Tip was in the studio with them, Mario C handed him a mic and he just started free styling. The boys then made some rhymes to fit into what they got from tip
The thing you need to remember though, is that this was in the era of the Album. The album mattered. People would come out with a single, but if the album sucked the artist was trash. Beasties made albums. Front to back classics. Do yourself a favor and listen to the entire album Front to Back uninterrupted. The instrumental tracks are perfectly placed. In fact, there is an entire collection of their instrumentals called "The In Sounds from Way Out" that is chill af by itself. You need to go down the Tribe Called Quest road too. All classic albums.
So as the legend goes... Beasties finally came to pittsburgh in '94. I had been a fan since '85 (2nd grade). These guys took the stage like savages on NY strip steak. About a third of the way through, Q-Tip comes out on cue and the crowd went insane. We didn't expect that. The whole lawn had already pushed up, but when he came out, the girls were takin' things off, the guys were matching the lyrics at top volume... it was dope. True Beasties. RIP Adam Yauch (MCA) and a special thanks to Q for one of the greatest days of my life. Real quick- another one was when I went to an Aerosmith show and RUN DMC came out to "Walk This Way", by surprise. Nearly lost my damn marbles. Saw both multiple times, but I love surprises on stage, just nowhere else 😂❤
I like how you said that volleyball analogy. Beastie Boys always did that shit and they did it perfectly. Their chemistry in the studio and performing live was out of this world!
Gotta be able to catch all those obscure pop culture references. When Mike D said "I'm the Grand Royal prez and I'm also a member" that was a tossback to an early 90's commercial for a hair loss cure. Catch phrase was "I'm not only the Hair Club for Men president, but I'm also a member"
@@TeezMcGee Yeah, he came in the studio to hang out, heard the beat, laid down a freestyle and then the Beasties cut it up and wrote their parts around it, from what I've heard. There's a video where they performed it live and Tip couldn't remember most of his parts, so he just kinda vamped and laughed through it, fun stuff. "Phone is ringing...ohmygod."
One of the things about the Beasties I love so much is that ability to trade off lines. You said you were expecting one verse then the next verse someone else, but one of the best things of the Beasties was their ability to trade off lines interchangeably. And Q-Tip was able to slip right in there with ease. A mark of a great MC. Talent all around.
First time I heard this was when I doing graffiti throwing up tags, listening to this on cassette in and around 1997. It just flicked a switch in my brain Thanks for sharing your analytics.
I think Q-tip mostly freestyling, the other guys probably not. Everyone hung out in the Beasties’ studio in the 90’s, I’m surprised we didn’t get more songs like this
Yeah apparently Q-Tip hung out there a lot and when he heard this beat he just wanted to freestyle and their engineer hit record. The other guys basically rapped around his vocals, probably not freestyle. Beastie Boys did all record their vocals together though, there's a glimpse of it in the Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun video.
at the time of this record the beasties had a tricked-out studio/clubhouse called G-Sun in los angeles, and Q-Tip would frequently drop by to play basketball (they had a hoop in the recording studio) and smoke weed and hang with the beasties. they were tight pals, so yes, they def had chemistry/telepathy going on.
A long way back I watched an interview on them. One of the questions was "How did you come up with the band?" They said it was a joke (as in they thought they would be laughed out of the hi-hop community) what was interesting was when they said, "they had no intention of selling & did not expect to sell any albums." Ironic.
It amazes me how so many people think that the Beastie Boys are more of a rock band. They DO have early harcore stuff, and they do instruments. But mainly, they've been all about hip hop. Came up with Run DMC, Public Enemy, etc. And also, Ad Rock worked on LL Cool Js first record, and was partly responsible for his signing.
When this came out by buddy and I were painting murals on walls at casinos along highway 61 next the the Mississippi river on a hot month in summer. We blared this from our box all day, couldnt stop. The locals thought we were crazy. We were.
Dude awesome!! You haven't done anything on Paul's Boutique yet (I think you've done something from most of their other main albums), so check out Shake Your Rump. You go from spare beats to more samples than you can even conceive. The entire album is a hip hop masterpiece.
we will keep on coming, you keep on the beasties catalog, and let us know what you really think on each one we dont just wanna hear 'everything is fantastic - next!' you are doin great and careful not to complain about youtube too much they might get mad lol
@@dannwalker9865 Well that settles it. I can’t imagine two or more people being wrong about the same thing! [Checks news feed] [Deletes comment] 😂 Happy 2021, everybody. Goodnight.
That is correct. They wanted Q-Tip to record a song with them and he finally agreed and they just let him off on the mic one night in the studio and then the Beasties added in their parts later. It's FIRE.
