Beastie Boys GOAT yo. You gotta understand: these guys were kids when rap began to really take hold in the early 1980s and they loved it. They were already musicians but they became MCs not for money or fame or to get women or for bragging rights, etc... they just loved rap and wanted to make more of it themselves. What you see and hear is simply 3 guys doing what they love to do. That's why it resonates with people so many years later: their songs weren't really written to make money or be hit songs or to dis people or for any reason other than they just really like to make music.
@@mediumvillain Those songs were jokes. Fight For Your Right and Girls were written to make fun of specific types of people. Then they went on tour the first time and became those types of people. For one tour. They quickly reversed course once they realized how out of control doing that is. After the first big tour was over they earned a reputation for being gentlemen and centers of calm while some of the other acts they were with did all the crazy stuff.
I was in high school when their first album dropped. I don't remember back then of anyone ever saying the Beastie Boys were trying to be like black rappers. I didn't even know rap existed until I heard it for the first time in 1983 as a freshman in high school. Hip Hop in the early 80's was so new and raw that anyone with an imagination and innovative mind jumped into this space and they just created music that no one had ever heard before. The Beastie Boys are very unique because they have that punk rock vibe.
One of the things I always liked about the Beastie Boys is that they always came as a team. You never saw just one of them, only the whole set, three the hard way.
That’s why they officially disbanded The Beastie Boys when MCA died in 2012. Mike D and Ad-Rock said they’re not the Beastie Boys without him and it wouldn’t feel right to continue performing now he’s gone.
I'm 52 years old. I was in the 9th grade when License to Ill debuted. Blew my mind. Every song on that cassette the Beastie Boys made into a video. So I also had License to Ill on V.H.S. Wore it out.
If you dig about on RUclips you’ll find the full broadcast of the ‘In The Round Tour’ from Glasgow. I saw them live three times; In The Round, Manchester, Reading ‘98 & Brixton Academy a few years prior to MCA’s passing. Each show was an absolute masterclass!!
More BEASTIE BOYS!!!! Root down Pass the mic Sabotage Sure shot Skills to pay the bills (live version) Thank youuuuuuu for reacting to the great BEASTIE BOYS!!!!
People can talk about Eminem all they want but Beasties were the first white rappers and incredibly respected. They also have the album with the most samples and everyone in hip hop followed their lead. Love your reaction, keep it up
They were the first rap act to top the Billboard Chart; all with minimal airplay & no major headline tour. I caught them live three times here in the UK. But I’d give anything to go back in time to see them as a hardcore band…..or when they toured under the name ‘Quasar’….& those shows were meant to be crazy.
This song came out when I was in high school. Back then, students would bring in the latest CDs and have them played on the loudspeakers during lunch. Intergalactic was played every day for a least a few months. Good times. Also, the album version has Biz Markie freestyling at the end when he heard the song in the studio. He especially loved the echo effect.
*This is real hip hop (to me anyway). Today everything is studio created. Beats are bought and sold, voices changed to become whatever you want them to sound like, auto tune, samples galore, and the list goes on. Back in the day there were real DJ's that were respected for their talent and the work they put in just as much as the front men doing their thing. There was a real creativity factor that was backed by serious talent back then that just doesn't exist today.. not the way it used to.*
Beastie Boys were working with Rick Rubin from close to day one. Everything is "studio created". And SoundCloud platformed more independent rappers than any label ever had.
Their album Paul's Boutique samples over 100 songs, the final track alone has samples from 24 different songs, their music has SIGNIFICANTLY more sampling than modern rap music, their engineer has said they spent a quarter mil on samples alone and this was when clearing samples cost waaaay less money. Paul's Boutique is by definition 'samples galore".
@@Kipthunder When was the last time you saw a DJ so important that it would matter if they weren't there? They're interchangeable now.. just someone in the background if you're at a concert. Yes the Beastie Boys used samples but the samples they used were from musicians they admired and they were very open when talking about it and giving credit to them. Now everyone uses samples and nobody says a word about it unless asked or ppl know the original song it came from. The Beastie Boys were 100% a part of every piece of music that went out to the public. They helped create the music. They didn't just pay some studio to create it for them, come back in a few weeks and say yes, no, or keep trying. The lyrics were also fun.. silly at times, but fun. Today it's all dark and gloomy, auto tuned or some monotone voice just saying whatever rhymes while talking about xanax bars and crap like that. It's just different today.
I was a kid when I first saw this music video and not gonna lie, the fact that it felt like a Power Ranger episode held my attention. I would let MTV play just about all day so I could catch the vid.
