Samples

• "Flute Thing" by The Blues Project (Al Kooper) from the album Projections (1966)
• "I Spy Cops" by Richard Pryor from the album Craps (After Hours) (1971)
• "Dub Revolution" by Lee Perry from the album Revolution Dub (1975)

References

• Victoria - Victoria's Secret, a lingerie company
• Al Goldstein (1936-2013) - publisher of Screw magazine
• Pat Ewing (1962- ) - a professional basketball player who spent most of his career with the New York Knicks
• Grape Ape - a 70's Hanna-Barbera cartoon character
• Don Cornelius (1936-2012) - creator and host of Soul Train, television's first black-oriented music variety show
• Subwoofer - a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies
• Robert Perlman - a publicist with Set to Run Public Relations who helped do press for Paul's Boutique; Perlman, who is a funk/soul record collector, gave Beastie Boys several records that they used on Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty; he is credited with drum programming on Hello Nasty
• Dante - Dante Ross, longtime hip-hop producer
• SD50 - Stimulated Dummies, a hip-hop production trio of Dante Ross, Geeby Dajani, and John Gamble

Sample & Reference Breakdown

• "I ain't goin' no place/Move? Me?!" - a sample from "I Spy Cops" by Richard Pryor
• "Music to rock the nation" - a sample from "Dub Revolution" by Lee Perry
• "I'm like Al Goldstein, I'm all about screwing" - Al Goldstein is the publisher of the adult magazine Screw
• "Peaks of AK" - mountain peaks of Alaska

Press

"...[Flute Loop's] titular sound weave[s] a high-pitched web around a wall of gnarly guitar" - Boston Herald, August 1998