"Just Don't Give a Fuck" (known as "I Just Don't Give A or Just Don't Give a F***" in the clean version) is the debut single by American rapper Eminem. The original version was produced by Denaun Porter and appears as the only single on his only EP, the Slim Shady EP. A remix by the Bass Brothers appears on his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP. According to the book Angry Blonde, this was Eminem's first song as his alter ego "Slim Shady".
Eminem recorded a sequel to the song entitled "Still Don't Give a Fuck", which also appears on The Slim Shady LP.
Disses
In the second verse, Eminem disses various rappers such as Everlast, Miilkbone and Vanilla Ice, each of whom later released diss tracks against Eminem. Miilkbone released "Dear Slim" and "Presenting Miilkbone" and Vanilla Ice released "Exhale" and "Hip Hop Rules" in 2001 on his album Bi-Polar. Everlast had a long-lasting feud with Eminem. Although Eminem dissed Vanilla Ice in other tracks (such as "Marshall Mathers" and "Role Model"), he did not reply to either him or Miilkbone after their respective disses.[1]
Critical reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic marked it as a stand out on LP.[2] RapReviews described the beat of the song as "head nodding" but felt that the remix was subpar, calling it "lifeless and oddly out of place among an album full of mostly dope cuts".[3]
The black-and-white video, interspersed with some color, is set in a trailer park in the summer. A variety of scenes, unrelated to each other, are shown, starting with a boy being stopped by a woman from taking food off a table. The boy returns as Eminem and strangles her. In one version, the video shows him beating her and throwing her on a bed. The video also includes scenes of people drinking and swimming in a pool. Additional scenes include aliens, a clown, and people eating watermelons.
The clean version of the accompanying music video for this single is known as "I Just Don't Give A".
