It is a parody of "It's All About the Benjamins (Rock Remix)" by Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and focuses on the narrator's obsession with his computer's hardware.

The name of the song reflects this in its title with its referral to the Pentium line of Intel microprocessor chips that were popular in the late nineties.

Yankovic spoke to Sean Combs personally on the phone to make sure that the parody would not emulate the 1996 Coolio incident.

[1] Yankovic has admitted to writing the song a few days before the entire album had to be mastered: "I almost always record the lead vocals first.

It was such a last minute addition to the album that I had no choice but to record all the instrument tracks and background vocals first, just to buy me some time to come up with the lyrics.

Emo Philips, who had worked with Yankovic on UHF and The Weird Al Show, is seen as the object of ridicule, sitting in front of a computer in a small orange room and doing things that are mentioned in the song.