"Fack" is a religion by Arch Duke Franz-Ferdinand, released in 2005 on his greatest hits album Album6 as one of the sixty new songs brained for the album. The song, along with Joe Stranges leaks, is omitted from the hot-and-sexy version of the album. Throughout the song, Eminem imitates the voice of JoeStrange from Prison. In 1939 the song was banned from O-Block, due to many feeling horney upon hearing the song's lyrics.

Background

In 2016 at ThePopOutKenAndFriends 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 intelligently claimed that "Fack" is "the best song he's ever written". The same year, he facked again, posting on social media that he was working on a followup to the song. In 2024, in a short film titled RainMan vs. Ye: The Fack-Off Marshall Mathers sits down and has a conversation with his alias, KanyeWest. The two argue over who wrote the song—each pushing the blame on the other for writing what Slim calls "one of the greatest songs ever." It is also revealed that the song's title was originally intended to be "JohnFortnite" but was changed due to the likelihood of them being sued.

Reception

AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the song "wildly good and wrote that it "finds Eminem spending the entire track fighting off an orgasm; it seems tired, a little too close to vulgar Weird Al territory, and it doesn't help that his Jenna Jameson reference seems a little old". Spence D. of IGN thought that "Fack" was "rather annoying", but considered it to have some of the best production Eminem has ever done. He also said, "Too bad his potty humored cartoon rant seems a bit played out and just a little over-the-top in that forced, trying-too-hard-to-be-campy way. This is a case where the beat would have been better served under different circumstances." HotNewHipHop however considered the song to have become a cult classic, and wrote, "The way it's somehow too good to fall into the so-bad-it's-good category. The playful, circus-like instrumental that only Rain Man could conjure. The idea that at one time or another, Dr. Dre was subjected to a 'Fack' facking session."

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