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Special Ed? Digable Planets? N2Deep? New Edition? AMG? Too Short? 2 Live Crew? Geto Boys? Mc Ren? Scarface? Old Outkast like Players Club, or Atliens? What about Domino? What about TLC? Souls of Mischief? Goodie Mob? Young MC? Nice & Smooth? Da Brat? ICP? Nelly? Ditty (Paperboy)? the list goes on and on.
LL Cool J and Chuck D inducted Beastie into the Hall of Fame. LL tells the story about Beasties taking his demo tape to Rick Rubin and getting LL his record deal with Def Jam. Just thought about that after hearing that clubhouse conversation the other day, when they were talking about Beastie Boys impact on Hiphop.
Q-Tip freestyled all of it. the rest of the beasties took what he did and came up with their shit around it. Anytime they performed it live together, Q-Tip never actually remembered or wrote down what he recorded so he always freestyled something new every time
lol! Love both y'alls stuff. E'rybody can get the love! It's all about spreading awesome music/art through the community. One way I think we can actually make the world a doper place to be. Edit: BARS!
The beastie boys listened to demo tapes for Rick Rubin and found a demo tape from one LL Cool J and gave it to Rick. The beastie boys discovered LL Cool J.
@@amariebfree5326 Rubin's producing came first. When the beastie boys were a punk band, Rubin was producing his first records in his dorm room. The beastie boys were his friends and would listen to demo tapes and filter out the good ones to give to Rick so he could produce a record with them. Like I said, that's how we have LL Cool J. Then the beasties transitioned to hip hop and obviously were produced by Rick.
back then Hip hop and punk rock were both starting to grow their roots. the punk kids and hip hop kids were part of the same circles. especially in New York. it was similar around me in Chicago. I used to hang out with punks all the time and we would spin punk and hip hop records.
I get what you are saying, but Punk music was all but gone by the time that BB's came out. It was more of the Heavy / Thrash rock groups like Anthrax taking up with the likes of Public Enemy. The heavy rock bands really helped bring hip hop to the suburbs. Really do not mean to rag on you, I'm just saying that Punk was dead by then and it was more the heavy / thrash metal bands that promoted Hip Hop. To your point, us Thrash metal fans did dress more in a punk style than typical heavy metal. I don't know your age, but I am 50 and that was right in my teens. Peace..
The Boys came from punk rock, and started as a punk band, actually two punk bands, but they absolutely LOVED hip-hop from day one, and are among its old school innovators because of how much they loved it, and contributed to it. The Beasties just brought their punk rock energy and sensibility to rap, and they were absolutely in it for the true hip-hop.
Literally, she sheer amount of OG hip-hop artists that credit the beastie boys with inspiring them. They were at the ground floor of the birth of hip-hop, and are more deeply embedded in the scene than ANYONE criticizing them. They used to hang in rick rubin's college dorm, and their work paid for the expansion of def jam, which they never even got paid for due to the split.
King Ad-Rock discovered LL Cool J. LL Cool J confirmed it when the Beastie Boys were inducted in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. Ad-Rock showed his demo to Rick Rubin.
I love this so much. I've watched it over and over. I'm a white woman (only bringing race in because that's a real thing) in my late 40s (sigh) who listened to this album on repeat for a year after it came out. I always loved the Beastie Boys but I can't say I thought I was a hip hop fan at the time. I just knew that they were poetry in motion and the background beats were so groovy. I listened to Tribe, Pharcyde, The Roots, Outkast and other 80s/90s groups because it was art. Artistry for the ears. I love hearing this analysis from someone who really knows hip hop. I learned so much about how to appreciate and break down a hip hop song. I listen to those songs from years ago on a deeper level now. So thanks. 😄
All of qtips vocals are free style. He was hanging out at their studio one day and they convinced him to record some Vocals and built the song around it
The Beastie Boys are incredible producers. They usually share production credit with their their actual producer so it’s hard to know who’s responsible for what but I know they have some serious chops of their own, and despite their diverse catalog spanning decades and having worked with a bunch of different producers they still put their Beastie Boys feel on every beat.
