FIRST TIME LISTENING TO THE BEASTIE BOYS - WACHU WANT REACTION

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  • @singood7790
    @singood7790 Месяц назад +598

    This is NYC hip-hop with NYC punk roots. Absolutely legends and probably the most innovative hip-hop group to ever exist.

    • @rdgblading1813
      @rdgblading1813 Месяц назад +8

      They started as a hardcore punk band. Inspired by “bad brains”

    • @samielamri6044
      @samielamri6044 Месяц назад +2

      The samples they find! Man alive!

    • @andyg264
      @andyg264 Месяц назад +2

      @@samielamri6044actually on this album they picked up their instruments again (they started as a hardcore punk band) so some of the samples you hear are made from them playing around on guitar, bass and drums and creating loops. Plus the Hammond organ parts by Money Mark. Brilliant band

    • @turyb.goodiii7356
      @turyb.goodiii7356 Месяц назад +6

      The Beastie Boys absolutely destroyed everything on MTV when it came out. When it came out in the 90s it was just one of a kaleidoscope of the Sickest artists that were coming out at the time. Now it's Hard AF to find good music.

    • @daveratledge
      @daveratledge Месяц назад +1

      Boom... Beat me to it.

  • @671oneblood
    @671oneblood Месяц назад +1001

    They are literally one of the first Hip Hop groups ever... Come on now, yall... Do yo homework. The only reason they arent still killing it today, is because MCA passed away. Otherwise theyd still be on top.

    • @stefaniebrauer128
      @stefaniebrauer128 Месяц назад +28

      💯

    • @josephamesdacey6442
      @josephamesdacey6442 Месяц назад +39

      There was like a decade of hip hop groups before them but they're one of the most known

    • @671oneblood
      @671oneblood Месяц назад +13

      @@josephamesdacey6442 And here's our first... "ACTUALLY..." 🤣😂🤣 Goof

    • @josephamesdacey6442
      @josephamesdacey6442 Месяц назад

      @@671oneblood dude grandmaster flash, Kool herc, sugar hill gang

    • @DJay_37
      @DJay_37 Месяц назад +3

      Calm down guamanian, it's probably their first reaction to them and uk and USA music is totally different. Just like marianas listening to other cultural music brotha, some want to listen blindly then do research after due to if they feel the jam. Big ups big man on the knowledge though 👌🏽

  • @stevenwheat3621
    @stevenwheat3621 Месяц назад +445

    Wow you guys are lagging big time..
    They're pioneers! And yes they're white.

    • @quor2243
      @quor2243 Месяц назад +34

      100% And don't forget Mix Master Mike, one of the greatest DJs ever, won so many competitions they asked him to stop coming.

    • @alexleyland
      @alexleyland Месяц назад +24

      Paul's Boutique yo.

    • @danielwolk3576
      @danielwolk3576 Месяц назад

      and Jewish!

    • @BrianBurnett-py5el
      @BrianBurnett-py5el Месяц назад +9

      They youngsters they don’t know Beasty Boy were fly coming on the scene as white boys rapping.

    • @iR00STER
      @iR00STER Месяц назад

      And Jewish

  • @carllouisyoung
    @carllouisyoung Месяц назад +359

    Rick Rubin had nothing to do with this album. Only their debut. The Beasties went back to playing instruments, and this is ALL them. The were originators, this was 1992 and was so dope they were flowing on this track. Listen to the lyrics.

    • @bbb462cid
      @bbb462cid Месяц назад +11

      "Money Mark" Nishita is on keys and the Biz is on it too

    • @ianobrien3248
      @ianobrien3248 Месяц назад +7

      @@bbb462cid Chuck D on the loop

    • @bbb462cid
      @bbb462cid Месяц назад

      @@ianobrien3248 Sound like Biz to me, check it

    • @DonnaCPunk
      @DonnaCPunk Месяц назад +5

      Exactly what I said when I heard whoever it was off camera say that. Beasties were done with RR after License to Ill tour.

    • @MikeTaylor-uw5zy
      @MikeTaylor-uw5zy Месяц назад +6

      DJ Hurricane on the scratches and Mario C produced.

  • @jasongarrett7149
    @jasongarrett7149 Месяц назад +374

    RIP MCA. I feel bad for anybody who didn’t get to be a teenager in the 90s it was amazing

    • @aliciasavage6801
      @aliciasavage6801 Месяц назад +4

      Truth

    • @bbb462cid
      @bbb462cid Месяц назад +20

      Better to be in my 20s in the 90s

    • @brianhagge3225
      @brianhagge3225 Месяц назад +4

      Facts! Cruising all night in the homies CRX with 3 Vega 12s just listening to ill Communication. Good times I’ll never forget.

    • @MichaelTorres-b2v
      @MichaelTorres-b2v Месяц назад +3

      It was the best time to be a teenager.

    • @Phx_Phreak
      @Phx_Phreak Месяц назад +3

      ​@@bbb462cidI was thinking the same thing. Mid 20's when this dropped in 92. Life was good back then...

  • @76063co2
    @76063co2 Месяц назад +128

    Guys, this song is like 35 years old, and they were one of the biggest groups of their time.

  • @mycuratedlife9072
    @mycuratedlife9072 Месяц назад +142

    This was released in 1992 and you can't get more hip hop/rap than the Beastie Boys. Asap got nothing on the Beastie Boys...unfortunately rap these days isn't really groundbreaking.

