Samples

• "Funky Snakefoot" by Alphonse Mouzon on the album Funky Snakefoot (1973)
• "Daddy Rich" by Rose Royce from the Car Wash soundtrack (1976)
• "Dancing Room Only" by Harvey Scales from the album Hotfoot, a Funque Dizco Opera (1979)
• "That's the Joint" by Funky Four Plus One from the single "That's the Joint" (1980)
• "6 O'clock DJ (Let's Rock)" by Rose Royce from the Car Wash soundtrack (1976)
• "Born to Love You" by Rose Royce from the Car Wash soundtrack (1976)
• "Could You Be Loved" by Bob Marley & the Wailers from the album Uprising (1980)
• "8th Wonder" by The Sugarhill Gang from the album 8th Wonder (1982)
• "Jazzy Sensation" by Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five from the single "Jazzy Sensation" (1981)
• "Tell Me Something Good" by Ronnie Laws from the album Pressure Sensitive (1975)
• "Yo Yo" by Rose Royce from the Car Wash soundtrack (1976)
• "Supermellow" by Paul Humphrey from the album Supermellow (1973)
• "Get Off" by Foxy from the album Get Off (1978)
• "Holy Ghost" by the Bar-Kays from the single "Holy Ghost (1979)
• Bong hit ("the big blue bong" according to Adam Yauch) and gun shot

References

• Mardi Gras - the day before Lent, celebrated in some cities as a day of carnival and merrymaking
• Club Med - international chain of resort facilities
• Hurricane - Wendell Fite, Beastie Boys DJ
• Lava lamp - liquid-filled cylinder with moving globules
• Patty Duke - a dance named after the actress Patty Duke
• Wrench - a dance
• Tango - a Latin-American dance characterized by gliding steps and low dips
• Jamaica - an island in the West Indies, south of Cuba
• Mangoes - oblong, sweet fruits of certain tropical trees
• Sam the Butcher - Sam Franklin, a character on the television show The Brady Bunch (1969-1974), portrayed by Allan Melvin
• Alice - Alice Nelson, a character on the television show The Brady Bunch (1969-1974), portrayed by Ann B. Davis
• Fred Flintstone - a modern-stone age cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera
• Whippet - a cannister of nitrous oxide used for inhaling purposes
• Dookies - thick gold chains worn around the neck; popular among old-school rappers back in the day
• Manhattan - a borough of New York City
• The Bump - a disco dance step

Sample & Reference Breakdown

• Beginning drum roll - a sample from "Funky Snakefoot" by Alphonse Mouzon
• Primary beat - a sample from "Dancing Room Only" by Harvey Scales
• "Like a pimp, I'm pimpin'..." guitar line - a sample from "Daddy Rich" by Rose Royce
• Disco call - a sample from "Get Off" by Foxy
• "It's the joint" - a sample from "That's the Joint" by Funky Four Plus One
• "Well, I'm Mike D and I'm back from the dead" - a reference to a rumor started in late 1987 that Mike Diamond had died
• "Well, I'm Mike D..." slap bassline - a sample from the intro to "Yo Yo" by Rose Royce
• "Shake your rum-pah" - a sample from "Jazzy Sensation" by Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five
• After-the-chorus bassline - a sample from "6 O'clock DJ (Let's Rock)" by Rose Royce
• Underlying scratch samples in "most packinest" and "your belief chief" - a sample from "Could You Be Loved" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "Like Sam the Butcher..." guitar - a sample from "Born to Love You" by Rose Royce
• "Like Fred Flintstone drivin' around with bald feet" - refers to Fred Flintstone's powering his prehistoric car with the use of his two bare feet
• "Hoo-ha! Got them all in check" - a sample from "8th Wonder" by The Sugarhill Gang
• Sample during "Got more rhymes than Jamaica got mangoes" - a sample from "Supermellow" by Paul Humphrey
• Bassline - a sample from "Holy Ghost" by the Bar-Kays

Beastie Boys

"Mike and I went to Matt [Dike]'s house...and Matt broke out some crazy hash oil and got us into a really compromised condition and then played us a couple of these tracks. And this ['Shake Your Rump' instrumental] is one of the ones he played us." - Adam Yauch on Paul's Boutique-20th Anniversary Edition audio commentary, 2009

"'Shake Your Rump' was intertwined with the Grasshoff's fashion." - Mike Diamond on Paul's Boutique-20th Anniversary Edition audio commentary, 2009

"Matt Dike played us some of the music that they were working on. He played us a whole bunch of instrumentals. It all sounded incredible. It was so rich with layer upon layer of music. One track that I particularly remember standing out was an instrumental version of what would later become 'Shake Your Rump'" - Adam Yauch, 1999

"I love that song. But you know, we play that song a lot. We play that song...every night we play that song. Sometimes, you know, even though you might love something, you don't want it every night after a while. I mean, I love pizza. Everybody loves pizza. You gonna eat pizza every night?" - Adam Horovitz

Press

"...drums rat-a-tat and we're back in naughty-boy land" - Rolling Stone, 1989

"The Beasties have never sounded as slick, sexy and dynamic as on the high-voltage riot of disco-pimp kitsch and Flat Eric bass that is 'Shake Your Rump'" - New Musical Express, 1999