Songfacts®:

• "It's A Raid" is a thundering track where Ozzy Osbourne teams up with Post Malone to reflect on being stalked by a home intruder. Ozzy feels like he's under constant surveillance.
  
  I hear them breathing on my telephone
  I know I'm never alone
  
  The Prince of Darkness is staying inside because of his fears of the raider.
  
  Hideaway, I've been locked up for seven days
  I'm never coming out
  
  Post Malone also worries about the prowler. He laments:
  
  Outside my window, there's a silhouette
  My rifle's right beside my bed
  Hold on, I'm runnin' out of cigarettes
• The chaotic rocker was likely recorded during the same session that produced Ozzy's other collaboration with Malone, "Take What You Want," which is on the rock-indebted rapper's 2019 album, Hollywood's Bleeding. Both songs were helmed by Malone's frequent producer, Andrew Watt, who brought the two artists together.
• Ozzy revealed during the Ordinary Man album playback that this came from the story he told Andrew Watt about Black Sabbath's drug-fueled sessions for their 1972 Vol. 4 record at a Bel Air, California, residence. The singer was getting hot, so he pushed a button he thought was for air conditioning, only to discover it was to alert the police. As there was plenty of coke and weed around, Ozzy started panicking. The flustered frontman yelled, "It's a raid," and hid in a bathroom until the cops left. While there, Ozzy snorted a large bowl of cocaine to avoid flushing it away. "I couldn't sleep for four days," he recalled.
• Tomas Lenert directed the animated video, which features cartoon versions of Ozzy and Post Malone. We see the pair get chased by police through the Los Angeles streets, passing some of the city's iconic landmarks on their journey. "Understandably COVID-19 made it difficult to get together to shoot a music video for 'It's A Raid' so we opted for this wildly imagined animated video," said Osbourne.