Although these are occassionally appearing on Ebay as limited numbered editions, they are not all numbered.

If you order 250 copies from a pressing plant they usually send some copies more. I guess those are the un-numbered issues. Mine is numbered with gold marker on black generic cover and was sealed in a shrink foil.

The original acetate for this release was just recently sold on eBay. It was Chuck Chillouts own, and he played it on his radio show on 98.7 KISS FM in NYC, back in 1987. I have this on tape from back in the days, and kept the tape in great condition all these years. Back in 2001 I sold a bunch of CD's in which I threw a bunch of unreleased promos and demos on them. This song was one of them. Some of you may remember the "Classic MC-izms" CD's. Of course, I bid on the acetate on eBay but since it sold for around $2800, I was outbid. Last week on eBay I found this record being sold for $35, and I had to get one. It's supposedly a warehouse find, and limited to 250 copies. I got it in the mail today and the return address is from traffic entertainment. Maybe they purchased the original acetate and reissued this themselves??? Hopefully??? Please???? Well my friends, they did not. Apparently someone used one of my previously mentioned CD's to press this record up. Am I disappointed? More than a 7 year old who just found out there is no santa claus! I know it was my CD used, because when I made that CD, The Tape was a little crunchy, but I left it like that on purpose just in case this sort of thing happened! Coincidentally I hear the same crunchiness on this reissue! Also, near the end of this song, you hear Chuck Chillout saying "It's DJ Chuck Chillout - Live, ya understand..." exactly as it was on my CDs, and yet it doesn't appear on the actual acetate. Also, on my CD, you hear a Slick Rick promo cut in before the end of the track. On this record, they fade the end out, just before you would hear Slick Rick. On the original acetate the track ends cold, with no fade out. I gotta say this was a clever maneuver by the reissuer whomever it really was. It is nice to finally be able to have this track on wax, but please be aware that your not getting the actual repressing of the acetate, instead a repressing which originated from a cassette tape from the radio. Now as for the song, Ced-Gee used the same beat in his SP-1200 that he used for "The Bridge is Over". It was recently admitted he took the "Funky President" beats from the "Eric B Is President" record and threw them in the SP-1200. After some beat reprogramming, he added a sample from Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man", and that is all. Very simple, and very dope!!! During the hook he threw in some phrases from the group where they say "Chuck Chillout", and "Kiss FM". They did re-record this song with a similar track that year, but it ulitmately wound up being deleted, and obviously didn't make the cut for the "Critical Beatdown" LP. That re-recorded track did make an appearance on one of the Tuff City LP's from the mid 90's, but that track lacked the magic that this song captured. When Ultra recorded this track, they also recorded the demo for "Mentally Mad" around the same time, which also sounded real ruff as compared to the version on the 12 inch single. I also still have that demo on tape. Hopefully that original demo will too resurface and be put out to the public because that tape didn't do too well over the years.