It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back alongside the best rap records of the time." Some of the song titles make reference to other works from popular culture. The title of the song "Party for Your Right to Fight" is a rearrangement of the Beastie Boys' 1987 hit single "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)." The vocal sample of hip hop DJ Mr. Magic stating that his show would play "no more music by the suckers" was used on the song "Cold Lampin' with Flavor" after having been recorded from Magic's radio show by Flavor Flav. Magic had dissed the group with the line when
Shadow of Your Love (Guns N' Roses song) ever.' We knew right then what we had." In 1998, former Hollywood Rose guitarist Chris Weber sued Rose over songwriting credits, claiming he co-wrote "Shadow of Your Love" (and "Back Off Bitch" from "Use Your Illusion I"). The first Guns N' Roses version appeared as a B-side on the "It's So Easy/Mr. Brownstone" single in 1987, as a "faux-live" version of the song, with overdubbed crowd noise on the studio version. The same version was also released in 1988 on the "Live From The Jungle EP". The track was an outtake from the bands debut EP, "Live?!*@ Like A Suicide".