Its 1987, Im 10 years old and go to the fleamarket. I buy Beastie Boys License to Ill and Metallica Master of Puppets that day. What a time to be alive!
Same for me cept I was 14, in Australia and got Licensed to ill, then got Master and Reign In Blood cause I heard the guy from Slayer in the video for "No Sleep" at school or on tv..
@kylewhitt9608 One of my friends older brothers put us on to Iron Maiden and Slayer. I was actually going to look for Maiden tapes that day and saw the Metallica and grabbed it. I had only heard Puppets at that point. Mind 🤯 My whole neighborhood was big into Run DMC and Beasties at the time too
Ahh, RunDMC, LL Cool J, Fat Boys, and the Beastie Boys. All of this takes me back to like 6th - 8th grade. I can smell the playground, see the faces. I still remember hearing this sing for the first time on another kid's Walkman. I still remember his name. And, yes, I can't remember why I walked into a room.
We used to get off of the ship and head to the buy me drinkie bars in Guam. And the whole there, we'd be singing, "girls, all I really want is girls!" LMAO
@blackpegasusraps as an artist I think you will really appreciate this one, piped in live as their performance for an MTV music awards, them and Mix Master Mike, 1take,1record,No beat machine. Pure Hip Hop from concentrate, enjoy.
Beastie Boys were three friends from New York who formed a Hardcore Punk band. They got into Hip Hop later. They basically invented looping, using loops of tape draped across chairs and around lamps. Their songs you know are all from their first album (except Sabotage), which contains mostly Led Zeppelin samples. Their second album, Paul’s Boutique, delivered a totally different sound, built on Jazz and R&B samples, that threw fans and critics for a loop, but today seen as a milestone and an inflection point for Hip-Hop.
5 people they had Kate Shellenbach on percussion and John berry on Guitar at the start. John left before their first single and Kate after. Cooky Puss was their 1st single 1983. (mixed up album and single at first)
I HATED Paul's Boutique when II got it. Got home, so excited, put it in my cd player, listened one time and put it on my cd rack for a couple of years. Don't remember what it was that made me listen again, but I'm glad I did. I think it's their best cd by far and still the only one that I'll listen to all the way through.
@@shalakabooyaka1480 Cookie Puss was the first Beasties song I heard, playing on a college radio station. I was so surprised at, and intrigued by the very different sound of You Gotta Fight when it was released.
Funny MCA was a Buddhist and none claimed to have been raised Jewish and each only had one Jewish parent. Also, MCA was from BK the other 2 Manhattan. Why is it important to mention what you assume to be their religion?
The beastie boys got popularity because they were the opening act for an unknown artist named Modonna, who exploded in popularity during her tour. She chose to keep the beastie boys as her opening act and people just heard it. Also Fight For Your Right is a good song
I´m 54 did not listen to that for decades and still know every single word...that´s crazy. From that album I loved "Rhymin & Stealin" solely because of the DJ work. He was putting together the drum beat from Led Zeppelin "When the levee breaks" + the guitar riff of Black Sabbath "Sweet Leaf" and even the Clash "I fought the Law" line was in as well...bits from 3 songs I already loved so for me that combo was simply freaking genius especially at that particular time it was an absolute crazy thing to do.
May 23, 1985; I go to see Madonna on her Like A Virgin Tour at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. I think the tickets were about $12. That’s not a typo. This unknown group of guys are opening the show for her…it’s the Beastie Boys. Few months later and they’re huge. Awesome show.
I had the License to Ill cassette when I was 11. All these years later, I still remember all the lyrics to Paul Revere. My favourite track in the album, it’s often said it’s the best on LTI. ❤ BTW read the airplane number on the cover backwards. 😂
OH MY GOD 😂... i did not read your comment until after i posted a similar comment, also i could only read the word 3MTA3 as EATME and not sure what the first 2 letter say
37 years ago I came home on leave(U.S. Army), it was the summer this broke. When I hear this album it takes me back to being 20 again without a care in the world! BP keep reacting to my past and I'll keep watching your reactions!
My Brother BP.. Here I sit currently.. manure on my boots, mucked up Wranglers and my sweat stained Stetson on my grey haired noggin.. waiting for Mama Bear to give me the nod to wash up for supper.. She's laughing cause she can hear me through the window spitting rhymes 😆 🤣
This beat has an epic history. Apparently they made a beat on the drums and Mike D. ended up spinning it backwards later, and that my friends was when the “new” beat was born. Haha
Bro in 86 my junior yr in high school every weekend party had this album blasting all night when you were starting to get a little lit or buzzed. Damn what a great time. Saw the Beasties and Run DMC in the 80’s. It was so loud but awesome
I love this album and this is my favorite of their songs. Heard this before I heard Fight for your Right. I grew up mostly on classic country but even so, as a kid, had this album on cassette and played it a lot.
