The song became Coolio's fifth top-40 single and his fourth to achieve at least a gold certification from the RIAA for sales of 500,000 copies.

The song sampled "It's All the Way Live" by funk band Lakeside, his second single to both sample and take the name from a Lakeside song after his 1994 hit, "Fantastic Voyage".

This was due to the fact Hollywood Records, who released the Eddie soundtrack, owned the rights to the song.

British magazine Music Week rated the song three out of five, describing it as "a smoothly-produced cover" from the new basketball comedy Eddie.

They also noted that the original recorders, Lakeside, perform on the track too.