Critical reception
Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "Well done naughties! You don't have to check the sample credits. As so much pure swing, the track automatically points to New Orleans soul and its house band the Meters ('Find Your Way')." [4] Ted Kessler from NME commented, "Treach and co return with a song as hardy and sure-footed as 'Hip Hop Hooray', another call-and-response hip-hop anthem that should ensure Naughty by Nature are not handed the key to that most overcrowded of pop's resting places: the home of the one-hit hip-hop wonder. They're not saying much here, other than they're still here and still fab, but they do it with an elegant East Coast swagger that's intended on the memory as soon as the first chorus has faded out. A hit, Cap'n!" [5]
Another NME editor, Iestyn George, complimented the song as "a fresh call and response excursion from the Paul Heaton-endorsed East Coast rap crew, featuring the Radio Edit's neat jazzy keyboard loop and a funky bass-line for that smooth summer hit quotient, plus a brace of monstrous subterranean versions for blasting out loud whilst cruising around the 'hood in yo' mutha's Vauxhall Nova." [6]
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