Guitarist Wes Borland stated of Date's production, "he doesn't get overly involved at the 'music' end of things.

originated from a melody played in rough form in early 1998, during the Ladies Night in Cambodia tour.

He was officially endorsed by Ibanez and owned several rare models to record the album including the RG7 CST.

Sometime in 2000, Borland ended his endorsement with Ibanez and reverted back to using 6-string guitars when recording the next album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.

[7][8] The band allowed Durst and DJ Lethal to explore their hip hop influences by recording with Method Man.

The band also collaborated with Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis and Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots on "Nobody Like You".

[3] Staind singer Aaron Lewis provided backup vocals on the song "No Sex", while Scott Borland, Wes' brother, played keyboards on "Just Like This", "Nookie", "Re-Arranged", "I'm Broke", "9 Teen 90 Nine" and "A Lesson Learned".

"A Lesson Learned" is a psychedelic trip hop track similar to "Everything" from Three Dollar Bill, Yall$.

Describing the album's music, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that it contains "flourishes of neo-psychedelia on pummeling metal numbers and there are swirls of strings, even crooning, at the most unexpected background.

The first was "Radio Sucks" with MTV VJ Matt Pinfield, in which he rants about "pre-fabricated sorry excuses for singers and musicians who don't even write their own songs" before praising Bizkit for helping launch a musical revolution.

"[3] The album cover depicts a hooded individual with a microphone (supposedly extra-terrestrial[citation needed]) donning Fred Durst's notorious red Yankees cap and striking a mean pose.

[21][20] A less favorable notice came from author Martin C. Strong, who gave the album 5 out of 10 stars in his book The Essential Rock Discography.

When you're looking out on a sea of people and the stage is twenty feet in the air and you're performing, and you're feeling your music, how do they expect us to see something bad going on?

He later stated that the promoters of Woodstock '99 were at fault for booking his band, due to their reputation for raucous performances.

[3] The video for "Re-Arranged" would refer to the controversy, with the band being subjected to a fictitious court trial over the events of the concert.

All lyrics are written by Fred Durst, except where noted; all music is composed by Wes Borland, Sam Rivers and John Otto, except where notedLimp Bizkit Additional musicians Production