Fack
2005 song by Eminem
"Fack" is a song by American rapper Eminem, released in 2005 on his greatest hits album Curtain Call: The Hits as one of the three new songs recorded for the album. The song, along with the album's intro, is omitted from the clean version of the album. In 2021, the song went viral on TikTok, due to many feeling shocked upon hearing the song's lyrics.
Background
In 2015, Eminem annotated the song's lyrics on Genius and ascribed the song to the prescription drug addiction he had in the mid-2000s, saying "Ambien will make you do crazy shit. Imagine if you took it all day long."
In 2016 at Lollapalooza in Brazil, Eminem performed the song in concert for the first time, much to the audience's surprise. It has been performed another two times since.
In a 2020 interview with Detroit Free Press, Eminem jokingly claimed that "Fack" is "the best song he's ever written". The same year, he joked again, posting on social media that he was working on a followup to the song.
In 2024, in a short film titled Slim Shady vs. Marshall Mathers: The Face-Off, Marshall Mathers sits down and has a conversation with his alias, Slim Shady.
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