@@irenejones69 hope it was the 5 speed stick shift. I miss clutches and my 12 in kicker box. I rattled the rear view mirror off my subaru wagon on this song.!
I had this playing on my boom box at school.. how they allowed us to have these huge boom boxes in school still makes me laugh 😆 all the beastie boy songs still hold up for me! They are fire❤
this part right here. Beasties was my first concert ever. On this tour, in Las Vegas. I'm 51 now and still bump this at least weekly. Oh, and I love watching people truly experiencing them for the first time!
@@GasStationSushiSkatesat48 Ya baby five one!......and still bumpin. Kinda hard to believe we were kids, skatin and listening to these guys. Damn.....feels like just yesterday and a thousand years ago all at the same time.
I still bump the og vinyl I bought when it came out... an album you play side a all the way thru, then get ur ass up, gently move the needle, flip that wax over, run your lint picker around, blow off the needle and gently lower it down on side B to play all the way through..
Love it. When I saw the Beastie Boys in ‘98, their DJ spun up this hook, the guys put their microphones down, and 10,000+ people in the crowd performed for them. One of the coolest things Ive ever seen
It was the best! We are the bridge between the analog and digital world. We existed before but embraced it when it came into being. The last folks who grew up outside. Long as that ass was inside when the street lights came on for dinner!
Beastie Boys were way ahead of their time. I love your reaction to this. It was absolute FIRE and does stand the test of time. I'm 52 now. Thanks for the reminder.
Eazy E said in an interview that when they heard Licensed to Ill they thought of it as the first gangsta rap album, and the early NWA songs were their attempt emulate Beasties.
1:13 lol I thought the same thing!!! I'm a 48 yr old white lady and I still get Eazy E stuck in my head:) "a car pulls up who can it be, a fresh el camino rollin' kilo G, he rolled down his window and he started to say..." C'mon now;)
Three white Jewish boys set it strait and made a huge impact on hip hop. The hip hop culture in it's purest form knows no color, race or religion. It is about beats, samples and a story.
No fluff, no cheap hooks, no mumming or humming, straight bars clear as day that even a 5 year old can comprehend the words. This masterpiece was such a jam when it came out and only we that were there will appreciate this gem
Stick with this album “License to Ill”1986 for a while before moving on so that you can really appreciate the GENIUS of their 2nd album “Paul’s Boutique “ 1989.
@@mostlyevilmisha It sure is mine! But low key favorite song is "Gratitude", also another fire album is their all instrumental drop called "In Sound From Way Out".
You couldn't make that album now days, the licencing would be too expensive. They use so many cuts from so many places, but it was before they made laws saying you had to pay.
I was an 8th grader in Middle School when this song came out. Im 51 now and still listen to it till this day. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. This song was real Hip Hop
Easy-E was a big fan of the Beastie Boys sound, he used samples of them on several albums. And the Beastie Boys loved when people transformed their ideas into totally new sounds. And as much as there was an East Coast / West Coast feud in public, especially with NWA, a lot of that was just the persona they played and they really respected and fed off each other. This song was written in the early days of Def Jam. Rick sent Adam Yauch to meet Run-DMC at the recording studio and was sitting outside waiting working on a song (at the time Rick Ruban was still in his dorm room operation and so the Beastie Boys did a lot of the side work in Def Jam). Russel Simmons ran down the street later and started babbling about a story of why they were late.. and Adam hit on the opening "Here's a little story I got to tell..." and Simmons told him that what he was working on was fire, and he had to record it. In later sessions Adam was playing with an 808 and he flipped and ran it backwards through tape and that's when the Run-DMC guys stopped him and told him he had to use that beat. RIP MCA
If he's 25, you have to remember that he grew up with a bunch of garbage, mumble crap. It's a little better now, but many of those garbage rappers disrespected the early Hip Hop artists. Many of these youngsters are barely discovering the origins.
Thank you so much for loving this as much as us gen x'ers do. I was just telling my husband i couldnt figure out why the beastie boys hadnt blown up with gen z and younger kids. Those guys were the pinnacle of creativity. Saw the beasties open up for run dmc in okc in 86 or 87. I cant remember the year, but i remember the beats. Lol.
The whole album is fire. Brass monkey is one of my absolute favorites. Also talking about ahead of their time No Sleep Till Brooklyn the guitar riffs were done by Kerry King from Slayer.
