Beastie Boys are legends, MCA came up with the beat playing backwards, one of the best hip hop tunes ever. Amazing storytelling. Beastie Boys are all about fun and sending a positive message, definitely get in to them. Their albums Licensed to Ill and Paul's Boutique are beyond fantastic. Check out "Car Thief" or "Get It Together ft Q-Tip"
This was on their first Def Jam Album. MCA didn't have involvement until "ILL Communication". this was Beasties and One of the Goats Rick Rubin. License to ILL Pauls Boutique than Check Your Head and then ILL Communication with Grand Royal..which both the last were the Beastie Boys own production company partnership with MCA
Edit: this is their beat, not Run DMCs Incorporating a sample from “I Like Funky Music” by funk act Uncle Louie (featuring Walter Murphy, best known for his iconic '70s instrumental “A Fifth of Beethoven”) “Paul Revere” was so influential, N.W.A. even performed a bawdy version at early gigs.
My understanding is that it's both a Run DMC and Beasties beat. There was a beat that didn't make the cut for a Run DMC album, this was the beat that MCA decided to play in reverse and tinker with. Then he and Adrock built the rest of Paul Revere on top. I think that's why two members of each group have songwriting credit.
@@control_the_pet_population Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2012, Diamond recalled, “Run from Run-DMC was there, and he was like, ‘Man, this is crazy.’ But Yauch recorded this beat, bounced it to another tape, flipped it around-this is pre-digital sampling-and bounced it back to the multi-track tape.” According to Diamond, the backward beat was more than an inspired addition-it redefined the track. “The reversed beat basically became ‘Paul Revere.’ Yauch saw this thing we couldn’t see-and he killed it.”
@Jodi_Johnson I misspoke in my original reply, it's not two members of each group credited as songwriters. Horowitz is the only Beastie credited. I am familiar with the Rolling Stone article written right around the time of Yauch's death... but if he was so influential in the creation of the track, then why does he get no songwriting credit? That kind of thing is a big deal, it's how you get paid. I'll see if I can find an article... but prior to Yauch's death, I had read multiple sources that credit the basic drum pattern as an unused Run DMC beat that was played in reverse and expanded upon by the Beasties and Rubin.
i love seeing you react to the beats and rhymes. i was about 1 or 13 when i first heard this for the first time back in the 80"s because of my older brother. game changing shit baby!!
That is the 808 drum machine. The same machine AD rock played for LL cool J's first hit, "I need a beat". The Beasties discovered LL and got him on Def Jam.
that beat is Rick Rubin with a 808, backwards. First time anyone did it, and it's one of, if not THE, most epic beats in all of hiphop. Often imitated, never duplicated. This album revolutionized rap and hip hop, and everyone who came after it (and 'Paul's Boutique') were influenced by it.
I'm 55 going on 56 I've been listening to music all my life even Jazzy Jeff from Fresh Prince like Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince he could not even duplicate the Rhythm that the Beastie Boys are doing for Paul Revere because he's playing the records backwards he scratching the record backwards and that was unheard of back then yes and that is the original beat for the song
Got to see them in concert (in a dance club venue) in 1992. They started, "Now....." and tossed the mic into the audience. It was passed around, as everyone knew the words. The band loved it, the audience loved it. I miss story-telling rap/hiphop like Beastie Boys, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh....where you were enraptured with the story the entire time. Now, I'm a female minister. My vocal warmup is to do parts of this song. "His voice was hoarse, his throat was dry, he asked me for a sip." Said at speed, that's a tongue twister! Great reaction! RIP MCA.
Story goes the Run was in the studio when the b boys and Rick Rubin were cutting the song. Run accidentally loaded the tape into the machine wrong playing in reverse. They decided to keep it that way.
Lil Wayne was probably 5 years old when this song came out. Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin came up with the beat by using a drum machine and running the beat in reverse.
This is the song on the album back in 1986 that if you couldn't recite this whole song,.........then you just were not cool. Nobody I knew cared much for the fight for your right song, but this, SHE"S CRAFTY, the NEW STYLE, and brass monkey were the shiners on this album.
so, THE BEAT!!!! rick rubin was producing them back then, its an old ass production trick, record the 808, flip the analog tape on the 4 trak, then record over the reversed beat! AND YES, ITS BEASTIES BEAT!!!!!!!!
Check out 3mc's & 1dj next. Piped in live as their performance for an Mtv music awards. 1take, 1record, 1dj, no beat machine. Pure. 100 percent Hip Hop from concentrate at it's finest, enjoy!
