you mention LL, he was there to induct the Beastie's into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and said that they were the ones to get him on Def Jam Records
I would highly recommend "Pass the Mic," "Shake Your Rump," and "Sure Shot." These guys smashed boundaries, genres, and expectations for over 30 years.
The Beastie Boys put out eight albums from 1986 through 2011. They went platinum, double platinum, triple platinum, and even diamond. They are the best selling wrap group of all time. LL Cool J got his career because of the Beastie Boys. This video came out in 1998.
Let’s not forget their debut Licence To Ill was the FIRST rap album to top the billboard chart. A feat made even more amazing because they had no headlining tour under their belts & had only had minimal airplay. I got to see them multiple times & they were always on point. I’d give anything to go back & witness the tour they did under the name ‘Quasar’, where they played all their old hardcore punk songs & a bunch of hardcore covers.
@@ebross4236Licence To Ill was certified Diamond by by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2015 for shipping over ten million copies in the United States. It was also first rap LP to top the Billboard album chart, and was the second rap album to become a platinum album in the US. It was also certified 2 x Platinum in Canada!!
Beastie Boys introduced LL to Rick rubens and got him his start. The video was filmed in Tokyo. Check out "3mcs & 1 dj" piped in live as their performance for an Mtv awards , 1dj, 1 record, 1 take, no beat machine. "The new style" to see why they let the beat mmmmmdddrrrrrrop! "Paul revere" "Root down" "Get it together" feat Q Tip
Rhyming and stealing, no sleep till Brooklyn, staring down the barrel, sabotage, car thief , could go on for ages Beastie boys have very few sleepers. Their song gratitude shows how incredibly talented they are playing their own instruments
Looks like they’re at Shinjuku station in Tokyo. The busiest transport hub in the world. Can’t help wondering what all the local commuters thought about these guys - they’re dressed up in Japanese railway workers’ suits 😂😂 I love the Beastie Boys so much. 🙏🙏
This was 1998. You guys should go back to the first album from 1986. So many hits from that one and you can see the progression of hip hop just by listening to their albums in order. These guys are pioneers.
Beastie Boys are the highest selling rap group of all time. Chuck D and LL Cool J inducted them into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame, being the third rap group to ever do so. The Beastie Boys actually discovered LL Cool J. They toured with NWA and Public Enemy and the Roots. They were friends with Rick Rubin in college before he went on to start Def Jam records and immediately signed the Boys. They have seven platinum-selling albums, one diamond, from 1986 to 2004. They are the biggest-selling rap group since Billboard began recording sales in 1991 and the first to have a rap album go to #1. They are true hip hop ROYALTY. Ya'll just stumbled on to the Larry Bird of rap groups. Next up check out Brass Monkey, Intergalactic, Sure Shot, and Shake Your Rump.
Yes, please please edo more beastie boys. Massive catalog, top tier songs and videos. Lots of comedy with some of the sickest beats, lots of musical fusion too. Plenty to work with and lots to choose from, pretty much cznt go wrong with a beastie boys song.
The Beastie Boys 1978-2012. First platinum selling rap album of all time. Def Jam records was started with them and Run Dmc. They discovered LL Cool J. The Elvis Presley's of hip hop. This song is from the mid 90s.
they hooked up in 1981 as a punk rock band, released a single in 1983, but it was the album: Licensed to ill- which exploded them onto the scene & on billboard top 100 in 1986 the year i graduated from high school (yes I'm as old as dirt! lol! ) besides I know this becuz i have some of their early LP"S on Vinyl!!!!
@jameshowell4854 But were not around in 78 as I first mentioned. You commented like I was full of 💩. You've obviously done your research using Google or some such engine. Gfy
Legit legends - Beastie Boys army is huge just like their list of bangers. Hip Hop DX has a video called "The greatest group ever" that breaks it down better than anyone.
Check out "3 MCs and One DJ". The video is one take, with no production at all, just four cameras, one for each rapper and for their one DJ. Pure talent on display.