I was bumping this as my gym music two years ago in Iraq 🇮🇶. This song is always going to be a banger. I’m 48 years old and proud to grow up listening to this era of Hip Hop.
Oh hell yah - the 808 is ICONIC for the 80s and any kind of lo-fi, dirty, funky, sound you want to make. It's one of my go to patches on pretty much any DAW :)
No kidding.... I had this CD in a discman with the cassette player attachment plugged into my Dads John Deere combine while making grain in 1986. My Grandfather, God rest his soul, crawled up the ladder to tell me something while this song was playing. At 72 years old, he told me to shut up so he can listen to the end. I remember how he laughed about the two girlies and a beer thats cold line. I also remember him asking to hear the rest of the album, and afterwards, his catchphrase was always "Sometimes ya just gotta fight for the right to party, i guess." Loved that man.
I am still listening to the Beastie Boys many decades later I am 54 years old. Still jamming or bumping or whatever it is this younger generation calls it.
Only 14 in 1986 but bought my 1st, top of the line system in 1990 for this album, in my old 67 Mustang. $5000 later it has all Alpine and Hifonics gear. Still bumping and working today...you really got what you paid for then.
RIP MCA, Huge fan, you should listen to their Paul's Boutique album, every one of their albums are different and all excellent. They created their own style of hip hop using samples of music, talented AF
“Polly Wog Stew” was actually their first album in 1982. “Cooky Puss” (1983 single) was their first release after switching to hip hop. “Rock Hard” was released in 1984 after signing with Def Jam, which is around the time Kate left the group. Now, we come to “License to Ill” in 1986. The rest is pure hip hop history!!! Cheers!!!
@@curbowbass6124 oh c'mon, you can name some basement tape, college radio, short-run concert merch releases for LOTS of musicians. It's good for trivia night, but it's pedantic. Nobody would call License to Ill a "sophomore effort."
This is why I love watching reaction videos. I've been listening to rap longer than you've been alive and I never put together than Eazy based his style off them. Love other perspectives! Thanks for teaching me something.
52 years old and these boys were my jam. EZ never wrote any of his own lyrics. A lot of the sample from the 80’s were similar, but this was legit. The plane’s tail has EATME spelled backwards with the 3 as e.
Beastie boy's and Run DMC was my very first concert at 15. It was cranking from beginning to end everyone in the auditorium was singing every rhyme. Epic memory. Nothing like it since.
The Raising Hell Tour. The first concert i ever went to and couldn't get in.....stupid gang bangers caused a riot and the concert was shut down before anyone performed. Long Beach Convention Center, 1986.
Look at the plane serial number. It says “eatme” backwards. It’s where Em got the kamakaze cover idea from!! Legendary!! I was 10 when this came out and me and my friend would split verses.
I listened to the Beastie Boys when i was a kid...... Im almost 50, and I still love their songs! They never get old!! Now my kids listen to them... GOTTA LOVE THEM!!!! TIMELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@BulkBogan wake up everyday to kiss this horrible worlds beautiful face and most importantly do unto others as you would want done unto yourself. travel your ass off,stay humble and pay your dues. MOST IMPORTANTLY GO FUCIN VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Revere, Hold It Now, Hit It and She's Crafty were my joints. We listened to the tape daily in 87'. Such great music came out then...hip hop, pop, R&B, Rap, etc. All of it was timeless!!
Beastie Boys did come before Eaze-E, however it's not exactly the same beat. This song uses what is known as a "reverse bass note"! Late 1980's! Top notch!
He was speaking of the lyrical flow not the beat. Easy E and Sir Mix a Lot both have some rhyme styles with similarities to the Beastie Boys. All Legendary artists, IMO.
One of the greatest hip hop beats of all time. Greatest tracks of all time. Their next album has another incredible storytelling track called "High Plains Drifter", definitely give that a reaction!
Music had a richness ,soul, and flow back then when I was growing up in the 80’s and 90’s , beastie boys was a testament of that time in history … will never be a time again in music like it , was glad to have been a part of witnessing this nostalgic period in history where it was more simple yet so Authentic 🎶
The 🫨 crazy thing about the track production is that the beat was sampled, reversed and then played on an 808 drum machine 🥁. The kick, snare and cymbals are all reversed. The production just behind the beat was amazing. No computers back then. No FL Studio or Ableton. Just a sampler. Genius in the 80's!
