Check Your Head was recorded in the band’s G-Son studio in Atwater

Check Your Head was recorded in the band’s G-Son studio in Atwater Village, California , and released on its Grand Royal record label. The band was influenced to play instruments on this album by Dutch group Urban Dance Squad ; with Mike D on drums, Yauch on bass, Horovitz on guitar and Mark Ramos Nishita (” Keyboard Money Mark “) on keyboards. Mario Caldato, Jr. , who had helped in the production of Paul’s Boutique , engineered the record and became a longtime collaborator. Check Your Head was released in 1992 and was certified double Platinum in the US and peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200. The single ” So What’cha Want ” reached number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted on both the Rap and Modern Rock Chart , while the album’s first single, ” Pass the Mic “, peaked at number 38 on the Hot Dance Music chart. The album also introduced a more experimental direction, with funk and jazz inspired songs including “Lighten Up” and ” Something’s Got to Give “. The band returned to their hardcore punk roots for the song “Time for Livin’”, a cover of a 1974 Sly and the Family Stone song. The addition of instruments and the harder rock sound of the album could be considered a precursor to the nu metal genre of music to come out in the later half of the 1990s.