Beastie Boys started out as a hardcore punk band; having grown up in NYC they were exposed the hardcore scene & supported Bad Brains, the Dead Kennedys, the Misfits and Reagan Youth at venues such as CBGB, A7, Trude Heller's and Max's Kansas City. Their first hip hop track was ‘Cooky Puss’ & it became an underground phenomenon. So the band decided to incorporate rap into their hardcore sets…..enlisting their friend Rick Rubin to DJ for them (yes, the same Rick Rubin who’d co found Def Jam & found both American & Columbia Records) It’s worth noting that when Beastie Boys debut album ‘Licence To Ill’ was released on November 15, 1986, by Def Jam and Columbia Records it became the first rap LP to top the Billboard album chart. A feat they accomplished with no headlining tour & minimal airplay. Back in the early/mid 90s, Beastie Boys toured under the name ‘Quasar’ & played sets made up of hardcore punk covers & their own hardcore songs. Let’s just say, so many people turned up at shows expecting a regular Beastie Boys show….only to find the sets missing all of their rap songs. I was fortunate enough to see them live on several occasions (In The Round Tour & Reading Festival’98 being two of the best) & they were always on point!!! The Beastie Boys Book is well worth a read.
What makes Beastie Boys so special is that they are a punk group that did rap. They are original in context of melding to worlds. Back in the day at places like CBJBs in NYC hip hop and punk rock were played at the same venues. Mainstream music was too busy with artist like Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, British New Wave, and hair bands. Beastie boys were originally signed with Def Records and were one of the first groups on that label. Ironically, in your video you mentioned a few things. 1) The biggest influencer of the beastie boys at this period was Run DMB. 2) Emienem's kamikaze album cover art was an reference to Beastie Boys License to Ill (my personal favorite album by Beastie Boys). 3) LL Cool J owes his intial success to the Beastie Boys for taking him on tour with him. This helped LL Cool J reach a mainstream audience. The Beastie Boys were able to maintain credit by both the Punk Rock World and the Hip Hop World. Most white MCs come of as fake like Vanilla Ice, but the beastie boys were able to be themselves and showed it was a love of hip hop and hip hop culture. They gave in edge to party music with their punk rock underpinnings. LL COOL J and Public Enemy were the ones that inducted Beastie Boys into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Right on. I saw them at some dive in NYC in when Kate was still their drummer. 1983 I think. I hope she is doing good. Imagine walking around as an older woman that has "Founding member of Beasties Boys" on your resumé.
song so what you want live with cypress hill best song and beastie boys energy ....nobody reacting to this and its my favorite .... you guys will love it
Facts, they were great and brought LL and other acts on. LL was probably the best that I can think of. I know this isn't a beastie boys channel, but I saw them in '94 and Q-Tip came out for "Get It Together" and Cypress Hill jammed for "So Whatcha Want" with a whole different beat and vibe and verses. It was killer. Look up "Get It Together". Great reaction 🎉
Beastie boys were poppin in the 80’s? Dude… 😂 They were HUGE in the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s… That’s called the call and respond rap style. This was in TOKYO. This video is an omage to Godzilla movies.
u might already know this from all the others, but the video was made in 1998 & it was NOT filmed in the big apple, but @ the bus & train stations of downtown Tokyo, Japan!!
This style that you are referring to that seems the “same” for everyone back in the ‘80’s was how kids used to improv rap in groups just gathered on the street or at school. You have a basic cadence/beat that usually someone would beatbox, and mcs would take turns improv rapping. Looking back it was amazing. Other people around might dance
Beasties are hip hop pioneers. They had a huge influence on the music today. They are up there with the best and are often snubbed in “Top 50” hip hop all time lists. They had fun and loved making original music that was always very different than what was happening in different areas of the genre. I wasn’t a huge fan of Beastie Boy fan, but I can’t ignore their greatness. Paul Revere is one of the best songs ever.
