The Beastie Boys and Spike Jonze | Broken Record (Hosted by Rick Rubin)
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- It’s been almost 35 years since the Beastie Boys released the all-time classic, “Licensed to Ill.” And while some of the record’s lyrics and antics sound dated, the album is still exceptional.
For Beastie Boys fans, “Licensed to Ill” is a glimpse into the lives of MCA, Ad-Rock, Mike D and their first DJ and producer Rick Rubin. Their debut album is a pastiche of inside jokes and musical inspiration pulled from the classic rock and hip-hop records they listened to in Rick’s college dorm room.
Rick recently connected with Mike D, Ad-Rock and Spike Jonze, who directed the new Beastie Boys documentary. With Spike playing moderator, they teleport back to the early ‘80s and talk about their lives leading up to the release of “Licensed to Ill.” It’s all here-the inspiration behind “Brass Monkey,” Rick’s infamous bubble machine, and why DJ Double R bailed on the Beastie’s first big break - opening up for Madonna on her 1985 tour.
Rick and Adam Horovitz haven’t talked in about twenty years, and like most Zoom calls, their reunion gets off to a glitchy start. Mike D kicks things off.
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Did you try to get the dj gig back or is that when they decided to stick with Hurricane?
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I haven’t heard Rick Rubin sound so energized…ever. It’s like talking to these guys transports him back to 1986. Amazing.
He’s anxious because he ripped them off for a lot of money and got sued by them. Tension. My voice would leave my diaphragm too.
@@Gcssdvnkloiutesc Yauch’s on the upright , the shit just ain’t funny, got fat bass lines like Russel Simmons steals money.
We need a part 2 this is just the beginning 🙏🏼😀
please
Pretty please
We would like to know the real deal about the three
And its mesmerizing, tantalizing
Captivating, they're devastating
“I’m not mad at a waltz beat” - I could listen to Adam and Mike tell stories all day.
This is one of the greatest videos ever put on RUclips. Thank you for the historic trip down memory lane. Beastie Boys fans would love MORE of this!
this isnt a video its an audio i wish there was a video though..
Two takeaways you can't deny that Rubin was the one behind the early sounds, and the band grew and got better after leaving Rubin because of love, passion, friendship and hard work.
CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT THESE CATS.....THE DUDES. REST IN POWER MCA!!!!!!!!
Man....Beastie Boys changed my life in HS. I died my hair blonde like Mike-D (before Eminem) i wore a green tux to prom with shelltops and seen Beastie Boys in Philly on 4 separate times. Lollapolozza 95, Raising Hell Tour, Hello Nasty 98, To the 5 Boroughs 2004. Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head prob my 2 fav albums but Ill Communication was just sick!!! I love every album you guys put out and dnt forget about the ROOT DOWN EP!!!! LOVE YOU GUYS!!! RIP MCA ADAM YAUCH.
sucks i never got to see them in their original hey days,
but happy i got to see them when mixmaster mike got on, cuz he was a perfect fit for the live shows.
I live right over the bridge from Philly in South Jersey(Glassboro). I was at all those shows you listed and a bunch more. I've probably seen them live around 20 times. RIP YAUCH
It was Lollapalooza '94 with Beastie Boys and Smashing Pumpkins...'95 was Sonic Youth and Hole
This was really interesting, glad these guys got together and did this. They were all so refreshingly themselves, warts and all and it made for such an entertaining and informative interview.
Ad-Rock cannot help being cool. It's in his DNA.
Too cool*
I find him cringey. SJW, identity political cringe.
Him n Rick always clashed n Adam seems like he’s kinda being a dick and stand ofish at first but then he seems like he starts having fun and into it .....I might be wrong just how it came across to me ...kinda awkward at first n whatever......Ad-Rock has always been my favorite since 5th grade 89
@@georgestetson5572 Rick was part of Def jams and Def jams screwed the Beastie boys out of cash which led them to go on their own way.