I was nine when I bought Run DMC's album (Raising Hell)! It was THE SHIT! The Beasties was my second, again, THE SHIT! I LOVE the Beastie Boys. I'm 47 now and when I'm 100 I'll still be rocking their music. 👍😁
A song from the 80's talking about the Vietnam war which happened along time ago the song was sung by PAUL HARDCASTLE and the song called 19 just watch the video
I loved this record so much that at 52 I still know every word to every song . They are just friends P . My introduction to Hip Hop was Sugar Hill Gang , UTFO , Mc Lyte , when Whodini, Grandmaster Flash but I was like 12 or younger when they came out Now when I am like 15 NWA and Easy E came out and I was hooked on them and Gangsta Rap . That brought in everyone else.
I'm 52 as well.. where does the time go??... And I grew up listening to all the same people. I just wanted to add LL Cool J to the mix tho. "I Need Love" and "Jingling Baby" were 2 of my favs
This was the first song I ever memorized when it came out! I still can remember every line and that is amazing! I am almost 50 now and my memory is bad but I can still rock this!
beastie boys is one of those groups where I love pretty much their entire discography...I will stop and listen to pretty much any song from any era and love it.
My friends and I at a sleepover in my kitchen performing this song.. We each were one of the Beastie Boys and each sang whoever’s part. Still my favorite Beasties song!
I think I was 16 when this came out. This was when rock and hip-hop meshed into .. whatever it was that brought them together for a while. Look into RUN-DMC and Aerosmith doing Walk this Way. All about the same time. It was a crazy few years.
YES SIR!!!! My Beastie Jam!!!! Not Brothers, 3 Jewish guys from NYC 🗽. Still sing every word 😂. We PUMPED the bass cruising to this one up and down 86th St. in Brooklyn all night long; rear window shaking, no distortion, car full of friends; BEST times!!!! Pegasus, next 80’s MUST react to Rap: PUBLIC ENEMY “Night Of The Living Baseheads”, EMPD’s “SO WATCHA SAYIN’”, “STRICTLY BUSINESS”, KRS-ONE’s “JACK OF SPADES” 🔥🔥🔥
It's 1987, I'm 18. Favorite Saturday night activity is cruising down the miles long boulevard that hundreds, possibly thousands, showed up to cruise and show off their cars, hoot & holler at all the boys & girls. We're in my red 84 t-top camaro, tops always off, my best girlfriends piled in. A big thing was everyone tuning in to a few radio stations of choice to BLAST the same songs together in tandem with their Blaupunkts, Alpines, Sanyos, Pioneers & Kenwoods, many owned super expensive fancy speaker & amp systems, projecting far beyond the vehicles themselves. It was so fun hearing the same music from so many cars at once! Paul Revere was THE craziest song for that experience in that place and time, it's fresh new type of rap, lyrics, crazy base & sound was just so good. That's all anyone for miles could hear. Loved it so much, but it's a time gone by. I still know every word to this album 😁
Mother's Finest - Baby Love !!!! Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime !!!! The Clash - The Guns of Brixton !!!! Ted Nugent - Writing on the Wall !!!! The Knife - Silent Shout !!!! The Vibrators - Keep it Clean !!!! Babylon Zoo - Spaceman !!!! Ace of Base - All that She Wants !!!! Brother Dege - Too Old to Die Young !!!! Eddy Grant - Living on the Frontline !!!! Praying Mantis - Dream On !!!! The Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman !!!! Kingdom Come - Mad Queen !!!! Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right !!!! Molly Hatchet - Fall of the Peacemaker !!!! Ana Johnson - We Are !!!! Blackfoot - Fox Chase !!!! Steelheart - We All Die Young !!!! The Bevis Frond - Superseded (from the WDR Rockpalast 2004 gig) !!!! Point Blank - Uncle Ned !!!! Mahogany Rush - Requiem for a Sinner !!!! Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natural Mystic !!!! The Mission - Tower of Strength !!!!
This was my JAMMMMM!!! When this hit in the 80’s I was obsessed with this track!! A long time favorite …I still know EVERY WORD! 😂 thanks for starting my day off proper!! 🎶❤️✌🏻 also, lots have used this beat… Beastie Boys are LEGENDARY!!! ✌🏻
I was in high school when this came out. I love all their stuff - Shake Your Rump, Whatcha Want, Sure Shot, Get it Together (w Q tip), Check it Out, Car Thief, Shadrach, High Plains Drifter - SOOOO MANY GREAT tracks. They're from NYC, in the early days they had a punk band - which evolved into rap/hip hop - all three were friends, and sadly, MCA passed away of cancer in 2012. RIP.
The whole album -- "Paul's Boutique" ---I've been a fan since I was 9 -- in '85 -- and saw them in '99 in SLC and A Tribe Called Quest opened up for them.... Q-TIP came out during the encore with the B-Boys and did "Get it Together" (which is a song they actually did together -and should be checked out.) and they finished with "Sabotage" and destroyed all their gear after the song -- EPIC show!!
