nemesis

a formidable and usually victorious rival or opponent

Heard in 58 songs (435M+ combined views) — most famously in "Check It Out" by will.i.am.

Updated September 29, 2026

Songs Featuring “nemesis”

will.i.am - Check It Out

Time: 2:35

I leave the rest just to collect in trust

I mean interest, fuck my nemesis

Exclamation, just for emphasis

will.i.am - Check It Out

Mary J. Blige - Touch It [Remix]

Time: 2:23

Now I could make a tight fist and let it crumble ridiculous

Or I could smack the world with a New York Nemesis (TURN IT UP!!)

I got Staten Island on my pinky, Queens on my thumb, dude

Mary J. Blige - Touch It [Remix]

Logic - Gang Related

Time: 1:10

Bullet to the dome like an Aleve

Got to leave for the premises, to murder my nemesis

No, no, uh, uh

Logic - Gang Related

Enya - The Humming

Time: 0:50

And all the winds are like a kiss

And all the years are nemesis

And all the moments fall in mist

Enya - The Humming

Bushido - Sonnenbank Flavour

Time: 0:30

Berlin, Neukölln, Abou-Chaker Family

Sonny Black Prototyp, Nemesis, Taliban

Araber, Terrorist, Anführer Dschingis Khan

Bushido - Sonnenbank Flavour

Eminem - Speedom (WWC2)

Time: 2:13

I invented this, I'm the genesis

Eminem is a nemesis to a feminist

Fuckin' smart Alec degenerate, I got Ellen DeGeneres

Eminem - Speedom (WWC2)

Meshuggah - Demiurge

Time: 2:09

Terror rising

Agnostics' nemesis

A prophet of extinction

Meshuggah - Demiurge

Kendrick Lamar - Momma

Time: 0:32

Been in it before internet had new acts

Mimicking radio's nemesis made me wack

My innocence limited the experience lacked

Kendrick Lamar - Momma

Volbeat - Mary Jane Kelly

Time: 3:45

♪

The nemesis is neglect

Running on the wolves' path

Volbeat - Mary Jane Kelly

Drake - Buried Alive Interlude

Time: 0:44

React like an infant whenever you are mentioned

Mind over matter never worked for my nemesis

I'm in the matter of man arm wrestlin' hands I was dealt

Drake - Buried Alive Interlude

Big Sean - Wolves

Time: 1:05

You know the road to hell was paved with good intentions

I see myself in my nemesis (see)

I contemplated forgiveness (no)

Big Sean - Wolves

Tech N9ne - Love 2 Dislike Me

Time: 1:53

You stayed out of my premises

But you ain't supposed to be my nemesis

Wanna be in to kiss, never to finish it

Tech N9ne - Love 2 Dislike Me

YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Mask And Gloves

Time: 1:57

Criss-cross applesauce, make a bitch sit

Down, old pussy-ass boy, you a nemesis

Big ballin', I'll tell the opp, "Hit the ground

YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Mask And Gloves

Bad Meets Evil - Raw

Time: 0:40

Everything I say be raw

You can never be my nemesis

You against me is me being a fool

Bad Meets Evil - Raw

Motionless in White - Cause of Death

Time: 0:14

Nemesis, my dearly neurotic

Enemies though our face is the same

Motionless in White - Cause of Death

E-40 - Mouthpiece

Time: 1:29

but he sittin' on a few mill

All I gotta say is nemesis

Bet I know one thing betch you they know

E-40 - Mouthpiece

Amon Amarth - Father Of The Wolf

Time: 2:13

A vile beast that cannot be tamed

Fimbultyr's nemesis now is born

A vile beast that can't be restrained

Amon Amarth - Father Of The Wolf

Mariah Carey - Cruise Control

Time: 2:50

You already like a wife up in my premises

And right ya now you cruise control, it is my nemesis

Just come again and stop and start just like a genesis

Mariah Carey - Cruise Control

A$AP Rocky - Back Home

Time: 1:56

Energy, synergy, frienemies, industries

Finna get advantage on him and his nemesis

Bitches been sniffing

A$AP Rocky - Back Home

Five Finger Death Punch - My Nemesis

Time: 1:26

I will not hide from what's inside of me

My nemesis

I'm turning away from me

Five Finger Death Punch - My Nemesis

Motörhead - Liar

Time: 3:26

I am the frightful thing that always follows you

Liar, I am thy Nemesis

I always knew one day that it would come to this

Motörhead - Liar

Nas - Beef

Time: 0:50

I'm the worst of it, lurkin' on your premises (lurkin' on your premises)

