"Ya Mama" is on the Charlie's Angels soundtrack and film and in a trailer for Spy Kids.

[citation needed] Both songs were omitted from his 2006 greatest hits compilation Why Try Harder.

A remix for the song by The Chemical Brothers was made and released as a separate single.

When reviewing follow-up album Palookaville, Stylus Magazine said the song was "undoubtedly" Fatboy Slim's "finest moment to date", noting "the ten-minute house anthem “Song for Shelter”, whose redemptive power was so awesome that it almost saved Larry Clark’s inconceivably atrocious film Bully simply by gracing the last scene.

"[1] "Ya Mama", often mistitled "Push the Tempo", is the second song in the single and is featured on the soundtrack of Charlie's Angels.