Samples

• "Sun Creations" by Rasheed Smith

References

• Molto Mario - a cooking television show, featuring American chef Mario Batali, that aired from 1997 to 2007
• Quick fire challenge - a term used on the television show Top Chef, where each chef is asked to cook a dish with certain requirements
• Hijiki - a brown sea vegetable that grows in Asia
• Excuse our dust - an expression often used when a site is being remodeled or under construction

Sample & Reference Breakdown

• "Nice in the cut" and "I'm the slicer" - both phrases refer to scratching a record
• "I hate the game, I hate the player" - a play on the lyrics in the song "Don't Hate The Playa" by Ice T ("Don't hate the player, hate the game")
• "Freak the hijiki" - "Freaky Hijiki" is the name of a song that appears on the Beastie Boys album The Mix Up
• "You've got a bagel in your pants" - in the video for "Alive," Mike D appears in a Shazam outfit with a bagel stuffed at his crotch
• "And you don't stop, the body rock" - refers to "Together Forever" by Run-DMC ("It's like that y'all/and we don't stop the body rock")
• Before Hot Sauce Committee was completed, its tentative title was Tadlock's Glasses. In 2009, Adam Yauch explained the origin of the title: "We had a bus driver years ago who used to drive Elvis' back-up singers. His name was Tadlock, and Elvis gave him a pair of glasses which he was very proud of. So for some reason that title, Tadlock's Glasses', has just been bouncing around."

Press

"...with its heavy synths and static-infused vocals, 'Tadlock's Glasses' shows off the Boys' taste for experimentation — the song sounds almost as if it's being played underwater while being simultaneously sped up and slowed down. The result isn't entirely satisfying, but it's definitely the work of a band that's never stopped evolving" - Megan Gibson, Time, May 2011