Songfacts®:

• Dutch producer Jan Theo Berendsen, aka Jengi, gradually built a reputation in the realm of club music with a series of releases including his first single "Bru," and EP Colors in 2017. He broke through onto the European charts with "Bel Mercy," released on Diplo's Mad Decent label.
• During a brief stay in Berlin, Jengi's laptop was taken, and with it, all the music he'd recently created. "Bel Mercy" was among the first tracks he produced upon returning home. "This bad experience resulted in making the most naturally instinctive music I had ever made," he told Sports Playlists. "So at the end, I'm actually grateful that my laptop got stolen."
• The song comprises three samples, including a mash-up of two Fuzzy Jones vocals. They are:
  
  1. Fuzzy Jones' intro from Super Beagle's 1986 track "Dust a Soundmash up of Boy"
  
  Well, it is a weeping and a moaning and a gnashing of teeth in the dancehall, it is cause when time it comes to my sound, which is the champion sound
  
  2. Fuzzy Jones' spoken vocals from Reggie Stepper's 1993 track "Cu Oonuh"
  
  Believe me!
  That is the wickedest sound that play and it is the new celebrity
  Along with all massive and all crew line up, dem cyan get we out
  
  3. The hook and riff from HydroBoyz' 2011 song "Bel Me."
• First shared on Beatport's TikTok account, "Bel Mercy" was ripped and shared everywhere with a plethora of videos created using the viral track. The song also received significant airplay during Diplo and Sam Divine's sets, as well as on radio shows hosted by Arielle Free and Danny Howard. It finally entered the singles charts because of a viral dance routine trend featuring a child on the ski slopes dancing to the song.