I am your nemesis

Parents of every slain rapper wish I didn't exist

Nas - Beef

Papa Roach - One Track Mind

Time: 0:38

I'm locked and loaded got you in my sights

You are my nemesis

The one I can't resist

Papa Roach - One Track Mind

Stone Sour - RU486

Time: 1:18

Going down alive!

Assume your nemesis

Going down alive!

Stone Sour - RU486

2Pac - Initiated

Time: 2:13

For real bitch the steel clique I bill with menaces

Ya number one nemesis paragraphical like Genesis

Stupid muthafuckas Outlaw Immortal Bitch

2Pac - Initiated

Lupe Fiasco - Adoration of the Magi

Time: 2:35

You seein' somethin' that weren't there

To find friendliness in a nemesis, it's a old test

3 buttons, see somethin'

Lupe Fiasco - Adoration of the Magi

Rush - By-Tor & The Snow Dog

Time: 0:36

Across the river Styx, out of the lamplight

His nemesis is waiting at the gate

The Snow Dog, ermine glowing in the damp night

Rush - By-Tor & The Snow Dog

Gucci Mane - Lord

Time: 1:50

If you get caught with another stick

Whipping up a brick, Zone 6, fuck my nemesis (Fuck 'em)

Pray to God that I forget, I don't want no memories (God)

Gucci Mane - Lord

Ab-Soul - Hunnid Stax

Time: 2:21

I love foreign tits and her clitoris

Beat the pussy down like my nemesis

Make the pussy drip like I slit her wrist, but

Ab-Soul - Hunnid Stax

Cradle of Filth - Amor E Morte

Time: 1:18

A carnal carnivore on all fours to go

Oh, an ebon Nemesis, from torture gardens of Dis

Having never breathed an Eve as far narcotic as this

Cradle of Filth - Amor E Morte

Alanis Morissette - Nemesis

Time: 0:55

So I went farther than I'd ever gone before

Change, you are my nemesis

Transition, I hold my breath

Alanis Morissette - Nemesis

Franz Ferdinand - Treason! Animals.

Time: 2:49

I'm in love with a narcissist - I know for the mirror told me

I'm in love with my nemesis - I know for the mirror told me

I'm in love with a narcissist - I know for the mirror told me

Franz Ferdinand - Treason! Animals.

