Violent J wrote in a post on ICP’s website:

When I first laid the riffs of my verse down Shaggy hated this track. He said it was way to pussyish and mad too soft for ICP. I promised him that when it was all said and done if he didn’t like the song even a little bit, we would leave it off the album. I believed in this song though, I mean yeah it’s soft sounding, nobody dies or gets there ass kicked. But the thing is we’re talking directly to Juggalos in this song. It’s like we’re all sittin’ around someplace smoking a blunt talking together. That’s the way I see the song. We’re all sittin’ there talkin’ about how fresh it would be if we had our own big ass Caribbean Island. A place that everybody could run away to and escape. When we’re talking about something like that it’s supposed to be soft! After Shaggy did his verse up and we dropped in the hook he started to like it more. Then I told him to wait and see how it sits with the rest of the album. It’s the only song with that summer time feeling on the whole album. He called me one night and said’ “oh by the way, Juggalo Island is my fuckin’ shit” I was mad happy to hear that because I did not want to lose this song from the album. I believe it’s ok for ICP to be a little nicer when were talking to our own peeps. I like the song, and I love where it takes me. Every time I hear it, it takes me to that Island with “Corp on the grill and Clay on the 1,2’s”. We started letting ninjas hear this song at the Gathering because we also feel the song sounds like a true Gathering song, and I think some ninjas might have been a little worried that the whole Bang! Pow! Boom! album was gonna be happy sounding. But nope, just this one, and I’m glad and proud to say that both Shaggy and myself stand behind this song and hopefully one day, we will have our own Island and we can do this shit for real.

In a 2011 interview with A.V. Club, Violent J said:

That’s what the music told me, and I thought about exactly what it is man, how dope that would be. I don’t really know what would be going on at a Juggalo Island, and I think that’s obvious in the lyrics. [Laughs.] Some of it sounds good, some of it sounds bad. [Laughs.] But I don’t really know what would be happening at Juggalo Island, so we kind of turned half of it into a joke, but half of it is kind of real. And then the chorus, I guess the lyrics are kind of lame in the chorus, but it’s what I felt. [Singing.] “We can be one / We can have fun.” I mean, I guess I could have thought of wittier lyrics, but that’s what it was telling me, you know what I mean? That’s what I felt. We can all be one, we can have fucking fun, you know? I don’t what it means to have my dick in your hotdog bun, or any of that. [Laughs.] I don’t know where that’s going, but just, wow, climbing up a tree, eating coconuts, madness, funniness going on, bizarreness, weirdness: Juggalo Island.