2:38 I do still bump this in my car. Beasties aren't gonna go anywhere. they are the OGs that get respect from all sides. watch 3 MCs and 1 DJ. back in the day they blew it up with Mix Master Mike. Sabotage, Brass Monkey, No Sleep Til Brooklyn... their whole list is still relevant
Ima metal head living in NYC for 52 years..bboys have been holding down the 5 boroughs for DECADES... y'all need to listen to the beasties first 5 albums for a week straight.. you'll be bouncing 🔥killer flows and beats like no other...paulies boutique is fire.
I can't think of a metal head out there that didn't appreciate the Beastie Boys. They crossed a lot of social lines and broke a lot of cultural barriers. Changed this metal heads life forever!
In third grade I switched to public school from Catholic school and everyone I met was talking about Beastie Boys. I asked my Dad for the album for Christmas and got it. Loved it. Closer to summer break al of the older kids (6th graders) who sat at the back of the bus started rapping the lyrics every day on the bus ride home and I knew all the words. I was sitting at the rear middle of the bus in no time. TY Beastie Boys.
I'm 48.. can never forget them.. listened to the TAPE in my walkman to fall asleep at night. Best EVER! You cant cut it off though.. I wanna hear.. Hold it now!!!
So glad to see someone who appreciates real rap music, surprised you didn't say anything about the beat spinning backwards! You made me like and subscribe young man!
Thank you for sharing. I think I enjoyed you just as much as the Beastie Boys… I was 13 years old, sitting in reform school when this album was released, you talking about Bringing some excitement to children between a rock and a hard place. But I guess we all can remember where we were and what we were doing when this album dropped. This one will always bring back memories. Thank you again for sharing.❤
Paul's Boutique is the album you can listen to from start to finish, and every time you do, you hear little things you didn't hear the last time you listened to it. Masterpiece
Legends of Hip Hop ! This came out my Senior Year ! Changed my Life ! Seen them Live several times in 80’s & 90’s ! Doesn’t get any better…🔥⭐️🔥⭐️🔥⭐️🔥⭐️
This was my first cassette tape in the third grade. Really enjoyed your reaction. It gave me goosebumps. Felt like I was hearing it again for the first time. Subscribed
I remember listening to this in 5th grade when it first came out. Still listening to it and the rest of Beastie Boys today. Need to listen to Paul Revere on a serious system to blow you away.
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50 years old and still know all the words. Yall really missed the era of real hip hop!
Same! 50yr old and know every one. I was obsessed with this album
50 years old here too! Still know the whole thing
54 y/o guy here...Can confirm all of the above!
I’m a few years older than y’all (58) I remember buying this album when it 1st came out. Used to bump this in my dorm room.
me too
17 year old me in 86 with a 10" woofer behind the seat of my Nissan pickup truck bumpin to this. So glad I got to live this life.
Same but an 84 Camaro
@@irenejones69 hope it was the 5 speed stick shift. I miss clutches and my 12 in kicker box. I rattled the rear view mirror off my subaru wagon on this song.!
I had this playing on my boom box at school.. how they allowed us to have these huge boom boxes in school still makes me laugh 😆 all the beastie boy songs still hold up for me! They are fire❤
Datsun pickup with a stick shift and a Z-28 tranny here, I was 16 in ‘86 ❤
@@irenejones69 convertible d50 with 15s behind the seats on a punch 150.
Your appreciation for this makes this 55 year old smile.
StraighT!!
This 55 year old too 😊@@gerard7aa
I still push 2000 watts in my car, I am 50. I will never stop...
This dude just looked behind the curtain of Gen X.
🙏🏾👌🏾
100%
Yep
He outside a second fer sure
😂😂😂😂😂
I’m 57. Old dude. Blew up our Jensens/Alpines with this. Glad you likeeee.
2X10 alpines in the trunk of my 68 cutlass back in the day.
Kickers / Pioneer connected to a pullout JVC before detachable face came about! 😅
Ugh Jensen 😅 not terrible but not exactly great either. I've owned some of their products over the years and they were, fine.