1989 high school graduate, listen to what keeps you young! Look at the album cover, plane identification says EATME, as a high school teen the Beasties Boys were the shit!
Beasties Boys are 80s into 90s hip hop these are their beats even though this is the age of sampling that was really controversial between Rock and Pop artists feeling like the hip hop crews were stealing their work. Beasties Boys helped bring back a classic Rick band Aerosmith in a song called Walk This Way, a complete colab hit. Love you are discovering rap roots
Ther's only a few years between the very first Hip Hop tracks and Paul Revere so it would be pretty hard for them to be swiping beats. Remember the Beasties were so early they discovered LL, and taught Public Enemy everything they know about touring.
How could they be before? When in the Beastie Boys Film Mike D and Ad Rock stated they wanted to be like Run DMC and Russell Simmons was the Brother of Joseph Simmons, known as Run or DJ Run.
You have to remember back then you couldn't just reverse sounds like that with a computer. If I'm not mistaken they were using reels. A lot of beats and samples had to be cut and spliced. Something like this was much more difficult to do at that time.
This is Beastie Boys beat not Run-DMC, although Run-DMC did give them the song Slow and Low, that was originally written for Run-DMC, but they didn’t like it, so they gave it to the Beastie Boys who knocked it out of the park
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This is why the Beastie Boys are still loved today. You could release it even now and it'd be a hit.
The beat is their own.
They took the beat from T La Rock's "It's Yours" and ran it backwards through a tape loop.
Sick stuff.
Yes. Rick Rubin produced it
Yep
I’m still waiting for that epic “Hold It Now” at the end of that last scratch! Your react was great! Thanks!
I'm 55 been listening to the beastie boys since they came out Early 80s High school and college party music!
I’m 53 I was a Sophomore in H.S.
80's & 90's was the best. Listening to this takes me wayyy back, back into time🎵😊
Beastie Boys are legends, MCA came up with the beat playing backwards, one of the best hip hop tunes ever. Amazing storytelling. Beastie Boys are all about fun and sending a positive message, definitely get in to them. Their albums Licensed to Ill and Paul's Boutique are beyond fantastic. Check out "Car Thief" or "Get It Together ft Q-Tip"
This was on their first Def Jam Album. MCA didn't have involvement until "ILL Communication". this was Beasties and One of the Goats Rick Rubin. License to ILL Pauls Boutique than Check Your Head and then ILL Communication with Grand Royal..which both the last were the Beastie Boys own production company partnership with MCA
@@louislagrotteria6628 Dude, no just no. SMH
@@louislagrotteria6628bro MCA is one of the beastie boys lol. He literally says his name in this song
I remember buying this cassette at the mall for 8$ when they first came out. Rap was new , I played this song a million times!! Was epic 1986
Ah yes..tapes. had to always have a bic's pen or #2 pencil nearby
Yep Beastie Boys are so incredibly talented 🤘🏻
I was 16 when this came out in ‘86 it was a game changer
Edit: this is their beat, not Run DMCs
Incorporating a sample from “I Like Funky Music” by funk act Uncle Louie (featuring Walter Murphy, best known for his iconic '70s instrumental “A Fifth of Beethoven”) “Paul Revere” was so influential, N.W.A. even performed a bawdy version at early gigs.
My understanding is that it's both a Run DMC and Beasties beat. There was a beat that didn't make the cut for a Run DMC album, this was the beat that MCA decided to play in reverse and tinker with. Then he and Adrock built the rest of Paul Revere on top. I think that's why two members of each group have songwriting credit.
@@control_the_pet_population Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2012, Diamond recalled, “Run from Run-DMC was there, and he was like, ‘Man, this is crazy.’ But Yauch recorded this beat, bounced it to another tape, flipped it around-this is pre-digital sampling-and bounced it back to the multi-track tape.”
According to Diamond, the backward beat was more than an inspired addition-it redefined the track. “The reversed beat basically became ‘Paul Revere.’ Yauch saw this thing we couldn’t see-and he killed it.”
@Jodi_Johnson I misspoke in my original reply, it's not two members of each group credited as songwriters. Horowitz is the only Beastie credited.
I am familiar with the Rolling Stone article written right around the time of Yauch's death... but if he was so influential in the creation of the track, then why does he get no songwriting credit? That kind of thing is a big deal, it's how you get paid.
I'll see if I can find an article... but prior to Yauch's death, I had read multiple sources that credit the basic drum pattern as an unused Run DMC beat that was played in reverse and expanded upon by the Beasties and Rubin.
