Songfacts®:

• This affirmation of De La Soul's otherness finds the trio admonishing the brand allegiance that was already preventable in hip-hop over a sample of The Headhunters' "God Make Me Funky." Trugoy recalled to Rolling Stone: "There was a song out there at the time called 'Kick the Ball' and it used the same Headhunters beat, so we basically mimicked the sound of their single and, instead of saying 'kick the ball,' we said 'take it off' and thought about all the cliché hip-hop stuff that people should just change and find some individualism or some of their own personality, as opposed to falling in line with what hip-hop was supposed to be. It was something we felt strongly about. We felt like there shouldn't have been guidelines for hip-hop."