Gangster Tripping

The second single from You've Come a Long Way, Baby came out on 5 October 1998 as Gangster Trippin, which is also the title of the clean version. It peaked at number three in the UK and 49 in Switzerland. Its samples include DJ Shadow's Entropy, the X-Ecutioners' Word Play and The Turntablist Anthem, Jackie Mittoo's Change the Mood and the Dust Junkys' Beatbox Wash, which supplies the chorus line. Pitchfork noted that the track borrows a CL Smooth ad-lib from Shadow's 18-minute beat suite, and said Cook was as happy to make the wrong move as the right one. The radio cut was re-edited to remove the profanity.

In 2013 Nicky Lockett of the Dust Junkys, known as MC Tunes, won a three-year court case to recover unpaid royalties for his vocals in the main chorus. Roman Coppola directed the video, which shows furniture sets exploding in slow motion. According to MTV at the time the script held one line, blow stuff up. Pitchfork saw it as a Zabriskie Point tribute. The song also appears in the 1999 film Go and the 2006 game Lumines II.