@@jamiewilliams685 imagine being so partisan that you judge people based on their opinions. and not just any opinions, but simply about wanting society to be more equitable and accepting, and to white straight males like you its “obnoxious”. What i often notice is people like you have less than zero capacity for empathy.
This is the most interesting Beastie Boys related discussion in the internet, especially of you've read the book.
I had youtube on mute while listening to classic jams on a separate speaker and started cracking up because i thought they were messing with the viewer by just showing a picture of them for over an hour with no visuals or audio! thank you,Maryjane!👌😎
so wonderful-- love all these guys.
Wow! Thanks for coming through with this much requested Beastie Boys interview
Also I think this deserves a part 2 - You guys only scratched the surface - I love the energy, love the insights
This is pure gold man. Thanks!
If you only focus on the HATE, you will completely fail to realize what happened. Madonna. Super Ultra Pop Icon. The FIGURE head of the System. Everything the Beastie Boys are not down with from my understanding. Its the Anti-Hero. I think you may not know how to always say that Rick, however I figure you just want them to figure it out themselves. Such an incredible opportunity to setup where exactly this band stands within the system it loathes. We are NOT this. HAPPILY. Becoming the figure head of the ANTI system. Instantaneously. We all really needed that. Its why hiphop has its appeal. Its ANTI-Establishment obviously hahahaha The universe puts things in the order that needs to be. I am supremely grateful I caught this interview!! Thank all of ya'll!! Without any of you, hiphop isnt. End of story.
My sister's Licensed to Ill cassette got my into Hip Hop. The next album and first album I bought with my own money(moms money) was Run DMC Raising Hell. I was hooked on Hip Hop ever since. Fortunate Beasties continued to stay "relevant" and was able to see them live several times in High School and a few times after(Hello Nasty Tour). RIP MCA.
i loved dusty rhodes....
Been hoping for something like this, good shit!
You guys are awesome.
2:50 In case you didn't know Ad Rock and Kiedis are Eskimo Brothers
Paul's boutique is their best LP out of their masterpieces
This was wonderful to hear. I was into Run-DMC but when I heard Licensed To Ill that was instantly my shit. I have had so many copies of it.. at first on a dubbed cassette I got from my buddy Neil, then I bought the cassette, stole two vinyl copies from Columbia House music club, had to get a new casette because I wore the first one out, shoplifted a copy on cd and of course I got the VHS tape with all the music videos and nonsense. Now I listen on my phone or play the vinyl. I love everything Beastie Boys have released but I'm pretty sure that album got more plays than anything else I've ever listened to.
Wow. Just Wow. That’s I’ll I can say... Other than ... Wish we could see the visuals. Thank you for this.
Same here ... would really have loved to have been able to see their expressions
Great question about "Let me clear my throat." I've never heard anyone ask and I've always wanted to know. Ad Rock changes up the words to that breakdown a little but that entire portion of the song is highly innovative in a simple way.
Great interview. DJ rick rubin
Takes me back.
" It was at the party for the Blood Sugar Sex Magik record "
"Oh - it was that album. That's what happened "
LOL!
55:34 has me hollering!!! 😂😂😂 I love Adam! Great interview!!
I love this interview. I grew up in a house with only 2 or 3 45's, in the 70's. So that absence of music around me, created a clean slate for me to decide what I would become style wise when it came to music and attitude. It was hard to talk to the people that worked record stores so some of the things I bought were just from the album art alone or from thrift stores. Mostly funk and punk records and what they clumped together then, "world music" and reggae. I found my first early Sonic Youth cassette: Confusion is Sex, the same day I found Cooky Puss on cassette at a mall record store having not heard of either. That day changed my life. Also, Indianapolis had some good venues for hardcore and great bands came through Naptown in the 80's. Back then punks or metalheads would make fun of you if you listened to "crossover music" -hilarious! Some of my favorite bands live like early fishbone.