It amazes me how so few people ever mention that the rhyme scheme is the same throughout each verse, often with strings of the same doubles. Front to back, each verse is one rhyme. 1: "ile" 2: "een" 3: "op/ock"
I would say that the styles of Hip hop really started to differentiate more in the 90s. Before that most rappers stuck to the styles of what came just before. During and after the 90s the styles (flow, cadence, delivery and rhyme schemes) started to be more localized and sounds from different regions (Atlanta, Memphis, Compton, Midwest, etc) picked up and widened the culture and art form. These regional styles is what created Boom bap, Trap, Drill, Chopped and Screwed, G-funk, etc. You could say Beastie Boys are the one that brought up Rock Rap as a genre; of course mileage may vary on what came after. It is worth noting how even the greats will give this group their flowers as they weren't a copy cat and they pushed the genre forward due to their early impact. They were making music when it wasn't a 'profitable genre' to jump into. They also definitely respected the others in the genre. In the midst of the 90s to the 2000s you got what can be considered a Golden era where many of the major artists had a completely different style and sound: LL, Ice Cube, Jay Z, Nas, Biggie, Pac, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, DMX, Nelly, Eminem, 50cent, etc. I think things went a little bit backwards when you got a newer generation started to try to all copy Designer and the Migos at the same time and we got that mumble craze for a couple years. There have always been people copying styles but it was just much more noticeable at that time. Hell, Ja Rule was famously picked a part in his beef with Shady/Aftermath for trying so hard to fit Pac's style (even though his voice was kind of shit and couldn't really sing).
It’s called switching off back ups. You could also dance to all these songs, and hook up with some fur at the end of the night if you could bust some moves. 80s rap usually would have a long outro beat, so you could flow because there is no way to get beats, there was no Internet.
Early 80s this was a style of rapping but there are many different spitters. The ones who reallyyyy changed the game are Rakim, KRS-One & Kool G Rap. Also this song came out in 1998 I believe.
The story is, they walked into the Chinese Subway and just started recording the video. When they were done, they walked away and left everybody confused.😂
the way I was yelling when you said everyone raps the same cuz y’all don’t know they’re one of the OGs of this style. I know you know now based on comments, but that was both funny and frustrating lol.
This came out in the summer of 1998 (not near the 80s) right before my freshman year of high school, however I think this song slid under the radar by most of kids in. my class since the mainstream was becoming hyper-pop and swinging out of grunge, yet keeping within hip-hop but younger groups- this was around my area though bec I know it was on the top billboard somewhere.I have always loved this song for the lyrics and the innovative videos, like this one referencing Japanese Kaiju and set it in Japan etc. The video reminded me a lot of Power Rangers too. Also, they started in the '80s as a punk band! And they did have a lot of songs in the early 90s too that were experimental in many genres as they grew and meshed them between different albums/songs. Check out "Get it Together", "Root Down", "Paul Revere", ....fun, weird, a group people knew about for decades. Sadly MDA or Mike D died of cancer, in 2012 pretty young at 47.
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You recognize the flow because they are one of the groups that started it
This ❤
Popular from 80's through 2000's and beyond. Everyone knew who they were. They started almost everything in this genre.
you mention LL, he was there to induct the Beastie's into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and said that they were the ones to get him on Def Jam Records
Like Beastie Boys - LL Cool J went way back - I saw Run DMC, Beastie Boys and LL Cool J perform live at the same concert in 1986.
Adrock is the one who gave Rick Rueben LLs demo tape and recomended him and Adrock programmed the drum machine for I Need a Beat
No Beasties = No LL 😮
@@robotoad72 exactly. adrock was the one. absent him, no LL.
TRUTH
I highly suggest this rabbit hole, gentlemen.
Got you appreciate the comment
This is from 1998. And that's Japan, not New York
Appreciate the comment
You beat me to saying it.
I would highly recommend "Pass the Mic," "Shake Your Rump," and "Sure Shot." These guys smashed boundaries, genres, and expectations for over 30 years.
The Beastie Boys put out eight albums from 1986 through 2011. They went platinum, double platinum, triple platinum, and even diamond. They are the best selling wrap group of all time. LL Cool J got his career because of the Beastie Boys. This video came out in 1998.
Remember the channel called The Box where you'd call and request music videos.
That’s not true.
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Let’s not forget their debut Licence To Ill was the FIRST rap album to top the billboard chart. A feat made even more amazing because they had no headlining tour under their belts & had only had minimal airplay.