    • @tnightwolf
      @tnightwolf Месяц назад +4

      I still remember when i first "discovered" Beasty Boys and Rage Against The Machine within months apart!.. My world was never the same (for the best)!

    • @symptomoftheuniverse3862
      @symptomoftheuniverse3862 12 дней назад

      A$AP Rocky and Tyler The Creator are pretty creative.

  • @lokihasbeentaken8493
    @lokihasbeentaken8493 Месяц назад +156

    Beastie Boys formed in 1981. Their first album was actually a hardcore punk album that was never a major label release. Then "License To Ill", their first major label release, in 1986 which is widely regarded as one of hip hops greatest early releases.

  • @gtjohns220
    @gtjohns220 Месяц назад +70

    The Beastie Boys discovered LL Cool J and helped produce his first hit song. Their Paul's Boutique album changed Hip Hop production forever

    • @moussegarbonzo8352
      @moussegarbonzo8352 Месяц назад +3

      De La Soul’s 3 Feet High & Rising was very influential in the production department as well. Prince Paul and The Dust Brothers were pioneers in sample layering.

    • @Niko3387Y
      @Niko3387Y Месяц назад +2

      ​@@moussegarbonzo8352 True, never forget Prince Paul the genius

    • @moussegarbonzo8352
      @moussegarbonzo8352 Месяц назад +1

      @@Niko3387Y Word. I think 3 Feet might have even been released a few months before Paul’s Boutique. Either way, Hip Hop was never the same after these two releases. They both kind of worked together to form a major milestone in the evolution of sampling.

    • @Niko3387Y
      @Niko3387Y Месяц назад +1

      @@moussegarbonzo8352 yeah that was before paul's boutique in 89, these 2 albums and Marley Marl in 87,88 changed the game

    • @moussegarbonzo8352
      @moussegarbonzo8352 Месяц назад +2

      @@Niko3387Y Marley for sure was a pioneer in beat making whose blueprint is still influential to this day!

  • @TammyM36
    @TammyM36 16 дней назад +21

    Beastie Boys are the pioneers of hip hop!! Come on guys! These guys play their own instruments too. LEGENDS

  • @ForgeAheadwithMike
    @ForgeAheadwithMike Месяц назад +132

    man you guys gotta do your homework... BEASTIE BOYS!

    • @mickeyellison7929
      @mickeyellison7929 Месяц назад

      They don't believe in homework. They are MAGA nutjobs. They hate facts.

    • @bastrd_OnE
      @bastrd_OnE Месяц назад +7

      They have no business talking about hip hop!

    • @eltravos99
      @eltravos99 Месяц назад +2

      Honestly if they did their homework then the reaction would be pointless. The point is to come into the reaction fresh.

    • @McLarnan
      @McLarnan 8 дней назад +1

      I think this counts as them starting to do said homework. Give them time. We weren’t all fortunate enough to grow up with it. ❤

  • @kevinslayzak1214
    @kevinslayzak1214 Месяц назад +131

    As a NYC metal head for 50 yrs the B-Boys have been holding down the five bourghs for DECADES... y'all need to seriously spend the next WEEK of DAILY Beastie Boys records..the first 5ish FULL albums will ROCK your shit..lol😅..no lies told🔥 you'll thank me for it directly afterwards 👍 Paulie's boutique will get you bouncing..they ALL will .

    • @donaldlamendola1392
      @donaldlamendola1392 Месяц назад +5

      Facts.... I've been a metal head since I was 10 but the I remember hearing my older brother playing Brass Monkey in his room when it came out. Even then probably when I was like 5 or 6 I have liked the Beastie Boys. They were literally the 1st music I knew I liked.

    • @juicicles5881
      @juicicles5881 Месяц назад +1

      I think to the five burroughs is a bit unsung. It has my fav song of theirs. "Right right now now". You're right, though, all the early shit rules. I can't even meet someone named Paul and not say "We all dressed in black, we snuck up around the back"

    • @TheRealOG666
      @TheRealOG666 Месяц назад

      @@donaldlamendola1392man, same! 75’ Dude here, MetalHead and HUGE Beastie Boys fan.

    • @Tricklarock
      @Tricklarock Месяц назад

      He'll yeah Paul's

    • @DaWease
      @DaWease 12 дней назад +2

      FACTS straight up. it's the Joint!

  • @monstafloppa871
    @monstafloppa871 Месяц назад +9

    This was the early 90's and there were some legendary hip hop groups roaming the earth at the time that included Wu Tan Clan, NWA, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, etc.

  • @butcrack6786
    @butcrack6786 Месяц назад +70

    One of the best live performances I've ever seen was Sabotage on David Letterman. Those dudes are metal Af. Universally respected across all genres.

    • @charliewilson4203
      @charliewilson4203 Месяц назад +4

      Ch-Check it Out is my favorite performance of theirs on Letterman. The timing on that was insane

    • @fubar1217
      @fubar1217 Месяц назад +2

      @@charliewilson4203 Same....when I first saw that, I was like "that was SICK".

    • @butcrack6786
      @butcrack6786 Месяц назад +2

      @charliewilson4203 ya, but I'm bias af. Came up on trailer park metal. Exodus, testament, Priest, etc.

    • @titantaekwondoacademyTTA
      @titantaekwondoacademyTTA 27 дней назад

      "Unequivocally"!!