Sampha - Under

Time: 1:57

♪

A nemesis, an enemy

You're the crack inside the screen

Sampha - Under

Coi Leray - Run It Up

Time: 1:03

Drop the top in the winter, 'cause my heart cold like ice

Nemesis

It's time that I finish this

Coi Leray - Run It Up

Therion - Nightside of Eden

Time: 1:27

On the nightside of Eden

Await the wisdom nemesis

Nightside of Eden

Therion - Nightside of Eden

August Burns Red - Revival

Time: 3:03

That is covered in cracks

My nemesis no longer has a grasp on me

Broken like I used to be

August Burns Red - Revival

Green Day - Jinx

Time: 1:16

On earth with me tangled at your feet

You finally met your nemesis

Disguised as your fatal long-lost love

Green Day - Jinx

Marillion - Assassing

Time: 2:08

I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence

I am the assassin, providing your nemesis

On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend

Marillion - Assassing

ZZ Top - Me So Stupid

Time: 1:16

I could have built the Golden Gate Bridge

Or Einstein's nemesis

I could have been a derby jockey

ZZ Top - Me So Stupid

Rick Ross - Benediction

Time: 3:22

Pray for benediction, pretty women on my premise

Condo out in Cabo, screaming "GABOS" to my nemesis

Gold around my neck I'm ballin' for these final minutes

Rick Ross - Benediction

Matisyahu - Thunder

Time: 0:55

I had to evacuate the premises

you're your own nemesis

The premises you're born and blood and

Matisyahu - Thunder

Sean Paul - Definite

Time: 0:54

A move widout a plyasis yuh shoes an all yuh dresses-is

Used to be yuh friend but now she tun yuh own a nemesis

Still a gyal wish she can bury this

Sean Paul - Definite

Hatebreed - Boundless (Time to Murder It)

Time: 0:59

It's time

Reach within and find the nemesis inside

'Cause it's time to murder it

Hatebreed - Boundless (Time to Murder It)

Slaughterhouse - Die

Time: 4:18

Put he's hated by large percentages

And all my nemesis won't even let 'em on the premises

One shot, change him for life, he'll be belligerent

Slaughterhouse - Die

Clipse - Counseling

Time: 1:24

Just a few thoughts that come to mind as a reminisce

Temptation always been my nemesis

A few sips then take her back to my premises

Clipse - Counseling

Cannibal Corpse - Bent Backwards and Broken

Time: 1:18

Every joint in the body is turned the wrong way

A debt to the nemesis forcibly paid

Arching the back, vertebrae crack

Cannibal Corpse - Bent Backwards and Broken

The Who - It's Your Turn

Time: 0:28

Up here in the precipice

I'm getting close to my nemesis

People fighting each other to jump into my blues

The Who - It's Your Turn

Lil Wayne - Martians Vs Goblins

Time: 0:52

I shoulda got a real-ass pirate to do the hook

Maybe Jack Sparrow maybe Peter Pan's nemesis

My power's limitless like Blanka on Sega Genesis

Lil Wayne - Martians Vs Goblins

The Roots - Criminal

Time: 2:51

I'm like a senior citizen, still livin' but gettin' benefits

Put emphasis on hittin' my nemesis in high percentages

Crooked ass cops is the reason for my belligerence

The Roots - Criminal

Gunplay - Power Circle

Time: 7:53

Well, a billion 'cause the limit is the sky and I live on cloud nine

And I recognize my nemesis gon' try to put a finish in my shine

But pussy, we'll hurt you

Gunplay - Power Circle

DJ Shadow - Stay the Course

Time: 0:20

And bad time trespasses on your premises (What else?)

Good times avoid you like a Nemesis (Yep)

With or without we all gonna face that

DJ Shadow - Stay the Course

Sam Fender - Me and The Dog

Time: 1:02

I heard whispers of foul evil, and I knew that it was you

But I don't need a nemesis

I've got my hands full with myself

Sam Fender - Me and The Dog

Magnetic Fields - The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure

Time: 0:30

No closure

It is a nemesis

You can't use a bulldozer

Magnetic Fields - The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure

Popcaan - ONE WAY

Time: 1:03

Dem couldn't level yah weh Poppy reach

Fi mi nemesis dem a di least, mhm

Squid and Grizzle haffi make a speech

Popcaan - ONE WAY

John Legend - Free Enterprise

Time: 2:36

Straight clear my chicks finish my sentences

Time to squash to beef, I kill a nemesis

Show up at the wedding in my Timberlands

John Legend - Free Enterprise

Accept - This One's for You

Time: 0:33

Now I'm ready to explode

I'm gonna be your nemesis - I like it when you scream

I'm the mother of your nightmares - got a contract to redeem

Accept - This One's for You

Pete Townshend - You're So Clever

Time: 2:21

Everything you do gets me hot

I'm for real, you cause my nemesis

You're everything I want and all I've got

Pete Townshend - You're So Clever

The Verve Pipe - Bullies on Vacation

Time: 1:14

a bully enjoying his vacation

cruising with my nemesis on high seas

five drinks, he doesn't recognize me

The Verve Pipe - Bullies on Vacation