20 years ago today, Akon released “Smack That” featuring Eminem

Em produced it too. In its second week it jumped from No. 95 to No. 7, the biggest leap on the Hot 100 at the time.

Everytime they say Em don’t have any club records, I immediately know they weren’t outside for this.

Back in days

@iamtbotouch Your track

Em also produced this classic 😮‍💨

First song I heard omw to school in the 10th grade

How did we get so lucky to have all these artists back then? Akon Eminem Snoop Dogg Chris Brown T-Pain 50 cent Nelly Usher Ne-Yo Lil Wayne Kanye West Flo Rida Sean Paul The Black Eyed Peas Taio Cruz Sean Kingston Iyaz B.o.B

TOP 10 MOST-STREAMED AKON SONGS 🎧🔥 #1 💥 Smack That — 1.79B #2 🔥 Sexy Bitch — 1.61B #3 🎶 Sexy Chick — 1.61B #4 💔 Lonely — 1.14B #5 🌴 The Sweet Escape — 1.12B #6 ⚡ Play Hard — 907M #7 🚨 Right Now (Na Na Na) — 858M #8 ❤️ I Wanna Love You — 772M #9 💫 Don’t Matter — 671M #10 🔥 Dangerous — 627M Source: Spotify streams via Kworb — updated September 24, 2026. 

One of my favorite songs ever I was a little ass kid bumping this shit over and over on my older sister’s iPod I was like 5 or 6 and had Eminem’s verse memorized bar for bar I still go batshit crazy when this plays in the club also my favorite beat Em produced super underrated🔥