Beastie Boys and Run DMC are who built and made Def Jam a legendary hip hop/rap music label

Check out Paul Revere, Girls, Brass Monkey, Shake Your Rump, So Whacha Want, Pass The Mic, 3MC's and 1 DJ, Sure Shot....too many too list. I grew up on this stuff. Watching young people discover the great tunes from my youth is delightful!

Check out their live performance of Sabotage where they actually play the instruments.....the performance on The Dave Letterman Show is the best. They kick ass!!🤘🤘🤘

@DirtCheapFU

7 ай бұрын

And their Ch-Check It Out performance. Steak sauce.

Ya, these guys are legends. Every song is unique and incredible. Check out "Shake Your Rump"

@girs666

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, Shake, as a all long life fan ( im 48), is becoming NOW lol, my fave i think

3 MCs and One DJ should be your next Beastie’s reaction. Pure vintage hip hop. When you do the research after you’re done watching I promise you’ll wanna go back and rewatch!

The solo was Kerry King from Slayer. He was working with Rick Rubin, who produced The Beastie Boys as well. Kerry wasn't a fan of the song. He is kind of a staunch metalhead, and it wasn't his vibe. Just a little trivia.

@USMILNET

24 күн бұрын

I think Slayer was the first heavy metal bands Def Jam signed. Maybe the only.

Beastie Boys were always cutting edge. License to ILL put them on the map. Paul's Boutique is amassing front to back but didn’t get the recognition until much later. Check Your Head is what made the everyone take them seriously as musicians and ILL Communications is where it all came together. Lets not forget about in sounds from the way out, helped spark the mid 90s jazz comeback. You got a lot of good music ahead of you.

@artemusprine

7 ай бұрын

That and Bowie's Low are always good for a night in.

@markdriscoll8119

7 ай бұрын

From an artistic view Paul’s Boutique is maybe the greatest hip hop album ever. I’m sad to say I was one of those that hated it at first and now I think it’s one of the best albums of that decade, period. It was nothing like License to Ill and people were expecting a sequel, including me. People thought they were a bunch of wild party rappers and they were actually thoughtful artists. License to Ill made me love them, Paul’s Boutique made me respect them.

I love what you're doing with the metal and hard rock , but there's a song called "What chu want " and I'm the biggest headbanger you'll ever meet but this song just hits my funky bone and I live it and I think you'll like it too. Keep on keeping on and I enjoy seeing you find the music that molded me as a young adult into the man I am and for you to react with the same emotional response i had as a teen discovering the great music. And you havin understand good music qhn you hear it. I'm 59 and I've neverr responed to any reaction videos it'll now, I just had to let you know about this song , I think you'll dig it. Good luck to you and remember... if it's too loud , you're too old.

My favorite beastie track is "so what'cha want" off check your head. The music video for that is also great, I'm gonna go watch it right now!

That’s Kerry King of Slayer on guitar too

Beastie Boys are the greatest group of all time and not just in hip hop!

They were there for the start of Def Jam and AdRock made the beat for Def Jams first or second single, I Need A Beat by LL Cool J. Rick was their DJ before he started Def Jam.

The manager here is Russel Simmons brother of Rev Run. Its beeped out because they grew up and wanted to change a few things

@Alex-di7mb

7 ай бұрын

MTV made them bleep that out.

The new style

Most songs from licensed to ill were great, some of their simplest beats but still amazing. I think I like “rhyming and stealing” , “no sleep till” the best, I’m sure you’ve herd “fight for right to party” and “brass money” They are great musicians besides rapers/singers on top of having one of the best DJs in the world. Also great actors as you can see in their videos, the rhyming and stealing video is live and you see how wild their concert were One of my favorite songs is “gratitude” You might like “looking down a barrel of a gun” so many hits ✌

My man, you need to check out Paul Revere, trust me! You'll thank me later. Beastie Boys are fkn legends!