I got to see them multiple times & they were always on point. I’d give anything to go back & witness the tour they did under the name ‘Quasar’, where they played all their old hardcore punk songs & a bunch of hardcore covers.
@@ebross4236Licence To Ill was certified Diamond by by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2015 for shipping over ten million copies in the United States. It was also first rap LP to top the Billboard album chart, and was the second rap album to become a platinum album in the US.
It was also certified 2 x Platinum in Canada!!
Beastie Boys introduced LL to Rick rubens and got him his start. The video was filmed in Tokyo.
Check out "3mcs & 1 dj" piped in live as their performance for an Mtv awards , 1dj, 1 record, 1 take, no beat machine.
"The new style" to see why they let the beat mmmmmdddrrrrrrop!
"Paul revere" "Root down" "Get it together" feat Q Tip
Rhyming and stealing, no sleep till Brooklyn, staring down the barrel, sabotage, car thief , could go on for ages Beastie boys have very few sleepers. Their song gratitude shows how incredibly talented they are playing their own instruments
🌴actually this is shot in the Japan subway area.Jaonese are some of the mist devoted fans🌴
Mike D and his wife, 'Tammy D getting biz on the crop' shot and edited the video. That was in a Tokyo train station.
Looks like they’re at Shinjuku station in Tokyo. The busiest transport hub in the world. Can’t help wondering what all the local commuters thought about these guys - they’re dressed up in Japanese railway workers’ suits 😂😂 I love the Beastie Boys so much. 🙏🙏
3MCs and 1 DJ. It is fire!
Next reaction should be 3mcs and 1 dj!!!! Thank youuuuuu for reacting to the GREAT BEASTIE BOYS ❤❤❤❤❤❤
This was 1998. You guys should go back to the first album from 1986. So many hits from that one and you can see the progression of hip hop just by listening to their albums in order. These guys are pioneers.
Beastie Boys are the highest selling rap group of all time. Chuck D and LL Cool J inducted them into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame, being the third rap group to ever do so. The Beastie Boys actually discovered LL Cool J. They toured with NWA and Public Enemy and the Roots. They were friends with Rick Rubin in college before he went on to start Def Jam records and immediately signed the Boys. They have seven platinum-selling albums, one diamond, from 1986 to 2004. They are the biggest-selling rap group since Billboard began recording sales in 1991 and the first to have a rap album go to #1. They are true hip hop ROYALTY. Ya'll just stumbled on to the Larry Bird of rap groups. Next up check out Brass Monkey, Intergalactic, Sure Shot, and Shake Your Rump.
They also pushed for human rights by starting the Tibetan Freedom Festival. MCA forever.
So Whatcha Want, gotta be next. 3 Mcs and 1 DJ too
This song is straight from the sewers of NYC real hip-hop 🐊
Yes, please please edo more beastie boys. Massive catalog, top tier songs and videos. Lots of comedy with some of the sickest beats, lots of musical fusion too. Plenty to work with and lots to choose from, pretty much cznt go wrong with a beastie boys song.
The Beastie Boys 1978-2012. First platinum selling rap album of all time. Def Jam records was started with them and Run Dmc. They discovered LL Cool J. The Elvis Presley's of hip hop. This song is from the mid 90s.
Ad Rock played the 808 drum machine on LL's first hit, I need a beat.
Beasties weren't around in 78. I'm 60 now and I was 14 in 78. Believe me when I say. The Beasties weren't around in 78.
they hooked up in 1981 as a punk rock band, released a single in 1983, but it was the album: Licensed to ill- which exploded them onto the scene & on billboard top 100 in 1986 the year i graduated from high school (yes I'm as old as dirt! lol! ) besides I know this becuz i have some of their early LP"S on Vinyl!!!!
@jameshowell4854 But were not around in 78 as I first mentioned. You commented like I was full of 💩. You've obviously done your research using Google or some such engine. Gfy
Love the Beastie Boys, but Raising Hell was the first rap platinum.