Beastie boys never misses with the beats and lyrics that bring good vibes and smiles when any of their songs are played. I remember seeing this video on MTV (when it was good and actually played music videos) and couldn't get enough of it. One of my all time favorite songs.
Hello Nasty is one of those albums that is part of the soundtrack of my youth. I was 19 when it came out in July of 98 and my friends and I played it non stop in every car and house we hung out at that whole summer.
I discovered the Beastie Boys my senior year of high school in 1987/88 and still love them as Glamma of 2 and as Momma of 4. My Babies were raised on 70's & 80's music ✌️
Love the Beastie Boys and I really love your reactions! I have to admit that every time you give a little extra love to MCA, I get a little clinch in my heart. I always loved his rap and voice the most and I am still sad that we lost him when he was still so young.
My first time watching your channel . Liked and Subscribed . So IDK if you have done Three MCs and One DJ by them yet but it really showcases Mixmaster Mike . And I am looking forward to Watcha Want react vid which is probably out now as I type this LOL .
The original version begins "...Well the spice is the worm and the worm is the spice I'll battle any alien when I'm on the mic" Suddenly relevant again
Ya know, what happened with rap/hip-hop? I'm a white boy from jersey, and remember getting into that with beat-boxing to the Fat Boys, before I had my ghetto blaster and my cardboard box for breakdancing in the early 80s before the beastie boys were even a thing. But even when the beastie boys, run dmc, ll cool j, etc. They were clean. No trashing, just lyrics on how good THEY were without cussing up a storm. Back during the 80s, it was about having fun, and finding commonality with to the person to your left, and to the right, no matter what their background was. I hope and pray for days like that again!
True OG’s for sure- no offense, but kids these days don’t know nothing about great rap because most haven’t heard any. Glad you are changing that and that you LOVE The Beastie Boys! Keep going ✌️✌️
I met Mike D around this time and asked him what was up in the studio with the new album . He sad "were all over the place !" I think this begins the not so great era of the Beasties ... But they did change alternative scene and Hip Hop . I mean the were white kids in the 80's acting like RUN DMC ..
"When they came into hip hop"? Dudes are the core roots of hip hop, there from its infancy basically. Its laughable that so many people think they are experts on rap and hip hop and never knew shit about the Beastie Boys. These guys actually wrote and performed and could play all kinds of instruments, MC, rap, rock crossover stuff. Dudes were the shit from the beginning.
The most exciting hip-hop act out there today kinda like the Beastie Boys were in their hay Day, but today is the artist Prof Insanely talented, probably the most slept on artist in the world He literally has 75 songs as good as any song
Wow, real rap and old school beats! The remarkable thing here is that not one cuss word is used in the lyrics! This is the rap I grew up listening to. Not whatever it is that people call rap now. Take care and stay well everyone. Thanks for the video.
Two groups pushed rap into the mainstream, beyond just the R&B charts. They were Run DMC and the Beastie Boys. Brothas can talk smack all day about that if they want to, but it's a fact. Without those two groups, rap disappears by the mid-80s and never goes mainstream.
Yeah, some people want to discount white rappers, without recognizing that breaking into the white market is what made hip hop a global phenomena, and Beastie Boys were one of the earliest groups to bridge the gap into mainstream radio play.
@@zzygyy Really? He hurt their image for many years afterwards because he completely lied about everything he did. He was a fake and a poser. He had a great song though.
This is more mainstream Beastie Boys but still a gem. I had the Check Your Head album as a kid and I loved playing PlayStation to that whole thing lol.
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Beastie Boys GOAT yo. You gotta understand: these guys were kids when rap began to really take hold in the early 1980s and they loved it. They were already musicians but they became MCs not for money or fame or to get women or for bragging rights, etc... they just loved rap and wanted to make more of it themselves. What you see and hear is simply 3 guys doing what they love to do. That's why it resonates with people so many years later: their songs weren't really written to make money or be hit songs or to dis people or for any reason other than they just really like to make music.
also to get women lol, like some of their best early songs
@@mediumvillain I mean they literally have a song called "Girls" about how much they like girls.
@@mediumvillain Those songs were jokes. Fight For Your Right and Girls were written to make fun of specific types of people. Then they went on tour the first time and became those types of people. For one tour. They quickly reversed course once they realized how out of control doing that is. After the first big tour was over they earned a reputation for being gentlemen and centers of calm while some of the other acts they were with did all the crazy stuff.
