This short, shouty track off FIDLAR’s Almost Free isn’t about nuclear weapons. “Nuke” is a term used by FIDLAR’s buddies in the Australian group The Dune Rats. It’s another way of saying “punisher,” Aussie slang for someone who talks too much.
[Chorus]
Here comes a nuke
Nuke
A full cooked kook
A cooked out nuke
Here comes a nuke
(Alright, alright)
A cooked out kook
(Alright, alright)
A full blown kook
(Alright, alright)
Here comes a nuke
(Alright, alright)
Here comes a nuke
Nuke was written by FIDLAR.
Nuke was produced by Ricky Reed.
We have a friend that actually a huge reason why we’re a band. It’s this guy Sixxth. The first jam that me and Elvis had, he was playing drums. He became kind of a big dubstep DJ, and he showed me this track. It was basically that riff but all dubstepped out. And I was like, “Yo, let’s take this and...
It started with this Australian band called the Dune Rats. In Australia, they call people punishers, like, “Oh man, that guy’s a punisher.” The Dune Rats called them nukes, like, “Oh, that guy’s such a nuke.” So, that’s kind of where that song came out of.