I had this on cassette tape in the 80s what’s great reaction I listened to rap almost from when it started you should do a throw back day and maybe do some 80s early 90s rap
They were my first concert ever and at that show they played this song and the guy behind me said “I sang Paul Revere with the Beastie Boys, I can die now!!”
For me....the era was June 1988. I was a rock DJ at my college. This was the second to last song I played on my final show. My final song...... Freebird...
Yeah!!!! I had this cassette that I bought w/ my allowance when I was like 12...LOVE THIS ALBUM!!! the License to Ill album is what really got me into rap music, to me it's a "no skip" album. "Brass Monkey" is another great track! Would be amazing if you do all the tracks off the "License to Ill" album..hahahha 40!
The year was 86 and my parents were going out for the night. My brother being 8 and myself 4 we had our babysitter show up to watch us. After a little bit she threw on a brand new tape she got recently which just so happened to be "Licensed to ill". My brother and I fell in love with that tape that night and all we wanted for Christmas or our birthdays was that tape. That babysitter shaped my music taste for the rest of my life. After that tape it was Run DMC, Fat Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, and the list goes on.
When I was 8 yrs old playing hockey in the u.p, we skated out to fight for your right by the beastie boys in a tournament. Im 47 now, and still jam licensed to ill!!!
Beastie Boys had so many hits and they had such an influence on so many other popular rap and hip hop artists. Believe it or not, this song came out a year before N.W.A even officially formed as a group! Looking forward to seeing more of your reacts to these guys.
Girls and Brass Monkey are two other great songs from that album. One of my first cassette tapes I bought with my own money used to listen to it on my Walkman on the way to school. I had this one Licensed to Ill, RunDMC, Def Leppard Hysteria, Whitesnake (self titled), Journey Raised on Radio, and Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet. I would choose one of these each day to listen to on the way to school. That was about 1987. Then home to do homework in front of MTV. So much great music.
At the top you mentioned doing reactions to classics from the 60s, but I would really enjoy watching reactions to some of the classics of early Hip-hop. I'm talking Run-DMC, Whodini, Fat Boys, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, etc. There is a lot of foundational songs out there that have gotten forgotten over time.
They are Best Friends from HS from Brooklyn. Skater Punk Rockers obsessed with all the legendary Hio Hop artists . They play instruments and write rhymes . Paul’s Boutique is their 2nd album ☑️It!!
Licensed to Ill was my first cassette ever. I was what, maybe 8 or 9 in 2nd grade and an older friend gave me this as a gift. It absolutely changed my life, even if i couldn't quite grasp the lyrical concepts, the beats and their voices just hit me right where I feel music the most. In HS my two best friends and I learned this specific track and would go around trying to show anybody who listen like the big dorks we were. To this day, this is a top 5 track on my all-time list and I still drop this on the karaoke mic on my own all the time. It ALWAYS kills. I cannot believe you never heard this. Just an iconic beat and sound. -RIP MCA-
For so many years (and this is late in pure hiphop crawling into rap) Mix Master Mike was winning DMC awards and stuff to the point they were like "hey, stop competiing" at least that's the story I always heard. Beastie Boys are legends either way.
This reaction and your earlier reaction to Europe's Carrie bring back a funny story for me! I was a teenager at Tower Records trying to buy Europe The Final Countdown cassette for the song Carrie! After buying it and unwrapping it, the cassette inside was the Beastie Boys License to Ill, which is where this song came from! I ended up opening 11 different cassette cases from Europe before finally finding The Final Countdown cassette! The store worker and I had no idea who the Beastie Boys were at the time because this album hadn't officially been released yet, but like 6-8 weeks later, they hit the scene big time! I remember that I wished I had kept one of those cassettes when they hit it big because it would have saved me from having to buy it later!
Dig into them some more. They have crazy talent, they were early, there are so many little things hidden in the details. And pieces of their work have been used in so many places since. Documentary on them is worth watching.
There's a lot of fun in their music. They didn't take themselves seriously and just enjoyed hanging with each other. I didn't appreciate them enough back in the day. Seriously, dig into them, they are worth it. A lot more here than meets the eye.
That "reverse bass" pumping out of 2 12in Alpines with both an amp AND equalizer in your pickup truck would RATTLE THE NEIGHBORHOOD. Still recall driving into the HS parking lot with this blaring early in the morning and EVERYONE knowing that "Yep, that's XYZ pulling into the parking lot". And they LOVED it because we would hang out after school due to improve "bass-battles" with each other.
