Songfacts®:

• The lead single from Man of the Woods, this electro-funk number finds Justin Timberlake encouraging his love interest to get it on with him.
  
  I said, put your filthy hands all over me
  And no, this ain't the clean version
  And what you gonna do with all that meat?
  Cookin' up a mean servin'
  
  "This song should be played very loud," advised Timberlake on Twitter.
• Justin Timberlake produced the song with long time collaborators Timbaland and Danja. James Fauntleroy and Larrance Dopson also contributed to the writing of "Filthy." Both Dopson and Fauntleroy are members of the California music collective 1500 Or Nothin' and while Faunteloy previously co-wrote all the tracks on The 20/20 Experience and all but two of the tunes on 2 of 2, this was Dopson's first collaboration with Timberlake to be released.
• Justin Timberlake interpolates Snoop Dogg's 1994 single, "Gin And Juice" when he croons during the pre-chorus "and they ain't leavin' till six in the morning (six in the morning)." The singer also borrows a line from Jay-Z's 2001 track "All I Need" ("I guess I got my swagger back"), during the hook.
• The Mark Romanek directed music video sees Timberlake portraying an inventor at the Pan-Asian Deep Learning Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the year 2028. He unveils a dancing cyborg that displays some risqué moves while being remotely manipulated by the singer's own dancing.
  
  Mark Romanek (Nine In Nails, Johnny Cash, JAY-Z) and Timberlake previously teamed for the "Can't Stop The Feeling!" clip.
• Chris Stapleton contributed some instrumental work to this song. "I play guitar on the very first sound you hear on 'Filthy,'" he told Billboard magazine. "That's me playing with a delay pedal on a jazz master."
• Timberlake opened his performance at the 2018 Super Bowl halftime show with this song, starting it in the concourse of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis and making his way onto the field.
• Jessica Biel, Timberlake's actress wife, contributed uncredited vocals to the outro of this track. She also voiced the short Man of the Woods interlude "Hers."