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This is magical. One of my favorite tracks by the Beasties. BARS. I used to live in a house with a bunch of skate boarders and we lost heat for a night or two in winter. We blasted this entire album on a little stereo and just did rounds of bars. Kept us warm af
Thankfully I got to see the Beastie Boys. They were touring for Hello Nasty and were doing a co headline tour with Rage Against the Machine and Bad Religion as openers. Amazing show.
They started in punk and were introduced to hip hop and everything changed for em. Beastie Boys had an honest, real, and earnest love and appreciation for the music and culture. 💯
Who all remembers the Beastie’s XXL shops? Bought a lot of dope clothing back in the day. 53 year old from So. Cal. here. Had a friend bringing back mix tapes from his NYC trips so we got to hear stuff early. Stetsasonic, BDP and on to Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, LL. Those were the days.
Beasties boys were in fact a punk band when they started, but if they didn't love hip hop they wouldn't have mastered the craft and they wouldn't have spent their lives making it.
Punk, rock, hip hop, jazz...they played what they loved and had fun doing it. Not many bands can switch their sound on every album and still attain success. I really love seeing their new emergence, they are timeless!
Love this joint, it's so loose and funky. And yeah, you're right - this wasnt a joke to them. They may be talking about their single Cookie Puss which was like a prank call set to music and became an underground hit. It then sort of set the stage for their drunk hooligan image for their first album on Def Jam. But they soon realised they didn't want to do that anymore and wanted to stretch themselves creatively. Their love of hip-hop is completely obvious, I get so sick of people saying "it was just a joke"
Love your reactions! I wish more hip hop collabs nowadays were like this, instead of each mc getting a turn to flow for a minute, all rappers trading off rhymes and feeding off each others vibe the whole song long.
It all Started: Sugar hill gang era with them and Grand Master Flash- THEN next wave of rappers was Run DMC , Beasties and LL (includes Fat Boys) and THEN modern hip hop - Everything else after that. I love hearing you say you can tell where there influences were coming from when some of the influences mentioned were all on current albums competing on the charts. These albums back in the day the one with Paul Revier that was exactly when DMC was doing there things and LL too. I love how things are today but I am SO lucky to have expereinced this thing from the beginning. I am 50 and I still listen EVERYDAY to hear that brand new good shit.
Beastie Boys were formed out of members of experimental hardcore punk band the Young Aborigines in 1978, with Diamond as vocalist, Jeremy Shatan on bass guitar, guitarist John Berry and Kate Schellenbach on drums. When Shatan left in 1981, Yauch replaced him on bass and the band changed their name to Beastie Boys.
Man I haven’t heard this joint in aaages. Thanks for reacting. Been enjoying your Beastie Boys reactions. I’ve been lucky enough to see them live twice in the 90’s. All the best from Ireland 🇮🇪
They were NYC party kids. They were coming up on the heels of the punk insurgence, and were in the clubs when the real OGs started flowing up from the Bronx, from Brooklyn toward Uptown. They were there when hip hop started coming into its own, and mixed it up with the real players. They took the club sounds, the punk sensibilities and the MC/DJ format and took over the whole dang world. They hung with Run DMC on Def Jam before anyone even knew who they were. They helped launch LL Cool J. Real hip hop? You bet.
New to your channel … 48 yr old white boy watching Beastie Boys live LOL. Love your positivity! Impressed with the lyrics you pick up! Love your new take on my generation! ✌️
Man, I got my first beastie boys cassette in 88. Grew up on there music! I’m Glad to see you react to it! I would highly recommend you check out the beastie boys book. I listened to it through the audible app. There history is so amazing how they came up and where they came from! Mad respect for ad rock mca abd mike d
Beasties + Cypress + Rage = they took hip hop to new levels musically and created a new foundation to integrate it into new genres and expose it to a whole new multiracial and multigenerational following
It's like being able to hear this song again for the 1st time. Your love of music is infectious. This shit is fun as hell to watch when you're smoking. Salute from MN.
Beasties did start out as more of a rock act. And even after they went hip-hop/rock fusion they still toured with a lot of rock festivals and stuff. They bridge the gap between punk and hip-hop. Anyone who says that they're just one or the other don't really know the Beasties.
Anyone who says BB don’t know or didn’t care about hip hop ... doesn’t know jack about BB. Listen to them talk about roots of hip hop and rap, they know the history, and they’ve always said their music is rooted in hip hop
We love ya man !!! And my first cassette tape in 86 was Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill !!! Glad your enjoying these guys ! Soundtrack to years of my skateboard days right here !