❤The Beastie Boys are part of the classics you are getting to know they are OGs from the very early 80s. All of their stuff is ORIGINAL and has influenced so many artist. All of their stuff is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Daytona Beach born and raised. In 1986, Beastie Boys came with MTV to my hometown and lit up the scene!!! I was only 14, but damn, I partied my ass off. The next several years of MTV brought Tone Loc, Rodney Dangerfield, Seinfeld, and so many amazing acts. The Bandshell on the beach hosted free live events for all the spring breakers, it was madness. You could not even walk on the beach, even low tide, there were so many spring breakers, it was absolutely insane. I went to high school on the beachside, right near the madness. Guess were I was during our off campus lunch break!!!
We used to get off of the ship and head to the buy me drinkie bars in Guam. And the whole there, we'd be singing, "girls, all I really want is girls!" LMAO
So I finally saw them in '93 or '94. I had been listening since '85 when I was in 2nd grade. Just go back in your mind to that time. I went to city schools in pittsburgh. Run DMC had just gotten big, so we had rap battles on the basketball court/cage. Rough area. Anyway, once the beasties came out, we had bars to fill in with. Back and forth with run dmc and anyone else. You'd take a line to rhyme with the guy in your face and then make up your own stuff. It was a game and I LOVED IT!!! So pure. That's what these guys mean to me ❤
Beastie Boys are 3 friends from Brooklyn. They used to hang out with the punk band Bad Brains. In fact, they settled on the name Beastie Boys because of the double B. I totally suggest reacting to something from the first Bad Brains record.
Beasties were school friends who started a punk band and ended up as a trio doing hiphop. Their first "rap" song was "Cookie Puss" where they prank called a Carvel asking for Cookie Puss. It became a huge hit in the New York clubs and that was that.
Love the suspense in this song. It draws you in, has you hanging for the next bar and keeps you focused on the story. No squirrelly video to distract, just pure story telling.
Its 1987, Im 10 years old and go to the fleamarket. I buy Beastie Boys License to Ill and Metallica Master of Puppets that day. What a time to be alive!
Yeah, I was in 2nd grade, had both those tapes in my walkman, knew every word to every song
7th or 8th grade for me but you were listening to Master at 10 y/o my man? Sanitarium is one of my all time favorite songs.
Same for me cept I was 14, in Australia and got Licensed to ill, then got Master and Reign In Blood cause I heard the guy from Slayer in the video for "No Sleep" at school or on tv..
@kylewhitt9608 One of my friends older brothers put us on to Iron Maiden and Slayer. I was actually going to look for Maiden tapes that day and saw the Metallica and grabbed it. I had only heard Puppets at that point. Mind 🤯
My whole neighborhood was big into Run DMC and Beasties at the time too
My first album was License to Ill . Miss those days!!
I can’t believe at 50 years old I still know every word to this song but yet I don’t know why I came into a room?
Holy shit... This is such a great comment.
Facts man..
RIGHT???
Same for me at 54 years old! #NoLiesDetected
That’s some funny shit, same @48
Ahh, RunDMC, LL Cool J, Fat Boys, and the Beastie Boys. All of this takes me back to like 6th - 8th grade. I can smell the playground, see the faces. I still remember hearing this sing for the first time on another kid's Walkman. I still remember his name. And, yes, I can't remember why I walked into a room.
Yes. Brass Monkey and Hold it, Now Hit It
We used to get off of the ship and head to the buy me drinkie bars in Guam. And the whole there, we'd be singing, "girls, all I really want is girls!" LMAO
Yes!
Three MC’s and one DJ. Anything from the Pauls Boutique album. Fire! 40!
Think he would like B-Boy Bouillabaisse?
This the one!
@blackpegasusraps as an artist I think you will really appreciate this one, piped in live as their performance for an MTV music awards, them and Mix Master Mike, 1take,1record,No beat machine. Pure Hip Hop from concentrate, enjoy.
Garbage album...you have to be thinking of the 1st album bubba
^^^^^ what he said!!!!!
My brother and I played License to Ill so much my mother still knows the lyrics
We used to play it endlessly all 2-hours both directions. Good Times!
oooops. I forgot say to the beach!!!
That’s hilarious! I was 8 years old when the album released jamming it on cassette constantly too.
"So Whatcha Want" and "Sure Shot"!!!!
Beastie Boys were three friends from New York who formed a Hardcore Punk band. They got into Hip Hop later. They basically invented looping, using loops of tape draped across chairs and around lamps. Their songs you know are all from their first album (except Sabotage), which contains mostly Led Zeppelin samples. Their second album, Paul’s Boutique, delivered a totally different sound, built on Jazz and R&B samples, that threw fans and critics for a loop, but today seen as a milestone and an inflection point for Hip-Hop.
5 people they had Kate Shellenbach on percussion and John berry on Guitar at the start. John left before their first single and Kate after. Cooky Puss was their 1st single 1983. (mixed up album and single at first)
They won a lawsuit because british airways used cookie puss in a commercial without permission and with that settlement money bought an 808
I HATED Paul's Boutique when II got it. Got home, so excited, put it in my cd player, listened one time and put it on my cd rack for a couple of years. Don't remember what it was that made me listen again, but I'm glad I did. I think it's their best cd by far and still the only one that I'll listen to all the way through.
