Parodying the tropes of contemporary American hip hop music and its culture, it marks the first time in Ferraro's career that he approached such a style.

[4] Despite the mixtape's direction, Gibb, writing for The Quietus, still noted it to have the same "glossy sounds, dense networks of samples and a convincingly web-age sheen" as Far Side Virtual (2011).

[2] Dean wrote that there were many ways Ferraro made Inhale C-4 $$$$$ more than just a spoof of modern hip hop; the song titles, which feature references to Macau and Saharan cell phone ringtones, give the mixtape a "global" aesthetic that represents "the dense, teeming atmospheres of ultramodern, geographically hybrid urban spaces.

"[1] The cover art for Inhale C-4 $$$$$ features images from a 2008 publicity stunt for a DVD release of the 1988 film Child's Play, which involved six Chucky dolls "invading" the intersection of Times Square.

"[4] Inhale C-4 $$$$$ landed at number 14 on a year-end list by Tiny Mix Tapes of the best releases of 2012, where Unicornmang wrote that it "was secretly about locating a kernel of belief at the core of all things cultural, messy, and anxious.