I have mine somewhere. I'm still trying to find the Japanese LaserDisc of this, though; it came out around the time they were breaking up with DefJam and Columbia, and I think CBS ended up pulling it off the market. I think "Licensed to Ill" was out of print until Island bought DefJam. But that Laserdisc is seriously rare. Yeah, it may be large and not as cool as the DVD, but it has everything the DVD has: a good (enough) picture, digital sound, and it won't wear out like VHS.
The green room/backstage party is from The Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ show. Also, when they're cruising around in the Blazer doing bong hits, they are on their way to White Castle in Clifton NJ as well. I know this because I grew up in Clifton
@@natalier222 maybe, but I do This is the preminent BB album imo This is what I'd put on my MP3 right before going in to break my own state deadlift records Well, this and PE, EASY E, etc I liked it cuz it's loud, aggressive and violent- this song in particular
Yes, I’m sure they had a terrible time passing around the chicks gyrating in the cages, touring, drinking, rhyming and stealing and mixing wine and women and song and such….
And to think LED ZEP never sued for usimg their beat from "when the levee breaks....Some record producer had approached Robert plant and told him that these new rappers named Beastie boys was using their music in a song and Robert said he wanted to hear this song and so finally the producer fetched a cassette tape and played it and it's told that Robert plant heard this song and said let them use it... Thats a cool gesture!❤
Beastie Boys looped the Zeppelin beat with a reel to reel tape wrapped around a mic stand ,edited with a razor blade until it was usable. Then they threw the Black Sabbath " Sweet Leaf" riff over Bonham's beat. This was before samplers were affordable (1985 or 1986) Lyrics reference Sex Pistols and The Clash
@@oscarsoto9512 bro, put the meth pipe down! Educate yourself, for once in your life When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
From listening to The Beastie Boys whole discography, I must say this is one of their best songs. Mixing Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath is a terrific idea, which makes them some of the best samplers in rap/hip-hop. I wish more modern rap groups would have better samples when they use them.
They started off as a punk band in the early 1980s, They got onto DEF jam thanks to Rick Rubin Riding the rap train, then they redefined themselves in the 90s With the dust Brothers.
mobus1603 Same here. This came out on Laserdisc in Japan, but I never got a chance to get it. It never got released in the US because they left DefJam and CBS, and they couldn’t release it. The even ended up pulling the VHS copies of this.
This song still goes hard 35 years later, and still holds up today. For a different twist, go to your settings (gear icon) and play it at 1.25 speed. Boom
I was at this show..The Capitol Theater in Passaic NJ. April 1987. First concert I ever went to. 13 years old and still cannot believe my mother allowed it. Still love the Beasties to this day. I just went to an awesome exhibit at Beyond the streets in LA last weekend. Absolute legends. RIP Yauch...you are missed!
@@jeremyrybak1090 you might be right.. I always thought it was filmed at The Capitol because I know for sure they filmed a couple videos that might but maybe this is from a different night on that same tour?
Born and bred in Brooklyn, USA They call me Adam Yauch but I’m M.C.A. Like a lemon to a lime a lime to a lemon I sip the def ale with all the fine women
I feel sorry for kids these days that have no idea about that album and to have grown up with out it.It is like a kid that never had a BB/pellet gun or the kid that never got fireworks for the 4th of july .I always felt bad for kids that didn't experience that
Saw the Beasties with Public Enemy and Murphy's Law at the CApitol Theater in Passaic N.J. and had a blast. RIP MCA you will not be forgotten, your music was the soundtrack to BHS high school 1986-87
Even though I may be 19 going on 20 and caught up with Beastie Boys with Hello Nasty and Ill Communication, their music stood out to me as one of the best music I've heard. Throughout high school while people were listening to today's music, I was in tune with music like the Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang and Heavy D...music I caught when I was a tot. MCA's passing really hits me here, but I know that because of the Beasties, they inspire me to go through life and follow my dreams.
I had this song on a cassette tape/mix when I was a freshman at Uk in 1993. My roommate and I wore it out, the tape that is, the song can’t be touched!
best use of sabbath's "sweet leaf" riff since sab themselves (later added to the end of RHCP "give it away"). clash sample in there ("i fought the law"). beastie's vibe was so funny then, compared to what it became. it's almost forgotten, but they were a sex pistols-like rude phenomenon. this needs more views!