I also enjoy their punk days
I was in high school when their first album dropped. I don't remember back then of anyone ever saying the Beastie Boys were trying to be like black rappers. I didn't even know rap existed until I heard it for the first time in 1983 as a freshman in high school. Hip Hop in the early 80's was so new and raw that anyone with an imagination and innovative mind jumped into this space and they just created music that no one had ever heard before. The Beastie Boys are very unique because they have that punk rock vibe.
One of the things I always liked about the Beastie Boys is that they always came as a team. You never saw just one of them, only the whole set, three the hard way.
That’s why they officially disbanded The Beastie Boys when MCA died in 2012. Mike D and Ad-Rock said they’re not the Beastie Boys without him and it wouldn’t feel right to continue performing now he’s gone.
Mostly true however they did have a female drummer when they first formed and were punk 😊
The beat is so nasty. It's my favorite beastie song. Memorized every line.
I'm 52 years old. I was in the 9th grade when License to Ill debuted.
Blew my mind. Every song on that cassette the Beastie Boys made into a video. So I also had License to Ill on V.H.S. Wore it out.
The Beasties are fearless, original and very thorough. They gave us Gold
all Beastie songs have some humor in them, they are funny.
And he's telling the truth.😂 He likes his sugar with coffee and cream. I've seen it in interviews
When you get to Sabotage, go for the David Letterman Live performance. So good.
If we're talking about Letterman performances, Ch-Ch-Check it Out is great, too.
Yes, the live version of sabotage on letterman is fire
That's my JAM.
If you dig about on RUclips you’ll find the full broadcast of the ‘In The Round Tour’ from Glasgow.
I saw them live three times; In The Round, Manchester, Reading ‘98 & Brixton Academy a few years prior to MCA’s passing.
Each show was an absolute masterclass!!
Excellent choice. Probably the best live version
Grew up on these cats . Always loved that they had fun in their songs. You can tell that they really loved what they did. RIP Adam.
Beasty boys is foundational to hip hop, along with Run DMC, look at who supported them when MCA was fighting cancer.
One of the first reactors I’ve seen actually get the where the “mmm…drop!” came from. I loved that part so much. They sampled themselves! 😂
More BEASTIE BOYS!!!!
Root down
Pass the mic
Sabotage
Sure shot
Skills to pay the bills (live version)
Thank youuuuuuu for reacting to the great BEASTIE BOYS!!!!
FLUTE LOOP !
Don't forget 3 MC's and 1 DJ and Hey Ladies.
I give you sooooo many props for knowing the "Feel the beat...mmmm drop!" was from 'The New Style'. Gold Star for you
They were masters of the hook and the beats. Absolute masters.
They write the raps, produce the beats and often direct the videos just the 3 of them and a few friends. And they always leave you with a smile
And make it worth your while.
🤣🤣@@3DJapan
Beastie Boys were pioneers.
People can talk about Eminem all they want but Beasties were the first white rappers and incredibly respected. They also have the album with the most samples and everyone in hip hop followed their lead.
Love your reaction, keep it up
Beasties rule
I still have mad respect for Eminem. He earned his success but the Beastie Boys were amazing.
They were the first rap act to top the Billboard Chart; all with minimal airplay & no major headline tour.
I caught them live three times here in the UK. But I’d give anything to go back in time to see them as a hardcore band…..or when they toured under the name ‘Quasar’….& those shows were meant to be crazy.
Saw them at Lollapalooza in the early 90s and they were amazing!
Everything by the Beastie Boys goes crazy
What an iconic beat! To this day I recognize it & it still gets me hype. WTG ARES! Let’s go!!💐❤️
Back when it was all about the music and having fun.
Pass the Mic is just dope, stripped down gold
Several time throughout their song list, they mention a peer of their's I used to listen to all the time. Kool Moe Dee.
"No Sleep Till Brooklyn" is a can't miss bromie!
This song came out when I was in high school. Back then, students would bring in the latest CDs and have them played on the loudspeakers during lunch. Intergalactic was played every day for a least a few months. Good times. Also, the album version has Biz Markie freestyling at the end when he heard the song in the studio. He especially loved the echo effect.
The Beastie Boys 1978-2011. The crowned Princes of rap.
*This is real hip hop (to me anyway). Today everything is studio created. Beats are bought and sold, voices changed to become whatever you want them to sound like, auto tune, samples galore, and the list goes on. Back in the day there were real DJ's that were respected for their talent and the work they put in just as much as the front men doing their thing. There was a real creativity factor that was backed by serious talent back then that just doesn't exist today.. not the way it used to.*
Beastie Boys were working with Rick Rubin from close to day one. Everything is "studio created". And SoundCloud platformed more independent rappers than any label ever had.
