<P> The song was featured in the Michael J. Fox action comedy The Hard Way, in which LL Cool J also appeared . </P> <P> The song uses samples from James Brown's "Funky Drummer," the Chicago Gangsters' "Gangster Boogie," Sly & The Family Stone's "Trip to Your Heart" the drum break from Digital Underground's "The Humpty Dance", and LL Cool J's own "Rock the Bells". The music video features LL Cool J in a boxing ring, rapping into a microphone similar to the one an announcer would use in a boxing match . Intercut with this are clips of boxing matches and LL Cool J exercising . </P> <P> LL Cool J said in his autobiography that the idea for the song came from a discussion with his grandmother . He had said to his grandmother that he felt that he couldn't survive as a rapper now that gangsta rap was popular and he was being dissed by several up - and - coming rappers . She responded, "Oh baby, just knock them out!" She is featured in the closing scene of the music video, saying: "Todd! Todd! Get upstairs and take out that garbage ." </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="5"> CD single </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> No . </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Writer (s) </Th> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Th> Length </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1 . </Td> <Td> "Mama Said Knock You Out" </Td> <Td> James Todd Smith </Td> <Td> Marley Marl </Td> <Td> 4: 50 </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Who was mama said knock you out about