[7] He employed more of a band sound on One Step Ahead of the Spider; he spent six months listening to all the takes before adding vocals to his favorite tracks.

[11] Trouser Press wrote that "Griffin's connection to hip-hop is gone: the music of 'New Moon' and 'Tiptoe Through the Inferno' are free-flowing jazz in which voice serves as just one of the instruments.

"[17] The Calgary Herald likened the album to "a spoken word Burroughs meets Don Was when he Was (Not Was).

"[15] Rolling Stone called MC 900 Ft. Jesus "desperately wack, browbeatingly outre.

"[16] The Indianapolis Star concluded that "while Griffin's hip-hop sensibilities may run closer to New Age, he delivers lyrics with a cadence that shifts between those of a finger-popping, beatnik poet and a world-weary commentator on race relations.