Their album Paul's Boutique samples over 100 songs, the final track alone has samples from 24 different songs, their music has SIGNIFICANTLY more sampling than modern rap music, their engineer has said they spent a quarter mil on samples alone and this was when clearing samples cost waaaay less money. Paul's Boutique is by definition 'samples galore".
@@Kipthunder When was the last time you saw a DJ so important that it would matter if they weren't there? They're interchangeable now.. just someone in the background if you're at a concert. Yes the Beastie Boys used samples but the samples they used were from musicians they admired and they were very open when talking about it and giving credit to them.
Now everyone uses samples and nobody says a word about it unless asked or ppl know the original song it came from.
The Beastie Boys were 100% a part of every piece of music that went out to the public. They helped create the music. They didn't just pay some studio to create it for them, come back in a few weeks and say yes, no, or keep trying.
The lyrics were also fun.. silly at times, but fun. Today it's all dark and gloomy, auto tuned or some monotone voice just saying whatever rhymes while talking about xanax bars and crap like that. It's just different today.
I was a kid when I first saw this music video and not gonna lie, the fact that it felt like a Power Ranger episode held my attention. I would let MTV play just about all day so I could catch the vid.
The Beastie Boys are the innovators of hip-hop style. This beat is one of the dopest, most creative beats ever.
Paul revere
Man I loved watching this. Great reaction.
Try the song The Move from this group its awesome.
They have so many bangers. Just keep going. Sure Shot, Stand Together, Graditude, Hold It Now, So Watcha Want, Sabatoge... JUST KEEP GOING!! 😂
One of my favourite bands of all time. I love hearing them via your first time! Its almost like getting to discover them all over again!
RIO MCA🖤
Such a fire track.
❤❤❤❤love it
This song shook my car apart when i had a subwoofer back in the day.
It's impossible not to like these guys.
Cheers from Slovakia! You should definitely try Gratitude, time for livin and Flute Loop! Those might by my personal favourites
Beastie boys never misses with the beats and lyrics that bring good vibes and smiles when any of their songs are played. I remember seeing this video on MTV (when it was good and actually played music videos) and couldn't get enough of it. One of my all time favorite songs.
cool reaction. Subbed just for the Beastie Boys vids. Big Up from Down Under
I just remember cars bopping down the street with this beat pumping out from every corner. 😂 Good times...
Hello Nasty is one of those albums that is part of the soundtrack of my youth. I was 19 when it came out in July of 98 and my friends and I played it non stop in every car and house we hung out at that whole summer.
LOL, Bought a shitty car, put an amp and subwoofer in it, cruised around listening to this Cassette and felt like a king.
Love the Beastie Boys
So definitely Sabotage is next. First the album version and the David Letterman live performance.
1:48 Just excited for those bars. These guys are so much fun.
One of the best songs ever.
I discovered the Beastie Boys my senior year of high school in 1987/88 and still love them as Glamma of 2 and as Momma of 4. My Babies were raised on 70's & 80's music ✌️
PROFESSOR BOOTY is a good one to check out. The beat on that is sick.
This takes me back.
You have to do Sure Shot and What'cha want. Two classic Beastie hits.
To really blow your mind check out some of their really early stuff like Fight For Your Right (to party).
I love how you caught that famous line, I like my sugar with coffee and cream. My 25 and 11 year old say that line all the time.
One of thebest lines in rap - Adrock: "if my rap's soup my beats is stock."
The official remixes are worth checking out.
These guys share the title with very few as Godfathers of hip hop. Otherworldly creativity folks. GOAT stuff
good reation, you need to do Beastie Boys - So What'Cha Want & Beastie Boys - Sure Shot.
Love the Beastie Boys and I really love your reactions! I have to admit that every time you give a little extra love to MCA, I get a little clinch in my heart. I always loved his rap and voice the most and I am still sad that we lost him when he was still so young.
"our Music is our Life"
You got to go Sabotage next. It's my fav and I can't tell you why haha
Very good analogy concerning the Beastie Boys. They're incredibly unique and great
In the top 5 no question for hip Hop groups
My first time watching your channel . Liked and Subscribed . So IDK if you have done Three MCs and One DJ by them yet but it really showcases Mixmaster Mike . And I am looking forward to Watcha Want react vid which is probably out now as I type this LOL .
OMG YES! I've been waiting for a new reaction to this song!! Thanks for sharing the love!
The Beastie Boys go hard. ^_^
All of Paul’s Boutique - a full album experience! For me it’s one of the best albums ever. Licensed to Ill is up there too.
