It was released as the second track of the former's debut studio album Stokeley.
Writing for Pitchfork, Trey Alston praised the production and Ski Mask the Slump God's cadence, saying "[Ski Mask the Slump God] deflects attention from a mid-tempo, bass-heavy beat and allocates it to his jittery cadence".
[2] Donna-Claire Chesman of DJbooth labelled the song "[a] dark [shout] of the SoundCloud era".
[3] The official music video for "Nuketown" was released on October 25, 2019.
Directed by Cole Bennett, the video sees Ski Mask the Slump God and Juice Wrld fighting enemies in a desert after their plane crashes.