The song received critical acclaim; Inspectah Deck's verse particularly praised as one of the greatest verses in hip hop of all time ("I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses / Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries / Lyrically perform armed robbery / Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me").

[4] In a 1997 interview with MTV news reporter Serena Altschul, Ratner revealed that Raekwon came up with the video's treatment.

[6] The video begins with a fictional breaking news bulletin alerting of a massive swarm of killer bees converging on Manhattan via New York City's four other boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island.

According to Brett Ratner, ODB was uninterested in appearing since he had no verse on the song, so he left the set before filming and a stand-in was used in his place.

When ODB jumps off to evade police, Deck runs down the side of the building, reaches the ground, and catches him.

The killer bees then travel across the water to an Alcatraz-esque prison, where they bust a hole in the wall in the shape of the Wu-Tang symbol.

RZA is wearing artificial wings, and appears to be walking to the hole in order to jump out and glide to safety.