  • @tomking7080
    @tomking7080 Месяц назад +80

    The first dope white boys who could rap. I’m 46 years old and the Beastie Boys were the shit in the 90’s. “Check your head” is such a dope album

    • @Neoyorchese
      @Neoyorchese Месяц назад +3

      "Get it 2gether" with QTip

    • @tomking7080
      @tomking7080 Месяц назад +2

      @@Neoyorchese great track. One of my favorite on the album and one of my favorite Beastie Boys tracks

    • @nickyoung8246
      @nickyoung8246 Месяц назад +1

      I’m 46 also the music in the 90s was so fantastic so much great rap

    • @tomking7080
      @tomking7080 Месяц назад +1

      @@nickyoung8246 So much great everything. Not just rap/hip hop. Think about just how many unbelievable bands,groups we had then. Biggie(my favorite rapper ever)Pac,Nas,Jay,Eminem,NWA,IceCube (2nd favorite),Snoop,Cypress Hill,Wu-Tang,EPMD,Tribe Called Quest,Mobb Deep,MOP,OutKast’s,Busta Rhymes, The Roots,Missy,Lil Kim,36 Mafia and the list goes on and on. Rock/Nu-Metal:Korn,Deftones,Metallica,Megadeth,Linkin Park,Evanescence,Slipknot,SOD,Sepultura,Soul Fly,Slayer,Nirvana,Soundgarden,Alice in Chains,Pearl Jam,STP,Temple of the Dog,Jane’s Addiction,Green Day,311,Creed,Rage against the Machine,Foo Fighters and that list goes on and on. Don’t get me started on Pop music. Brittney, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Celine, Dion, Destiny’s Child, Alanis Morissette, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Spice Girls, Madonna, TLC, Red Hotchili peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Radiohead, U2,Boys 2 Men, Whitney Houston,Goo Goo Dolls and this list goes on and on and on.
      I’m a huge music buff. Can you name 10 bands or groups in the last 5 years that are halfway as good or popular as any of these amazing 90’s artists? Because I can’t !!! The 90’s in my opinion is the greatest era for music. Followed by the 1960’s-mid 70’s.

  • @mikeslover8065
    @mikeslover8065 26 дней назад +6

    Beastie boys came out in the middle 80s. Their rhymes. Beats. Style. Was way ahead of it's time. They don't get the credit they deserve.

  • @edog6770
    @edog6770 17 дней назад +3

    Sounds like rock because they actually play their own instruments. Thats a real drum set, guitar, synth, etc

  • @roems6396
    @roems6396 Месяц назад +113

    Autotune did not exist until 97, and that song with Cher wasn’t big on the radio until 99! So much ignorance in this room. 😂

    • @pmbbmp
      @pmbbmp Месяц назад +3

      Autotune may not have existed but pitch correction did...since the 50s

    • @outlawed7515
      @outlawed7515 Месяц назад

      Roger Troutman used auto tune around the late 70's early 80's

    • @patrickbarnes2707
      @patrickbarnes2707 Месяц назад +12

      ​@@outlawed7515no he didn't , he us a talkbox and a vocoder.

    • @roems6396
      @roems6396 Месяц назад +6

      @@outlawed7515
      It, did, not, exist.

    • @citizensunitednegatingtech9783
      @citizensunitednegatingtech9783 Месяц назад

      It was "manual tune" back then ​@@roems6396

  • @vailashayes5494
    @vailashayes5494 Месяц назад +62

    This is Hip Hop.

  • @steves.6519
    @steves.6519 Месяц назад +48

    One of my favorite Beastie lines: "Im cooler than a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce".

  • @jameswiley3615
    @jameswiley3615 Месяц назад +74

    That’s better than any rap the past 20 years

  • @linzzyy
    @linzzyy Месяц назад +70

    As a 47 year old white Canadian, Beastie Boys introduced me to Hip Hop- they were THE SH!T. A new video was like Christmas morning! Go down the rabbit hole, you won’t be disappointed

    • @carlosbored78
      @carlosbored78 Месяц назад +6

      I'm 46' bro, and here in Chile was the same felling!

    • @christoker6835
      @christoker6835 Месяц назад +1

      I'm 44 and totally agree. When a new video dropped by them it was fecking awesome

    • @TheMangoAnglo_onTwitter
      @TheMangoAnglo_onTwitter Месяц назад

      No one cares you are white.

    • @mmhis74
      @mmhis74 Месяц назад

      49 Canuck too. License To Ill is one of my favourite childhood memories.

    • @mrbug4803
      @mrbug4803 21 день назад

      They’re still the Sh!t! First song both my kids learned the words to was Paul Revere. We sing it every time we’re in the car.

  • @Arsolon618
    @Arsolon618 Месяц назад +32

    Autotune invented in 97, this Beastie Boys track came in 1992.

  • @tomsnider7611
    @tomsnider7611 Месяц назад +25

    Yeah, as mentioned, THEY PLAYED THE INSTRUMENTS! Not rapping over a loop, no autotune, no laptop studios.

    • @symptomoftheuniverse3862
      @symptomoftheuniverse3862 12 дней назад

      They most certainly used samples and looped them who the fvck are fooling?

    • @tomsnider7611
      @tomsnider7611 4 дня назад

      @symptomoftheuniverse3862 ever seen them play?

