"Guilty All the Same" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song was originally recorded by the band for their sixth studio album, The Hunting Party. The track features American rapper Rakim from the golden age hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim. The track premiered on March 6, 2014 on commercial mobile service Shazam, and was released as a single by Warner Bros. Records on March 7, 2014. The song was self-produced since the band decided not to have a producer for the album.

In an interview with Radio.com, Shinoda and Bennington explained that this song "...seemed like the perfect song to reintroduce the band."

In that same interview, regarding the addition of Rakim, Shinoda wanted to surprise people and was "spitballing" the idea of getting Rakim, one of Shinoda's idols growing up, on the track. When the band's engineer revealed that he knew one of Rakim's people, he reached out to him, leading to Rakim coming over to the studio and, according to Bennington, "crush that section" (verse over the bridge). Shinoda was originally going to rap in the bridge off the song, but thought that it would be too predictable and wanted another rapper to do it instead, and managed to get into contact with Rakim through their musical engineer.

The track features a long instrumental intro and is driven by aggressive guitars and drums, with lead singer Chester Bennington using primarily melodic yet harsh vocals, while guest rapper Rakim raps his own verse over a hip hop-tinged bridge. Alternatively, it has been described as demonstrating a rap metal style similar to that of the band's earlier albums, Hybrid Theory and Meteora by Music Feeds. It has also been described as a return to their hard rock and heavy metal roots for the band by Zach McEntire of KXRK.Al Kooper observed it as "plain old heavy metal".

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