@@shalakabooyaka1480 Cookie Puss was the first Beasties song I heard, playing on a college radio station. I was so surprised at, and intrigued by the very different sound of You Gotta Fight when it was released.
*"Hold it now hit it" immediately pops in my head when this song ends.*
You’re not alone!
100%
Mine too! I listened to the cassette on repeat.
3 Nice Jewish boys from Brooklyn who went from a hard-core punk band to the on of greatest hip hop group of all time
Funny MCA was a Buddhist and none claimed to have been raised Jewish and each only had one Jewish parent. Also, MCA was from BK the other 2 Manhattan. Why is it important to mention what you assume to be their religion?
@@anthonyv6962all three were/are of Jewish heritage nevertheless .
Being Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion- and we are proud of them!
@@anthonyv6962You can be ethnically and culturally Jewish and not be religiously Jewish
The beastie boys got popularity because they were the opening act for an unknown artist named Modonna, who exploded in popularity during her tour. She chose to keep the beastie boys as her opening act and people just heard it.
Also Fight For Your Right is a good song
I´m 54 did not listen to that for decades and still know every single word...that´s crazy.
From that album I loved "Rhymin & Stealin" solely because of the DJ work.
He was putting together the drum beat from Led Zeppelin "When the levee breaks" + the guitar riff of Black Sabbath "Sweet Leaf" and even the Clash "I fought the Law" line was in as well...bits from 3 songs I already loved so for me that combo was simply freaking genius especially at that particular time it was an absolute crazy thing to do.
May 23, 1985; I go to see Madonna on her Like A Virgin Tour at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. I think the tickets were about $12. That’s not a typo. This unknown group of guys are opening the show for her…it’s the Beastie Boys. Few months later and they’re huge. Awesome show.
I love the old school Beastie's!
🔥🔥🔥💙💙💙💥💥💥
One of the best albums of all time for any genre. Definitely check out “She’s Crafty” and “Rhymin & Stealin”.
More great story telling in "She's Crafty".
I concur with these!
Back in the mid late 80's I thought I was so cool Bumping the B boys with 6x9 speakers in my car.
On “She’s Crafty”, The Beastie Boys sampled Led Zeppelin.
this one gives me such a flashback to my youth. thank you some much for doing this one
Youth? This brings flashbacks to last week, lol (Beastie Boys are on my spotify list)
Child from 77 here 😮❤ I grew up with run DMC, fat boys , beastie boys
‘77 rep bestest skål 🍻
I had the License to Ill cassette when I was 11. All these years later, I still remember all the lyrics to Paul Revere. My favourite track in the album, it’s often said it’s the best on LTI. ❤
BTW read the airplane number on the cover backwards. 😂
"Looked out the window seen his bald head, ran to fridge and pulled out an egg. Scoped him with my scope, He had no hair...." Me too, lol.
OH MY GOD 😂... i did not read your comment until after i posted a similar comment, also i could only read the word 3MTA3 as EATME and not sure what the first 2 letter say
37 years ago I came home on leave(U.S. Army), it was the summer this broke. When I hear this album it takes me back to being 20 again without a care in the world! BP keep reacting to my past and I'll keep watching your reactions!
So What’cha Want is one of my favorite Beastie tracks. They've got so many bangers.
My Brother BP.. Here I sit currently.. manure on my boots, mucked up Wranglers and my sweat stained Stetson on my grey haired noggin.. waiting for Mama Bear to give me the nod to wash up for supper.. She's laughing cause she can hear me through the window spitting rhymes 😆 🤣
This beat has an epic history. Apparently they made a beat on the drums and Mike D. ended up spinning it backwards later, and that my friends was when the “new” beat was born. Haha
3 MC's and one DJ is ana amazing video for a fantastic song. Thanks for your excellent reactions.
Awe man, Fight For Your Right was the Anthem of my childhood!!!
Bro in 86 my junior yr in high school every weekend party had this album blasting all night when you were starting to get a little lit or buzzed. Damn what a great time. Saw the Beasties and Run DMC in the 80’s. It was so loud but awesome
I love this album and this is my favorite of their songs. Heard this before I heard Fight for your Right. I grew up mostly on classic country but even so, as a kid, had this album on cassette and played it a lot.
Brass Monkeys is my favorite!!! I was very early teens when they came around and between them and Run DMC, it was on for me!
Paul's boutique deserve a full album reaction. This is a masterpiece. any genre.
Finally! always wondered your views of the B boys... So much great stuff.Hope you go down the rabbit hole over the course of the next year or two
3 mcs and 1 dj is one of my favorites
I was way more into 70-80’s rock and pop and that’s where all my favorites are.
But when I hear this? I’m like, oh yeah. Absolutely yes.