I was blessed with parents like Kendrick,esp my dad taught me all about ythe blues,how it was misappropriated by Elvis and finally came around to the first pure form of Americanmusic
In the navy, my buddies came up with a few bottles of Brass Monkey. The hangover was legendary.... never again...
Great interview. Clearly good friends
Gr8 podcast! That could had been 3 hours long for sure. Coming from SoCal, I'm curious about RR's connection and history with Slayer and Public Enemy? It is intriguing how RR produced artists from all different genres during the same time. Calling RR eccentric would be a understatement.
This was a super ROPE episode.
let's make ROPE happen lol*
Intl_Roe I love how excited Rick got when Rope came up.
I've tried many many many times to get people to use Rope over the last 30 years 😂😂
I get the impression that Mike and Rick still haven’t fully forgiven each other. Great interview. Interesting hear all of their perspectives on things. The ear infection story is hilarious.
What do you mean? Like about the forgiveness?
I think you mean Adam hasn't fully forgiven Rick. Afterwards Adam was probably like, he's still sticking to the ear infection story. What a a-hole.
@@palmsquad4 This was 1985- Rick wasn't a "big shot producer". I'm sure the ear infection was real. Rick was just the DJ guy who might have made a few hundred a night that he probably could have used at the time. Things fell apart between Rick and the Beasties when they started working on the followup.
Adam and Mike are obviously incredibly forgiving people, because Rick Rubin screwed them royally after "Licensed To Ill" hit and started generating money.
@@muziktrkrRick ripped the beasties for their royalties and they had to sue him for it. Rick has done this with most of his artists.
One of the greatest hip hop albums EVER made, PERIOD.
I'm so rope, they call me Mr. Roper.
When the troubles arise ya know I'm the cool coper
@@jimminychristmas8100
choke her when I poke her after late night poker.
Happy birthday Adam!
I get the impression that Mike and Rick still haven’t fully forgiven each other. Great interview. Interesting to hear all of their perspectives on things. The ear infection story is hilarious.
Great podcast. I’m kind of embarrassed and excited to check out some other episodes.
All these years later Rick still can’t fess up to the fact he bailed on them because he thought he was better than what he thought they were gonna be and just saw them as cash cows to fund his future.
No lyor Cohen was n Russell simmions 👂
I also remember reading that Rick Rubin was afraid of flying. Suddenly I have to wonder if the ear infection was to cover the fear (?). I don't know, but it just comes to mind. I also remember reading that 'Girls' was written by Rubin and AH while on an airplane flight.
Good stuff. I laughed, I cried ...
So glad Rick is honest. He could have acted like a Svengali. Makes me actually really appreciate his navigating happy accidents in music invention and just trusting how it feels. It’s wish he might have Dj Quest as a guest. That is a musician/Dj who created the first “break record” with Bullet Proof Scratch Hamsters. He’s underground famous but mostly scrubbed by the “industry”. I love this podcast and learning about these super successful projects but there are so many innovators the industry ignores/ed.
Wow! This is interesting. I've always wondered what their relationship with Rick Rubin is now. I've read things over the many years which kinda gave me the impression that their relationships icey. This was cool!
Nice!
Cookie Puss is a rare punk/DJ track that can make you laugh and make you want to be a part of. You all were so lucky to meet.
No disrespect to Questlove but I'm a HUGE Beastie Boy fan born and raised in Philly (I saw Public Enemy open for the BB at the Spectrum in '87) and i have no idea what he's talking about in regards to Hold It Now Hit it 45:10 The BASS in that record is what made it a hit in Philly. You could hear that 808 coming out of every car and boom box that year. I do remember there was an instrumental on the B-side, but that's not the version that took off in the streets of Philly. Maybe that was in the part of Philly Quest is from, but city wide that song stuck out because we had never heard an 808 Bass that deep and that loud in a song.
Can't even imagine why an acapella was played on the radio. That was strange to hear.
