"Break My Stride" is a song performed by American recording artist Matthew Wilder. It was released in October 1983 as the lead single from his debut album, I Don't Speak the Language, and became worldwide a major hit single for him in late 1983 and Spring 1984, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Cash Box Top 100. The song has been covered by many artists throughout the years, including Unique II in 1996 and Blue Lagoon in 2004 (whose versions both charted highly in various places) and, in interpolations, Puff Daddy with his 1997 hit "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down". In 2009 it was interpolated by Matisyahu in the song "Jerusalem".