F9mily (You & Me)

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"F9mily (You & Me)"
Song by Lil Nas X featuring Travis Barker
from the EP 7
ReleasedJune 21, 2019
Genre Pop punk [1] [2]
Length2:42
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Travis Barker
Audio video
"F9mily (You & Me)" on YouTube

"F9mily (You & Me)" is a song by American rapper Lil Nas X featuring drummer Travis Barker, from Lil Nas X's second EP 7 (2019). [3] It was written by Montero Hill and Barker who produced the song and played the drums.

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Production

Barker had originally intended for a part of the song to be in a song for his rock band Blink-182's upcoming studio album Nine . Barker has said about how he and Lil Nas X got to work on the song: [3] [4]

I have a song with Lil Nas X that's going to be on his EP. He came to the studio, and I played a couple [of] beats that I thought would be stuff he was into. Then I played something on accident where he stopped and was like, "What is that? I've got to have that." It was actually an idea I had for the Blink album.

On May 14, 2019, Lil Nas X posted a snippet of the song on Instagram, and wrote in a comment that it would be titled "9." [5]

In early June, Barker told Spin that he was in studio working with Lil Nas X on a song for Lil Nas X's EP. [1] [3]

Critical reception

Mikael Wood wrote for Los Angeles Times that the song "has fuzzy Warped Tour guitars and a groove that goes half-time at one point as though designed for a mosh pit". [6] Alternative Press 's Alex Darus wrote that "rock roots" can be heard in the song, and that Lil Nas X's vocals provide "an edgier vibe". [3]

Brian Josephs of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the song "immediately strikes out as the low point — and not only because pop punk already had its moment in the sun. Lil Nas X's lackadaisical tone doesn't exude cool; he genuinely doesn't sound convinced that the genre needs a revisit." [7]

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [8] 34
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard) [9] 6
US Rolling Stone Top 100 [10] 97

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