@@mariaanast276 Sure Shot, Flute Loop, Jimmy James, Finger Lickin’ Good, Root Down, Make Some Noise and Ch-Check It out are some good ones off the top of my head
Mike D on Drums. Adam Horovitz slangin that guitar. MCA droppin the BASSSSSSSS. They actually PLAYED the Instruments. DONT TRY THAT AT HOME Hip Hoppers. Smoother than a Hot Dog with no Mustard. BUT > at times they chose samples and cuts. Easy to do when you are the GOAT of the 80's.
I think I heard that q-tip recorded his section separately and then, likely the Beastie Boys recorded their together. But they were friends with Q-tip and he would hang out all the time at their studio in LA.
"Adrock's down with the Ione, listen to this shit because both of them is boney" Adrock was married to actress Ione Skye at the time this was recorded (they split in 1996)
Much respect for such a rare and splendid music taste...yes Beastie Boys were unique and they presented a joy of experimenting with music genres...especially with hip-hop. May I sugest one more hidden gem from the same album called 'Do it'. All the best
Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head and Ill Communication are my favorite albums from the B-Boys. Both Check your head and Ill communication is mostly recorded with real instruments while Paul's Boutique is almost all made out of samples. But all three are great!
AS AN O.G., HERE'S A HIMT: With the Beastie Boys, always expect the unexpected. Just when you think that you have them figured out, they change it up on you. This is done on purpose. They have stated as such.
They pick up the instruments for some songs and put em down for some. Some of their tracks are completely different styles of music. If you want to hear one that's COMPLETELY different listen to "I Don't Know". It's not hip hop or rock at all, just a super chill tune. You'd never guess it was them.
i think they said they just caught this on tape one night. It was mostly freestyle and unplanned. They have done a lot of interviews lately, they mention this and how they were just hanging and he came in and they just turned the mic on and went to it and go what they got.
Tip was in the studio with them, Mario C handed him a mic and he just started free styling. The boys then made some rhymes to fit into what they got from tip
"Phone is Ringing!! OMG !!" That was an ooops moment recorded that they threw back in the final mix. Q is freestylin the whole time.
Bro, one of the illest Hip Hop tracks ever on the greatest Hip Hop album....
The thing you need to remember though, is that this was in the era of the Album. The album mattered. People would come out with a single, but if the album sucked the artist was trash. Beasties made albums. Front to back classics. Do yourself a favor and listen to the entire album Front to Back uninterrupted. The instrumental tracks are perfectly placed. In fact, there is an entire collection of their instrumentals called "The In Sounds from Way Out" that is chill af by itself.
You need to go down the Tribe Called Quest road too. All classic albums.
And you could sample for "free".....
Tribe is dope 🤜🏼🤛🏼
You did it, hell yeah! This beat is so insane, and Q-Tip has so much swag in this track, and the Beastie Boys energy is so contagious.
The beats you hear on this track, 'instrument wise', what your humming to are Them. GOATS
So as the legend goes... Beasties finally came to pittsburgh in '94. I had been a fan since '85 (2nd grade). These guys took the stage like savages on NY strip steak. About a third of the way through, Q-Tip comes out on cue and the crowd went insane. We didn't expect that. The whole lawn had already pushed up, but when he came out, the girls were takin' things off, the guys were matching the lyrics at top volume... it was dope. True Beasties. RIP Adam Yauch (MCA) and a special thanks to Q for one of the greatest days of my life. Real quick- another one was when I went to an Aerosmith show and RUN DMC came out to "Walk This Way", by surprise. Nearly lost my damn marbles. Saw both multiple times, but I love surprises on stage, just nowhere else 😂❤
I like how you said that volleyball analogy. Beastie Boys always did that shit and they did it perfectly. Their chemistry in the studio and performing live was out of this world!
Gotta be able to catch all those obscure pop culture references. When Mike D said "I'm the Grand Royal prez and I'm also a member" that was a tossback to an early 90's commercial for a hair loss cure. Catch phrase was "I'm not only the Hair Club for Men president, but I'm also a member"
Q-Tips verses were a straight one-take freestyle. Fucking excellent shit man.
woooooooooooooooow are you shxtting me????
@@TeezMcGee nah man. One take
@@TeezMcGee Yeah, he came in the studio to hang out, heard the beat, laid down a freestyle and then the Beasties cut it up and wrote their parts around it, from what I've heard. There's a video where they performed it live and Tip couldn't remember most of his parts, so he just kinda vamped and laughed through it, fun stuff.
"Phone is ringing...ohmygod."
I heard the same one take
Yeah, the B Boys always make each other shine.., the ultimate ensemble.
Beasties go back and forth, playing their instruments and beats!
They are having a rebirth like so many have for the past 2 years ..A total rediscovery of every thing .