As much as I would love to credit ZOSO with the beat, it was actually Memphis Minnie in 1929 that made that song possible for Zep. Still no harm no foul. Peace.
ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! I miss ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! the good 'ole days ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! when you could rock out ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! to these songs. ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! I remember singing & dancing to this song at a club in NYC in the 90's. Everyone started screaming & singing together, it was like a honed & simultaneous energy through out the club. Beastie Boys also proved you didn't have to perform for your fans with a lot of magic, explosions, or a huge decked out stage with back up singers choreographed to dance like the main performer, all you needed was talented singers & a hot chick in a cage, what else do ya' need?! I don't regret my youth, I embraced it.
***** The salient thing is how different the songs are, to me, far more than their similarity, though. So why focus on that very slight overlap? And not what Zep brought new to the table? I think those who accuse Zep of stealing are snarky, petty, and jealous, as a rule.
I remember I used to work at Pizza hut and before the store opened, I decided to blast this album "Licensed to Ill " and when the opening beat to " Rhymin and Stealin " came on a rock n roll girl who worked there said "ahhh, Zepplin. " I still wonder what she thought when the Beastie Boys started rapping.
ali baba and the forty thieves .. ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES ! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!!!!!! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!!!!!!!!!!! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m 47 years old, this song came out in 1986 and this is the first time I’m watching this video. Thanks for uploading it.
I'm 51 i bought this album the day before it came out, 1st time seeing this video too
I was 24 when this song came out. I'm 58 now and I still listen all the time. It never gets old.
Same. But 44
I'm 51 ,I saw these guys in Providence in 1986 ,License to ill tour!
I'm 45 and had no idea there was a video
Still to this day no other album starts this damn hard. Licensed To Ill is top 5 greatest album ever!!
I'm 19 years old and I'm proud to say I'm one of the few kids in my generation who listens to them.
No, you're not.
One of a few!!!
the beasties were sick as hell back in the 80s
+bigmo72 No, they were ill,according to them
i see what you did there
Not sick..... ILL
bigmo72 i love the first album they cant get no better n my opinion the first one kicks assesses
D3STROYER No.1 i like that broham.very ill
Wow this song really holds its ground -- it's better than 95% of new music being released today -- for real!
How can you go wrong with sampled sabbath, zeppelin, and beasties? I wish gotg3 would have used this instead of Brooklyn
I have this VHS to this day. I've had since 1987.
OHH
i wish i could have one, that's sick!
Yeah man.. with the cops at the end lol
Get it made i to dvds just in case. Some old vhs can erase themselves over time..
I have mine somewhere. I'm still trying to find the Japanese LaserDisc of this, though; it came out around the time they were breaking up with DefJam and Columbia, and I think CBS ended up pulling it off the market. I think "Licensed to Ill" was out of print until Island bought DefJam. But that Laserdisc is seriously rare. Yeah, it may be large and not as cool as the DVD, but it has everything the DVD has: a good (enough) picture, digital sound, and it won't wear out like VHS.
The green room/backstage party is from The Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ show. Also, when they're cruising around in the Blazer doing bong hits, they are on their way to White Castle in Clifton NJ as well. I know this because I grew up in Clifton
What I like about their videos is that they just seem to be having so much fun doing it
they acted how they were TOLD to act. by the record company. they have no fond memories of this era in their so called career.
@@bobbycowper2915 meh
@@lockandloadlikehell that’s true Rick always told them to act like that.
@@natalier222 maybe, but I do
This is the preminent BB album imo
This is what I'd put on my MP3 right before going in to break my own state deadlift records
Well, this and PE, EASY E, etc
I liked it cuz it's loud, aggressive and violent- this song in particular
Yes, I’m sure they had a terrible time passing around the chicks gyrating in the cages, touring, drinking, rhyming and stealing and mixing wine and women and song and such….
And to think LED ZEP never sued for usimg their beat from "when the levee breaks....Some record producer had approached Robert plant and told him that these new rappers named Beastie boys was using their music in a song and Robert said he wanted to hear this song and so finally the producer fetched a cassette tape and played it and it's told that Robert plant heard this song and said let them use it... Thats a cool gesture!❤
Because they initially stole the riff ?