I was nine when I bought Run DMC's album (Raising Hell)! It was THE SHIT! The Beasties was my second, again, THE SHIT! I LOVE the Beastie Boys. I'm 47 now and when I'm 100 I'll still be rocking their music. 👍😁
More Beasties!!!!!!!!!
“Root Down” official video is like a brief history of hip hop culture. Gotta do that one.
That's the best one! That's classic!
A song from the 80's talking about the Vietnam war which happened along time ago the song was sung by PAUL HARDCASTLE and the song called 19 just watch the video
Memories, cruising down Hollywood Blvd. in an Iroc-Z bumpin this...Old School.😊
I loved this record so much that at 52 I still know every word to every song . They are just friends P . My introduction to Hip Hop was Sugar Hill Gang , UTFO , Mc Lyte , when Whodini, Grandmaster Flash but I was like 12 or younger when they came out Now when I am like 15 NWA and Easy E came out and I was hooked on them and Gangsta Rap . That brought in everyone else.
I'm 52 as well.. where does the time go??... And I grew up listening to all the same people. I just wanted to add LL Cool J to the mix tho. "I Need Love" and "Jingling Baby" were 2 of my favs
Luv me some beastie boys!
She's crafty and rymin and stealin
Shake your Rump is slowly becoming my favorite. This beat is iconic. We got blunted all day to this and Bone Thugs
This was the first song I ever memorized when it came out! I still can remember every line and that is amazing! I am almost 50 now and my memory is bad but I can still rock this!
Also anything from the Licence to Ill album is amazing!
beastie boys is one of those groups where I love pretty much their entire discography...I will stop and listen to pretty much any song from any era and love it.
My friends and I at a sleepover in my kitchen performing this song.. We each were one of the Beastie Boys and each sang whoever’s part. Still my favorite Beasties song!
I think I was 16 when this came out. This was when rock and hip-hop meshed into .. whatever it was that brought them together for a while. Look into RUN-DMC and Aerosmith doing Walk this Way. All about the same time. It was a crazy few years.
I grew up with Beastie Boys, Leaders of the New School, Tribe Called Quest, Blacksheep, Eric B and Rakim. Every group from that era was so good.
THIS
Dude you were born between February and August of 1976, weren’t you?
@@ChrisBlackNYC LOL, what gave it away? We are the generation that got to witness the superb flow of the street side MC.
@@carcraze5916 YesSirr!!!
YES SIR!!!! My Beastie Jam!!!! Not Brothers, 3 Jewish guys from NYC 🗽. Still sing every word 😂. We PUMPED the bass cruising to this one up and down 86th St. in Brooklyn all night long; rear window shaking, no distortion, car full of friends; BEST times!!!! Pegasus, next 80’s MUST react to Rap: PUBLIC ENEMY “Night Of The Living Baseheads”, EMPD’s “SO WATCHA SAYIN’”, “STRICTLY BUSINESS”, KRS-ONE’s “JACK OF SPADES” 🔥🔥🔥
Punk rockers at first also
Yasss! Ive been waiting for this but figured you were familiar
This is a rabbit hole you need to go down. I'd recommend Three MCs and One DJ!
You'll truly appreciate them performing live on David Letterman😂
Oooooo, love this!!
Can't help but bop and see.how many words I can remember ❤
It's 1987, I'm 18. Favorite Saturday night activity is cruising down the miles long boulevard that hundreds, possibly thousands, showed up to cruise and show off their cars, hoot & holler at all the boys & girls. We're in my red 84 t-top camaro, tops always off, my best girlfriends piled in. A big thing was everyone tuning in to a few radio stations of choice to BLAST the same songs together in tandem with their Blaupunkts, Alpines, Sanyos, Pioneers & Kenwoods, many owned super expensive fancy speaker & amp systems, projecting far beyond the vehicles themselves. It was so fun hearing the same music from so many cars at once! Paul Revere was THE craziest song for that experience in that place and time, it's fresh new type of rap, lyrics, crazy base & sound was just so good. That's all anyone for miles could hear. Loved it so much, but it's a time gone by. I still know every word to this album 😁
Beastie boys are the best! RIP Adam "MCA" Yauch. I love so much of their music.
Mother's Finest - Baby Love !!!!
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime !!!!
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton !!!!
Ted Nugent - Writing on the Wall !!!!
The Knife - Silent Shout !!!!
The Vibrators - Keep it Clean !!!!
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman !!!!
Ace of Base - All that She Wants !!!!
Brother Dege - Too Old to Die Young !!!!
Eddy Grant - Living on the Frontline !!!!
Praying Mantis - Dream On !!!!
The Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman !!!!
Kingdom Come - Mad Queen !!!!
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right !!!!
Molly Hatchet - Fall of the Peacemaker !!!!
Ana Johnson - We Are !!!!
Blackfoot - Fox Chase !!!!
Steelheart - We All Die Young !!!!