That beat is theirs
It is the original by Bastie Boys
The beastie boys would be old enough to be Lil Wayne's grand daddies these dudes are legendary
i love seeing you react to the beats and rhymes. i was about 1 or 13 when i first heard this for the first time back in the 80"s because of my older brother. game changing shit baby!!
The beastie boys and run DMC met really early 80s And basically coexisted to start the new Revolution of rap and hip hop
That is the 808 drum machine. The same machine AD rock played for LL cool J's first hit, "I need a beat". The Beasties discovered LL and got him on Def Jam.
This is the OG beat.
This is the original beat. Rick Rubin produced it
Eminem used this album cover for Kamikaze. If you read the plane’s number backwards it says “Eat Me”
that beat is Rick Rubin with a 808, backwards. First time anyone did it, and it's one of, if not THE, most epic beats in all of hiphop. Often imitated, never duplicated. This album revolutionized rap and hip hop, and everyone who came after it (and 'Paul's Boutique') were influenced by it.
Rick Rubin is scratching, but he didnt make the beat. MCA did.
This is 100% Beastie Boys original beat.😎
I remember bumpin this for the crowd when I DJd in college 1987..... It's good to see everyone's reactions to the Awesome! R.I.P. MCA
I'm 55 going on 56 I've been listening to music all my life even Jazzy Jeff from Fresh Prince like Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince he could not even duplicate the Rhythm that the Beastie Boys are doing for Paul Revere because he's playing the records backwards he scratching the record backwards and that was unheard of back then yes and that is the original beat for the song
This is original Beasty Boys!
Beastie Boys are the greatest group ever and not just in hip hop. Keep posting Beasties.
Please have a go at "So whatca want", one of their best trax ever.
Got to see them in concert (in a dance club venue) in 1992. They started, "Now....." and tossed the mic into the audience. It was passed around, as everyone knew the words. The band loved it, the audience loved it. I miss story-telling rap/hiphop like Beastie Boys, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh....where you were enraptured with the story the entire time. Now, I'm a female minister. My vocal warmup is to do parts of this song. "His voice was hoarse, his throat was dry, he asked me for a sip." Said at speed, that's a tongue twister! Great reaction! RIP MCA.
My entire 6th grade class had that song memorized a week after the album dropped.
im 52, i grew up on beastie boys, and as always love your reactions, big fan of yours
Story goes the Run was in the studio when the b boys and Rick Rubin were cutting the song. Run accidentally loaded the tape into the machine wrong playing in reverse. They decided to keep it that way.
Back in the day all my friends spent days and days hooking up their box systems and this beat.. reverse bass hit so hard ❤
Lil Wayne was probably 5 years old when this song came out. Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin came up with the beat by using a drum machine and running the beat in reverse.
This is Beastie Boys beat through and through.
that ain't a Run DMC beat that's all beasties
Legends!!!!!!!!!
These guys are so legit and were SO FAR AHEAD of the game. Legit legends - Glad I saw them live.
Mt Rushmore of hip hop beats
this is from 1986 lol, listen to no sleep til brooklin
First time I heard “Drop it like it’s hot” it reminded me of this song. The beat is similar.
All the old heads were waiting to hear "Hold it now. Hold it now. Hold it now. HIT IT!"
I think there are only 2 Hold it nows.
Who was expecting Hold It Now 🎶🎵 at the end😂🙋♂️
🙋🏽♀️😄
Guilty! 😂
Moi.
Ditto
Of course
Great breakdancin song
Beastie Boys were big in the mid 80s. The first song of theirs I heard was Fight For Your Right (To Party).
This is the song on the album back in 1986 that if you couldn't recite this whole song,.........then you just were not cool. Nobody I knew cared much for the fight for your right song, but this, SHE"S CRAFTY, the NEW STYLE, and brass monkey were the shiners on this album.
It was a badge of honour
I don't understand why people don't get the Paul Revere title... their first album... thier first ride...
"Posse in Effect" drops just as hard. A couple of puffs on the Mary Jane nd you'll be nodding💯👌 Ah those were the days lol
It’s the backwards bass!! It’s the best!
This is not Run DMC's beat. This is exclusively Beastie Boys.
so, THE BEAT!!!! rick rubin was producing them back then, its an old ass production trick, record the 808, flip the analog tape on the 4 trak, then record over the reversed beat! AND YES, ITS BEASTIES BEAT!!!!!!!!
Haha thats the perfect reaction homie. That's hip-hop. ❤
Beasties was gangsta rap before gangsta rap. I'ma go so far as to say there wouldn't be gangsta rap without the Beastie Boys.
