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Before the announcement of PaRappa The Rapper 2, Um Jammer Lammy was called by many as a "Parappa 2" of sorts, especialy when it came out. This was, coincidentally, also the development title for the game, as shown in concept art on the Official Guidebook.
In August 26th of 1999, there was a launch party for the North American release of Um Jammer Lammy at the Roxy Nightclub in New York City, in where the voice actors for many of the characters that appeared in the game performed songs from both PaRappa The Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy. You can watch the Um Jammer Lammy at the Roxy concert here.
Rodney Greenblat himself found the difficulty of Um Jammer Lammy to be very hard.
Due to the bigger budget compared to the previous game, there were commercials made to promote Lammy in Japan. One of the more notable ones was a short advertisement where Parappa is watching TV and falls in love with Lammy after seeing her face on TV, which is really weird due to the fact that Parappa's main and only love interest in the games is Sunny Funny.

For a long time, the arcade version of Um Jammer Lammy, which is called Um Jammer Lammy NOW! was considered lost media. However, a real cabinet is confirmed to exist, and footage of many of the arcade-exclusive cutscenes such as the MilkCan interviews, Joe Chin commercials and music videos have shown up on the internet.
Stage 1 of PaRappa's story mode has a small clip based on the cutscenes for that stage focusing on PJ Berri with a instrumental version of "All You Need is Music".
Quite a few expressions shown in the FMV cutscenes, most notably with Rammy are not present in the in-game models for the respective characters.
In addition, Lammy has three-dimensional feet on the FMVs, but is rendered completely flat ingame.

In Stage 6, if you notice the enviroment surrouding Lammy, you can see PJ walking while eating a banana at the moment Lammy's ghost leaves her body. Some people have theorized that this means that PJ was the one who accidentally killed Lammy due to his gluttonous eating habits.
In stage 7, you can see Sweety Bancha sitting in the background during one of the flashback cutscenes. This cameo is the only appearance Sweety has ever had in any of the games.
There are more than a few references to the original PaRappa the Rapper across the game - Lammy recalls the events of the orgiinal game's fifth stage at the very start of the game and at the start of the cutscene prior to Power Off, Power On!, we see a big parking lot where the cars are organized in rows whose sections are separated by signs showing the faces of PaRappa 1's masters.