Samples

• "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" by Bob Dylan from the album Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
• "Breakout" by Johnny "Hammond" Smith from the album Breakout (1971)
• "Three for the Festival" by Rashaan Roland Kirk from the album We Free Kings (1961)
• "Dance to the Music" by Sly & the Family Stone from the single "Dance to the Music/Sing a Simple Song" (1979)

References

• Finger lickin' good - advertising slogan for Kentucky Fried Chicken, a fast food franchise
• Money Mark - Mark Nishita, Beastie Boys keyboardist
• Paul Bunyon - legendary hero of lumber camps of the American Northwest
• Ernie Anastos (1943- ) - New York City news anchor
• Frugal Gourmet - TV chef personality
• Pete the Puma - Warner Bros. cartoon character, nemesis of Bugs Bunny
• Minnie the Moocher - a 1931 song by Cab Calloway
• The Freak - a dance
• The Patty Duke - a dance
• The Spank - a dance

Sample & Reference Breakdown

• "Just give him some wood and he'll build you a cabinet" - a reference to keyboardist Mark Nishita's carpentry skills
• "They'll even print my recipe for pasta with pesto" - refers to Grand Royal's publishing of Adam Yauch's pasta with pesto recipe in the debut issue of the magazine
• "Goin back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough" - a sample from "Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues" by Bob Dylan

Beastie Boys

(Regarding how much the Bob Dylan sample cost) "Seven hundred bucks, but he asked for two thousand dollars. I thought it was kind of fly that he asked for $2000.00, and I bartered Bob Dylan down. That's my proudest sampling deal." - Michael Diamond, Boston Rock, June 1992

Press

"...mixes live instruments with electronically sampled sounds and fluid tempos" - Newsweek, 1992

"[An] old-school-flavored track [that] underscores the group's rhyming skills" - Rolling Stone, 1992