We all had those Jensen triaxels
@@digdugsmugwe were poor kids so I have nostalgia for Jensens
all of NWA have said many times that the Beasties were a huge influence.
Ice-T is on record saying this song influenced him too.
I think a lot of rappers were influenced by them but couldn’t admit it.
These guys broke PE by bringing them on tour
@fiverx2159 your comment is spot on 100.
They do now
@@firecracker187😅
“ you could still bump this today”
Brother, I do! Loud and proud. ✌🏽
this part right here. Beasties was my first concert ever. On this tour, in Las Vegas. I'm 51 now and still bump this at least weekly. Oh, and I love watching people truly experiencing them for the first time!
@@GasStationSushiSkatesat48 Ya baby five one!......and still bumpin. Kinda hard to believe we were kids, skatin and listening to these guys. Damn.....feels like just yesterday and a thousand years ago all at the same time.
I still bump the og vinyl I bought when it came out... an album you play side a all the way thru, then get ur ass up, gently move the needle, flip that wax over, run your lint picker around, blow off the needle and gently lower it down on side B to play all the way through..
Same!
Licensed to Ill was on nonstop on our bus playing high school baseball, '87. Never found the room at the back of the bus
Love it. When I saw the Beastie Boys in ‘98, their DJ spun up this hook, the guys put their microphones down, and 10,000+ people in the crowd performed for them. One of the coolest things Ive ever seen
Your reaction bro was genuine and appreciated!! I’m 51 years old bro! Let’s go GEN X!! Best times growing up in the 80’s and 90’s!!
Yes Sir ! It truly was !
I'm 51 as well...best times ever! This was in heavy rotation growing up, even for a dude from Texas!!!
55 here, there will never be another generation like ours!!!!
@@chipbagley4744 EVER.
It was the best! We are the bridge between the analog and digital world. We existed before but embraced it when it came into being. The last folks who grew up outside. Long as that ass was inside when the street lights came on for dinner!
Beastie Boys were way ahead of their time. I love your reaction to this. It was absolute FIRE and does stand the test of time. I'm 52 now. Thanks for the reminder.
52 here, and this is still 🔥
Waayyy ahead. Scientists of sounded! And, nothing sounds quite like an 808
Eazy E said in an interview that when they heard Licensed to Ill they thought of it as the first gangsta rap album, and the early NWA songs were their attempt emulate Beasties.
Really??? That's amazing!!! Thanks for sharing that:)
1:13 lol I thought the same thing!!! I'm a 48 yr old white lady and I still get Eazy E stuck in my head:) "a car pulls up who can it be, a fresh el camino rollin' kilo G, he rolled down his window and he started to say..." C'mon now;)
@@somanyfeelzI feel u. Same age ahahah. 😂
Cube is basically doing Beastie impersonations on his song My Posse when he was just starting
What ya talk like that..
Beastie Boys are the voice of my Generation X!!❤
it true
WORD
Fly
Three white Jewish boys set it strait and made a huge impact on hip hop. The hip hop culture in it's purest form knows no color, race or religion. It is about beats, samples and a story.
No such thing as a white jew. 😊
Umm.. 4 white Jewish boys
@@kwittjrRick Rubín
F yeahhhhh! Couldn’t have said it better homie.
@@kwittjr Mr Rubin deserves his flowers, as the youths say lol
No fluff, no cheap hooks, no mumming or humming, straight bars clear as day that even a 5 year old can comprehend the words. This masterpiece was such a jam when it came out and only we that were there will appreciate this gem
My all-time favorite song from high school days. One other best albums ever created by men. BEYOND PHENOMENAL ❤❤❤
Stick with this album “License to Ill”1986 for a while before moving on so that you can really appreciate the GENIUS of their 2nd album “Paul’s Boutique “ 1989.
This. "Paul's Boutique" is generally regarded as the greatest hip hop album of all time,
@@mostlyevilmisha It sure is mine! But low key favorite song is "Gratitude", also another fire album is their all instrumental drop called "In Sound From Way Out".
License to Ill is better. Not by much though.
You couldn't make that album now days, the licencing would be too expensive. They use so many cuts from so many places, but it was before they made laws saying you had to pay.
Yes, yes, yes!
LOOK HOW HAPPY HE IS ❤❤❤ Beasties still impacting folks all these years later 🔥🔥🔥
Everyone on the school bus knew all the words to “Paul Revere!”