3 MC's & 1 DJ!
Actually I think this video was filmed in Tokyo. And the pedestrians look very confused about the Beastie Boys dancing in the subway and stuff.
golden age of EVERYTHING.
3 mc's and 1 dj video is fire. Or so whatcha want. They have a ton of great songs.
You must check out their track “Paul Revere”
Im so glad you guys reacting to them!!😊 y'all got to hear Paul Revere-Beastie boys❤
Legit legends - Beastie Boys army is huge just like their list of bangers. Hip Hop DX has a video called "The greatest group ever" that breaks it down better than anyone.
Gotta do "3MCs and 1 DJ"
Gotta do it!
Got you family
I like how you guys interact with the songs and each other, much love.
Check out "3 MCs and One DJ". The video is one take, with no production at all, just four cameras, one for each rapper and for their one DJ. Pure talent on display.
I recommend "So whatcha want" "The new style" there are so many. "Brass Monkey "
Great reaction ….💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 check out Beastie Boys ft. Q-Tip
“Get It Together” or “Root Down” ❤️🔥❤️
Ok will do
Beastie Boys epic forever! ❤
Root Down is a FIRE homage to everything hip hop..... Beastie Boys are LEGENDS!
Thank you for the insight appreciate the comment
Love seeing brothers tripping on the Beastie Boys! Hip hop 101! With a twist!
When Beasties were getting into hiphop, Run DMC taught them how to rap. Your comparison is very accurate here.
One of my favorite songs. I made the robot "Intergalactic" sound into the ringtone on my phone 😁
2:48 absolutely, it is Tokyo Japan because there Japanese people everywhere and Japanese writing everywhere
My wedding song! 🖖🏻
Beastie Boys started out as a hardcore punk band; having grown up in NYC they were exposed the hardcore scene & supported Bad Brains, the Dead Kennedys, the Misfits and Reagan Youth at venues such as CBGB, A7, Trude Heller's and Max's Kansas City.
Their first hip hop track was ‘Cooky Puss’ & it became an underground phenomenon. So the band decided to incorporate rap into their hardcore sets…..enlisting their friend Rick Rubin to DJ for them (yes, the same Rick Rubin who’d co found Def Jam & found both American & Columbia Records)
It’s worth noting that when Beastie Boys debut album ‘Licence To Ill’ was released on November 15, 1986, by Def Jam and Columbia Records it became the first rap LP to top the Billboard album chart. A feat they accomplished with no headlining tour & minimal airplay.
Back in the early/mid 90s, Beastie Boys toured under the name ‘Quasar’ & played sets made up of hardcore punk covers & their own hardcore songs. Let’s just say, so many people turned up at shows expecting a regular Beastie Boys show….only to find the sets missing all of their rap songs.
I was fortunate enough to see them live on several occasions (In The Round Tour & Reading Festival’98 being two of the best) & they were always on point!!!
The Beastie Boys Book is well worth a read.
It was Ad Rock that helped LL Cool J first get into the music industry. LL always mentions his appreciation to him for this.
You all should do High Plains Drifter by Beastie's..super sick.
Yo crecí con los Beastie boys
You can't call yourselves real Hip-hop heads if you don't know what a B-Boy Stance is.🤣 Great reaction tho 😎
Liked and subbed. Reacting to Beastie Boys = Earned my respect.
What makes Beastie Boys so special is that they are a punk group that did rap. They are original in context of melding to worlds. Back in the day at places like CBJBs in NYC hip hop and punk rock were played at the same venues. Mainstream music was too busy with artist like Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, British New Wave, and hair bands. Beastie boys were originally signed with Def Records and were one of the first groups on that label. Ironically, in your video you mentioned a few things. 1) The biggest influencer of the beastie boys at this period was Run DMB. 2) Emienem's kamikaze album cover art was an reference to Beastie Boys License to Ill (my personal favorite album by Beastie Boys). 3) LL Cool J owes his intial success to the Beastie Boys for taking him on tour with him. This helped LL Cool J reach a mainstream audience. The Beastie Boys were able to maintain credit by both the Punk Rock World and the Hip Hop World. Most white MCs come of as fake like Vanilla Ice, but the beastie boys were able to be themselves and showed it was a love of hip hop and hip hop culture. They gave in edge to party music with their punk rock underpinnings. LL COOL J and Public Enemy were the ones that inducted Beastie Boys into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Right on. I saw them at some dive in NYC in when Kate was still their drummer. 1983 I think. I hope she is doing good. Imagine walking around as an older woman that has "Founding member of Beasties Boys" on your resumé.