One of the things about the Beasties I love so much is that ability to trade off lines. You said you were expecting one verse then the next verse someone else, but one of the best things of the Beasties was their ability to trade off lines interchangeably. And Q-Tip was able to slip right in there with ease. A mark of a great MC. Talent all around.
Their ability to trade off makes it as if the 3 merge into 1 MC. Crazy how they were able to do that.
First time I heard this was when I doing graffiti throwing up tags, listening to this on cassette in and around 1997. It just flicked a switch in my brain
Thanks for sharing your analytics.
Yes. 🙌🏼🔥
R.I.P. MCA 🙏🏼❤
Love the reaction…my fav song on the album
might be my favorite track from the album.
I think Q-tip mostly freestyling, the other guys probably not. Everyone hung out in the Beasties’ studio in the 90’s, I’m surprised we didn’t get more songs like this
Yeah apparently Q-Tip hung out there a lot and when he heard this beat he just wanted to freestyle and their engineer hit record. The other guys basically rapped around his vocals, probably not freestyle.
Beastie Boys did all record their vocals together though, there's a glimpse of it in the Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun video.
@@balohna That by definition is freestyle if they're tossing lyrics back and forth.
I'm pretty sure Q-Tip never performed this the same twice cause he was free styling here and never remembered what he said the first time
Definitely my favorite hip hop track.
Happy Birthday! Great choice!
Yea bro. Deep cuts. Happy bday man
Thanks for letting the song mostly play 👍
Best beastie song ever. 😊😊😊
Oh yeah...Happy Birthday!
When Qtip backs em off with the quills . . . oh my god
Transitions on vocals.. I mean my god... so crazy talented.. these boys did this without the equipment we've got now..
Listen to Gratitude. Thank me later.
at the time of this record the beasties had a tricked-out studio/clubhouse called G-Sun in los angeles, and Q-Tip would frequently drop by to play basketball (they had a hoop in the recording studio) and smoke weed and hang with the beasties. they were tight pals, so yes, they def had chemistry/telepathy going on.
A long way back I watched an interview on them. One of the questions was "How did you come up with the band?" They said it was a joke (as in they thought they would be laughed out of the hi-hop community) what was interesting was when they said, "they had no intention of selling & did not expect to sell any albums." Ironic.
It amazes me how so many people think that the Beastie Boys are more of a rock band. They DO have early harcore stuff, and they do instruments. But mainly, they've been all about hip hop. Came up with Run DMC, Public Enemy, etc. And also, Ad Rock worked on LL Cool Js first record, and was partly responsible for his signing.
When this came out by buddy and I were painting murals on walls at casinos along highway 61 next the the Mississippi river on a hot month in summer. We blared this from our box all day, couldnt stop. The locals thought we were crazy. We were.
btw... That is Q-Tip from Tribe Called Quest guest rapping on that.
Tip is the man!
Dude awesome!! You haven't done anything on Paul's Boutique yet (I think you've done something from most of their other main albums), so check out Shake Your Rump. You go from spare beats to more samples than you can even conceive. The entire album is a hip hop masterpiece.
High plains drifter, fire.
Happy Birthday Mad Man! Great call in this reaction. Its a sample song but the album is diverse with lots of spacy jazz instrumentals. Cheers!
Appreciate you fam! Thank you!
My favorite song from beastie boys straight bars 🔥🔥 plus QTIP dope!
YES
I always found weird that Mario Caldato is almost an anonimous person in Brazil. He's a master.
Please listen To B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak
Beastie Boys = pure genius
This is my favorite BB song
we will keep on coming, you keep on the beasties catalog, and let us know what you really think on each one we dont just wanna hear 'everything is fantastic - next!' you are doin great and careful not to complain about youtube too much they might get mad lol
Love this track, great reaction Teez ❤️ Yeah Q-Tip freestyled his lines on this. That’s 8 for 8 now 😃🔥🔥🔥
Appreciate the feedback fam, thank you
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong but I think this was a Q-Tip freestyle that they built the song around.
I think I read that somewhere as well..
@@dannwalker9865 Well that settles it. I can’t imagine two or more people being wrong about the same thing!
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😂 Happy 2021, everybody. Goodnight.
Q was hanging out at the studio. He liked the beat. He recorded his lines and the Beasties their lines around what he laid down.
@@DocRobert 🤣😂
That is correct. They wanted Q-Tip to record a song with them and he finally agreed and they just let him off on the mic one night in the studio and then the Beasties added in their parts later. It's FIRE.
"I FREAK A FUCKIN BEAT LIKE THE SHIT WAS IN THE BLENDER" - CONFUCIUS
Q-tip freestyled it and the BBs when back in and wrote parts to interact with his take.
The remix to this is pretty hardcore as well!
I dont need headphones to hear that bass I built my own kick ass speakers
lmaooooooooo
great to see the beastie boys love!
