[2] Additionally, Cold 187 um felt that in order to sign with Psychopathic, he had to create material that would be different from what he produced for his own label, West World Records.

[1] During the tour, Cold 187 um and Violent J created the character of a hired killer, and developed the concept of the album as a long-form story.

[7][8] The rest of the album's storyline focuses on Cold 187 um in the present day as he performs assassinations of several people, including Father Duckets, a greedy, corrupt preacher,[9] Willie Brosco, who stole money from Cold 187 um's employers,[5] Larry Longhorn, a corrupt judge who proclaims excessive sentences to the plaintiffs that face him,[10] three despicable criminal brothers,[11] and the corrupt Senator Jones,[12] as well as pursuing Black Swan and seeking revenge for his father.

[15] While developing the album, Cold 187 um hand selected instrumentals from 12 previously released songs by Psychopathic artists, including Dark Lotus, Anybody Killa, Twiztid, Blaze Ya Dead Homie and Insane Clown Posse, on the basis of which instrumentals would be appropriate for story-based songs which would form an album-length storyline.

[22][23] Customers who ordered The Only Solution and Twiztid's Abominationz within two weeks of the albums' release date received an exclusive CD containing audio of Psychopathic's "Psyphers".

Reviewer David Jeffries wrote, "while this concept goes big time in a Tarantino style with characters and locations providing an Iliad-sized journey, some of the tracks get too tripped up in narrative to be considered pure.

"[27] Cold 187 um's association with Insane Clown Posse was criticized by both fans of West Coast hip hop and Juggalos.

"[32] All lyrics are written by Cold 187um"Born 2 Kill" "Job Well Done" "Laying Low" "An Offer He Can't Refuse" "Swan Song" "Judgement Day"