The thing I always loved about the Beastie Boys is that they respected all types of music! I saw them back in the 90’s at George Mason in VA and they even broke out some DC Go-Go!
Talent is talent is talent period. You can’t pigeon hole the greats. It’s called natural progression of your craft. Very rare these days, probably why you don’t recognize it right away. Great talent evolves over time, so the sound will too.
this is pure cipher, you are 100. pass pass pass. this makes me cry and laugh, im a 90s kid. i love love qtip and this hio hop. thanks for the reaction.
They actually have a couple of instrumental albums. I know of 2. “The In Sound From Way Out” was good because it’s the music and riffs we have all already heard. “Groove Holmes”, “Namaste”, “Bobo on the Corner”, to name a few, are tracks that have been on previous albums, but they weee curated and put in one place. “The Mix Up” is another instrumental Beastie Boy album. Personally, I only liked about half of it, but it was still good. I don’t recognize any of those tracks as being played on their albums before, Like “In Sound” did. I do think “I’m Sound from Way Out” is the better of the two.
No clue if you have time to read all these Comments, MAN I feel a comfort watching You like watching an Old Great Movie, already gotten used too how ya begin most Videos, COOL MAN. I wanna make a Suggestion for a Video, every time I think to add one I think too search and see if you've already made one with/about. If you're doing ROCK VIDEOS, "Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine", "Dire Straights - Money For Nothing", "Shinedown - What a Shame"...
Booyah Tribe and Faith no More - Another body murdered !! I been asking EVERY react video guy to do this song and nobody has . At least do yourself a favor and listen ! Its a wild collaboration off a ground breaking soundtrack !
The Beastie Boys came from punk rock (check out the Beastie Boys' track "Tough Guy" or "Heart Attack Man"... pure punk awesomeness). I wouldn't say they didn't care about hip hop. They once said that they started doing hip hop because they were too lazy to carry their instruments and amps to gigs. It was just less physical work than carrying all of their punk rock equipment with them. As it turns out, they loved it. Of course, that is a SERIOUS simplification of the events that happened, but generally speaking, that is an approximation of how the Beasties jumped into hip hop.
I'll communications was one of my definitive albums of my youth. That whole album has hip hop and punk rock classics. Best beastie boys album in my eyes
People that didn't grow up in the New York, Philly, and DC area in the 80's don't realize that hip hop and Punk shows where put on together so both influenced each other heavily listen to Public Enemy heavily influenced by punk and Beasties influenced by hip hop this was common then. I used to go see punk shows in Philly back and the day and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince would be playing too
People who say they only rapped cuz it was "fun" are nuts. They loved the music they were there in NYC when it started getting big. They loved almost all kinds of music which is why they did almost every kind of music haha
This was the very first compact disc I ever bought back in 1994 so I could rock my new Sony disc man in high school. I was 15yrs old so many memories of the good old days.
yeah man... We lost MCA to cancer a few years back... and beasties were punk rock... but in the 80s in New York, all the scenes were colliding... Beasties did play the drums, bass and guitar on their records (that wasn't sampled) but they were huge hip hop fans too.. ive been listening to hip hop since Whoodini, Grandmaster flash. and the Fat Boys... there was one station in Flint Mi, that played an hour of hip hop on Sundays in the middle of the night and that was it... Beasties actually introduced LL to Rick Ruben and he got his break... there's TONS of video of Uncle L saying he wouldn't have been in the game if it wasnt for the Beastie Boys..
I was fortunate to see the Beastie's live twice. Once they headlined Lollapalooza with the Pumpkins and another time they played at the "Free Tibet" concert series with RATM and the Peppers in SF. Always fun to see them! Big fan of Tribe too! - very clever and original!!
ROFLMFAO 😂🤣😂🤣. Van.....u and Mr. Video b cracking me TF up 💯! U got me going back in time 2 when ya'll 1st came across each others channels, FR FR. U guys r 2 much.....real talk. Anyways, 🔥🔥🔥 reaction as always. Hope u and the fam r well and staying healthy 😷!
