Larry Flick from
Billboard magazine wrote, "Latest single from Cube's current album,
Lethal Injection, is a laid-back jam in which he traces what life in his old neighborhood has become. Follow-up to '
Really Doe' has the juice to easily sate the tastes of purists, but is also smooth enough to make considerable noise at
pop and
urban radio."
Everett True from
Melody Maker said, "This is more of that gorgeously smooth East Side/West Side
funk that surely even the most staid of you are spending all your waking hours with by now, with sequenced vocals, gentle scratchin', a mutha of a rhythm track and a vocal as drop-dead-and-f***-me-as-you-fall cool as you'd ever want." Alan Jones from
Music Week gave it three out of five, describing it as "another mellow musical experience, [with] his assured and rhythmic rap being intoned over a relaxing backwash enlivened by a squirting synth. Some dubious lyrics, but a nice summery track which deserves to score." Pan-European magazine
Music & Media wrote, "There's a thin line between
hip hop and
soul drawn here. Vocally he's moving away from straightforward rapping to almost singing the lyrics. Will that be next year's fashion?" Paul Moody from
NME named it Big Funky Single of the Week, adding, "A deep, oven-baked rhythm, a sample stolen from the wonderful 'The Show Is Over' by
Evelyn Champagne King and then Ice himself, grumbling about how
...They wanna have me in stripes, like Dennis the Menace and mumbling incoherently about the 'West Side'. [...] A funk record for people scared to funk and a rap record for people who... yeah, yeah, you know. A monster hit." Tim Jeffery from the
Record Mirror Dance Update wrote, "A cool and lazy groove with lightly wailing vocals provide an excellent backdrop for Ice Cube's laconic rapping style. Not dancefloor material but this evokes a great atmosphere."
James Hamilton described it as "Evelyn King sampling pleasant jazz-funkily rolling 92.7bpm mellow
LA rap" in his weekly
Record Mirror dance column. ==Music video==