Perfect" Curt Hennig,[4] while the title track is a diss song aimed at Hulk Hogan.

"[5] In a 2003 interview, Savage said his feud with Hulk Hogan, the subject of the title track, was genuine, and that his entry into music was earnest.

The Good 5¢ Cigar, the student newspaper of the University of Rhode Island, wrote that Be a Man would "change not only the entire music industry, but your life as you know it.

"[12] Ernest A. Jasmin of The News Tribune said Savage is "the epitome of [a] renaissance man", and that his rapping is "way better than Shaquille O'Neal's.

"[13] Tom Mallon of CMJ New Music Monthly said Savage's flow is "surprisingly tight for a middle-aged, musclebound beef jerky salesman with an audible constipation problem.