Violent J:

This is a song people tell me would make a sweet ass video but I disagree. I think the best video for it is already the one that plays in your own head when you hear the song. Some songs already come with there own built in videos and I think this is one of them. This is a tale we often like to tell in many different versions. It’s basically the tail of a serial killer on the run with high octane and mad action. Mike’s beat for this was so fuckin’ crazy sounding I had no idea what the fuck to do with it. I just knew it was dope and we had to kill it. I took it home and brought back the lyrics to “The Bone” in the morning. We had mad fun putting all them sound effects and mini skits all throughout the song. People think Shaggy is not on this song but that’s him singing on the hook. I like to think “The Bone” is another classic ICP style song along the same lines as “Night of the Axe”, “Night of the 44”, “Psychopathic”, Shaggy 2 Dope’s “They Shootin” and many more that we’ve done over the years. I hope ninjas are feelin’ it, I know the music is way different but that’s why we fucked with it in the first place, to give yall something original and new sounding with that classic flavor on top of it.

In a 2009 interview with Detroit Free Press, this song’s producer, Mike E. Clark, said:

With ICP, I don’t have to stay in any one type of genre, any one formulated sound. I can go anywhere I want. That’s what so amazing about it. I can challenge them with something totally out of the box and crazy – music that no other rapper would touch – and they’ll just school it. For example, there’s a track on the new album – “The Bone.” It’s like surf rock. It sounds like the Ventures or something. It’s crazy. You couldn’t give that to just any rapper. But with these guys, it’s like, “Come on, we dare you, give us something.” The sky’s the limit.