Oh snap, I was like 10 and remember that vividly.
100% This song also gave white high school boys a gateway to hip-hop.. LOL. I love these guys!!
Yes they did!
Even us guys who grew in the country were listening to the Beastie Boys. ;)
For me it was everyone at summer camp :)
I was an 8th grader in Middle School when this song came out. Im 51 now and still listen to it till this day. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. This song was real Hip Hop
Jesus man how much can you listen to the same shit - move on bro there’s tons of good music put out all the time 😂😂😂
I was in 8th also.
Me too. We wrote the lyrics all day in class.
Easy-E was a big fan of the Beastie Boys sound, he used samples of them on several albums. And the Beastie Boys loved when people transformed their ideas into totally new sounds. And as much as there was an East Coast / West Coast feud in public, especially with NWA, a lot of that was just the persona they played and they really respected and fed off each other.
This song was written in the early days of Def Jam. Rick sent Adam Yauch to meet Run-DMC at the recording studio and was sitting outside waiting working on a song (at the time Rick Ruban was still in his dorm room operation and so the Beastie Boys did a lot of the side work in Def Jam). Russel Simmons ran down the street later and started babbling about a story of why they were late.. and Adam hit on the opening "Here's a little story I got to tell..." and Simmons told him that what he was working on was fire, and he had to record it. In later sessions Adam was playing with an 808 and he flipped and ran it backwards through tape and that's when the Run-DMC guys stopped him and told him he had to use that beat.
RIP MCA
Man just let it roll. I was waiting for the next track. HOLD IT NOW, HIT IT!
It’s one of the best transitions into another song
You can’t listen to Paul Revere without letting it play into Hold It, Now Hit It! That should be a crime! 😂🤣
It played in my head. He trimmed it perfectly off
CD's kind of ruined the transition for me. It was better on tape.
Yo Leroy
In what world do you live 25 years without hearing Paul Revere?!? We as your previous generation have failed you.
Agreed, shame on his Uncles and Aunties.
These reaction videos are 99% fake.
@@johnwayne2103Always has to be an idiot in the bunch. Congrats.
If he's 25, you have to remember that he grew up with a bunch of garbage, mumble crap. It's a little better now, but many of those garbage rappers disrespected the early Hip Hop artists. Many of these youngsters are barely discovering the origins.
100% FAKE
"You could still bump this in your car today." Yes, sir. I just did about 10 minutes ago.
His reactions to the old school rap be killing ME 😂 and i so appreciate it because that's THE Era i come from. Thank you, youg man... Salute 🫡
Worrd!!
Thank you so much for loving this as much as us gen x'ers do. I was just telling my husband i couldnt figure out why the beastie boys hadnt blown up with gen z and younger kids. Those guys were the pinnacle of creativity. Saw the beasties open up for run dmc in okc in 86 or 87. I cant remember the year, but i remember the beats. Lol.
The whole album is fire. Brass monkey is one of my absolute favorites. Also talking about ahead of their time No Sleep Till Brooklyn the guitar riffs were done by Kerry King from Slayer.
I believe he played the solo but the original riff was actually played by Rick Rubin himself.
@@dantoth3199 it's Kerry in the video
Came here to say... Wait until he hears Brass Monkey....!
That funky monkey!
I was bumping this as my gym music two years ago in Iraq 🇮🇶. This song is always going to be a banger. I’m 48 years old and proud to grow up listening to this era of Hip Hop.
Hooah brother!
48 and proud bro!
Crank up the subwoofer and let the 808s sing. Legendary album
Beastie Boys are awesome
Oh hell yah - the 808 is ICONIC for the 80s and any kind of lo-fi, dirty, funky, sound you want to make. It's one of my go to patches on pretty much any DAW :)
Fun fact: I'm 48 and when and I found out what 808's were because of "the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb":)
GEN X - Twas the best of times with the dopest rhymes.
This came out in '86. Eazy E's Boys-in-tha-Hood came out in '87 and samples "Hold it Now Hit it" by the Beastie Boys.
Art inspires art :D
You're right, I'm 49 and I just now realized that.