Ey just watched Porkys and they were still great movies
Rick, you look different - wow, what a salutation after 20 years
I remember spike jonze from the bmx freestylin days. He used to work at rockville bmx.
This conversation is just like that rapper from Oakland, Too Short!
Chris L 😆
I remember sitting in English class freshman year 1990 when my friend next to me has a CD player and tells me to listen to this and it was too short
That was the best.
I don’t understand the thumbs down. I am not a fan of hip hop, however, I enjoyed the hell out of this interview
I really like that word Spike Jonze go in edgewise
Okay, I need a cartoon version of Yauck and Ad Rock bestowing the chain onto Mike D, and light shining down from the heavens. And I'd love to see Mantronik (Rick might be one of the few people who could get this interview; I think he lives in the UK and does licensable hip-hop loops), Q-Tip, or LL. Maybe Debbie Harry, Fab Five Freddy. And any A&R who saw a lot of the old school guys when they were young, and can talk first impressions of various artists.
“You’re not Rappin-4-Tay.” LMAO
Shout out to APB at Danceteria. Nice !!!
Still wish the beasties would have gone back to either Rick or the Dust Brothers for their last album, would have been cool, but i doubt maybe they thought it would be their last.
They got asked about their Highschool experience, I’m a lil sad Ad Rock didn’t get to talk about going to City-As-School 😕
ask Rick Rubin which album he thinks is better License to Ill or Pauls Boutique :)
Don't blame Rick. Russell Simmons drove a wedge in between them. Russell is such a money grubbing dickhead.
He will probably pick e one he produced😉
i think everyone likes License better
@@dasooperb1371 License is a classic, but I think that Paul's Boutique is probably the best Beastie Boys album
@@dasooperb1371 nah
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Would love to hear a conversation with Danzig or Tom Araya!
Love this interview though, the insight into that 1980's NY scene is amazing! RIP MCA, and John Berry ♡♡♡
I really wish he’d get Tom on. Reign In Blood pretty much changed my life when I first got it and I’d love to hear about the recording of it
Ad-Rock throwing shade at Kiedis was lolz
Havent heard the whole thing yet, but right off bat I feel tension between Adam and Rick. I wish they'd just get into why they had a fall out and if they are willing to say sorry and move on.
This! Rick avoids the topic and switches the conversation. Fake guru kook.
@@JohnR32111 yeah , like when he talk about the ear thing lol
If I had to pick 3 records to listen to the rest of my life....?? I would get 3 copies of licensed to ill..no b.s!!
I love all their music..i just grew up on licensed to ill ..i remember hearing it as a kid and was just blown away..sounded like nothing i had ever heard before!
Paul's Boutique, Check You Head, and I have to flip between god and the devil to choose either License To Ill, or Ill Communication.. Leave it to Hermes to decide LOL...
I so wish they would of done 1 more album with Rick. Would of been so awesome IMO if they did License then Pauls, then another with Rick followed by 1 more with Dust Bros. BTW, IF MIKE D OR HIS PPL READ THIS. U SAID U WAS LOOKIN AT PUTTIN THE LOST PAULS 1ST SINGLE THE JERRY LEWIS OUT WHEN THE BOOK CAME OUT. WE STILL WAITING& STILL WANT 2HEAR THE JERRY LEWIS
Great stories, I can listen to them talk all day. I would love to hear them talk about their first single on Def Jam "Beastie Groove/Party's Gettin Rough" "Rock Hard" There was lot's of scratches throughout Party's Gettin Rough and references made to DJ Double R, I wonder if Rick did all of the cuts or was everyone involved. It's an interesting record and very revolutionary for its time and the one that stood out for me because it was the first time I had heard of the Beastie Boys. Edits were done by the Latin Rascals who also worked with Producer Arthur Baker. Lots of questions. Thanks for sharing this awesome interview.
there's a bit more detail on the actual record making in the Questlove episode of BR
I have this cool idea of a line of products that you guys should put your name on, as a brand. The brand could grow from there although I'm sure you've thought of this. I've always dug your music and personas. Id love to tell you about my ideas and designs.