    • @symptomoftheuniverse3862
      @symptomoftheuniverse3862 3 дня назад

      @@tomsnider7611 The song Root Down is them Sampling Jimmy Smith from his live recording of 'Root Down'. Sure Shot, Jeremy Steig, a jazz flautist from a song called 'Howlin for Judy'. Brass Monkey sampled Wild Sugar- 'Bring it here'. Looking Down the barrel sampled Mountain's 'Mississippi Queen. I could go on but I think you get the idea.

    • @tomsnider7611
      @tomsnider7611 День назад

      Right, and they still played it live. No auto-tune, no lip sync. Oh, and hey, they were a band. How many of those do you see in popular music today? BTW, I didn't mention anything about sampling because there is a difference.

  • @STILL-KICKIN
    @STILL-KICKIN Месяц назад +58

    3 MC’s and 1 DJ 🔥

    • @istark
      @istark Месяц назад +3

      This.

    • @Joey_Gray
      @Joey_Gray Месяц назад +4

      Facts 💯 they need to check it out. No beat machine, no computers, just mix master Mike 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @jameswilliams4804
      @jameswilliams4804 Месяц назад +1

      And we be gett'n down with no delay,so mix master WHAT YA GOT SAY? We're just 3 mc's and 1 dj!!!!!!😊❤

    • @skrachmowax8894
      @skrachmowax8894 28 дней назад

      We be getting down with no delay

    • @cozmachina
      @cozmachina 10 дней назад

      We be gettin down wit no delay. Mix master Mike, whatchya got to say???

  • @mikepoole2004
    @mikepoole2004 Месяц назад +23

    Beastie boys are goats. So many people sampled their shit and never gave them credit. Hip hop pioneers.

    • @ianobrien3248
      @ianobrien3248 Месяц назад +1

      lol the ultimate irony after Paul's Boutique.

  • @Mac_Fleetwood
    @Mac_Fleetwood Месяц назад +31

    Rick Ruben didnt produce that. Its a Beastie Boy production. Check out Sabotage they did a few years later. It sounds like it morphed from this

  • @gwakon
    @gwakon Месяц назад +22

    1991-92. Their cultural relevancy can't be understated.

  • @VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer
    @VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer Месяц назад +35

    You have to listen to Paul Revere by the Beastie Boys. One of the most classic beats ever recorded. These guys are pioneers of Hip Hop beside Run DMC, LL Cool Jay, and all the 80's rappers.

  • @cjonesufc
    @cjonesufc Месяц назад +19

    Anyone who wants to know how important these guys were to rap and hip hop need to go watch LL Cool J and Chuck D (Public Enemy) induct them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In fact, Ad Rock basically discovered LL.

  • @bens2529
    @bens2529 Месяц назад +9

    sad how people have no idea about hip hop history.

  • @coachmullen1
    @coachmullen1 Месяц назад +44

    They rap, for real. They had a punk rock background but they were also on NYC at the time when hip hop was emerging.
    They started rapping and released a fully old school hip hop album in 1987. Starting with their 2nd album, they started including a few tracks that merged their rap style with their edgy punk sounds.
    But make no mistake, they are hip-hop royalty!

    • @DevanLund
      @DevanLund Месяц назад +6

      Not enough people know about how, in the late 70s to the mid 80s NYC, punks and hip-hop kids would hang together, because they tended to only be put on at a handful of venues/clubs back then, so there was a lot of underdog overlap.

    • @travisspaulding2222
      @travisspaulding2222 Месяц назад +5

      @@DevanLund When you consider that both punk and hip hop emerged from disenfranchised youth in NYC, which was mostly impoverished at the time, especially the Lower East Side Manhattan, it's not surprising that they intersected. For the most part, white kids gravitated more towards punk (or thrash metal at the time) and the black kids gravitated towards hip hop. But when those things intersected, it was fantastic. Namely Beastie Boys and Bad Brains being the best examples, in my opinion. I know Bad Brains is from DC, but they spent a lot of time in NYC in the early days.

    • @Aardquark777
      @Aardquark777 Месяц назад

      ​@@travisspaulding2222 Yes! Beasties mention in the liner notes on their first album "Some Old Bullshit" that they named the band Beastie Boys because they wanted it to resemble the BB in Bad Brains. They respected their whole philosophy of PMA Positive Mental Attitude etc. It also says Beastie is actually an anacronym for Boys Entering Anarchistic States Toward Internal Excellence. Theres even a song on that album named B.E.A.S.T.I.E.

  • @alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606
    @alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606 Месяц назад +37

    Hip hop. It was the 80s and 90s.. they using distortion mics..
    "Their 1986 debut album, Licensed to III, was the first hip-hop album to reach Number One on the charts, and did more than any other recording to introduce the genre to the suburban masses."

    • @alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606
      @alexiscausleywaabagiizhigo8606 Месяц назад +5

      They were played everywhere growing up.. high school lunch music.. lol.
      They did influence a lot of people. " Beastie Boys are considered very influential in both the hip hop and rock music scenes, with artists such as Eminem, Rage Against the Machine, Hed PE, Limp Bizkit, Sublime, and Blur citing them as an influence."
      And the video is flipped(the visuals are in negative)

    • @Best..YT..Music..Playlists
      @Best..YT..Music..Playlists Месяц назад +1

      they're cheap karaoke mics. like just above toy store quality. something like you might see in Best Buy today. they had buttons for a couple effects but rather than using effects they just turned up the gain and got the overdrive.

