 The album was originally made available through the Internet on May 18, 1999, via the now defunct Atomic Pop website.In a positive review, "Alternative Press" said "There's a Poison Goin' On" worked "best as an eyes-closed, headphones on high-volume experience.It takes extremely seriously the idea that hip hop should be consciousness-altering music", while Greg Kot wrote in "Rolling Stone", "there is some jigginess on this record...the emphasis is on sparser, more spacious mixes- less claustrophobic and dizzying...but still gripping."