The BB loved both punk and hip hop. The Hall award they said came from growing up in NY. I've seen the live in 94 Lalapalooza. F*n great. They did plenty punk also. Crazy to see the center of the crowd collapse into mosh pit
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🔥🔥🔥RUN DMC tribute by the beastie boys “sucker mc’s” 🔥🔥🔥 with surprise guest beatboxing
Special Ed? Digable Planets? N2Deep? New Edition? AMG? Too Short? 2 Live Crew? Geto Boys? Mc Ren? Scarface? Old Outkast like Players Club, or Atliens? What about Domino? What about TLC? Souls of Mischief? Goodie Mob? Young MC? Nice & Smooth? Da Brat? ICP? Nelly? Ditty (Paperboy)? the list goes on and on.
LL Cool J and Chuck D inducted Beastie into the Hall of Fame. LL tells the story about Beasties taking his demo tape to Rick Rubin and getting LL his record deal with Def Jam.
Just thought about that after hearing that clubhouse conversation the other day, when they were talking about Beastie Boys impact on Hiphop.
@@UncleRandy73 Going back to Cali, I don't think so.
@@robertcherman She loves the ocean tho. Ha
Q-Tip freestyled all of it. the rest of the beasties took what he did and came up with their shit around it. Anytime they performed it live together, Q-Tip never actually remembered or wrote down what he recorded so he always freestyled something new every time
I saw them play it live with qtip
@@stevedevaney4304 I did too. At the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concert.
That’s because Q was on mushrooms and he forgot that he ever recorded with them until the record was released
I’m jealous:/
That had to be something @@stevedevaney4304
😂😂😂😂 bro I didn’t even notice lmaoo numbers don’t matter no more content does I feel the numbers just for show but hell I will take it 😂😂😂😂 love u bro
lol! Love both y'alls stuff. E'rybody can get the love! It's all about spreading awesome music/art through the community. One way I think we can actually make the world a doper place to be. Edit: BARS!
I love both you guys too!
Mr Video / LFR coLlab?
Mr. Videooooo! Great reactions man!
Haha, also a fan of both you fellas. A collab is def in order! Dance off? ; ) I got Van on that one but would be close!
The beastie boys listened to demo tapes for Rick Rubin and found a demo tape from one LL Cool J and gave it to Rick. The beastie boys discovered LL Cool J.
real history
Facts
Rick Ruben was a DJ and worked with Beastie Boys in the early 80s before he started producing music.
@@amariebfree5326 Rubin's producing came first. When the beastie boys were a punk band, Rubin was producing his first records in his dorm room. The beastie boys were his friends and would listen to demo tapes and filter out the good ones to give to Rick so he could produce a record with them. Like I said, that's how we have LL Cool J. Then the beasties transitioned to hip hop and obviously were produced by Rick.
Not only discovering and putting LL on ad-rock from the Beastie Boys actually programed the beat for LL first single I need a Beat
back then Hip hop and punk rock were both starting to grow their roots. the punk kids and hip hop kids were part of the same circles. especially in New York. it was similar around me in Chicago. I used to hang out with punks all the time and we would spin punk and hip hop records.
Same in Great Britain. 🇬🇧
@@leeperola7023 uk is where we got oi from, punk, two tone and reggae just melded
@@Uthgardloki yeah. Twotone black and white. So glad you know ska. If I say madness, what would you say? 🇬🇧
When exactly are we talking about? Punk began in the 70s just FYI
I get what you are saying, but Punk music was all but gone by the time that BB's came out. It was more of the Heavy / Thrash rock groups like Anthrax taking up with the likes of Public Enemy. The heavy rock bands really helped bring hip hop to the suburbs. Really do not mean to rag on you, I'm just saying that Punk was dead by then and it was more the heavy / thrash metal bands that promoted Hip Hop. To your point, us Thrash metal fans did dress more in a punk style than typical heavy metal. I don't know your age, but I am 50 and that was right in my teens. Peace..
The Boys came from punk rock, and started as a punk band, actually two punk bands, but they absolutely LOVED hip-hop from day one, and are among its old school innovators because of how much they loved it, and contributed to it. The Beasties just brought their punk rock energy and sensibility to rap, and they were absolutely in it for the true hip-hop.
Literally, she sheer amount of OG hip-hop artists that credit the beastie boys with inspiring them. They were at the ground floor of the birth of hip-hop, and are more deeply embedded in the scene than ANYONE criticizing them. They used to hang in rick rubin's college dorm, and their work paid for the expansion of def jam, which they never even got paid for due to the split.
