 The song's production contains a "huge, electronic bass line" influenced by "stuttering, organic funk" and Jamaican dancehall, as well as a "pummelling low end" and "pulsating, throbbing rhythms" similar to those found in the work of production group Organized Noize.The bass line was deliberately designed by Roots Manuva to possess a "rickety... squelchy stamp of noise" in protest of the poor quality of many of the sound systems used in music clubs at the time, and the melody was intended to mimic the theme song to the television programme "Doctor Who".Roots Manuva's rapping, which he described as "talk[ing for] three minutes over the top of [the production]", consists of "relentless, loping rhymes" that contrast with the "righteousness" of his Jamaican heritage with many references to British culture, such as eating cheese on toast and drinking the alcoholic beverage bitter.