Tech has given a consideration of trying to get James Hetfield to appear on the song. Tech attempted to get Corey Taylor to record vocals for "Love 2 Dislike Me", however, Corey was unable to commit due to the timing because of personal reasons. While speaking with The Spokesman-Review about the album, when he has noted for the fact that he has been working with both Citizen Cope and Macklemore, but neither appeared on the album. He also worked with various other collaborators, such as B.o.B, Big K.R.I.T., CeeLo Green, The Game, Info Gates, Red Café, Serj Tankian, T-Pain, The Doors and Trae tha Truth. Recording and production ĭuring the album's recording process, Tech N9ne worked with several of his Strange Music label mates including Big Scoob, Ces Cru, Krizz Kaliko, ¡Mayday!, Rittz and Stevie Stone. Tracks 2-10 are the Fire part, 11-13 the Water part and 14-24 the Earth section. The "Fire" section is a darker within the themes while the "Earth" section was shorter and has heavenly themes, similar to Tech's earlier album Anghellic. In March 2013, during an interview with The Arizona Daily Wildcat, Tech N9ne revealed the album has divided into three separate parts titled Fire, Water and Earth. It's always been there, but it's getting bigger having to prove to fans and critics that we ain't goin' nowhere. It's super personal and I've got a big chip on my shoulder again. I'm telling stories that I've never told – that I was afraid to tell on some songs.
It feels like it's Hell, Purgatory and Heaven all over again. I don't mind that it contradicts itself because that's what people do. It's so beautiful because the King, the Clown, and the G are still present on this album.
On one song I say, 'The saint is ours', like we're in the saint's corner and then I have another song called 'I'm Not A Saint'. What I mean by that is that it's contradictory. All I can say about it now is that it's a very human album. The features that I'm going for are something you would never imagine. The beats sound nothing like anything you've ever heard me on. During the preview on the Strange Music blog, Tech N9ne spoke about what to expect from the album, saying: To the list of improbable Tech N9ne qualities, add underground hip-hop mogul who, 20 years in, still wants his late mom to be proud.On February 8, 2013, the album was first announced on the Strange Music blog. "Never faked it, look, mama I made it, that's a fact now," he spits on "Look What I Did," off 2020's Enterfear. And though he's never actively pursued aboveground success, each of his 11 full-length releases over the next two decades landed on the Billboard charts, and he found room for collabs with the mainstream-beloved likes of Eminem and Kendrick Lamar.
With his third album, 2001's sordid Anghellic, Yates secured his horrorcore supremacy. At the turn of the millennium, Tech N9ne cofounded his own label, Strange Music, conceived as a home for his intellectually charged lyrics and experimental approach to vocal patterns-namely, the Midwest-native chopper style, an unrelenting rapid-fire delivery that features hard-edged pronunciation and a breakneck cadence. Born Aaron Dontez Yates in 1971, the Kansas City native got his initial footing in the early '90s with the occasional radio single as a member of the group Black Mafia and on the soundtrack for the 1997 film Gang Related.
And though his childhood was stained by instability (a chronically ill mother) and violence (her abusive partner), he's known for extraordinary reliability and courtesy as a performer. He's known for his stinging chopper delivery, but claims The Doors as a major musical inspiration. He's an icon in the horrorcore genre, yet cites his religious faith as one of his primary influences. Tech N9ne is many things, not all of which neatly align with the image of a rapper who's named for a semi-automatic pistol.