Beastie boys were so dope I’m an old head I grew up with them and run DMC ll cool jay kurtis blow etc etc …nice reaction
Give this song a listen on Spotify. At the end is a cut from the studio with Biz talking about how they should do that echo effect in this song.
Them, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Ludacris with their crazy ass videos made the world a better place for me back then.
You should check out their song Whatcha Want
song so what you want live with cypress hill best song and beastie boys energy ....nobody reacting to this and its my favorite .... you guys will love it
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The video harkens back to old Japanese sci to godzilla era movies, was filmed in Japan and that was the beastie boys inside the robot as well
It's so great when reactors discover the great shit I grew up with. Keep it up. Next up should be The New Style or NO sleep Till Brooklyn.
2024 needs more BOOM-BAP!
Definitely check out Paul Revere by the Beastie Boys
Facts, they were great and brought LL and other acts on. LL was probably the best that I can think of. I know this isn't a beastie boys channel, but I saw them in '94 and Q-Tip came out for "Get It Together" and Cypress Hill jammed for "So Whatcha Want" with a whole different beat and vibe and verses. It was killer. Look up "Get It Together". Great reaction 🎉
This is SUCH a banger LESSGO! Best song hands down though, is called Paul Revere. Please check it. :)
It's that boom, bap, sound! Old school
You gotta check out Beastie Boys live in Amsterdam! Search, you will really see what's up.
Beastie boys were poppin in the 80’s? Dude… 😂 They were HUGE in the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s… That’s called the call and respond rap style. This was in TOKYO. This video is an omage to Godzilla movies.
Yeah, and the robot popping and locking - doing the robot.
This isn't 80's- this is Beastie. It's own style. Timeless
I think this was possibly filmed in Tokyo. Great reaction.
The BIGGEST difference here is that Beastie Boys were actual musicians!
3 MC's and 1 DJ.....if you want a raw Beastie Boys hip hop experience
u might already know this from all the others, but the video was made in 1998 & it was NOT filmed in the big apple, but @ the bus & train stations of downtown Tokyo, Japan!!
video shot in Japan! they're spoofing those old 60s monster movies, like where Godzilla would fight some weird giant creature
They were one of eminem influences
Beastie Boys - an open letter to NYC
Check out Paul Revere by the beastie boys, probably their best song
Love them 💜💜💜
Their second album, Paul's Boutique is a absolute classic.
This style that you are referring to that seems the “same” for everyone back in the ‘80’s was how kids used to improv rap in groups just gathered on the street or at school. You have a basic cadence/beat that usually someone would beatbox, and mcs would take turns improv rapping. Looking back it was amazing. Other people around might dance
The first song playing is a famous song composed in 1867 by Mussorgsky called Night on Bald Mountain. It's on a lot of modern media.
You know what’s funny? In 30 years, ppl will look back and say ‘all the rappers/hiphop from the 2020s sounded the same’ 😁
Beasties are hip hop pioneers. They had a huge influence on the music today. They are up there with the best and are often snubbed in “Top 50” hip hop all time lists. They had fun and loved making original music that was always very different than what was happening in different areas of the genre. I wasn’t a huge fan of Beastie Boy fan, but I can’t ignore their greatness. Paul Revere is one of the best songs ever.
They seem dope fureal we appreciate your comment
The public shots were done in Japan. (& also on green screen). This was from the late 90’s, not the 80’s.
They need to run through the first three albums. It's a hell of an evolution.