  • @laurih.t.8723
    @laurih.t.8723 Месяц назад +25

    Bestie Boys literally the reason why Eminem exists.. Plus LL Cool J, House of Pain, BDK, etc. .. Marshall recognized all the people who influenced him and BB was one for sure 👊👍🥰🎶🎶👏👏❤

    • @Browninharlem
      @Browninharlem 21 день назад +1

      Don't forget 3rd Bass.

    • @laurih.t.8723
      @laurih.t.8723 21 день назад

      @Browninharlem Yes! Thank you for adding on... I welcome all those, cuz Marshall credited a LONG list of inspirations 👊❤️

  • @wendysmith3126
    @wendysmith3126 Месяц назад +6

    Beastie Boys have been around four 40 years! One of my favorite groups.

  • @lunaticfringe7741
    @lunaticfringe7741 Месяц назад +12

    They took LL Cool J's mixtape to their Label🎉 At their induction to the r-n-roll hall of fame, LL told the story himself & Chuck D talked about their 1st tour which was with them.

    • @elbruces
      @elbruces Месяц назад +2

      Back when Def Jam's official address was just Rick Rubin's college dorm room.

    • @marviafrancis-robinson2560
      @marviafrancis-robinson2560 Месяц назад +1

      It was Ad Rock who introduced LL to Rick Rubin.

  • @antonytheolddog8626
    @antonytheolddog8626 Месяц назад +18

    This song was done through a kids tape deck...
    Literally....

    • @cactaceous
      @cactaceous 13 дней назад +1

      It was a kids microphone with sound effects that someone brought to the studio and they used it.

    • @antonytheolddog8626
      @antonytheolddog8626 13 дней назад +1

      @cactaceous yeah..that's what I was saying.. pretty much 🙄

  • @chrisfuller2069
    @chrisfuller2069 Месяц назад +14

    This song was released in 1992. Auto-tune was released in 1997. Believe by Cher was released in 1998.

    • @slayercfv
      @slayercfv Месяц назад

      99 autotune believe is in 99

    • @chrisfuller2069
      @chrisfuller2069 Месяц назад

      @@slayercfv Uh, no. I already gave you the correct dates.
      ""Believe" is a song by the American singer Cher, from her 22nd studio album, Believe (1998). It was released as the lead single on October 19, 1998, by Warner Bros. Records."
      "Auto-Tune is audio processor software released on September 19, 1997, by the American company Antares Audio Technologies."

  • @johnmolzahn8230
    @johnmolzahn8230 Месяц назад +21

    Now do 3 MC's and 1 DJ.

  • @JayEvans1911A1
    @JayEvans1911A1 Месяц назад +11

    Beastie Boys originally started out as a Hardcore Punk band back in the 80s, but they were all big rap and hip-hop fans, so they started rapping themselves and the rest is history. Since they were originally a punk band they all knew how to play instruments. While their albums were mostly rap, they'd sometimes have the occasional punk rock track, or chill instrumental track mixed in with all the rap tracks on their albums. They'd also make tracks like this one where they'd combine rap with rock. Sabotage is another rap/rock sounding track. Y'all should check out more Beastie Boys. RIP to MCA.

  • @timp5048
    @timp5048 Месяц назад +8

    This whole album is FIRE. These guys had punk roots, and then started rapping using samples and DJs and stuff and when they got to this level of popularity they could do more of what they wanted, and hence we got Check Your Head. Whole album is fire 🔥

  • @djstarsign
    @djstarsign Месяц назад +2

    After reading some comments, maybe a bit of context would be helpful:
    Beastie Boys was a hardcore band who were living in NYC when the very first rap 12”s were being released. They became big fans of the music (which was just starting to get media exposure at the time) and they (along with fellow rap aficionado, budding producer, Rick Rubin) would go see some of the earliest rap shows being performed in lower Manhattan.
    They gradually began to incorporate more rap into their shows and eventually became a full blown rap group. Their first album (produced by Rubin) became a huge success. But their follow up (produced by The Dust Brothers) failed to meet expectations.
    The sound was championed by critics and fellow rappers, but the “Fight For Your Right” crowd wasn’t into it, and hardcore hip hop fans were more interested in newer artists who were pushing rap music in super interesting territories. Also, Beastie Boys had gained a reputation for being prankster and were thought of almost as a joke.
    They were able to record a third album, and by this time, they weren’t on anyone’s radar. Instead of spending buttloads of money recording at fancy studios, they built their own studio, packed it full of used gear, and started jamming. What ended up happening was a fusion of soulful instrumentals, songs with a jazzy/latin vibe, straight ahead rap, and a reintroduction to their hardcore roots.
    They’d also reinvented themselves as a hodgepodge of 70s/80s/90s underground influences. They still had their irreverent, prankster character, but it was more subdued.
    When they released the album, it was met with a lot of enthusiasm by a new audience of skateboarding, stoner, and indie hip hop enthusiasts who were more adventurous with their music tastes. They reflected the Beastie Boys attitude of appreciating everything from Lee Scratch Perry, The Meters, Bad Brains, Sly Stone, and Sergio Mendes.
    It was a welcome reintroduction to the band who was a little older, and they also happened to catch the wave of underground bands who were starting to gain a larger mainstream audience. The timing was right for their new record and it ended up selling really well.
    So Watcha Want was their third single (I believe) and after it was released, it became a pretty decent hit. The video got a ton of mtv rotation (back when they played videos).
    Their success was followed up by the even more successful Ill Communication a few years later. That record featured Sabotage, another giant hit.
    Nobody could have predicted that they would reemerge as one of the biggest bands of the 90s when Paul’s Boutique was deemed an underwhelming, commercial failure.
    In some ways, 90s Beastie Boys was the perfect soundtrack to the decade that was starting to rediscover a lot of 70s influences (from fashion to movies to music and pop culture) and merge it with the future facing possibilities of technology and the emerging internet.

