Samples

• "El Rey Y Yo" by Los Angeles Negros from the album Y Volvere (1970)
• "WKCR 'Stretch' Bobitto Lord Sear" radio program (Bobbito's voice and Lord Sear's human beat box)
• "Get Out of My Life, Woman" by Iron Butterfly from the album Heavy (1968)
• "Gula Matari" by Quincy Jones from the album Gula Matari (1970)

References

• "Rapper's Delight" - a 1979 rap song by Sugarhill Gang
• "Funk You Up" - a 1979 song by the Sequence
• The Dungeon - Beastie Boys' former recording studio, located on Mott Street in Manhattan; the studio was called the Dungeon because it was located in the building's basement; the video for "Three MC's and One DJ" was shot in the Dungeon
• Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) - Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Latrec, a French painter and lithographer
• Shadi Rock - nickname of Beastie Boys friend Dave Scilken

Sample & Reference Breakdown

• "Hello, h-h-hello" - a sample of Bobitto Lord Sear on a WKCR radio program
• "Oh-wo" - a sample from "Gula Matari" by Quincy Jones
• "I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast" - lyrics are similar to those in "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang ("I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but we like hot butter on our breakfast toast") and also to those in "Funk You Up" by the Sequence ("I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but they call my name from coast to coast")
• "Not fakin' just makin' beats in the Dungeon" - The Dungeon was the Beastie Boys' underground recording studio at the time Hello Nasty was recorded
• "Hubo un vez, un gran rey que tenia muchas tierras un castillo y tambien un amor" - a sample from "El Rey y Yo" by Los Angeles Negros (in English: "Once upon a time, there was a great king who had a lot of land, a castle and a love")

Beastie Boys

"Our rehearsal room is in fact underground, a basement room with no fresh air and it smells pretty bad in there" - Mike Diamond, 1998 on The Dungeon recording space

Press

"...the Beasties let a booming jeep beat drop away while they chant 'On and on, on and on...' until the bass returns, transformed into the kind of sternum-thumping hum that would make Roni Size jealous" - Entertainment Weekly, 1998

"...creeps along on little more than some crushing beats and a scratchy subsonic bass line; it holds you with the shout-along hook celebrating BBoys and BGirls rockin' 'on and on the the break of dawn'" - The Worcester Phoenix, 1998

"...ups the ante, inserts a harpsichord break and samples a swinging Mexican number next to a bass drop that's certain to destroy at least a few speakers" - Creative Loafing, August 29, 1998