What makes this beat and this song so unique and so SICK is that it's just a beat and bass played backwards and the DJ on the turn tables, and THAT'S IT. Nothing else, no keyboard, no other instruments or sound effects, just a beat backwards and the DJ scratching , and they rapped to that. No other song has ever been made like that. Beastie Boys , the real OG'S AND G.O.A.T'S

@gsxerwhite

Жыл бұрын

Roland 808

@topspot4834

Жыл бұрын

Yeah all the old beats sounded so much better back in the 80s and 90s. They were iconic and raw, lotta bass. I hear a good beat sometimes, and maybe it's cause it's harder to be original, but they try stuffing too much into it and it all sounds so similar.

@vpxtrailers9395

Жыл бұрын

It’s T LA Rocks song, It’s Yours played backwards.

@onmygrind3854

10 ай бұрын

Finally somebody who knows

@emilykeegan4345

4 ай бұрын

This has always hit so hard in your car with a system ❤❤

The beat is a reversed 808. To the best of my understanding, MCA came up with the idea and this is the first instance of it on record. It's been used extensively since.

@mthai66

5 ай бұрын

Em influenced them to do this when he was 11 years old and didn't know what rap was.

I have the absolute pleasure of growing up during this time. I always have been and continue to be a Beastie Boys fan and I’m 53 years old! They are so bad ass

Bro this is my kind of rap! Paul Revere was the first ACTUAL rap I knew all the words of. Legends! RIP MCA my favorite Beastie!

A house party is not complete without some Beastie Boys!!

I bought this cassette on first day came out 8$. Grade 8. Was epic

It’s natural! There was zero technology yet at that time for these sounds. Mixmaster Mike did it all. ❤

@lithium-qo5wz

11 ай бұрын

MMM wasn’t the DJ on this 💯

The beat is explained on the wikipedia page for the song. Basically, MCA recorded the beat, flipped it and reversed it. RIH MCA Hold it now Hold it now Hold it now HIT IT

I remember when this jawn dropped. I was in grade school. It was so different but again, during this time in Hip Hop, there were so many songs that dropped that were equally as good and unique. "The New Style" and "Hold it Now Hit It" by the Beasties were also my jams

MCA reversed the beat to get that scratch thump sound. I always loved it.

I love the Beasties!!! ❤️‍🔥 I've still got their "License to Ill" album on vinyl from when it came out. A friend of mine, Michelle, gave it to me in Nov '86, as a 10th birthday present. Thanks, Michelle ;-) ❤

@vader8724

8 ай бұрын

Michelle is freakin cool! Hell Yeah

Again..80's...Em shouts them out alot a major influence 4 him he mentioned them in his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame speech💙

The Beasties are legend!!! I remember back in high school when I got to borrow my parent’s Ford Aerostar van and driving with my friends blasting my new Licensed To Ill tape on repeat. Still remember every word to every song, in order, to this day. 😂 RIP Adam ❤️

Rick Rubin was beastie boys first DJ. He quit to create Def Jam and immediately signed BB. They then brought in Mix master Mike. Saw them live in 97, sophomore in highschool. Amazing experiences.

@brookerosenogle5424

Жыл бұрын

Can’t forget DJ Hurricane who was with them for like 13 years!

LOL I love the beastie boys, I met Mike D once - he was a close talker, but man their music is special AF - nothing like it ever!! Loved your reaction man lol you make me smile 😃

Thanks for acknowledging their talent and what they brought to Hip Hop.

I love how much you love this! Beastie Boys are awesome!

Greatest hip hop group ever!!!

Their album was called licensed to ill

I remember my guys I hung out with back in the early 90s making there own huge speaker boxes out of wood and I at least 2x the back windows literally explode from playing this song at bass competitions 😂... oh the good old days ❤

License to Ill (1986 Album) Number 1 for 10+ weeks. First Hip Hop group to have a whole album to do #1. Even beat out Run D.M.C

This was when musicians WERE ARTISTS! They could personally come up with 🧠 and play 🤚🏽beats themselves, ahhh the good 'ol days, I miss art in music, I'll be clear, I miss art & creativity in Rap and Hip-Hop not computerized bs & lyrics have no meaning (well the songs where people actually say words, don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about) '80's & '90's Rap & Hip-Hop will always be the best I guess those artists took all the good ideas! Rock and metal on the other hand is still great each band member comes up with and plays actual instruments themselves now that's something to admire and appreciate

I love your stoke level on this bro!

Enjoyed the energy, and the appreciation of a classic great band. You should dig into arrested development

my favorite Beastie song, the beat was so dumb, i love it.

I’m late on the video. But I love the beasties cause they hit all of the marks. Killers beats and mixing board with the drops, the obvious lyrics and that the three of em share the mic beautifully. I grabbed the piano player and punched him in the face. And the sheriff’s after me for what I did to his daughter.

