It is one of the artist's most recognizable signature songs, and a favorite of many O'Neal fans worldwide.

The song's lyrics are a personal commentary, critical of a loudmouth – implied to be a groupie.

On the accompanying album Hearsay, "Fake" is preceded by a brief interlude in which a belligerent woman accidentally knocks a man's drink onto his shirt at a party and insists it was his fault.

He and his friends defend themselves, eventually deriding her bad behavior as the song begins.

The song’s punchy drum/percussion beat pattern was also later sampled for the song “Sleigh Ride” off of O’Neal’s fourth, and specifically, first and only Christmas album “My Gift to You”, in addition to a bass line played similar to that of “Fake”.