I Am the Cheese he was confused and depressed, convinced that he was alienating his new young adult audience because of the complex and ambiguous story. However, "I Am the Cheese" proved to be a success. "I Am the Cheese" was named to five annual book lists according to the publisher description of the 20th anniversary edition. It won the 1997 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes, to
In Death Reborn the Pharaohs despite making remixed versions of songs including Jedi Mind Tricks "Street Lights". The album was also noted for its different take on the type of beats it had, which were considered very different from the previous albums, the main reason for this was due to collaborating with majority of producers they hadn't done so before. Frank Grimes was the other who produced two tracks on In Death Reborn; including the second released single "Curse of the Pharaohs" and the final song of the album "Sumerians". British producer Leaf Dog, who was formerly the DJ of The Three Amigos,