A music video for "Witness (1 Hope)" directed by Mat Kirkby, which features Roots Manuva taking part in a sports day at his previous, real-life primary school, also won praise for its humorous and original plot.

[6] Roots Manuva deliberately engineered the base line as a "rickety... squelchy stamp of noise" as a protest against the poor quality of many sound systems used in music clubs at the time,[3] and the melody was intended to mimic the theme song to the television programme Doctor Who.

[7] Roots Manuva's rapping, which he described as "talk[ing for] three minutes over the top of [the production]", consists of "relentless, loping rhymes" that contrast with the "righteousness" of his Jamaican heritage with many references to British culture, such as eating cheese on toast and drinking the alcoholic beverage bitter.

[8] Christian Hopwood of BBC Music praised the lyricism and noted that it was "hard to imagine any MC from the West Side issuing forth... [such] lactose truth[s]",[5] whilst AllMusic's John Bush lauded it as "the best British rap single since Tricky's "Aftermath"" (1994).

[14] Nin Chan of RapReviews cited its backing track as an example of the "absolutely sterling" production found on Run Come Save Me, and claimed that it would "incite bouts of hip-shaking on any dancefloor".