The manager in question that use to smoke dust was Russell Simmons

The New style

My absolute favorite song by the Beastie Boys is called So What You Want. It came out sometime after sabotage but before intergalactic and it's a very simple song but for some reason it is my absolute favorite

Just wait til ‘So Whatcha Want’ 🔥

3 mcs and 1 dj is awesome too. So many great songs. One of my driving bands

B-Boy Bouillabaisse, 3 MCs and 1 DJ, is when they truly hit Hip Hop hall of fame level.

“Pass the Mic” & “So Whatchu Want” for sure.

Pass The Mic is SO dope.

I once got stuck agreeing to go with a friend to Orthodox shabbat in Chestnut Hill MA. We insisted we walk (can't drive on Shabbat) even though it was about 8 or 9 MILES. We started walking at about 5AM and only about half way there before I start singing NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLINE!

@BoxerRick

3 ай бұрын

Way to turn lemons to lemonade. 😂 God bless ya, what a hike!

The 80's had a wild cocaine epidemic (Thank you CIA). Even MTV wasn't ready for that line about dust.

The guy on guitar is Kerry King from the legendary thrash metal band Slayer

The "manager" was Russel Simmons, who owned Def Jam with Rick Rubin.

The lyrics were not serious... The Beastie Boys were 3 goofy, nerdy geeks that loved punk rock and hip hop (L.L. Cool J recalled meeting them and calling them 'punks' 😂) There was nothing against their manager (or producer) - the rhymes in 'Sabotage' and 'No sleep til Brooklyn' were supposed to be comical ... They did have tracks that shot back at their haters... "So what'cha want" (from 1992) was one of them. The title 'No sleep til Brooklyn' was inspired by the live album "No sleep til Hammersmith" by Motorhead, a band they had admired... Kerry King (guitar) of the band Slayer did the guitar solo and appeared in the music video - King recalled that the gorilla was supposed to knock him off the stage in the original concept... but King insisted that he would be the one knocking the gorilla off the stage. This album 'License to ill' in 1986 was produced by Rick Rubin (who had also signed Slayer) on Def Jam... It sold 10x platinum and certified diamond... However, the Beastie Boys were not happy w/ the way they were marketed - in the music videos, they were bad boys who drank, chased girls and beat up nerds... in reality, they WERE the nerds... One of them recalled that when the group toured, they saw huge football jocks (like those who used to pick on them in school) shoving their way to the front of the stage screaming their lyrics while drunk... and that didn't sit well w/ them. They split w/ Rick Rubin soon after due to financial and creative disagreements and decided to make record and music videos the way they wanted. They wanted to distance themselves w/ what they called, "misogynistic bulls+++" 😂 Early on, the Beastie Boys were making fun of themselves... Their first music video "She's on it" depicted them trying to score w/ a hot girl in a bikini on the beach and failing 😂 They said it was inspired by the video for 'California girls' by David Lee Roth (ex-Van Halen singer)... "but instead of hooking up, (they) get dissed." The next album "Paul's Boutique" was finally released in 1989, but sold less... The track "Hey ladies" was a better representation of who they were, rather than being what they called "macho pigs"...

An Open Letter To NYC! Great B Boys track.

one track that only a couple other people have reacted to is "Hello Brooklyn" from the B Boy Bouillabaisse off Paul Boutique, super hard beat for the 80's

They were in colkege with Rick rubin. Def jam was basically started in ricks dorm room

I love this song

Im digging that youre checking out the Beastie Boys. You haven't even got to a really good one yet

I still can not get over that is Kerry King on guitar. Slayer guitar...

You're in it to win it, follow threw wit it.💪🔥

Fight for your right to party

The other one you’ve probably heard from this album is you’ve got to fight for your right to party. If you were looking for more of this particular vibe, you will probably enjoy Pass the Mic and Gratitude.

lmao That was an epic face palm.

Fight for your right to PARTY !

The Beastie Boys were punk rock until two of their members left. They decided to keep the band going but wanted to do different kind of music they wanted to do fun upbeat music beastie is a acronym from what Mike said in the interview even though he didn't say what it stood for this first album of theirs was supposed to be kind of a joke but it went number one within 2 weeks starting a long career for the Beastie Boys it is a great interview you can find it here on KZread. Also no sleep for Brooklyn and fight for your right to party were making fun of frat boy partie anthems they were hoping these two songs would get played on channels like Dr Demento but they went number one on the regular Rock charts.

