This is a track from Exodus, DMX' first posthumous album. X had been working on the record in Snoop Dogg's Los Angeles studio with his Ruff Ryders cohort Swizz Beatz serving as executive producer. By the time he died of a heart attack aged 50, they'd completed all the songs.
Exodus is guest heavy, and this song finds DMX teaming up with fellow New York rappers Jay-Z and Nas. The track is named after the synthetic drug bath salts, which Genius states "were responsible for a series of high-profile criminal incidents in the early part of the 2010s."
Nas first recorded the song for his 2012 album Life is Good, but it didn't make the final cut. During the infamous 2017 beat battle between Swizz Beats and Just Blaze, Swizz closed out the show with a version featuring Nas, Jay Z, Jadakiss, and DMX. Once Swizz decided to include the song on Exodus, he cut Jadakiss' verse for unknown reasons and Nas updated his verse. Swizz told GQ that while Jay was happy to keep his bars as is, Nas changed his, as he'd used some of the original unreleased verse on another song. The producer added that Nas recorded a new verse in "less than 24 hours, which was a blessing."
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