Slander and the beastie boys are never in the same sentence

Long before the independent army.. the Beastie Boys were undeniably enjoyable. Even for those of us that didn't listen to much between one era and the next

Those happy noises you make at 6:06 remind me of "Beavis & Butthead", when Beavis would get all hyped and sugared up and turn into Cornholio

I'm 63 and loved the boys

I got to see them in 1992 (Check Your Head tour) in a club-type venue. They started, "NOW......" and tossed the mic into the audience. It was passed around and those lucky enough got to rap a bar. The audience loved it, the band loved it. Everyone knew the words! You probably know it, but "ill" was quite the popular word in the '80s. Between Beasties' License to Ill, and Run-DMC's "You Be Illin'."

It’s crazy that Mike D is Screech from Saved By the Bell’s brother

@yankees29

Жыл бұрын

This comment is great.😂

Skated to this jam....

@yankees29

Жыл бұрын

Skated this in the late 80’s and Check your head in the early 90’s.

Drop it like it’s hot beat always reminds me of this one.

Kendrick used this beat on LUST.

I'm 50. I was 12 when I was listening to this.

Dat shit hits home

🔥Check out "Brass Monkey"

The Beasties music was all personality, they imitated NO One. I consider them second only to Run DMC as the best rap act ever. And unlike most rappers, they were actual musicians.

This beat is from T-La Rock it's yours in reverse. T-La Rock is one of the Ole School like Busy B that put Hip Hop on the map

@user-br3ru5no4x

Жыл бұрын

No it ain't from T la rock. Ad Rock explains it on his interview with Sway in the morning.

WAHHHHHH...love it

Legends, pioneers....

the beats are 808s in reverse. That's how. :)

When we was growing up ⬆️ in the 80s if you had a car 🚘 with some beat in it every hood was bumping this it makes yo speakers 🔊 vibrate everything around factuality

Who remembers the Fat Boys!?! Dude could beat box like no other! RIP😢

Seventh grade 1987 for me. Beastie for life

It's T La Rock and Jazzy Jays "it's yours" backwards

I thought of a good one for you. Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life" or Living Color "Cult of Personality"

rick rubin all the beats absolute genius

I'll let someone else explain more fully, but about how they got that beat sound, I got one word for you to contemplate: backwards.

@rockfordfiles5220

Жыл бұрын

They reversed the 808 drum bass..

@jeffk.9075

Жыл бұрын

Aerosmith did the same when they recorded Sweet Emotion. They also added a backwards clap and chant "f*ck you Frank" to the track in honor of their original manager who sold them off to Leber Krebs.

3rd time🔥🌋whAaa

Had to be there 🙌🙌🙌🙌

@katgarry836

Жыл бұрын

Brass Monkey hits too!!

3 mcs and 1dj great beastie boys

Brought me back on this on!

they just all fun.

T la rock’s it’s yours played backwards .

Its all that

Are you like this all the time. God did good with you. 😊

Missy Elliott said it best. Let me work it put the best down and then reverse it!

I’m sad to say that I was a heavy metal fan and dismissed these guys until a few years later when Paul’s Boutique hit. Of course I soon realized what a mistake it was. But hey I was 16..

@cynthiaopsahl3422

11 ай бұрын

Better late than never!!

🤘🏻🤙🏼🤘🏻

I did it like this I did it like that I did it with a wiffel ball bat

Sceez, you make the Beasties so much more tolerable and fun. 😁 Peace brother.

@chrismidyette1098

9 ай бұрын

How in the hell you say Beastie Boys tolerable ? What kind of crap you listening to if the Beastie Boys are tolerable ?

@snakeinthegrass7443

9 ай бұрын

@@chrismidyette1098 I can't tell if you're a fan or you hate them. You comin on kinda aggressive, my man.

@chrismidyette1098

9 ай бұрын

@@snakeinthegrass7443 just kind of busting your balls actually LOL. To each his own in music. Though the Beastie Boys are far more than tolerable. Also I use no exclamation points and or caps where they did not belong. I don't see where you got aggressive? flabbergasted Maybe

Everybody knows the snare trap is all in reverse record

and artist FALCO…. song AMADEUS

Best beat ever

SouthSide! Nice lid.

Beastie Boys.......Goats. nothing more to say

Rick Ross had a hit on this beat.

dood!!!!! 1st comment!!! ya gotta do Groove Holmes....

3:25 close. License to Ill

I just watched about 10 reaction videos in a row..every single one of them had 766 likes... assuming its a weird glitch

Boilubas is the 🔥 📛 👩‍🚒

🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🔥🔥🧯🧯

*Not bad hip hop from punk rockers.*

@kmftalonmobile

Жыл бұрын

They were horrible at punk, lucky for them they switched to hip hop/rock rap 😂 They invented nu-metal and never get credited for it 😢

@hulkhatepunybanner

Жыл бұрын

@@kmftalonmobile *You can't be horrible at punk.* See Sex Pistols.

Pls review KRAFTWERK…. song is TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS

License to ill

Reverse 808

These times and even those prior, like UTFO and Roxanne, were awesome. A little advice...don't get so damn high before making a video. Your span on YT will be short.

Without the Beasties... Rap would have been a different gig ..

I prefer hip hop with lyrical content too. That tough guy stuff is meh.

Beasties don't play