[1] It originally appeared on their debut studio album Poison under the title "Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph and Johnny (Word to the Mutha)!

The song features vocals from Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill.

[4] Brown, Tresvant and Gill are credited separately on the single, rather than collectively as New Edition.

[5] The song samples "A Star in the Ghetto" by Average White Band and "The Jam" by Graham Central Station.

[6] A music video was filmed in and around the Orchard Park Housing Projects, in the Roxbury section of Boston, where five of the six (excluding Johnny Gill) New Edition members grew up.