• "Dial a Hitman" contains a spoken-word outro attributed to
Matt Dillon and
Laurence Fishburne (and with a reference to
Jim Jarmusch) • "C'mon Every Beatbox", "V. Thirteen", and "Sightsee M.C!" were all released as singles in the UK • "C'mon Every Beatbox" contains
samples from the films ''
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), The Harder They Come (1972), and The Cotton Club'' (1984) • "Sambadrome" contains some samples from Brazilian football commentator
Osmar Santos • The original album version of "Hollywood Boulevard" opened with a sample of
Peter O'Toole from
My Favorite Year (1982) • "Ice Cool Killer" is an instrumental version of "Limbo the Law" • "The Big V" is an instrumental version of "V. Thirteen" • "Badrock City" is an instrumental remix version of "C'mon Every Beatbox" and charted as a single on the US
Dance Club Songs chart. • "V. Thirteen" is named for the territorial tags drawn by members of Venice 13 (V13) is a Mexican-American street gang based in the
Oakwood (aka "Ghost Town") neighborhood of
Venice, a section of
Los Angeles,
California, with a substantial presence in East Venice as well as the
Culver City/Los Angeles border, especially around Washington Blvd. • Later pressings of the album substituted the original versions of "Hollywood Boulevard" and "V. Thirteen" with the remixed versions that were released as a single. == Personnel ==