No kidding.... I had this CD in a discman with the cassette player attachment plugged into my Dads John Deere combine while making grain in 1986. My Grandfather, God rest his soul, crawled up the ladder to tell me something while this song was playing. At 72 years old, he told me to shut up so he can listen to the end. I remember how he laughed about the two girlies and a beer thats cold line. I also remember him asking to hear the rest of the album, and afterwards, his catchphrase was always "Sometimes ya just gotta fight for the right to party, i guess."
Loved that man.
Sounds like you come from good stock homeboy
Awesome memory, thanks for sharing.
I have it on vinyl
@duecedubs
I got to tell you, I'm typically not a jealous man, but DAMN🤣
Thank u so much for sharing that memory:)
I am still listening to the Beastie Boys many decades later I am 54 years old. Still jamming or bumping or whatever it is this younger generation calls it.
Facts! 55 here and still got em on my playlist!! RIP MCA!
Only 14 in 1986 but bought my 1st, top of the line system in 1990 for this album, in my old 67 Mustang. $5000 later it has all Alpine and Hifonics gear. Still bumping and working today...you really got what you paid for then.
Hold it now..hold it now....hit it!!!!!
I know! I was waiting for him to let it roll.
I went to their concert in 86 and it was amazing!!!!! They sounded great live!!!
RIP MCA, Huge fan, you should listen to their Paul's Boutique album, every one of their albums are different and all excellent. They created their own style of hip hop using samples of music, talented AF
... Now this is 1986 ... 3 White Dudez... LEGENDZ
This was in 1986 from their first album (that went Diamond, BTW). NWA song came after this.
“Polly Wog Stew” was actually their first album in 1982. “Cooky Puss” (1983 single) was their first release after switching to hip hop. “Rock Hard” was released in 1984 after signing with Def Jam, which is around the time Kate left the group. Now, we come to “License to Ill” in 1986. The rest is pure hip hop history!!! Cheers!!!
Jewish assholes from ny that made rap mainstream and set up dumbshit. Ask the wu if they get down with beasties.
@@curbowbass6124 The more you know. Thanks for this mate, I appreciate your knowledge.
@@curbowbass6124 oh c'mon, you can name some basement tape, college radio, short-run concert merch releases for LOTS of musicians. It's good for trivia night, but it's pedantic. Nobody would call License to Ill a "sophomore effort."
@@iroll just laying down facts. Everyone is free to interpret them as they wish. Cheers!!!
This is the one!! Welcome to our music ! Sincerely 51 yr old
Your reaction is a trip man,😂 you had me laughing, check out so watcha want, another great beastie jam and posse in effect !
I was a 10yr old skater when this album dropped. Sk8'n half pipes while bump'n Beasties 🤙
All Grommits off the Ramp!! Stop that Breakdancing!!😂
Same big vert Ramps such great times thd best times
'Simplicity goes a long way'....wise words!!
well said
Occum's Razor clear!
All you kids, can you imagine being 12 years old and THIS comes out?? We lost our minds and we were LUCKY. 1986!
I listened to this in middle school and I’m 49. Gla you appreciate it.
One of my first cassettes.
Class of ‘93!
Mark, I'm the same age as you and I did the same thing. I listened to this album on my Walkman on the school bus for a while.
Same. Turn 50 in Feb
This is why I love watching reaction videos. I've been listening to rap longer than you've been alive and I never put together than Eazy based his style off them.
Love other perspectives! Thanks for teaching me something.
Gen X here. Listening to our music you understand why we HATE mumble rap. Our music had substance and imagination. What is this new ishhhh???
40 years later and this is still banging. These cats, LL, and Eric B and Rakim could take the roof off of any house party back then.
38 years since this dropped.. still have the LP 😀
Dude, I wasn't going to like and subscribe, but your genuine appreciation of my Boys got me. 💖
Me too!
52 years old and these boys were my jam. EZ never wrote any of his own lyrics. A lot of the sample from the 80’s were similar, but this was legit. The plane’s tail has EATME spelled backwards with the 3 as e.
Beastie boy's and Run DMC was my very first concert at 15. It was cranking from beginning to end everyone in the auditorium was singing every rhyme. Epic memory. Nothing like it since.
The Raising Hell Tour. The first concert i ever went to and couldn't get in.....stupid gang bangers caused a riot and the concert was shut down before anyone performed. Long Beach Convention Center, 1986.