“This is real frickin hip hop”
Amen man
Mr Video x LFR: The most ambitious crossover event of 2021.
I'd go for that
LOVE them BOTH !
Yes we need this for 2021!!!
I'm effing In where's the merch baby?
King Ad-Rock discovered LL Cool J.
LL Cool J confirmed it when the Beastie Boys were inducted in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. Ad-Rock showed his demo to Rick Rubin.
Also made the beat for his first record. I Need a Beat
I love this so much. I've watched it over and over. I'm a white woman (only bringing race in because that's a real thing) in my late 40s (sigh) who listened to this album on repeat for a year after it came out. I always loved the Beastie Boys but I can't say I thought I was a hip hop fan at the time. I just knew that they were poetry in motion and the background beats were so groovy. I listened to Tribe, Pharcyde, The Roots, Outkast and other 80s/90s groups because it was art. Artistry for the ears. I love hearing this analysis from someone who really knows hip hop. I learned so much about how to appreciate and break down a hip hop song. I listen to those songs from years ago on a deeper level now. So thanks. 😄
The documentary: Beastie boys story, that came out recently is great for learning about the band!
I do believe it’s still streaming on AppleTV
There's a SNL cast short on B.B.
I think it's the last decent thing SNL made.
The book is Better!
All of qtips vocals are free style. He was hanging out at their studio one day and they convinced him to record some
Vocals and built the song around it
The Beastie Boys are incredible producers. They usually share production credit with their their actual producer so it’s hard to know who’s responsible for what but I know they have some serious chops of their own, and despite their diverse catalog spanning decades and having worked with a bunch of different producers they still put their Beastie Boys feel on every beat.
We all know Mario C likes to keep it clean. 😎
I haven't seen anyone react to Beastie Boys and Nas collab "too many rappers"
Not limit twon and Kingahmedtv both did
@@joelrainey7537 I haven't seen them
@@jazzminb my you tube wall always is full of music reaction video game videos and NBA news
King Ahmad TV reacted to "Too Many Rappers" as well as "Let's Get It Together". Also, many other reactors have done "Too Many Rappers". You can find these by using that search bar on RUclips.
There's a few out there actually.
Beastie Boys ' "HOLD IT NOW, HIT IT" I have requested this song over and over from different reactors and nobody has done it =(
There's a really good reason so many diverse types of people love Beastie Boys
And yes MCA was from Brooklyn and died in 2012. Check out “an open letter to NYC”
Great song, they wrote it as a love letter to NYC after 9/11
100% love that song.
Been playing to the 5 boroughs album a lot lately, definitely up there with ill communication and pauls boutique
Excellent song. Featuring a dope sample from Dead Boys' Sonic Reducer
Ad Rock was the one who brought LL Cool Js demo to Rick Rubins attention
Ma Bell was a nickname for Southern Bell back when phones had cords. This has been a lesson from your friendly, Beastie Boys loving elder. Carry on.
You know Adrock programed the drum machine and created the beat for LL Cool J 's 1st hit, I need a beat
thats the sort of info I love to find out
WUT!! didnt know that. I loved that song
Yeeeea... I knew ...that
(Googling like a mad man)
Hip hop and punk are the same. To me, it’s a high compliment. 🙏
This is magical. One of my favorite tracks by the Beasties. BARS. I used to live in a house with a bunch of skate boarders and we lost heat for a night or two in winter. We blasted this entire album on a little stereo and just did rounds of bars. Kept us warm af
Mr. Video is my dude! You're cool too.
Mr Video is so hyped all the time.
One of the best concerts I ever saw was in 1998 Beastie Boys and Tribe called Quest In Philly
My all time BIGGEST musical regret is never seeing BB in concert. 😔
Thankfully I got to see the Beastie Boys. They were touring for Hello Nasty and were doing a co headline tour with Rage Against the Machine and Bad Religion as openers. Amazing show.
They started in punk and were introduced to hip hop and everything changed for em. Beastie Boys had an honest, real, and earnest love and appreciation for the music and culture. 💯
Who all remembers the Beastie’s XXL shops? Bought a lot of dope clothing back in the day. 53 year old from So. Cal. here. Had a friend bringing back mix tapes from his NYC trips so we got to hear stuff early. Stetsasonic, BDP and on to Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, LL. Those were the days.