Beastie Boys looped the Zeppelin beat with a reel to reel tape wrapped around a mic stand ,edited with a razor blade until it was usable. Then they threw the Black Sabbath " Sweet Leaf" riff over Bonham's beat. This was before samplers were affordable (1985 or 1986) Lyrics reference Sex Pistols and The Clash
@@subsanity667 yes sir 🤟
@@oscarsoto9512 bro, put the meth pipe down! Educate yourself, for once in your life
When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
@@oscarsoto9512 ruclips.net/video/W5VmVvsjyKw/видео.html
My whole childhood was beasties. Boy times have changed
No one could combine rock and hip hop in the most genius Way then The Beastie boys
They a true Super Group, went beyond gip hop and rap, only other crew compares and the Wu Tang clan....
i NEVER get tired of this.... RIP Adam
Women, beer, rock, REAL rap, wish I had a fucking time machine. I'd catch their tour with Run DMC.
Wee Willy Wonka good times back then!
Wee Willy Wonka good times back then!
REAL RAP, TRUE HIP HOP, with Heavy Metal instrumental, helle yeah !
rap music today is shit comparing to this
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beastie boys the most bad ass hip hop/rap group ever...
rock kinda
Well rap/rock/hip hop infact who cares they're fucking awesome
no dont worry they are a hip hop/rap group, iTunes defines them as such
Agreed!
along with Run DMC
Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Beastie Boys all in one. Such greatness
This to me was why they took off….it was rap, sure, but it was rock as well…
I love how RUclips advertisements show shitty music when people wanna listen to good music
Just like Spotify.....I am listening to The Clash or the BBoys and they advertise Shawn Mendez.....and I get a sudden diarrhea attack
Diarrhea attacks suck
@@fabiobalenzano6439 Pay for it! Why?!!
From listening to The Beastie Boys whole discography, I must say this is one of their best songs. Mixing Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath is a terrific idea, which makes them some of the best samplers in rap/hip-hop. I wish more modern rap groups would have better samples when they use them.
They started off as a punk band in the early 1980s, They got onto DEF jam thanks to Rick Rubin Riding the rap train, then they redefined themselves in the 90s With the dust Brothers.
This an Andy Kaufman level of commitment to an image. The next album was who they really are.
I wore this tape *_out_* back in the day!
mobus1603 Same here. This came out on Laserdisc in Japan, but I never got a chance to get it. It never got released in the US because they left DefJam and CBS, and they couldn’t release it. The even ended up pulling the VHS copies of this.
Yep! Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom 💣💥💣💥
EATME
I love this song ❤ now my son loves listening to Beastie Boys. He keeps telling me to put it on in the truck
This song still goes hard 35 years later, and still holds up today. For a different twist, go to your settings (gear icon) and play it at 1.25 speed. Boom
You insane…
Just tried it at your suggestion and it changed My life!
Love it
@@lechanneldemysterieuxmante1807 🙌🏼
Damn!! Same here!!!
😘👌
Hoooooly $hit! Well played, brother!!!
A very timeless song and video by one of the greatest hip-hop group of all time the Beastie Boys.
"Rhyming and stealin' in a drunken state, and ill be rockin' my rhymes all the way to hells gates" -RIP MCA
Best line in the song.
2021 and this jam still gives me chills. Straight 🔥 RIP Adam Yauch. ✌🏽
waaay ahead of their time
Was thinking that the whole time watching it lol
I remember seeing this video for the first time when I was 8 years old. I had the vinyl 2days later. Some kick ass fucking 80s shit right here.
John Kempshki Yeahhh, you see now groups like BROCKHAMPTON with songs like HEAT having heavy ass beats and voices
your stupid.
For sure. Their legends
This album came out when I was in high school, i.e., this is the kind of music we had when I was in high school - as compared to now.
and it's still good
Class of 88!
This song is pure anarchy !!! Brings me back .. I love my generation !!!
This album is a classic.I was 10 years old when this came out
I was at this show..The Capitol Theater in Passaic NJ. April 1987. First concert I ever went to. 13 years old and still cannot believe my mother allowed it. Still love the Beasties to this day. I just went to an awesome exhibit at Beyond the streets in LA last weekend. Absolute legends. RIP Yauch...you are missed!
Damn I thought this was at The Palladium in L.A.
