"No Sex for Ben" is a song by American rock band The Rapture, recorded for the soundtrack to the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV and appearing on the game's fictional Radio Broker radio station.
[3] Reflecting on the recording experience, in 2011 vocalist-guitarist Luke Jenner said, "It was really fun because they gave us a truck load of money.
[5] The track aims to be humorously insulting, comparing the DJ at one point to "A poor man's Arthur Baker".
Ben has a very Sheffield sense of humour which means that he takes the piss out of everybody so I think it was just Mattie wanting to send a little bit back his way.
"[6] Musically, the track is similar to The Rapture's trademark sound, with additional flourishes, such as a human beatbox, coming from producer Timbaland's production.
The track was featured in Grand Theft Auto IV on the in-game radio station Radio Broker, a station featuring bands largely from the New York indie scene, and released exclusively on the official soundtrack called The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV which was a part of the Special Edition of the game and was later released digitally.
"[4] In contrast, drummer Vito Roccoforte expressed his dissatisfaction with the song by saying, "It just didn’t make any fucking sense to me because it was the total antithesis of what I felt musically I wanted to do or what we should be doing.
"[4] In 2016, Safer commented, "We worked with Tim on 'No Sex For Ben' on the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack, but he was also a really big fan of the band and wanted to sign us to his label.
But I think I enjoyed it so much just because it was like having somebody to work with in a different way who also got the music and brought something to it and there was just very little ego involved—a very different creative process to what being in a band can be like, where people sometimes get very protective about their parts, even if it means not doing things that might make the record better.