Just to see how they started, check out Pollywog Stew, the first album. They were a hardcore punk rock band. Yes, I'm old.😅
My favorite beastie boys track right here the phone is ringing oh my god
YESSS! been asking for this for time..
This album was my freshman year of high school. I wasn't big into rap but I always loved the beasties.
They have always use a mix of live instruments and traditional hip hop beats since their 3rd album onward
LOL IM HARD CORE ROCK BUT BEASTIES BOYS STILL HERE FOR ME
Excellent!
Jimmy James let’s go
Beatie Boys have way more songs with straight hip-hop beats, you've just heard the rock beats
Curious, could you suggest the songs that have a straight hip hop beats? Thank you.
@@mariaanast276 Sure Shot, Flute Loop, Jimmy James, Finger Lickin’ Good, Root Down, Make Some Noise and Ch-Check It out are some good ones off the top of my head
yeah, i'd say their catalogue is like 85% hip-hop, 15% rock/hip-hop
Paul's boutique is a heavily sampled album
Paul revere has a sic hip hop beat
I love this album
Mike D on Drums. Adam Horovitz slangin that guitar. MCA droppin the BASSSSSSSS. They actually PLAYED the Instruments. DONT TRY THAT AT HOME Hip Hoppers. Smoother than a Hot Dog with no Mustard. BUT > at times they chose samples and cuts. Easy to do when you are the GOAT of the 80's.
I think I heard that q-tip recorded his section separately and then, likely the Beastie Boys recorded their together. But they were friends with Q-tip and he would hang out all the time at their studio in LA.
The abstract / q-tip silky smooth on the mic. Maybe you should do some tribe called quest!!
Make some noise is a good song with a good music video as well.
"Adrock's down with the Ione, listen to this shit because both of them is boney" Adrock was married to actress Ione Skye at the time this was recorded (they split in 1996)
They play instruments but sometimes they just rap to a smooth beat.. versatile yo..
Much respect for such a rare and splendid music taste...yes Beastie Boys were unique and they presented a joy of experimenting with music genres...especially with hip-hop.
May I sugest one more hidden gem from the same album called 'Do it'.
All the best
Appreciate you fam!
Hey Teez, you should check out the performance of them performing Sucker MC's to pay tribute to Run-DMC. It's super dope.
The beat sound with Nas on too many rappers is wild.
The Song "Too Many Rappers" featuring NAS is the last thing they ever did...2014 then MCA died shortly After :(
Mic master mic is the instrument.
Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head and Ill Communication are my favorite albums from the B-Boys. Both Check your head and Ill communication is mostly recorded with real instruments while Paul's Boutique is almost all made out of samples. But all three are great!
I freakin love this song! Q tip!!
Alive.. is a great one
Listen to their album the mix up all instrumentals all great
Also, there is a part that features an Eastern insteument from Tibet. There are other songs that deature this sound more prominently.
AS AN O.G., HERE'S A HIMT: With the Beastie Boys, always expect the unexpected. Just when you think that you have them figured out, they change it up on you. This is done on purpose. They have stated as such.
You need to hear "alright Hear This" and Flute Loop" from the same album even if you don't record it.
Flute Loop. Great song
You really need to check out the Paul's Boutique album, that is really hip hop production
The album this is frpm is suppised to be like an okd mixtape with diff genres. Gotta listen to a whole album
🔥⚡ cool.
🎵❤✌
You should check out "lighten up" from the beasties it is great
Doing good on these reactions! Maybe try Sir mix a lot “Posse on Broadway” there’s a rad video! Classic rappin’
They pick up the instruments for some songs and put em down for some. Some of their tracks are completely different styles of music. If you want to hear one that's COMPLETELY different listen to "I Don't Know". It's not hip hop or rock at all, just a super chill tune. You'd never guess it was them.
Do "Alive" by Beastie Boys as well
Sadly all the audio type videos have their comments shut in YT. I don't know why. It's with all the artists not just bboys. It really does suck :(
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🎶🎵🎼🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤🎵🎼🎶
Try root down and check out the video version. It will help you see what they're about.
yep q tip freestyled then they flowed around it
MCA !
Go album by album they grow amd do different things with each one
this song was written in one pass, with everybody WAAAAYYY too high. It was total freestyle according to Qtip.
Love that geode! I can make you a cake like that.
They would switch between mix master Mike, and real instruments. They only use guitar, bass, and drums on some songs.
i think they said they just caught this on tape one night. It was mostly freestyle and unplanned. They have done a lot of interviews lately, they mention this and how they were just hanging and he came in and they just turned the mic on and went to it and go what they got.
Fuckin MCA here
THEY MADE MILLIONS JUST FOR THAT
Happy Birthday!! Do "She's Crafty" & "MMM Drop" please
So sad MCA gone 😢