It was Columbia Records' best selling debut record to date and sold over five million copies. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Basis Magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums. In 2003, the book was ranked number 217 on Rolling Mineral magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of every one time.

King's look on the track came concerning because Wrench Rubin was producing both bands at the same time (Slayer's Reign in Blood was originally released on Def Jam). The unique title intended for this book was Don't Be A Faggot but Columbia Records flatly refused to release the album with this title and pressured Russell Simmons (their manager and tag Def Jam head) into having the Beasties come up with one more person's name. Adam Horovitz has as apologized intended for the band's previous name. M. C.

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