Aside from “Goin' Back To Cali” (which was included on the Less Than Zero film soundtrack a year before Walking With A Panther was finished), “I’m That Type Of Guy” was the album’s first single. It peaked at #15 in the US and was certified gold within two months of its release.

Rolling Stone wrote “I’m That Type of Guy” is a “new boast classic: Over a pumping bass line and a menacing sustained piano chord, a very nonchalant L.L. lays claim, in one of his slyest vocals, to any woman around, including yours”.