berate

to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings

Heard in 30 songs (48M+ combined views) — most famously in "California [feat. Warren Hue]" by Niki.

Updated September 26, 2026

Songs Featuring “berate”

Niki - California [feat. Warren Hue]

Time: 2:10

It's amazin', California

Celebrate it or berate it

It's been fated, California

Niki - California [feat. Warren Hue]

Steel Panther - If You Really Really Love Me

Time: 1:51

Your mum sucks and your dad really hates me

When I try to borrow money he berates me

Somehow he thinks that I'm too old for you

Steel Panther - If You Really Really Love Me

Kaden MacKay - Your Stupid Face

Time: 4:53

Why don't you hate me? Why do you care?

Can't you berate me? Isn't that fair?

Where is your glare?

Kaden MacKay - Your Stupid Face

Good Kid - Mimi's Delivery Service

Time: 1:17

Why do you have to stay here on the ground? It's overrated

The cityscape berates you with a sound, it's delineated

And no one here has even learned your name, but they all claim it

Good Kid - Mimi's Delivery Service

The Shins - Kissing the Lipless

Time: 1:01

He's got you talking pretty loud

Berate, remember

Your ailing heart and your criminal eyes

The Shins - Kissing the Lipless

Placebo - Scene Of The Crime

Time: 1:28

♪

Our breath that berates before our rise

The ground beneath that shakes under our weight,

Placebo - Scene Of The Crime

Cattle Decapitation - The Geocide

Time: 1:44

And to the ashes and the ground we are returned

Life exists to infuriate, berate, and subjugate

The hapless mortals shit-birthed on a human-altered planet Earth

Cattle Decapitation - The Geocide

Slipknot - Get This

Time: 0:34

Don't berate me 'cause you can't stop me

From breaking your face, it's you I'll erase

Slipknot - Get This

Janelle Monáe - Neon Valley Street

Time: 1:41

The droid control will take your soul and rate it

Berate, slay it

You hate it and debate it but you don't get caught

Janelle Monáe - Neon Valley Street

Seether - Misunderstood

Time: 1:09

No-one will tell you why they smile as they berate you

They keep saying it's gonna be fine

Seether - Misunderstood

Phish - Ocelot

Time: 0:38

When you see the sunlight, move out of the way

You prance with the beast you berate every night

And silently slouch through the forest by light

Phish - Ocelot

Dying Fetus - Revisionist Past

Time: 1:46

Debate is over ascertaining fact

Berate them all

If claimed a ruse, assassinate honor

Dying Fetus - Revisionist Past

Mike - THEY DON'T STOP IN THE RAIN with TAKA

Time: 1:24

I'm teaching niggas pace, I'm quicker than I may seem

Litter and berate me, MIKE in uppercase me

As simple as my name be, yeah

Mike - THEY DON'T STOP IN THE RAIN with TAKA

Twiztid - Come Alive

Time: 2:22

I got the shoulders to carry the weight

I'm not supposed to survive the berate

How am I even alive in a day?

Twiztid - Come Alive

tobyMac - Start Somewhere

Time: 1:19

As I wrestle with the painful truth

Oh, my sleep escapes me as guilt berates me

Exhausted, the memories are drawing so near

tobyMac - Start Somewhere

Sparks - Self-Effacing

Time: 2:35

Why can't I preen, be part of the scene

Berate those around and act like the clown

Guest DJ a bit, sardonic in wit

Sparks - Self-Effacing

Dr. Pushkin - Questions

Time: 1:45

That will treat us benign

That will not berate, decline

Will there ever be a time

Dr. Pushkin - Questions

Sevendust - Bright Side

Time: 0:21

You say that you want it

How does it feel to berate all the heartache

Never knowing the damage is real?

Sevendust - Bright Side

Nevermore - The Blue Marble And The New Soul

Time: 1:20

Your father will teach you his dignity and shun

Welcome to planet Hate, to this emotion that I berate

Yet some people force me to feed my violent seed

Nevermore - The Blue Marble And The New Soul

El-P - Dead Disnee

Time: 1:36

The housing development built to collapse quick

arousing the relevant faith to berate this

Dousing the machine, gasoline and flame fists

El-P - Dead Disnee

Eisley - Rabbit Hole

Time: 1:08

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So go, and berate us

So go, underrate us

Eisley - Rabbit Hole

mono moon - One of These Days

Time: 1:18

And all I've been will hesitate and

And shake before the great berate, I

I could die right there one of these days

mono moon - One of These Days

Deicide - Horror in the Halls of Stone

Time: 2:40

Appall the teachings of God

Berate the mighty altar

Rebuke infernally

Deicide - Horror in the Halls of Stone

Napalm Death - The Great And The Good

Time: 3:45

A pledge is a pledge is a pledge is a pledge

The man in the bubble smiles - berates the condemned

Back to his crusade, fights off more cries of dissent

Napalm Death - The Great And The Good

Stone Sour - Inside the Cynic [Bonus Track]

Time: 1:11

My head explodes

My soul berates

Erratic thoughts

Stone Sour - Inside the Cynic [Bonus Track]

Sistra - Tryna Feel Sorry 4 U

Time: 0:59

And I'll try not to worry 'bout you (I'll try not to worry 'bout you)

I wish I could berate you (I wish I could berate you)

I'm tryna feel sorry for you (I'm tryna feel sorry for you)

Sistra - Tryna Feel Sorry 4 U

Stiff Little Fingers - My Ever Changing Moral Stance

Time: 1:41

So now I find I hate you

And I find I just berate you

'Cause you played along with all the things

Stiff Little Fingers - My Ever Changing Moral Stance

Dynamite Boy - Wonder

Time: 0:25

Maybe you'll hate me

Laugh and berate me

Say I don't mean what I say

Dynamite Boy - Wonder

Morrissey - Have-A-Go Merchant [Live]

Time: 1:26

A small girl runs crying, through the park

So freely her daddy berates her

Right now, so for the rest of her life

Morrissey - Have-A-Go Merchant [Live]

Census - Monster You Made Me

Time: 0:00

Berate me, sedate me

I feel fucking crazy

Census - Monster You Made Me