDX , Will Gedron stated that on the track, "Carson is able to channel the most exciting cadences of his career into a maximalist, galactic swell". He also noted that "the rest of his verse alternates between straight-line raps and pagan chants, sometimes stopping for a half-second before moving onto the next line. It’s a microcosm of the way he builds out his flows on the whole record — delivered as if his nose hasn’t been clear for months". [2]

Music video

The Cole Bennett-directed music video was released on the Lyrical Lemonade YouTube channel. It features glitchy visuals of Ken Carson partying and rapping his own lyrics, and is described as "a montage of grainy, 3D footage – that resembles content shot on night-vision goggles". [3]

Personnel

Credits and personnel adapted from Tidal. [4]

Musicians

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for "Fighting My Demons"
Chart (2023)Peak
position
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [5] 14
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [6] 2
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 40

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [8] Gold500,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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