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It amazes me how so few people ever mention that the rhyme scheme is the same throughout each verse, often with strings of the same doubles. Front to back, each verse is one rhyme. 1: "ile" 2: "een" 3: "op/ock"
I would say that the styles of Hip hop really started to differentiate more in the 90s. Before that most rappers stuck to the styles of what came just before. During and after the 90s the styles (flow, cadence, delivery and rhyme schemes) started to be more localized and sounds from different regions (Atlanta, Memphis, Compton, Midwest, etc) picked up and widened the culture and art form. These regional styles is what created Boom bap, Trap, Drill, Chopped and Screwed, G-funk, etc. You could say Beastie Boys are the one that brought up Rock Rap as a genre; of course mileage may vary on what came after. It is worth noting how even the greats will give this group their flowers as they weren't a copy cat and they pushed the genre forward due to their early impact. They were making music when it wasn't a 'profitable genre' to jump into. They also definitely respected the others in the genre.
In the midst of the 90s to the 2000s you got what can be considered a Golden era where many of the major artists had a completely different style and sound: LL, Ice Cube, Jay Z, Nas, Biggie, Pac, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, DMX, Nelly, Eminem, 50cent, etc.
I think things went a little bit backwards when you got a newer generation started to try to all copy Designer and the Migos at the same time and we got that mumble craze for a couple years. There have always been people copying styles but it was just much more noticeable at that time. Hell, Ja Rule was famously picked a part in his beef with Shady/Aftermath for trying so hard to fit Pac's style (even though his voice was kind of shit and couldn't really sing).
It’s called switching off back ups. You could also dance to all these songs, and hook up with some fur at the end of the night if you could bust some moves. 80s rap usually would have a long outro beat, so you could flow because there is no way to get beats, there was no Internet.
They not the same as everybody fool, those Legends started it.
Early 80s this was a style of rapping but there are many different spitters. The ones who reallyyyy changed the game are Rakim, KRS-One & Kool G Rap. Also this song came out in 1998 I believe.
If you notice the video is set in Japan... it's pretty much making fun of the old Gozilla movies
Ooh ok appreciate the comment
Representing New York hip hop to the fullest
Their License to ill album came out in 1986. They are some of the hip hop originators but rarely get the credit they deserve.
The story is, they walked into the Chinese Subway and just started recording the video. When they were done, they walked away and left everybody confused.😂
They put LL on. They were a punk band in Brooklyn that loved early hip hop and blended it.
One of the MCs in Beastie Boys - MCA ("I'll stir-fry you in my wok!")- created the video itself.
Legends.
Gotta do 3 MCs and 1 DJ!!!
You'll witness an ultra- raw and stripped down version of their flow and hardness!! ONE TAKE LIVE!!
the way I was yelling when you said everyone raps the same cuz y’all don’t know they’re one of the OGs of this style. I know you know now based on comments, but that was both funny and frustrating lol.
The greatest there was the greatest they'll ever be
this in a car with a nice 12" in the back, *Chefs kiss*
If you knew anything about RUN DMC back in the 80's you should automatically be pretty familiar with the Beastie Boys also.
Beastie boys, Bhusta Rhymes, Eminem, MissyElliot and Will Smith where my childhood.
Funny, cool and no cursing, at least almost none.
These guys were/are a big part of the Gen X soundtrack🔥
A lotnof song used to let the beat ride out. That's when you got to spit ya own verse real quick💯💯😆💯💯
"Intergalactic" just relates to "between two or more galaxies," the same way "interstate" refers to "between two or more states."
This came out in the summer of 1998 (not near the 80s) right before my freshman year of high school, however I think this song slid under the radar by most of kids in. my class since the mainstream was becoming hyper-pop and swinging out of grunge, yet keeping within hip-hop but younger groups- this was around my area though bec I know it was on the top billboard somewhere.I have always loved this song for the lyrics and the innovative videos, like this one referencing Japanese Kaiju and set it in Japan etc. The video reminded me a lot of Power Rangers too.
Also, they started in the '80s as a punk band! And they did have a lot of songs in the early 90s too that were experimental in many genres as they grew and meshed them between different albums/songs. Check out "Get it Together", "Root Down", "Paul Revere", ....fun, weird, a group people knew about for decades. Sadly MDA or Mike D died of cancer, in 2012 pretty young at 47.
LL was discovered by Ad Rock