[6] The song features rapped verses from lead singer Serj Tankian, along with death metal growls and shrieks, the latter two being signatures of the band's early sound.

[7] The verses of the song feature guitarist Daron Malakian on backing vocals.

[4] Later in the band's career, he would move on to be more of a co-lead vocalist (although he sang on demos of "Roulette" and DAM").

[9] "Sugar" is about the world's population's over use and reliance on drugs and other substances, as well as the predatory state of media like the news.

[10] The music video for "Sugar" shows the band playing on a stage, with an American flag intercut with images of public violence, hangings from the Holocaust, armies, footage of the Upshot-Knothole Grable nuclear test and footage from the German film Metropolis.