Look at the plane serial number. It says “eatme” backwards. It’s where Em got the kamakaze cover idea from!! Legendary!! I was 10 when this came out and me and my friend would split verses.
I listened to the Beastie Boys when i was a kid...... Im almost 50, and I still love their songs! They never get old!! Now my kids listen to them... GOTTA LOVE THEM!!!! TIMELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When i hear anything off the ill album....i am 18 again and life is grand. All my buds are still alive and i have a lot of life left.
Great post, man. I feel you on that. We must be the same age..
Im 20 myself and have a few buds and a few cold ones in the fridge, how should I spend my early 20s?
@BulkBogan, Travel.
@BulkBogan just be as good as you can every day
@@BulkBogan wake up everyday to kiss this horrible worlds beautiful face and most importantly do unto others as you would want done unto yourself. travel your ass off,stay humble and pay your dues. MOST IMPORTANTLY GO FUCIN VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Revere, Hold It Now, Hit It and She's Crafty were my joints. We listened to the tape daily in 87'. Such great music came out then...hip hop, pop, R&B, Rap, etc. All of it was timeless!!
I was bumpin that shit hard back in the 80’s still bangs today.
Beastie Boys did come before Eaze-E, however it's not exactly the same beat. This song uses what is known as a "reverse bass note"! Late 1980's! Top notch!
They use an 808 thats a reverse snare and hi hat.
He was speaking of the lyrical flow not the beat. Easy E and Sir Mix a Lot both have some rhyme styles with similarities to the Beastie Boys. All Legendary artists, IMO.
To be more specific listen to Jazzy Jay "It's Yours"
Cube wrote most, if not all, of the best NWA songs and has many times said that Beastie Boys were his favorite group and a huge influence when writing
@@ask21900 No question that the Beastie Boys changed the game!!!
"SIMPLICITY goes a long way", indeed!!! Producers today have so many layers it often takes from the song. Great catch👍🏽
Kids today don’t realize how amazing music was in the 80’s & 90’s!
I spent an entire summer listening with that album solely!
I was in tenth grade when thus jam came out . Fire and still bumps hard today 39 years later
That's real hip hop from the golden era
One of the greatest hip hop beats of all time. Greatest tracks of all time. Their next album has another incredible storytelling track called "High Plains Drifter", definitely give that a reaction!
65 yr old here and just love your reaction. What a time to be alive!
Music had a richness ,soul, and flow back then when I was growing up in the 80’s and 90’s , beastie boys was a testament of that time in history … will never be a time again in music like it , was glad to have been a part of witnessing this nostalgic period in history where it was more simple yet so
Authentic 🎶
The 🫨 crazy thing about the track production is that the beat was sampled, reversed and then played on an 808 drum machine 🥁. The kick, snare and cymbals are all reversed. The production just behind the beat was amazing. No computers back then. No FL Studio or Ableton. Just a sampler. Genius in the 80's!
2:38 I do still bump this in my car. Beasties aren't gonna go anywhere. they are the OGs that get respect from all sides. watch 3 MCs and 1 DJ. back in the day they blew it up with Mix Master Mike. Sabotage, Brass Monkey, No Sleep Til Brooklyn... their whole list is still relevant
I literally said the same thing🤣
Yessir!
Ima metal head living in NYC for 52 years..bboys have been holding down the 5 boroughs for DECADES... y'all need to listen to the beasties first 5 albums for a week straight.. you'll be bouncing 🔥killer flows and beats like no other...paulies boutique is fire.
Posse in Effect-The New Style
I can't think of a metal head out there that didn't appreciate the Beastie Boys. They crossed a lot of social lines and broke a lot of cultural barriers. Changed this metal heads life forever!
@@ionflow1073same here was a metal head but the BB where on the list
@@kyndred2008 ROCK ON!!!
Slick Rick "A Children's Story"
Cinderfella Dana Dane
Yeah, absolute masterpiece
Slick Rick is still the GOAT. I finally found Lodi Da Di on vinyl last year.
Love your reaction!!! This brings back high school memories, 10th grade.🎧🎤🎛
1:17 he got it.
RIGHT 😂....The More You Know!!!!!! Shouts to us old heads that was there for the original 👊🏾🎙
EXACTLY!!!
