Samples

• "Roxanne, Roxanne" by UTFO - MTV Presents: Hip-Hop Back in the Day by Various Artists

References

• Old School - the very first hip-hop music and style from the late 1970's and early 80's
• New School - the late 80's to today's hip-hop music and style
• Latrell Sprewell (1970- ) - basketball player for the Golden State Warriors
• Rhythm Ace - drum machine
• Skull Snaps - a funk group that recorded in the 60's and 70's; Adam Horovitz maintains a blog at Skullsnaps.org
• LeSportsac - popular line of bags, luggage, and accessories
• Ian and little Zoe - Ian C. Rogers and his daughter Zoe Rogers
• BBoys - Break boys
• Knicks - New York Knickerbockers, professional basketball team
• Scope - a namebrand mouthwash
• Technics 1200's - Technics SL1200, a turntable
• Rump shakin' - a reference to "Shake Your Rump"
• Intergalaction - a reference to "Intergalactic"
• Scientists of Sound - a reference to "The Sounds of Science"
• Asana - "sitting posture"; in the yoga system of Indian philosophy
• Scorpio - astrological zodiac sign (Oct 24 - Nov 22)
• Rach and Matthew - Rachel and Matthew Horovitz, Adam Horovitz' sister and brother
• Money-Makin' - Beastie Boys' nickname for Manhattan; in addition to this song, Beastie Boys refer to Manhattan as "Money-Makin'" in "Root Down," "Super Disco Breakin'," and "The Lisa Lisa/Full Force Routine
• Cruller - a fried pastry
• BGirls - Break girls

Sample & Reference Breakdown

• "Goin' off the hook like Latrell Spreewell" - in 1998, pro basketball player Latrell Spreewell physically attacked his team's coach during a basketball game
• "So what if I'm a ham and cheese on rye?" - Adam Horovitz has remixed several songs, notable Le Tigre songs, under the moniker DJ Ham and Cheese on Rye
• "I write the songs that make the whole world suck" - a reference to the song "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow ("I write the songs that make the whole world sing")
• "Explain to me really what doctors must do" - a sample from "Roxanne" by UTFO
• "We're the scientists of sound/We're mathematically putting it down" - identical to lyrics from Kool & the Gang's "Heaven at Once" from the 1973 album Wild & Peaceful ("We are the scientists of sound/We're mathematically putting it down")
• "I'm a Scorpio so you know I'm very sexual" - Mike Diamond's birthday is November 20th, placing him under the zodiac sign of Scorpio (Oct 24 - Nov 22)
• "We're the scientists of sound" - a common Beastie Boys phrase also referenced in the Paul's Boutique track "The Sounds of Science"

Beastie Boys

"...done with a loop from Dessau of a piano and then [the Beastie Boys] added more stuff to it" - Mario Caldato, 1998

Press

"...one of [Hello Nasty's] best songs - and one of the group's best in a decade. Deftly placed piano and organ riffs trigger involuntary head-bobbing; it's impossible to deny the funkiness of this cut, one of the rare Beastie Boys songs with potential crossover appeal to serious hip-hop heads" - Boston Globe, July 1998