Nuketown

Album: Stokeley (2018)
Charted: 63
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Songfacts®:

  • A typically loud, raucous and energetic Ski Mask The Slump God cut, "Nuketown" finds the Florida rapper serving up a chaotic couple of angry verses along with a shouted chorus of "Cutthroat! Cutthroat!"
  • Ski Mask laid down the track in the studio on his tour bus. He explained to Complex he was annoyed by the intensity of tour life. "'Like, if you ever be on tour, it's just so much energy, work, responsibility, people - in your face, all the time. Like, 'Let me get a picture!' Every time, all the time," he said. "It was just good to get off tour."

    "I was just angry that day with, I guess you can say, my friends, or just people in general," Ski Mask added. "Yeah, old friends."
  • The song features Juice WRLD, whose aggressive, shouted verse shows a side to the Emo rapper we'd never heard before.
  • Nuketown is a nuclear testing site that features in the first-person shooter video game series, Call of Duty: Black Ops. Though the title does not appear in the song's lyrics, the two rappers replicate with their shouted rhymes the game's huge Nuketown explosion.
  • The song kicks off with a sample from the fighting video game Mortal Kombat X. The phrase "Round one fight" is announced as players begin the first round of battle in the Mortal Kombat series.
  • Ski Mask told Genius how his shouted chorus was influenced by the late XXXTentacion and by rock vocalists. "When I did the yelling part, I didn't let it go," he said. "I didn't let it be good until I actually got it perfectly. That's something I got from X, like you gotta bring it from you core. That's what usual rock people, like people that's into rock say. Like, when you yell, you gotta bring it from your core, like your stomach. I have to make sure I yelled it right and made sure it sounded right. I probably did it a couple times, so I didn't just say 'Cut throat. Cut throat.' And just let it rock. I yelled it a couple times. I was just mad, it was after a show. I just felt bothered. I was waking everybody up."

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  • Favian from Marlandthis is so fricking good
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