Fraser McAlpine of BBC Chart Blog gave the song a positive review stating: Ha!

For reasons too complicated to explain, my first experience of this song was a dodgy YouTube link which I was trying (and mostly failing) to watch on a crowded train on a really hot day.

I knew this was the latest club banger from Skepta, an MC with a lot of love riding on his back.

And then, in a miraculous parting of the binary clouds, letting pure information shine through, the rest of the video suddenly arrived.

And that's when things started to become very clear..[1] On 10 July 2010, "Rescue Me" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 14 – which is Skepta's highest-charting position currently.