"Welcome to the Jungle" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured as the opening track on their debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987).

"[12] Guitarist Izzy Stradlin summarizes the song as "about Hollywood streets; true to life".

He played it and the band quickly laid down the foundations for the song, as Slash continued coming up with new guitar parts.

"[14] The breakdown was based on a song called "The Fake" that Duff McKagan wrote in 1978 for his punk band the Vains.

[16] Rose claimed the lyrics were inspired by an encounter he and a friend had with a homeless man while they were coming out of a bus into New York.

"[14] "Welcome to the Jungle" was ranked number 19 in Martin Popoff's book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time.

[21] (Rolling Stone readers named it "the greatest sports anthem" in 2009[22]) and number 764 in Q's "1001 Best Songs Ever".

David Geffen made a deal with the network, and the video was aired only one time around 5:00AM on a Sunday morning.

By the end of the video, Rose has transformed into a city punk, wearing the appropriate clothing, after going through a process similar to the Ludovico technique.

During an interview with Rolling Stone magazine about the music video, Guns N' Roses' manager at the time, Alan Niven, said that he "came up with the idea of stealing from three movies: Midnight Cowboy, The Man Who Fell to Earth and A Clockwork Orange.