Format Digital download Length 4:03 | Recorded 2016 Label Atlantic
Warner Bros. | |
Released June 24, 2016 (2016-06-24) Genre Alternative hip hop
rap rock | ||
"Sucker for Pain" is a song by the American rappers Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa and the band Imagine Dragons, with Logic, Ty Dolla Sign, and X Ambassadors. The song was released as a single for the motion picture soundtrack for Suicide Squad (2016) on June 24, 2016 by Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records.
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Critical reception
Elias Leight of Rolling Stone called the song "loopy" and praised Lil Wayne's contribution to the song, saying "Wayne shines during his verse, delivering self-destructive rhymes while skipping nimbly around the plodding beat." Carly Mallenbaum of USA Today felt that the song is "sexy."
Music video
On June 24, 2016, the official music video was uploaded to the Atlantic YouTube channel. During the music video various clips of Suicide Squad are played.
Commercial performance
In North America, the song reached number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.