“Check Yo Self” retains two main versions, the original and a remix which utilizes the same beat as Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message,” titled “Check Yo Self (The Message Remix)”.

The song is featured on Ice Cube’s Bootlegs & B-Sides album and was later released on his Greatest Hits album. The clean version of “Check Yo Self (The Message Remix)” can be found within the popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on the West Coast Hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos and in the soundtrack of the movie Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.

Is the title a reference to this 1988 lyric, or is it a coincidence?