The Bevis Frond - Superseded (from the WDR Rockpalast 2004 gig) !!!!
Point Blank - Uncle Ned !!!!
Mahogany Rush - Requiem for a Sinner !!!!
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natural Mystic !!!!
The Mission - Tower of Strength !!!!
This was my JAMMMMM!!! When this hit in the 80’s I was obsessed with this track!! A long time favorite …I still know EVERY WORD! 😂 thanks for starting my day off proper!! 🎶❤️✌🏻 also, lots have used this beat… Beastie Boys are LEGENDARY!!! ✌🏻
Oh yeah... I'm here for this! My first rap album!
I was in high school when this came out. I love all their stuff - Shake Your Rump, Whatcha Want, Sure Shot, Get it Together (w Q tip), Check it Out, Car Thief, Shadrach, High Plains Drifter - SOOOO MANY GREAT tracks. They're from NYC, in the early days they had a punk band - which evolved into rap/hip hop - all three were friends, and sadly, MCA passed away of cancer in 2012. RIP.
Fight 4 your right to party.....I was in HS 83-87 and that was THE party anthem
Get it together featuring q-tip is pri my favorite track
The whole album -- "Paul's Boutique" ---I've been a fan since I was 9 -- in '85 -- and saw them in '99 in SLC and A Tribe Called Quest opened up for them.... Q-TIP came out during the encore with the B-Boys and did "Get it Together" (which is a song they actually did together -and should be checked out.) and they finished with "Sabotage" and destroyed all their gear after the song -- EPIC show!!
also No Sleep Til Brooklyn I'm pretty sure is about their tour ending in Brooklyn
Such a Classic! Cant believe u haven't heard this Golden Era Classic.
Old school flash back. Intergaltic, Brass Monkey, Fight for your right, Girls, No Sleep til Brooklyn, and Sabotage just off the top of my head.
One of my FAVS !!!!
I had this on cassette tape in the 80s what’s great reaction I listened to rap almost from when it started you should do a throw back day and maybe do some 80s early 90s rap
Me too! They went to every track meet with me!
They were my first concert ever and at that show they played this song and the guy behind me said “I sang Paul Revere with the Beastie Boys, I can die now!!”
For me....the era was June 1988. I was a rock DJ at my college. This was the second to last song I played on my final show. My final song...... Freebird...
The new style you will love that drop Midway through the song
Yeah!!!! I had this cassette that I bought w/ my allowance when I was like 12...LOVE THIS ALBUM!!! the License to Ill album is what really got me into rap music, to me it's a "no skip" album. "Brass Monkey" is another great track! Would be amazing if you do all the tracks off the "License to Ill" album..hahahha 40!
The year was 86 and my parents were going out for the night. My brother being 8 and myself 4 we had our babysitter show up to watch us. After a little bit she threw on a brand new tape she got recently which just so happened to be "Licensed to ill". My brother and I fell in love with that tape that night and all we wanted for Christmas or our birthdays was that tape. That babysitter shaped my music taste for the rest of my life. After that tape it was Run DMC, Fat Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, and the list goes on.
I was a questionable influence on so many munchkins...hahaha...I'd babysit once and the parents were left with tiny rapping headbangers for life.
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When I was 8 yrs old playing hockey in the u.p, we skated out to fight for your right by the beastie boys in a tournament. Im 47 now, and still jam licensed to ill!!!
This album had so many great songs on it. Fight For Your Right, No Sleep Til Brooklyn, Paul Revere, Girls, Brass Monkey.
Beastie Boys had so many hits and they had such an influence on so many other popular rap and hip hop artists. Believe it or not, this song came out a year before N.W.A even officially formed as a group! Looking forward to seeing more of your reacts to these guys.
This was released my Senior year in 86’ . It changed music forever .. Hip Hop Legends 🔥☑️
Girls and Brass Monkey are two other great songs from that album.
One of my first cassette tapes I bought with my own money used to listen to it on my Walkman on the way to school.
I had this one Licensed to Ill, RunDMC, Def Leppard Hysteria, Whitesnake (self titled), Journey Raised on Radio, and Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet.
I would choose one of these each day to listen to on the way to school. That was about 1987. Then home to do homework in front of MTV. So much great music.
At the top you mentioned doing reactions to classics from the 60s, but I would really enjoy watching reactions to some of the classics of early Hip-hop. I'm talking Run-DMC, Whodini, Fat Boys, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, etc.
There is a lot of foundational songs out there that have gotten forgotten over time.
They are Best Friends from HS from Brooklyn. Skater Punk Rockers obsessed with all the legendary Hio Hop artists . They play instruments and write rhymes . Paul’s Boutique is their 2nd album ☑️It!!
