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
Keep Your Right Up Keep Your Right Up Keep Your Right Up () is a 1987 film, written, directed by, and starring French Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. "Soigne ta droite" is a phrase from boxing - a trainer's call to "keep your right up". The immediate reference is to Jacques Tati's first short film, "Soigne ton gauche" ("Keep Your Left Up"). But this is neither a comedy in the classical sense, nor a film about boxing. Godard describes it as "the camera versus landscapes over 17 rounds". It may also be described as a film which does a two-way travel between sky and earth,