Samples

• "Into the Night" by Sweet from the album Desolation Boulevard (1974)
• A 1979 Bob Marley interview
• "Hey Pocky A-Way" by The Meters from the album Rejuvenation (1974)
• "The Well's Gone Dry" by The Crusaders from the album Southern Comfort (1974)
• "Ebony Jam" by Tower of Power from the album In the Slot (1975)

References

• PCP - a potent hallucinogenic drug
• Tongue twister - a word or sequence of words difficult to pronounce
• Shamus - a 1973 film starring Burt Reynolds

Sample & Reference Breakdown

• Piano and drum - a sample from "Hey Pocky A-Way" by The Meters
• "He thrusts his fist against the post and still insists he see a ghost" - tongue twister to correct stuttering problems
• Music sample after tongue twister is from "The Well's Gone Dry" by The Crusaders
• "Ya explain to a musician...them knew it, but them can't do it" - a sample from an interview with Bob Marley by Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand (1979)

Press

"...a selection of snippets of New York life loosely bound together by their shared brevity; it forms a sort of final summary of what Paul's Boutique is all about" - paraphrased from Rhyming & Stealing: A History of the Beastie Boys by Angus Batey, 1998