Licensed to Ill was my first cassette ever. I was what, maybe 8 or 9 in 2nd grade and an older friend gave me this as a gift. It absolutely changed my life, even if i couldn't quite grasp the lyrical concepts, the beats and their voices just hit me right where I feel music the most. In HS my two best friends and I learned this specific track and would go around trying to show anybody who listen like the big dorks we were. To this day, this is a top 5 track on my all-time list and I still drop this on the karaoke mic on my own all the time. It ALWAYS kills. I cannot believe you never heard this. Just an iconic beat and sound. -RIP MCA-
For so many years (and this is late in pure hiphop crawling into rap) Mix Master Mike was winning DMC awards and stuff to the point they were like "hey, stop competiing" at least that's the story I always heard. Beastie Boys are legends either way.
Slow & Low
@@melissagrover9727 that is tempo
Everybody gets tha boogaloo flu!
Shake Your Rump, New Style, and Pass the Mic are musts! 😎
This reaction and your earlier reaction to Europe's Carrie bring back a funny story for me! I was a teenager at Tower Records trying to buy Europe The Final Countdown cassette for the song Carrie! After buying it and unwrapping it, the cassette inside was the Beastie Boys License to Ill, which is where this song came from! I ended up opening 11 different cassette cases from Europe before finally finding The Final Countdown cassette! The store worker and I had no idea who the Beastie Boys were at the time because this album hadn't officially been released yet, but like 6-8 weeks later, they hit the scene big time! I remember that I wished I had kept one of those cassettes when they hit it big because it would have saved me from having to buy it later!
This was my fav beastie song back in the day
She's Crafty is one of my favorites, and Fight for your right was the firsty Beastie song I ever heard when i was like in the 8th grade.
Dig into them some more. They have crazy talent, they were early, there are so many little things hidden in the details. And pieces of their work have been used in so many places since. Documentary on them is worth watching.
So good. I found myself head noddin' with ya. and i still know the lyrics LOL!
I have loved them for a long time! Saw them in concert.
There's a lot of fun in their music. They didn't take themselves seriously and just enjoyed hanging with each other. I didn't appreciate them enough back in the day. Seriously, dig into them, they are worth it. A lot more here than meets the eye.
That "reverse bass" pumping out of 2 12in Alpines with both an amp AND equalizer in your pickup truck would RATTLE THE NEIGHBORHOOD. Still recall driving into the HS parking lot with this blaring early in the morning and EVERYONE knowing that "Yep, that's XYZ pulling into the parking lot". And they LOVED it because we would hang out after school due to improve "bass-battles" with each other.
Whatcha want !! Please watch!! Ive seen them several times Live in 80’s & 90’s . Still greatest shows I’ve seen .
❤The Beastie Boys are part of the classics you are getting to know they are OGs from the very early 80s. All of their stuff is ORIGINAL and has influenced so many artist. All of their stuff is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Daytona Beach born and raised. In 1986, Beastie Boys came with MTV to my hometown and lit up the scene!!! I was only 14, but damn, I partied my ass off. The next several years of MTV brought Tone Loc, Rodney Dangerfield, Seinfeld, and so many amazing acts. The Bandshell on the beach hosted free live events for all the spring breakers, it was madness. You could not even walk on the beach, even low tide, there were so many spring breakers, it was absolutely insane. I went to high school on the beachside, right near the madness. Guess were I was during our off campus lunch break!!!
Beasties are the perfect House Party band...got hooked on them in 86. If beasties didn't play at a party at highschool party, it wasn't a party.
Oh that beat.. 80’s crusin.. could hear the beat drop a mile away. Fun times.
We used to get off of the ship and head to the buy me drinkie bars in Guam. And the whole there, we'd be singing, "girls, all I really want is girls!" LMAO
So I finally saw them in '93 or '94. I had been listening since '85 when I was in 2nd grade. Just go back in your mind to that time. I went to city schools in pittsburgh. Run DMC had just gotten big, so we had rap battles on the basketball court/cage. Rough area. Anyway, once the beasties came out, we had bars to fill in with. Back and forth with run dmc and anyone else. You'd take a line to rhyme with the guy in your face and then make up your own stuff. It was a game and I LOVED IT!!! So pure. That's what these guys mean to me ❤
Brass Monkey.... This dropped when i was in 8th grade.
Girl yes this is what I was coming to say! And I actually miss that drink!
Brass monkey is a requirement
Definitely!!!
Beastie Boys are 3 friends from Brooklyn. They used to hang out with the punk band Bad Brains. In fact, they settled on the name Beastie Boys because of the double B. I totally suggest reacting to something from the first Bad Brains record.
Beasties were school friends who started a punk band and ended up as a trio doing hiphop. Their first "rap" song was "Cookie Puss" where they prank called a Carvel asking for Cookie Puss. It became a huge hit in the New York clubs and that was that.
Sabotage will always be my favorite Beastie Boys song....to this day i crank it up when it comes on.
Always here for some Beasties
Love the suspense in this song. It draws you in, has you hanging for the next bar and keeps you focused on the story. No squirrelly video to distract, just pure story telling.