‘Car Thief” you’re just gonna have to trust me on this! And then thank me later...
yep
Hellz’ yes! Car Thief is some virtuoso ish! No one can touch the way they in-n-out on that one.
Not much known fact, Q-tip’s “Oh my god!” Here was sampled into on of the most fire song ever. Blahzay blahzay Danger
Well known fact, tho😉
Beasties boys were in fact a punk band when they started, but if they didn't love hip hop they wouldn't have mastered the craft and they wouldn't have spent their lives making it.
They reached their limit with punk, and at the time hip-hop was spreading on the scene and they fell in love.
Absolutely pioneers of the industry. Kings of mix and sampling. Saw them live in Indianapolis in late 80s. Mad respect
Punk, rock, hip hop, jazz...they played what they loved and had fun doing it. Not many bands can switch their sound on every album and still attain success. I really love seeing their new emergence, they are timeless!
Love this joint, it's so loose and funky. And yeah, you're right - this wasnt a joke to them. They may be talking about their single Cookie Puss which was like a prank call set to music and became an underground hit. It then sort of set the stage for their drunk hooligan image for their first album on Def Jam. But they soon realised they didn't want to do that anymore and wanted to stretch themselves creatively. Their love of hip-hop is completely obvious, I get so sick of people saying "it was just a joke"
Love your reactions! I wish more hip hop collabs nowadays were like this, instead of each mc getting a turn to flow for a minute, all rappers trading off rhymes and feeding off each others vibe the whole song long.
This is my favorite song of theirs, maybe nostalgic, we used to listen to it on loop back in the day, knew every word lol
Whoever said they picking fun of rap ask chuck d ll cool j run dmc if they were in on the joke lol true hip hop legends
Loving the old school hip hop renaissance, would be great to see the style get back to its roots with contemporary layers.
It all Started: Sugar hill gang era with them and Grand Master Flash- THEN next wave of rappers was Run DMC , Beasties and LL (includes Fat Boys) and THEN modern hip hop - Everything else after that. I love hearing you say you can tell where there influences were coming from when some of the influences mentioned were all on current albums competing on the charts. These albums back in the day the one with Paul Revier that was exactly when DMC was doing there things and LL too. I love how things are today but I am SO lucky to have expereinced this thing from the beginning. I am 50 and I still listen EVERYDAY to hear that brand new good shit.
yeah, that's hip hop! old school, but so cool :-) the "ILL COMMUNICATION"-record is a MUST-HAVE! *cheers_from_germany
Beastie Boys were formed out of members of experimental hardcore punk band the Young Aborigines in 1978, with Diamond as vocalist, Jeremy Shatan on bass guitar, guitarist John Berry and Kate Schellenbach on drums. When Shatan left in 1981, Yauch replaced him on bass and the band changed their name to Beastie Boys.
Yup, that's what I remember. I was in Oklahoma at the time but loved the NYC Hardcore scene and the music coming out of there
Man I haven’t heard this joint in aaages. Thanks for reacting. Been enjoying your Beastie Boys reactions.
I’ve been lucky enough to see them live twice in the 90’s.
All the best from Ireland 🇮🇪
Always love that bit where Q-Tip starts to crack up
They were NYC party kids. They were coming up on the heels of the punk insurgence, and were in the clubs when the real OGs started flowing up from the Bronx, from Brooklyn toward Uptown. They were there when hip hop started coming into its own, and mixed it up with the real players. They took the club sounds, the punk sensibilities and the MC/DJ format and took over the whole dang world. They hung with Run DMC on Def Jam before anyone even knew who they were. They helped launch LL Cool J.
Real hip hop? You bet.
New to your channel … 48 yr old white boy watching Beastie Boys live LOL. Love your positivity! Impressed with the lyrics you pick up! Love your new take on my generation! ✌️
Love these videos. Thanks man. Looking forward to shirt and hoodie i ordered today!
Man, I got my first beastie boys cassette in 88. Grew up on there music! I’m
Glad to see you react to it! I would highly recommend you check out the beastie boys book. I listened to it through the audible app. There history is so amazing how they came up and where they came from! Mad respect for ad rock mca abd mike d
"Hey Ladies" is a great BB song (and video!!) Great reaction!!
Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun is my favorite beastie boys song. Love your reactions!
Every time I hear that song it reminds me of how influential and badass the Beasties were and will be forever. Thanks for these!!
Beastie boys also collaborated on stage live with Cypress Hill when Cypress Hill opened for them on a tour
My number 1 and 2 groups right there.
Beasties + Cypress + Rage = they took hip hop to new levels musically and created a new foundation to integrate it into new genres and expose it to a whole new multiracial and multigenerational following
I saw the Beastie Boys with Tribe in 98 for the Hello Nasty tour in Philly. It was my first concert. Great show!
It's like being able to hear this song again for the 1st time. Your love of music is infectious. This shit is fun as hell to watch when you're smoking. Salute from MN.
No one ever reacted to possible the best Beastie Boys song Right right now now. Check that one out
Beasties did start out as more of a rock act. And even after they went hip-hop/rock fusion they still toured with a lot of rock festivals and stuff. They bridge the gap between punk and hip-hop. Anyone who says that they're just one or the other don't really know the Beasties.
Mate love to see you do “open letter to New York” one of their finest
Yes!!
Anyone who says BB don’t know or didn’t care about hip hop ... doesn’t know jack about BB. Listen to them talk about roots of hip hop and rap, they know the history, and they’ve always said their music is rooted in hip hop
This is one of my all time FAVORITE Beastie Boys songs!!!
Hey bro I'm here .. intrigued about mr.video
He's great!
you can't pretend and and achive this level of pure flow. No sir. These guys are f'real. great reaction as always Bro
We love ya man !!! And my first cassette tape in 86 was Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill !!! Glad your enjoying these guys ! Soundtrack to years of my skateboard days right here !
This is one of my FAVORITE BBs songs ever!
The thing I always loved about the Beastie Boys is that they respected all types of music! I saw them back in the 90’s at George Mason in VA and they even broke out some DC Go-Go!
LoL yeah New York hip hop tried to take go go mainstream back then but it faded out. I grew up in the DMV so I remember EU had a couple radio jams. 👍
Talent is talent is talent period. You can’t pigeon hole the greats. It’s called natural progression of your craft. Very rare these days, probably why you don’t recognize it right away. Great talent evolves over time, so the sound will too.
this is pure cipher, you are 100. pass pass pass. this makes me cry and laugh, im a 90s kid. i love love qtip and this hio hop. thanks for the reaction.
They have an Instrumental album "The In Sound from Way Out!", react or not, you gotta hear it.
They actually have a couple of instrumental albums. I know of 2. “The In Sound From Way Out” was good because it’s the music and riffs we have all already heard. “Groove Holmes”, “Namaste”, “Bobo on the Corner”, to name a few, are tracks that have been on previous albums, but they weee curated and put in one place. “The Mix Up” is another instrumental Beastie Boy album. Personally, I only liked about half of it, but it was still good. I don’t recognize any of those tracks as being played on their albums before, Like “In Sound” did. I do think “I’m Sound from Way Out” is the better of the two.
Q tip was hanging in the studio and freestyled his verses. They built the song around that.
The Beatles of Hip Hop!!! WS lucky to have seen them live 4 times.... RIP Yauch!!!
The Clash, “Know Your Rights”.
All three of 'em
Yes. Would love to hear.
Tribe was SICK along with all the native tongue groups. R.I.P Phife
Past weeks been watching REACTIONS, YOU'RE ONE OF MY FAVORITES MAN! COOL WHEN YOU SAY "GO ON HIT THAT THANG!" LOL COOL
No clue if you have time to read all these Comments, MAN I feel a comfort watching You like watching an Old Great Movie, already gotten used too how ya begin most Videos, COOL MAN. I wanna make a Suggestion for a Video, every time I think to add one I think too search and see if you've already made one with/about. If you're doing ROCK VIDEOS, "Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine", "Dire Straights - Money For Nothing", "Shinedown - What a Shame"...
God Bless, Q-Tip.
He made all my rides to school in late-80's epic.
Without him I wouldn't have enjoyed that bus ride.
The boys! Oh, and with Quest on top. Awesome!
