David Alan Grier's character Calhoun Tubbs from the TV series In Living Color: "Wrote a song about it like to hear it? Here it go." This phrase was previously used in En Vogue's " Free Your Mind".
"Chiminy chim chiminy" echoes the chimney sweep song from Mary Poppins.
'"I am the one and only Method Man rapper with the plan, wrapping shit like Saran.".
Tweety Bird: "Hold up, what I tawt I taw a putty tat over there.".
"Hey, hey, hey, like Fat Albert It's the Method Man, and there's no if, ands about it.".
Get off of My Cloud – ("Hey, you, get off my cloud/You don't know me and you don't know my style") – a reference to the Rolling Stones song.
Tootsie Pops – ( Now how many licks does it take, for me to hit the tootsie roll center of a break?).
Method Man uses the term "Super Sperm", referencing the songs "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang and "Super Sporm", by Captain Sky.
Skunk, a strain of cannabis ( I got fat bags of skunk).
Green Eggs and Ham – ( I be Sam, Sam-I-Am, and I don't eat green eggs and ham).
Jif peanut butter, Skippy peanut butter, Peter Pan peanut butter – ( Don't eat Skippy, Jif or Peter Pan, Peanut butter cuz I'm not butter).
Pattycake – ( Pattycake, pattycake, hey, the Method Man).
The refrain of the song (M-E-T-H-O-D) draws from the 1985 Hall & Oates hit " Method of Modern Love" from Big Bam Boom.
Within the song's lyrics, Method Man references many notable quotes from popular culture.