PE frontman Chuck D talked about this track in an interview with Melody Maker:

‘One Million Bottle Bags’ is about the malt liquor problem in black America. Malt liquor has twice as much alcohol content and twice as many residues, that’s to say, waste products from regular beer. It’s fucked up beer, with more alcohol. Instead of making people laid back, it makes them hostile. And it leads to a lot of black on black violence in America. They have massive campaigns for this shit that are targeted at the black community. Malt liquors are made by the major brewers in this country. When they put their regular beers through the filters, all the excess bulls–t they push to the black community. And it’s been killing motherfuckers for the longest period.