  • @aliciasavage6801
    @aliciasavage6801 Месяц назад +6

    "Grunge Rap" was an awesome term. I am gen x and was known as a "grunge girl" and i loved the Beastie Boys

    • @cactaceous
      @cactaceous 13 дней назад

      In the words of the legendary Adam Yauch… RIP… “You must be talking about grunge?!”

  • @FlyinEye
    @FlyinEye Месяц назад +3

    Rick Ruben doesn't use autotune even today. Autotune wasn't around until mid 90s+. But Rick Ruben doesn't believe in autotune with artists he produces. In fact many have tried to get him to use it on them, he says nope. FYI that Cher song was late 90s. I'm an audio engineer and I remember when Anateres Autotune was released (wasn't even invented until 1997). There's a lot of distortion on these vocals but no autotune. In the 84,85,86 Rick Ruben was THE N.Y. hip hop producer. Did L.L. Cool J, Run DMC, and The Beastie Boys. He did the Aerosmith x RUN DMC collab, Walk This Way because he wanted show people that Rock and Hip Hop (AKA Rap) could reach fans on both sides. Neither artist was thrilled about it and didn't think it would work. It became a huge hit.

  • @leftofthedial4760
    @leftofthedial4760 Месяц назад +8

    2:40, this conversation is insane to me, having graduated high school the year this came out

  • @cannae216
    @cannae216 Месяц назад +2

    Probably my favorite Beastie song- been a fan since I was a teenager. Groundbreaking group-turned sampling into an art form. Billboard ranks 1989’s Paul’s Boutique in the top 50 rap records of all time.

  • @joeelwell162
    @joeelwell162 Месяц назад +10

    beastie boys are the 1 who gave ll cool j demo to rick

  • @dathorndike4908
    @dathorndike4908 Месяц назад +17

    Each one of the Beastie Boys were musicians as well. They often used real drums, bass, guitar in their music. That made their sound really stand apart from the other rappers of the day.

  • @matthewgoodA1206
    @matthewgoodA1206 Месяц назад +6

    Always been my favorite Beastie Boys track. Just love that big, thumping beat on it.

    • @PixelPro-4000
      @PixelPro-4000 Месяц назад +1

      AdRock strummed a low string on a guitar into a large wooden box to make that "bass drum" sound you hear throughout.

  • @KALKANIAM
    @KALKANIAM Месяц назад +4

    Everyone reacts to the wrong song. The #BEASTIEBOY song you should have done was "Brass Monkey". Brass Monkey is literally the song that changed rap, because it was the first fast rap. It was an L.L. Cool J concert, and everyone laughed when they came on stage because no one had seen a white rapper unless you lived in NYC. Then that beat dropped, and people went nuts. I just stood there looking, mouth wide open. Best feeling in the world. They changed everything because fast rap ment faster dancing. It was wild. That footage would be gold.

  • @timafterhours7062
    @timafterhours7062 Месяц назад +10

    So funny to me when I see youngsters getting sooo surprised over stuff like this... Most of the biggest rap/pop/r&b hits an artists get where they are by sampling the living crap out of older music... Very little of it is truly unique...

    • @samgod
      @samgod Месяц назад

      True, but let's not forget that the Beasties sampled a shit ton themselves too. Only in a far more creative way.

    • @timafterhours7062
      @timafterhours7062 Месяц назад +2

      @@samgod of course they did, it was the best way to fuse Rock & Rap... 😎👍

  • @madanvil
    @madanvil Месяц назад +2

    The vocal effects were used with the Sony "Variety Mic". Meant mostly for karaoke, if I'm not mistaken. MCA refers to it in their song Sure Shot (1994). 'I rock a bullsh!t mic, that's made outta plastic'. And yeah, you guys really have to check out their whole discography to appreciate their range of talent.

    • @JamBurglar
      @JamBurglar 14 дней назад

      👆This guy knows what he's talking about!

  • @christerry78
    @christerry78 Месяц назад +11

    Rick Rubin only produced their first album.

  • @savageinstitute9569
    @savageinstitute9569 Месяц назад +2

    Cher "Believe" -1998
    -c'mon bro thats from the 70s😂

  • @kristoferbatdorf2873
    @kristoferbatdorf2873 Месяц назад +4

    The only band that has the same credibility in the punk scene and hip hop scenes, when legends and icons from hip hop refer to these guys as royalty, you should definitely listen to them, they produced this not rick rubin, if your interested check these out by them.
    Paul Revere
    Rhymn and Stealin
    The sounds of science
    Pass the mic
    3 mcs and one dj
    Something got to give
    No sleep till brooklyn, and theres 30 or 40 other songs you check out as well.

  • @turyb.goodiii7356
    @turyb.goodiii7356 Месяц назад +2

    This album was released 5 years before auto tune was Invented. Gen-Z I'm glad that You found this!

  • @punisher_764
    @punisher_764 Месяц назад +4

    Mario Caldato Jr was the producer not Rick Rubin . The guy with the red hat is Mike D the one with the Knicks shirt is Adrock and the one with the raspy voice is MCA who died some years ago ago . They are Jewish rappers from NYC . Y’all really need a gen x person to explain it because we grew up with this music when MTV actually showed videos shoutout to the Cartier family back there your channel is very cool . The video is from 1992 . Check out there license to ill album from the 80s it’s a classic.

