Samples

• "Sucker MC's" by Run-DMC from the album Run-DMC (1984)
• Busy Bee speaking

References

• 808 - Roland 808 drum machine
• Money-Makin' - Beastie Boys nickname for Manhattan; in addition to this song, Beastie Boys refer to Manhattan as "Money-Makin'" in "Root Down," "Unite," and "The Lisa Lisa/Full Force Routine
• Manhattan - a borough of New York City
• Pannenkoeken - Dutch word for "pancake"
• "Funky Boss" - a song from Check Your Head

Sample & Reference Breakdown

• "Well, it's fifty cups of coffee and you know it's on!" - Adam Horovitz is a serious coffee drinker
• "I rock the mic so viciously" - lyrics are similar to those in "M.C. Battle" by Busy Bee ("I rock the house so viciously/All the girls are talkin' bout Busy Bee")
• "And if I got a new rhyme I just say it" - a sample from "Sucker MC's" by Run-DMC
• "Is Manhattan in the house?" - a sample of Busy Bee, recorded at a 1982 party celebrating New Year's Eve

Beastie Boys

Adam Horovitz is a man who likes his coffee: "Just straight-up coffee, with cream or milk or whatever and sugar. I just need coffee fast. I don't want to wait around." - Adam Horovitz, August 1998

"'Money-Makin' is just a synonym for Manhattan, which is why we say 'Manhattan' right after" - Adam Yauch in August 1998, insisting that the song is not about accumulating personal wealth

Press

"...sounds like Gary Numan getting busy" - Entertainment Weekly, 1998

"...opens [Hello Nasty], a track for the old-school heads, fans who waited four years to hear the Beasties' hot-potato lyric trading. It's a rap style that faded soon after Jordache jeans and Kangol caps vanished from wardrobes, but it works within deliberately retro tracks such as this one" - Boston Globe, July 1998

"'Disco' introduces a drum line that could put even the best Dust Brothers sample to shame" - Creative Loafing, August 29, 1998