“Oh they have a bubble machine? Ok, I’ll go”😂
My first concert was Peter Frampton,former member ofbthe greatest rock band ever
Nobody needs to sell the Beasties.
Learned a new word Beast-O-ing
thank God Rubin left the band, like he said the Universe unfolded perfectly, it played its part brilliantly.
48:56. That line was Dope on a Hemp Rope ...A rehash of my Miss-Heard lyrics....Flava Flav's Public Enemy and Anthrax..bring the noise...Do it like soap on a rope for the lives of those who deal dope.
YO , THAT SHIZZ WAS ROPE , Y'ALL !!
Yo! This conversation is rope!
Would love if Rick, Adam, and Mike could get into a studio with some of Yuach demos and create one last Beastie Boy’s album. Like the Beatles did with anthology. They have the advantage that Yuach’s demos are likely In much better shape than Lennon’s were. Yuach was a producer, timing is to drum loop, digital, and style of music. I think Rick could help them find a way to make it happen. Understood there’s tension with Ad-Rock, but likely because they were closer.
Rick Rubin went to my high school, so I know what he is talking about, culturally speaking.
Wow. Shout out to Bleaker Bobs Records. Well known 90s record distributor.
Adrock is so Beastly! Haha!
If they bring this up later I apologize as im commenting about 2min in. Rick said last time he saw any of them was Tibetan Freedom concert. Im a Jay-Z fan & was surprised while watching his documentary FADE TO BLACK. They wud show like a concert clip & then show behind the scenes stuff of Jay working on creating the song he performed. It shows RICK RUBIN n the studio with Jay as there recording 99 PROBLEMS BUT A BITCH AINT 1. AS JAYS N THE BOOTH DOIN VOCALS N WALKS MR MIKE D himslf. He shakes Ricks hand&thanks him 4 inviting him down. Rick tells Mike u gotta see this & I think it was the BLUE PRINT he started doing this. By this album he does it 100% & thats no longer writting lyrics. The whole 99 Problems was thought up n his head&recorded. Mike was shocked 2C that as much as I was
That was OUTRAGEOUSLY FUNNY! So Rick (DJ RR), just "split" after he did a few shows opening for Madonna. I had a drummer in my old band who used to pull that shit. I still know this guy and I love him, but I refuse to ever work with me again. It's great to know that this happens to other Sound Artists and not just myself. So I guess DJ Hurricane shortly after Ricks departure from my band!?! I still want to produce my "Sacred Knowledge" Djinn Magik album with Rick.
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I wish this was longer.
I wish that wasnt what she said
WHAT was that outro BEAT?!!
So many musical dynasties in NOLA
Isn't there a video version of this ?
What, no video?
That was dope… I mean rope! LOL
Mentos 🔥🔥
Is there footage of the actual zoom?
I know right? How the hell can you just post the audio and not the video as well in its entirety
This was a zoom call and you couldn't post the video? W T H
30:00 - OH MY FUCKIN GOD! I hate flying because of my inner ear thing.
Beastie Boys are known to let the beat..mmmmmm drop!
When I wrote graffiti my name was Slop
33:05 is equivalent to when Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees
Toni Basil was one of the og Lockers dance crew.
I would like to hear krs one
Adrock had a grudge against Dj Double R, that’s why they hadn’t talked for 20 years
cuz Rick & Russell Simmons didn’t pay the Beastie Boys & ripped them off
Why no video??
This pic is outside Tower Theater (Upper Darby, PA) aka Tina Fey's old neighborhood
I’m afraid gotta say ..I think that’s The Wiltern at the intersection of Wilshire and Western in Los Angeles
@@peteyfreefall they posted the pic the day of the show. They performed in Philly, then a couple of days later Brooklyn
@@peteyfreefall there’s also another version of this pic and you can see the marquee
2:56 BURN
SUPER ROPE!!!!!!!