The Beastie Boys started out as a punk band in the early 80’s and then being in New York City they got into hip hop and started incorporating with their music and they became some of the godfathers of hip hop and respected MCs

The Beastie Boys did an all instrumental album called "The In Sound From Way Out!" and it SHREDS! I think it shows the true depth of their musical talent.

Paul Revere

My favorite is "so whatcha want"

You can imagine how nuts all of us Brooklyn people went when this came out. These guys are just a little older than me and Licensed to Ill came out right around the time I moved the Bklyn and I wore this record out!

Licenced to ill, is their best work to me; but Sabotage was on another cassette as far as I remember. Other than this album; sabotage and intergalactic are probably the most well-known..... You should probably check out the song titles from the first album; maybe they will spark a memory. I did a lot of Pot back in my day;; but maybe You & Polo did more, since neither of you can remember a song by title or group

The words were bleeped out just because it was different times back then. It was around the time of the PMRC, congressional hearings about bands and songs with questionable lyrics, and the advent of the explicit lyrics sticker on records. “I Want Your Sex” by George Michael was out around this time and, at least around here, the radio stations played a warning before the song came on so people/parents could turn down the radio for the duration of the song. “Dust” was a reference to PCP, and the word “whore” was just considered dirty, so they bleeped those words for the video. It sounds quaint these days, with how explicit and extreme things are on pop radio now. Oh, we laughed about it back then too, but times were just different.

@davidwelch4318

7 ай бұрын

No.. he just watched a KZread censored video.

@JJM3rd

7 ай бұрын

As somebody who was very much alive in 1987 and watched this video on MTV, I assure you even back then the video was bleeped out.

Other great songs from license to ill are Paul Revere, The New Style, Hold It Now Hit It, and Time to get Ill

@brandonmason388

7 ай бұрын

I’d add Brass Monkey except I hate the video

License to Ill is AMAZING, whole album was on replay one summer in my teens!!!!!

5:19 - 5:30 that's where the Feds got their inspiration for J6 optics.

That "dust comment" was, at the time, allegedly about Russel Simmons...

if you loved sabotage, you'll like gratitude

🔥

You were headbanging so hard you missed the guys head falling off at 6:16. If your glasses, hoodie or head fell off there it would have been perfect. Plus the gorilla at the end shows all their money and bling takes a back seat to the one with the bigger banana. LOL.

Why are Rick Rubin, mutt Lang, and wierd al in the hall of fame

You seem to like their heavier songs so you would love Gratitude or Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun by them.

Have you done 3 MCs and 1 DJ. Legendary DJ - Mix Master Mike

Gotta do Fight For Your Right

Intergalactic was more break beat pop & lock break dancing vibe vs this Rock-Rap vibe. They had a GIANT robot doing the robot in the video bringing that point home.

I think the "Dust" line is bleeped only for the drug reference.

Check out some Slayer, the tracks I recommend are Bloodlines and Seasons of the Abyss

Try Paul Revere, it's great

Just listen to the whole License to ILL album

Dood. My vote is "Get It Together" Beasties and Q-Tip.

Pls react to 3 MC's and 1 DJ

Angel Dust was and is an illegal drug. That is why they bleeped it out.

Give a listen to pass the mic

LOVE the reaction!! :) Maybe check out NEIL PEART Buddy Rich HONOR??? :) ♥ “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” ~ Romans 15:13

I like how so many other songs before and after this song has language & innuendo and are not censored. "Smokes" "Dust" are not bad words so it's beyond imbecilic here to censor them, plus silence would be better than that horrible beep, ruined the video.

Another guy found in a cave I guess.

@melissaford717

7 ай бұрын

@stephen300o6 ya know, at one time I felt that way until I spoke with my nephew. He told me that most kids really didn't know about music outside of what they listened to. He told me he knows about a lot of different music genres more than his friends because of growing up in our family. You take care 🙂

I think we've lost all 3 😢