    • @ruemeridian9472
      @ruemeridian9472 Месяц назад

      You mixed Adrock and Mike D…Adrock is in red who rapped first and Mike D is in the Knick’s shirt.
      Don’t worry, I got you 👌🏻

  • @TylerDurden-yk4dh
    @TylerDurden-yk4dh Месяц назад +2

    When this came out, everything looked like this, that's just how our era was. Cypress Hill had the same visuals, Redman, Tribe Called Quest, even groups like Deeite were doing the trippy psychedelic visuals.

  • @seanhealy3579
    @seanhealy3579 Месяц назад +4

    Didn't realize Cartier was in the back. More Collabs, fam.

  • @DSTowerRat
    @DSTowerRat Месяц назад +2

    Def. no auto tune.. I was born in 75.. I was 17 when I owned this "tape" in chrome. Great song, great album. Thanks for the react.

  • @robertday1671
    @robertday1671 Месяц назад +4

    Hey love the beastie boys! Especially this video!

  • @drinkswithgeeks2374
    @drinkswithgeeks2374 3 дня назад

    Awww the young peeps hearing their roots from hiphop for the first time. The Beastie Boys were one of the originals. “Grandpa been rapping since 83’”

  • @andrewrigney5888
    @andrewrigney5888 Месяц назад +5

    Best rap group of all time. Yall need to do more beastie boys!

  • @jenniferfowler682
    @jenniferfowler682 Месяц назад +2

    Rap/rock/grunge/funky/ they are everything guys!! They are insane live - next up y’all need to do sure shot or hey ladies

  • @Apostrofe
    @Apostrofe Месяц назад +1

    It's from 1992, and was a return to form for the group after Paul's Boutique. They started as a punk ban in NYC then gravitated to hip-hop. They always always paid tribute to black hip-hop acts. To get a whole different flavor, check out "Fight for your right to party" (Their first hit) and Sabotage (possibly their biggest hit, used in the Star Trek reboot movie).

  • @lakermd
    @lakermd Месяц назад +4

    “Well I’m as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce” one of the best lyric lines ever!

  • @carlosgk1
    @carlosgk1 16 дней назад

    i remember this flew under the radar! i saw it in bevis and butthead and i was so fascinated with this song in particular…and this was at the time a new sound for the beastie boys, and a lot if people hated in it. the BB have many sounds, they are punk origins and became early hip hop pioneers and eventually broke out into many different genres. they are GOATS

  • @effer3
    @effer3 Месяц назад +5

    They never heard of the Beastie Boys?????

    • @bobsylvester88
      @bobsylvester88 Месяц назад

      Better late than never.

    • @elbruces
      @elbruces Месяц назад +1

      Watching people learn things is what reaction channels are all about.

  • @oof333
    @oof333 Месяц назад

    Hearing you talk about the effects, unlocked a bunch of memories of old 'tube' TV's that couldnt handle brights and darks and got pixelly, and had knobs you used to shift the colour and saturation as the TV got old and the colours started fading and washing out. All these effects are familiar to people who were in their 20's in the 1990's and remember those TV's! Also the grainy texture reminds me of home-VHS video tape playback. The Beastie Boys were definotely leaning into retro samples and fashion too.

  • @mudpie6524
    @mudpie6524 27 дней назад

    One of the sound tracks of my youth. We would drive around partying and blasting the Beasties!

  • @quantumtheo
    @quantumtheo 2 дня назад

    Almost every single Beastie Boys album is solid gold front to back. They have crazy awesome deep cuts that are all kinds of different genres. Paul's Boutique through Hello Nasty in particular, but all their albums are great. Cept the first one, the Beastie Boys themselves only play a few tracks from it anymore.

  • @derekhughcharms4012
    @derekhughcharms4012 13 дней назад

    When this came out it was so different than their previous records, BLEW OUR MINDS!

  • @barochoc
    @barochoc Месяц назад

    Phenomenal band. There’s nothing they couldn’t do. Talented and innovative. I really miss the Beastie Boys

  • @markbeulen7646
    @markbeulen7646 13 дней назад

    As a teenager growing up in the 90s and mostly listening to punk and metal, these guys - with Cypress Hill - were my introduction to Hip Hop. Still legends and I still play their tunes.

  • @Doctor-Stoppage
    @Doctor-Stoppage 18 дней назад

    The Beastie Boys NEVER stopped changing and doing new things. Every album was different. Every song was unique. They never settled for one sound or style.

  • @martane665
    @martane665 Месяц назад +1

    Seeing when all of you started head bobbin in sync made me smile. Happy you enjoyed it.

  • @jamesbyars4474
    @jamesbyars4474 33 минуты назад

    This is the 80s... no auto tune. Punk rock/hip hop at its pinnacle. OGs. There will never be another.

  • @shannonpeterson1694
    @shannonpeterson1694 Месяц назад

    I love watching kids young enough to be my kids, find music from my youth, and get into it. This made my day.

  • @capt25252525
    @capt25252525 Месяц назад

    They are right, when this came out that's all kids in school were talking about the next day. Beastie Boys live was something else, you didn't just feel the music, the music felt you.

