The deftones do a little name-dropping on this album in the form of longtime friend and rap superstar B Real from Cypress Hill, who did three verses on the rap track ?Black Moon.? In the always entertaining and educational liner notes, Chino tells the story of how this track came to pass. B Real had asked Chino to cut some tracks for the spoken word intro to the Cypress song ?Rock Superstar,? and called Chino at the studio to see if the tape was done yet; Chino said, ?Yeah, I'm done with it,? even though he had procrastinated and hadn?t recorded a thing yet. Turns out that B-Real was right around the corner and said he?d come over to pick up the tape. Chino rushed into the vocal booth and recorded the little rant you hear on the studio version of ?Rock Superstar? and finished up right before B-Real walked through the door.
As a thank you to Chino and the rest of the band, B-Real sat down and penned three complete verses to ?Black Moon,? and spent a few hours in the studio with the band laying the tracks down. The result is not the best rap song ever put on tape, but one that could hang with anything that was on the airwaves in the late ?90s. The signature B-Real sound mixed with live instrumentation from the deftones, plus some digital programming, makes for yet another standout track.