Violent J discussed this song during a 2020 Patreon livestream titled “Top-Five Freshness”:

I remember when this album came out, I got a text from Esham, and he was like, “News at 6 o' clock and again at 11,” you know, he texted me that, and I knew he had listened to the new album. And he always can pick the dope ones off the rip, you know, the ones me and him seem to both like an appreciate, and “News at 6 O'Clock” on fuckin' The Tempest is dope, because that that’s basically saying is, if you want a real horror show, you wanna really see the wicked shit, watch the news. You can’t make that shit up, you know what I mean? You can be mad at us. You can be mad at horror movie directors. You can be mad at video games. But you wanna see real horror, look at the news every day at 6 o' clock and 11; that’s terror, you know what I’m saying? And think about it. It’s true. I saw a news broadcast where it talked about a guy going through Highland Park, cutting hookers' heads off and fucking the neck. I was like 17. I saw that on the news. He was going into abandoned buildings with a hooker, cutting her head off, and fucking her neck. They told me that on the 6 o' clock evening news. It’s still in my mind at 49. I was probably 17. It burned its way. And I wasn’t watching no scary movie. I wasn’t watching The Exorcist. I wasn’t listening to some, you know, parental advisory album. That shit was on the 6 o' clock news, you know? That’s what I’m saying. How much other shit I also saw on the news. That jank airplane crashed on the freeway, and all the people came out and were looting the luggage, going through dead bodies and fire and shit, looting the luggage. Like, I saw that on the news. That’s reality, man. That’s how fucking cold it is out here. A video game ain’t gonna show you shit that ain’t happening out here in reality. And I like that song. I think it expresses that really good, you know?