Check out 3mc's & 1dj next.
Piped in live as their performance for an Mtv music awards. 1take, 1record, 1dj, no beat machine. Pure. 100 percent Hip Hop from concentrate at it's finest, enjoy!
Storytelling!? Slick Rick - Childrens Story..Then Mona Lisa!!
This is their best
my #1 favorite Beastie Boys song!!!! yes!!! this was so awesome when it came out you have no idea lol. Great reaction!!!
I blew up so many subs with that reverse 808 😂
It's a Beastie Boys original beat.
Run, from RUN DMC was there when they recorded this. They used and 808 drum macine, and the boys wanted to reverse the beat. A legend was created.
Nah it McDaniels from Run DMC not Rev Run
This is OG backward beat
1989 high school graduate, listen to what keeps you young! Look at the album cover, plane identification says EATME, as a high school teen the Beasties Boys were the shit!
These guys are the "god father's of 'white rapper's'.😊
This song came out in 1986. This is 💯 the original. Beasties are 🔥
Bought the gate fold vinyl new BITD. Still have it. I remember playing this and my dad running in and yelling at me for messing with the turntable. 😂
Brass Monkey and Girls are great track from this album…the entire album is awesome TBH. She’s crafty is epic too.
Bs on the Run DMC comment. This is originally written and was done with a reverse tr808.
Taking it back!! Thank you, sir!
also notice at the end of the tune the tape warble!!! PPL pine for this effect today
Beasties Boys are 80s into 90s hip hop these are their beats even though this is the age of sampling that was really controversial between Rock and Pop artists feeling like the hip hop crews were stealing their work. Beasties Boys helped bring back a classic Rick band Aerosmith in a song called Walk This Way, a complete colab hit. Love you are discovering rap roots
Bangi'n grew up on fire
OG Beastie Boys, not Run DMC.
That is not Run DMC at all 😂 that is OG Beastie Boys using a 808 Drum machine
Ahhh, the reverse polarity subwoofer beat, is epic.
Ther's only a few years between the very first Hip Hop tracks and Paul Revere so it would be pretty hard for them to be swiping beats. Remember the Beasties were so early they discovered LL, and taught Public Enemy everything they know about touring.
Listen to New Style for some more hard beats from that 808
...and then Intergalatic since you'll know why they're known to let the beat......Mmmmmmmdrrrrrrrop!
Beasties are the OG
Beastie boys were before run dmc!
How could they be before? When in the Beastie Boys Film Mike D and Ad Rock stated they wanted to be like Run DMC and Russell Simmons was the Brother of Joseph Simmons, known as Run or DJ Run.
Same time
they are the greatest rap group of all time. and yes, they made that beat.
I always thought this was a Run DMC beat that the Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin played backwards.
You have to remember back then you couldn't just reverse sounds like that with a computer. If I'm not mistaken they were using reels. A lot of beats and samples had to be cut and spliced. Something like this was much more difficult to do at that time.
NWA used to perform a dirty version of this.
Yo … this isn’t Run DMC’s beat in any way shape or form… 🤣🤣🤣…this straight up 100% Beastie Boys flow
Classic...
Check out you got a right to party its a good one toobut its more rock but still rocks
This is Beastie Boys beat not Run-DMC, although Run-DMC did give them the song Slow and Low, that was originally written for Run-DMC, but they didn’t like it, so they gave it to the Beastie Boys who knocked it out of the park
The beat is all Beasties
Not a Run DMC beat, is a Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin beat.
Is Def Jam
It’s t la rocks it’s yours played backwards . Decades before lil Wayne
FIRE!!!
🔥
I thought this came out before run dmc. I've always thought it was a beastie boys beat. RIP MCA
i seen in the comments Run DMC, big fan of them too, its tricky lol
It was a reverse beat, sound amazing if you had a nice system
Favorite BB track! Easily one of the greatest albums ever released!
Glad you enjoyed it G! 🤘🏽⚜️🤘🏽
Beastie Boys are bad...brother...one of the originals from the days past
if you are gonna react to the boys .. next should be something off of Paul's Boutique ... by far their best album
The clear flow and storytelling aspect of old school hip hop is missing in today’s rap.
👍👍💯
It's a great sample right? It's yours by jazzy jay andscott la rock. and manntronix hardcore hip hop
this song has the most samples in history from what I know, Someone can correct me if im wrong.
they made the beat then copy rite under beat box sold to all rap hiphop all ales
Definitely not a Run DMC beat. Rick Rubin and the Beastie Boys produced it for this album.
E-40 is that be also.