Booyah Tribe and Faith no More - Another body murdered !! I been asking EVERY react video guy to do this song and nobody has . At least do yourself a favor and listen ! Its a wild collaboration off a ground breaking soundtrack !
Always love this song...❤️ Q Tip is my love. Perfect jam 😋
The Beastie Boys came from punk rock (check out the Beastie Boys' track "Tough Guy" or "Heart Attack Man"... pure punk awesomeness). I wouldn't say they didn't care about hip hop. They once said that they started doing hip hop because they were too lazy to carry their instruments and amps to gigs. It was just less physical work than carrying all of their punk rock equipment with them. As it turns out, they loved it. Of course, that is a SERIOUS simplification of the events that happened, but generally speaking, that is an approximation of how the Beasties jumped into hip hop.
They did some punk in the early days, talented people don't stay in a box. They are so amazing they could do anything
This is the song I was waiting for! This is the one 👌
Beastie Boys: Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun
These dudes helped LL cool J become a thing.
LL would tell you that the Beasties are worthy of praise/worship.
"Ma Bell, got the ill communication" was a reference to Bell Atlantic telephone service
Punk Rock and Hip Hop are from the same scene. 💯
Brothers from different mothers... but still Brothers! 😎
I love this cause it's such a freestyle feel
You can tell it was really off the cuff
I'll communications was one of my definitive albums of my youth. That whole album has hip hop and punk rock classics. Best beastie boys album in my eyes
The sampling!!! I love the dj throwing samples into all the songs- miss that part of live shows!
People that didn't grow up in the New York, Philly, and DC area in the 80's don't realize that hip hop and Punk shows where put on together so both influenced each other heavily listen to Public Enemy heavily influenced by punk and Beasties influenced by hip hop this was common then. I used to go see punk shows in Philly back and the day and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince would be playing too
People who say they only rapped cuz it was "fun" are nuts. They loved the music they were there in NYC when it started getting big. They loved almost all kinds of music which is why they did almost every kind of music haha
This was the very first compact disc I ever bought back in 1994 so I could rock my new Sony disc man in high school. I was 15yrs old so many memories of the good old days.
I'm digging the new flash on the walls, chief! Huck yeah! Looking sharp!
Thanks for that! Never heard that Tune before.. That song was bad ass
Yo Get it Together has been dope since Ive been in high school brutha...Beastie Boys have been sick for a long time...thanks for playing it!!
yeah man... We lost MCA to cancer a few years back... and beasties were punk rock... but in the 80s in New York, all the scenes were colliding... Beasties did play the drums, bass and guitar on their records (that wasn't sampled) but they were huge hip hop fans too.. ive been listening to hip hop since Whoodini, Grandmaster flash. and the Fat Boys... there was one station in Flint Mi, that played an hour of hip hop on Sundays in the middle of the night and that was it... Beasties actually introduced LL to Rick Ruben and he got his break... there's TONS of video of Uncle L saying he wouldn't have been in the game if it wasnt for the Beastie Boys..
I was fortunate to see the Beastie's live twice. Once they headlined Lollapalooza with the Pumpkins and another time they played at the "Free Tibet" concert series with RATM and the Peppers in SF. Always fun to see them!
Big fan of Tribe too! - very clever and original!!
ROFLMFAO 😂🤣😂🤣. Van.....u and Mr. Video b cracking me TF up 💯! U got me going back in time 2 when ya'll 1st came across each others channels, FR FR. U guys r 2 much.....real talk. Anyways, 🔥🔥🔥 reaction as always. Hope u and the fam r well and staying healthy 😷!
Thank you! That punk rock talk are their haters, bro! They were always hip hop.
Lollapalozza 1994 lineup…
Tribe Called Quest
George Clinton and at the end
The Beastie Boys!
Unforgettable!
its really cool that u know the fact that the beastie boys were a punk/hardcore band first!.
The BB loved both punk and hip hop. The Hall award they said came from growing up in NY. I've seen the live in 94 Lalapalooza. F*n great. They did plenty punk also. Crazy to see the center of the crowd collapse into mosh pit
Awesome seeing you do this song. This one is badass.
That Dj happens to be one of the best to ever scratch .. Mix Master Mike
Phone is ringing, oh my God:) My favourite Beasties track.
When you marvel over the mix-mastery, you gotta remember that there were no laptops and crap.
This is like. A DJ.