  • @isabeljimenez6067
    @isabeljimenez6067 Месяц назад +2

    OMGOSH! HOW DO YOU PEOPLE DONT KNOW THE BEASTIE BOYS!?
    THEY ARE RAP. And very respected in the community.

    • @kerriniemi9525
      @kerriniemi9525 Месяц назад +1

      I think because they were spoon fed junk rap 🙊and haven't yet thought to go back to the real roots
      ✌️🏵️💞

  • @lynnc5252
    @lynnc5252 19 дней назад

    My first concert ever, was the Beastie Boys and PUBLIC ENEMY open for them.
    I was an instant fan! Fight the Power for life. 💙✌️✊

  • @jason.martin
    @jason.martin 21 день назад

    The band Came out in the mid 80's and they rocked! interesting how I forget how long ago this was. Yep 90s tune pre Autotune days

  • @jbrock76
    @jbrock76 Месяц назад

    Those lyrics and that flow... dude's were unbelievable! They were so good, man!!

  • @mattsnyderARTIST
    @mattsnyderARTIST Месяц назад +2

    A small history on the beasties...punk band, release a novelty prank record called cookie puss, rick rubin produces liscence to ill (rock samples & 1 track features Kerry King from Slayer on live guitar), 2nd album Paul's Boutique features over 100 samples produced by the dust brothers, check your head album on all music drum/bass/guitar played by the band.
    Release punk ep called Aglio y olio, release all instrumental jazz album and they win a grammy for called All Mixed up..eventually release final album Hot Sauce Committee pt. 2 with a lot of guests and MCA dies of throat cancer. The band is no more.

    • @ianobrien3248
      @ianobrien3248 Месяц назад

      I remember riding on the school bus and whenever someone brought their boom box and had License to Ill we would all go nuts lol. Back then, "Fight for Your Right(To Party)" was the punchline to boomer jokes and hacks and then Paul's Boutique came out and both A. Tanked and B. Completely changed hiphop forever and is the alpha and the omega of a sample album.

  • @anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551
    @anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551 Месяц назад

    Im 47 from the Mecca NYC grew up on the Beasties Eminem said without them He never would have kept trying cause they made it 15 years before Him.

  • @Grog-y9q
    @Grog-y9q Месяц назад +1

    You guys don't even hear Biz in there 🤭

    • @Vosscano
      @Vosscano Месяц назад

      Yeah, you can’t front on that! 🤘

  • @frankcastle9991
    @frankcastle9991 Месяц назад

    Beastie Boys were a game changer. Amazing catalog and amazing to see live . Paul’s Boutique is iconic do a full album reaction. You’ll love it.👍🏼👍🏼enjoy.

  • @echotango6-9
    @echotango6-9 Месяц назад

    This is one of the true originations of actual hip hop. No tablets or computer generated beats but true wheels of steel boyeee

  • @theresamorris6206
    @theresamorris6206 Месяц назад +1

    This is no auto-tune this is the late 80s early 90s baby. And this band started off as a punk rock band in New York City. Until they started hearing Run DMC and they said hell we can do that. And then they did that. The world will never be the same.

  • @TabbyQ.9563
    @TabbyQ.9563 8 дней назад

    I bought their tape in '87. Saw them at a concert in '92. They stopped the show to save a girl getting her ass kicked in the pit. Classy. They were doing some crazy jazzy stuff at the show. Not afraid to try some new stuff.

  • @carleakins2153
    @carleakins2153 Месяц назад

    The Beasties were amazing! Singular and unique, and you can't front on that. RIP, MCA.

  • @botz77
    @botz77 Месяц назад

    Classic MTV videos are the greatest. So much creativity on tiny budgets and it started the careers of some of our best film directors today like David Fincher, Spike Jonze (Who might have directed this, he did a lot of Beastie Boys videos), and many more.

  • @tywebb6561
    @tywebb6561 Месяц назад

    I still remember the first time I heard this… morning bball practice, junior year, waiting outside for the coach to open the gate to get in… my buddy pops this into the tape deck and wow…

  • @samdoorley6101
    @samdoorley6101 17 дней назад

    Beastie Boys had a wild run, their catalog is pretty damn deep.

  • @BalaamsAss
    @BalaamsAss 11 дней назад

    The Beastie Boys originally set out to be a punk band. They also play their own instruments. So, you definitely can see that influence on their art at times.

  • @Unclesmokey314
    @Unclesmokey314 Месяц назад

    being there for it all was awesome!!! picked up on Beasties very early and grateful for it.. 52 yrs old and still rock the Boys, often.

  • @davidcox8580
    @davidcox8580 11 дней назад +1

    This is the hip hop I grew up to. Today’s music is terrible. 😂

  • @sinnison23
    @sinnison23 Месяц назад

    This is hip-hop 100%, they were some of the most influential hip-hop artists of the 80's and 90's. They helped define it, and then reshape it. They started out doing punk rock, and they were watching hip-hop develop around them in NYC, and they loved it. If you hear one of their songs with guitar, bass, and/or drums, it was most likely them that laid those tracks. They also have a lot of funk influence in their work.

  • @Yathome00
    @Yathome00 Месяц назад

    LOL I was there when it came out, it’s a classic! ❤❤❤❤ and you should have seen them in concert!

  • @Mik-xq2co
    @Mik-xq2co Месяц назад

    I remember when License To Ill came out. This and Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction were two of the most influential and largest debuts albums that debuted in the late 1980s! God, it was a great time to be a teen!!