“Did he just say I like my sugar with coffee and cream?”😂
Yeah, my coffee mug has that on it.
So glad to see these dudes get some well deserved shine!! They’re kinda like a cross between Weird Al and The Fat Boys
The original version begins
"...Well the spice is the worm and the worm is the spice
I'll battle any alien when I'm on the mic"
Suddenly relevant again
Bought this CD at Sam Goody on release day. Had it reserved for me. Why do I remember that but I can't remember what shirt I wore 2 days ago?
And check out “Eggman”, “lookin down the barrel of a gun” and “sabotage” is always a crowd pleaser 👍
Ya know, what happened with rap/hip-hop? I'm a white boy from jersey, and remember getting into that with beat-boxing to the Fat Boys, before I had my ghetto blaster and my cardboard box for breakdancing in the early 80s before the beastie boys were even a thing. But even when the beastie boys, run dmc, ll cool j, etc. They were clean. No trashing, just lyrics on how good THEY were without cussing up a storm. Back during the 80s, it was about having fun, and finding commonality with to the person to your left, and to the right, no matter what their background was. I hope and pray for days like that again!
I love this song, it always gets me pumped up. The video reminds me of old school power rangers 😂
Remember REAL MC'S?
Pepperidge Farms does!
🤣
YO! The Beasty boy's saved Tokyo...
37 seconds of rhymes on the word Smile.
Decent 16, that. 🙂
True OG’s for sure- no offense, but kids these days don’t know nothing about great rap because most haven’t heard any. Glad you are changing that and that you LOVE The Beastie Boys! Keep going ✌️✌️
Since High Plains Drifter is coming up definitely need to dig a little deeper into Paul's Boutique.
Definitely a GOAT more Bestie Boys 🙏 react to Rhyme n Stealin 🙏if you do it definitely put lyrics on
fun fact
Beasties, were the first rap band to have an album go gold..
if memory serves..
They just had so much talent, MC A directed this video.
never really thought of them as the birth of "nerdcore" but on that note check out the track mc chris is dead by mc chris
Try the Beastie's "Three MC's and One DJ" video next, I think you'll dig it.
3 MCS and ONE DJ
I loved this reaction video! Have you reacted to the Beastie Boy's song Paul Revere?
"Step to me I'm a Rap-O-Phile" -MCA
This came on in the club and people lost it!
I would too haha
I met Mike D around this time and asked him what was up in the studio with the new album . He sad "were all over the place !" I think this begins the not so great era of the Beasties ... But they did change alternative scene and Hip Hop . I mean the were white kids in the 80's acting like RUN DMC ..
"When they came into hip hop"? Dudes are the core roots of hip hop, there from its infancy basically. Its laughable that so many people think they are experts on rap and hip hop and never knew shit about the Beastie Boys. These guys actually wrote and performed and could play all kinds of instruments, MC, rap, rock crossover stuff. Dudes were the shit from the beginning.
The most exciting hip-hop act out there today kinda like the Beastie Boys were in their hay Day, but today is the artist Prof
Insanely talented, probably the most slept on artist in the world
He literally has 75 songs as good as any song
I’ve never heard of Prof until now. Just went and checked out two songs. It’s FIRE! Getting ready to deep dive.
Beasties Boys -Pass the Mic and Shake your Rump
Wow, real rap and old school beats!
The remarkable thing here is that not one cuss word is used in the lyrics!
This is the rap I grew up listening to. Not whatever it is that people call rap now.
Take care and stay well everyone.
Thanks for the video.
Mario C likes to keep it clean!
Kings of boom bap.
Whatcha want
If my rap’s soup, my beats is stock.
If you said the Beasties created the national market for Rap you wouldn't be wrong
Two groups pushed rap into the mainstream, beyond just the R&B charts. They were Run DMC and the Beastie Boys. Brothas can talk smack all day about that if they want to, but it's a fact. Without those two groups, rap disappears by the mid-80s and never goes mainstream.
Yeah, some people want to discount white rappers, without recognizing that breaking into the white market is what made hip hop a global phenomena, and Beastie Boys were one of the earliest groups to bridge the gap into mainstream radio play.
You add vanilla ice to the list also.
@@zzygyy
Really? He hurt their image for many years afterwards because he completely lied about everything he did. He was a fake and a poser. He had a great song though.
This is more mainstream Beastie Boys but still a gem. I had the Check Your Head album as a kid and I loved playing PlayStation to that whole thing lol.
Me and my best friend used to drive round blasting that tape as loud as we could, it's my favourite album of theirs.
@@BrickNewton That's what's up! I bet those were golden times too.
RIP Yauch