The album produced three singles, including "Acid Raindrops", one of the group's most successful songs and a constant staple at live shows.
Through the success on tour, they also came to terms with the criticism and indifference that they had been receiving from the local L.A. hip hop scene, and the new lyrics in their songs reflected their new-found life experience.
For example, the track "Montego Slay" used over 20 minuscule sections of music from Jamaican tourist souvenir records, cut and reorganized seamlessly into a new rhythm.
This lyric stems from PUTS's upset after reading Wang's 2000 article "Roll With the New"[2] after he wrote an essay that they perceived as critical of the tone of their previous album Question in the Form of an Answer.
[1] The picture used for the front cover was taken on Cambridge Street in Los Angeles, one block away from Thes One's house of eight years, where the majority of the first five albums were recorded, including O.S.T.
Almost a decade later, "Acid Raindrops" became the subject of a skate deck design contest,[6] and was still the most popular song of the group on iTunes.
by playing at the prestigious Reading and Leeds Festivals,[8] and also by taking part in the second-annual US Cali-Comm hip-hop tour with Del the Funky Homosapien, KutMasta Kurt, Planet Asia, and the Lifesavas.