The song is based at least in part on theories put forward by Bill Hicks on his album 'Arizona Bay' (Rykodisc, 1997). As the sleevenotes say, "Bill had a dream that he would one day gather an army of Boy Scouts, arm them with crowbars and take them to the San Andreas Fault". The song works both as a tribute to Hicks (along with the 'Another Dead Hero' portrait in the sleeve and the samples on 'Third Eye') and an elucidation of MJK's hatred of LA's superficialities.

With massive and head-beating irony, 'Ænema' won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Metal Performance, at a ceremony held, naturally, in Hollywood. Some people just don't get it...