10 Iconic Rock Stars Who Guested On Pop Songs

For the past few entries, it's becoming pretty clear that the sounds of hip hop and rock and roll can actually work really well together. Once we hit the '90s though, the collaborations started to go through the roof, with rockers doing different remixes of their work or rappers bringing in different rock stars to play on their songs instead of using samples. When Puff Daddy needed some soundtrack music though, he was going to go above and beyond to get what he wanted.

Being a part of the soundtrack for the late '90s Godzilla that was coming out around the same time, Puffy was looking for something extravagant and actually tapped Jimmy Page to provide some guitar work. While he had in mind something like Kashmir, what you're hearing on the recording is Jimmy giving us a whole new version of the song, taking the building blocks of what the Physical Graffiti classic was and bringing it in with a full orchestra and a different arrangement.

Granted, this was not meant to replace someone like Robert Plant by any stretch, with Puffy being a lot more calm and collected behind the mic and almost going for spoken word bits on the back half of the song. At a time when Led Zeppelin had been long since dead, this gave the classic era of rock and roll a real shot in the arm. Jimmy Page may have eventually gotten on the wrong bandwagons by doing press photos with the likes of Fred Durst, but if that meant getting just one more Come With Me, it would have been worth it.