"[3] Mia Doi Todd was born June 30, 1975, in Los Angeles, California.

[4][5] Todd started City Zen Records and released Zeroone, the follow-up album to Come Out of Your Mine, on the label in 2001.

[10] Her 2006 compilation album, La Ninja: Amor and Other Dreams of Manzanita, included remixes from Dntel and Flying Lotus.

[15] Take What You Can Carry (Scientist Dub One) is a song about the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans camp experience which affected her mother and grandmother.

[16][17] It was released on February 20, 2020, when California lawmakers passed a resolution to formally apologize to Japanese-Americans for the Legislature's role in their incarceration.