I don't think this was at capitol
@@jeremyrybak1090 you might be right.. I always thought it was filmed at The Capitol because I know for sure they filmed a couple videos that might but maybe this is from a different night on that same tour?
no way your mom let you go to a beastie boys concert where they had cage dancers and spraying beers thats awesome
This video is a trip too funny❤
Man I LOVE THIS. That beat.
im 15 and just getting into them, theyre amazing
They’re great!!
MCA makes every song, every time ..
This is the first song I ever heard by the beastie boys and consequently it is still my favorite after all these years.
DOPE!!!! ali baba and the 40 thieves....
Ali baba and my man Mike D!
Like a lemon 2 a lime, a lime 2 lemon...
MOST ILLINEGST B-BOYS!
Most illinegst steallinegst killinegst B-Boys!!!
The Pirates of hiphop
This is some Old School Shit!!!
RIP MCA!!!!!!!! My heart goes out to your family!!! You fought a long hard battle, but I hope now you are pain free and at peace. Shalom!
I'm way too old now to still have a crush on Ad rock, but I can still only see him through my preteen/teen eyes.
Bloody Awesome so Many Years Later.
Bloody Mary- don't say it 3 times....she didn't birth Jesus.....long story 😂
1986 Mets 30 For 30 brought me here! "Little roller up along first...Behind the bag!!!!!"
A great drum lick mixed with a great guitar riff. Beastie Boys lead rap rock for sure.
SeanO Covers1999 Pretty much invented it along with Run-Dmc
upstate n.y. I down with tha beastie boys!!!! 80's!!!!@
First song heard about those guys. Now I'm a big fan.
Saw the beastie boys/ public enemy/ Murphy's law at the Providence Civic center R.I. 1987
They called him Adam Yauch, but he was MCA.
Born and bred in Brooklyn, USA
They call me Adam Yauch but I’m M.C.A.
Like a lemon to a lime a lime to a lemon
I sip the def ale with all the fine women
@@keianbrown8621 don't ever do that again
remo Y
@@keianbrown8621 pissing me off
They called him MCA and his name was Adam Yauch
Drum loop adapted from "When the leevee breaks" by Led Zeppelin
***** what do you think? lol
And riff from Black Sabbaths Sweat Leaf
The drum sample from "When the Levee Breaks" by the great John Bonham is what makes this track.
***** I probably didn't either!
Beasties For Life
Yeah, I was there, and there has Never been another more amazing group of sick rappers since them. Check it.
Nancy C bone thugs and h there are nice to see in concert the very time did see them was 94 or 95 in New Mexico it was a sold show
All I need is an 87 5.0 Mustang with T-tops and a couple of 16s in the trunk and this CD. Then I would have a time machine!
had this on repeat doin the treadmill the other day... gets me PUMPED!!!
ALI BAHBA AND THE FORTY THIEVES!!!!! Best chant ever!
Classic Beastie Boys.
80s decade it was my ,life.....BEST BEST ever......
Licensed to Ill was the first "tape" I ever bought and the best. I will never forget how sick an experience it was to listen to it the first time
I feel sorry for kids these days that have no idea about that album and to have grown up with out it.It is like a kid that never had a BB/pellet gun or the kid that never got fireworks for the 4th of july .I always felt bad for kids that didn't experience that
Im so Lucky to know the album
We need a beastie movie
They The best!!!
Saw them back in 8th grade, freshman in college now...they were an amazing first concert..Place was packed too.
These dudes music was BLASTIN in every house party,every low rider and mini truck back in 87..The Good OL' Days🎵
Them skip parties were better than actual weekend parties!
I remember growing up my pops and uncles would always randomly say "Ali Baba and the 40 thieves" continuously lmao
Guys, guys... IT'S BOTH! It's two great tastes that taste great together!
"Who's that sucker with the parrot on his shoulder?"
Saw the Beasties with Public Enemy and Murphy's Law at the CApitol Theater in Passaic N.J. and had a blast. RIP MCA you will not be forgotten, your music was the soundtrack to BHS high school 1986-87
Even though I may be 19 going on 20 and caught up with Beastie Boys with Hello Nasty and Ill Communication, their music stood out to me as one of the best music I've heard. Throughout high school while people were listening to today's music, I was in tune with music like the Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang and Heavy D...music I caught when I was a tot. MCA's passing really hits me here, but I know that because of the Beasties, they inspire me to go through life and follow my dreams.
I had this song on a cassette tape/mix when I was a freshman at Uk in 1993. My roommate and I wore it out, the tape that is, the song can’t be touched!