Didn't notice that until...NOW @51 😆😆
*My grandparents bought me this cassette for my 7th birthday when it was released*
Yep I was 8 years old when it released and we listened on cassette constantly. I watched their videos on MTV too!
😂they had no idea
In third grade I switched to public school from Catholic school and everyone I met was talking about Beastie Boys. I asked my Dad for the album for Christmas and got it. Loved it. Closer to summer break al of the older kids (6th graders) who sat at the back of the bus started rapping the lyrics every day on the bus ride home and I knew all the words. I was sitting at the rear middle of the bus in no time. TY Beastie Boys.
New style, posse in effect
Or maybe the New Style performed on Chappelle's Show. "Beastie Boys & Dave Chappelle - The New Style (Live)"
@@anthonyv6962 yes but hear the original first, then hear the street version with chappelle that is fire.
4 and 3 and 2 and 1....and when I'm on tha mic tha suckaz run...
It's ashame kids today will never know the 80s and 90s. Man. What a time it was to be alive. 😂
Back in 89 riding in my 76 Nova SS with two 15" subs trashing my eardrums.....I remember it like it was yesterday.
This is the first album i bought with my own money in 1987, at 8 years old. Been into hiphop ever since
Oh man, I LOVE hearing that!! Good for you!!!
Same here! I was 12 at the time! Iconic!
@@truckinleprechaunscottcask9747 Same!
Same here! I bought this and Run DMC Raising Hell
10 yrs
Early hip hop was all about the Art of Story Telling. So many MC's with such unique flow. GOLDEN!
The wordplay with their rhymes is untouchable.
I'm 48.. can never forget them.. listened to the TAPE in my walkman to fall asleep at night. Best EVER! You cant cut it off though.. I wanna hear.. Hold it now!!!
Paul Revere was absolute fav for years .....
Man, I haven’t listened to this for years, what a great album & band.
I did bump this in my car today! 🤘
This song always remind me of POSSE ON BROADWAY by Sir Mix Alot! It was my jam back in the day.
It does. they both mix well with each other. I've mixed them together before
Exactly. Love both
5 fellas and 22 freaks!
Just listen to the entire Paul’s Boutique album. Masterpiece. Top 5 best hip hop albums of all time.
So glad to see someone who appreciates real rap music, surprised you didn't say anything about the beat spinning backwards! You made me like and subscribe young man!
I was in college in 86 and people were blasting this album all the time.
Everyone in my HS too!
This is the best video I have seen for a long time. You got me excited to listen to that album like an excited kid again!
Warms my old heart watching the young ones discover the Beasties.
Wait till you run through Paul’s Boutique a few times, that will blow your mind
Thank you for sharing. I think I enjoyed you just as much as the Beastie Boys… I was 13 years old, sitting in reform school when this album was released, you talking about Bringing some excitement to children between a rock and a hard place. But I guess we all can remember where we were and what we were doing when this album dropped. This one will always bring back memories.
Thank you again for sharing.❤
God bless you youngn’s listening ✌🏼
Know every word to every song on the entire album. Some of the greatest rap ever spit. These boys are as real as real gets. They lived it.
Girls would come on next...lol
Paul's Boutique is the album you can listen to from start to finish, and every time you do, you hear little things you didn't hear the last time you listened to it. Masterpiece
Legends of Hip Hop ! This came out my Senior Year ! Changed my Life ! Seen them Live several times in 80’s & 90’s ! Doesn’t get any better…🔥⭐️🔥⭐️🔥⭐️🔥⭐️
This was my first cassette tape in the third grade. Really enjoyed your reaction. It gave me goosebumps. Felt like I was hearing it again for the first time. Subscribed
That damn Rick Rubin had/has an awesome way of combining different genres. DMC wrote some of these lyrics too.
Some of us old guys still bump this in our cars! Lol
Like last week
Why is it so good to see the youth discover all the classics? For I really love to see this.
KEEP EM COMING!!
INTERGALACTIC & THE NEW STYLE NEXT!!!!!
Intergalactic hell ya
One of the greatest hip hop bands ever. The energy they had on stage was unmatched by anyone. Rip beasties.
I remember listening to this in 5th grade when it first came out. Still listening to it and the rest of Beastie Boys today. Need to listen to Paul Revere on a serious system to blow you away.