I WAS THERE!!
Yooo are you in the Video?
Nice. My father had tickets for another concert and couldn't go, because I was born right then, so sad
@@almakolcke9379 lol your what
@@kriajundaz5714 ?
OWNING it since the 80s!!
This was it! Women were better, life was better, fun was to be had!
Hell yes!!! The 80’s was the best freaking decade ever!!!!! And the B Boys were such a important part of it!!
Beastie Boys are still to this day sick as f*ckkkkkkkkkk!
legends!
It's awesome that you got to see them, one of the best bands ever! :)
Beasties will always remain my favorite rap group!
that Sweat Leaf sample though
What a total bummer. Rest in Peace MCA. Rap on..
best use of sabbath's "sweet leaf" riff since sab themselves (later added to the end of RHCP "give it away"). clash sample in there ("i fought the law"). beastie's vibe was so funny then, compared to what it became. it's almost forgotten, but they were a sex pistols-like rude phenomenon. this needs more views!
holy shit never noticed Give it Away sounded like Sweet Leaf. FML I can play the bass line and didn't notice it.
Sweet Leaf is my favorite Sabbath song. Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh cough intro.
You forgot Led Zep break sample...
What a genius strike!
their audiobook is so good and has me revisiting all their songs as they mention them with the context of hearing it's origin
As much as I would love to credit ZOSO with the beat, it was actually Memphis Minnie in 1929 that made that song possible for Zep. Still no harm no foul. Peace.
ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! I miss
ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! the good 'ole days
ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! when you could rock out
ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! to these songs.
ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! I remember singing & dancing to this song at a club in NYC
in the 90's. Everyone started screaming & singing together,
it was like a honed & simultaneous energy through out the club.
Beastie Boys also proved you didn't have to perform for your fans with a lot of magic, explosions, or a huge decked out stage with back up singers choreographed to dance like the main performer, all you needed was talented singers & a hot chick in a cage, what else do ya' need?! I don't regret my youth, I embraced it.
The album License to I'll one the greatest of all time 💯
That Dancer though...
80's women were so hot.
Just found out that I apparently worked with her in a PICU like 25 years after this.
@@benjaminbrown5102 ima need her full name for* research of course*
Nothing captures that youthful rebellious spirit like License to Ill.
0:35 nice slide
I was 12 after hearing this tune……brilliant!!!👏👏👏
The stealin' part is sampling Led Zep's drums from the start of When the Levee Breaks, it seems.
Because of course "Led Zep" hasnt stolen from countless blues artists
***** The salient thing is how different the songs are, to me, far more than their similarity, though. So why focus on that very slight overlap? And not what Zep brought new to the table? I think those who accuse Zep of stealing are snarky, petty, and jealous, as a rule.
www.musictimes.com/articles/6250/20140520/7-songs-other-than-stairway-to-heaven-that-led-zeppelin-stole.htm
.....Thats only a few there are more.
+PositiveREI everyone did back then!that's blues and it's famous for this: no one even really knows who wrote it originally
I remember I used to work at Pizza hut and before the store opened, I decided to blast this album "Licensed to Ill " and when the opening beat to " Rhymin and Stealin " came on a rock n roll girl who worked there said "ahhh, Zepplin. " I still wonder what she thought when the Beastie Boys started rapping.
Is that the guitar track from Sweat Leaf by Black Sabbath?
+DexT Darkshadow But with a lot of distort
+DarrkshadowGaming yeah it is
+DarrkshadowGaming - Daily Uploads yes
Born in 91 but I'm a beastie boy fan fr these fellas are genius
ali baba and the forty thieves .. ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES ! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!!!!!! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!!!!!!!!!!! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't hear the phrase Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and not start singing this, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
Thanks I was looking for those lyrics.
So wanna go back to teh 80s. Every fckin thing abt this song is GOLD!!
Still get goosebumps, love their shit even though I was young and grew up listening to them!!
30 years later and still super lit!
From hard-core to hip-hop
god what an classic, they had what many rap bands lacked, collusion. You could feel they had a great time recording this.
Strippers before twerking....good times. :)
Strippers are better than twerking
RIP MCA.... Never forget these guys!
Bet these new rappers don't have pet strippers on their stage
lol
Rockin' these rhymes all the way the hell's gates.
love this shit. they were so fresh when they came out!!