Beastie Boys Perform "Three MC's and One DJ" and "So What'cha Want" | Letterman

[@thelettermanpodcast]

Mix Master Mike is the GOAT. These moments are FANtastic.

[@elcreyo]

"Now, here's a little something you may not like... My DJs name is Mix Master Mike!"

[@stubeattie7901]

True Dat! ✌️👌 wow akin to the check it out walk-in thru NYC …

[@UnlimitedPossibilities345]

Boom!

[@stephenm8725]

puttin in some "Breathe" into the beat was clean

[@thedude4672]

I LOVE these guys! RIP Adam Yauch

[@richardgruenthaler9523]

The greatest rap group ever!

[@jeremymcinturff985]

hands down one my favorite performances by the beastie boys. the beat switch @5:38 to "Breathe" by Fabolous is cleannnn.

[@mikefarrington7141]

I've never seen this before, and after watching it 20 times in a row it's now my favorite.

[@Steely_Fran]

Check the version they did at Live Earth in 2007. Mix Master Mike switches the beat to "Breathe" like he does here, but he switches it to Nas - Made You Look towards the end of the song.

[@DarronSanderson]

2024, we never stopped listening. 🍻

[@luispiros]

Never

[@DarronSanderson]

🎉​@@luispiros

[@amonrodriguez3518]

@@DarronSandersonTravisKelce brought em back to the mainstream. We rock beastie boys in the loudest stadium in professional sports every touchdown.

[@JamesLaw-sf2ji]

Just saw for the first time, awesome performance!! 11/24!😊

[@jimsoczka9668]

🍻!!!

[@calixa]

PURE HIPHOP. 3 EMCESS and 1 DJ to the MAX. Mike is unreal back there. Saw them in 98 and 04.

[@madcircle1970]

Love it when Mix Master Mike changes up the beat

[@nathanfolkemer8392]

MMM. That mix is my absolute favorite love performance. True banger.

[@KungEMuller]

Wow! A great musical performance and Dave's awesome directing skills!? That's incredible!

[@nathanaelbrown1983]

The beat at 7:00 is spectacular.

[@saucehollywood]

Mob deep song called have a party feat Nate Dogg. Def check it out

[@YusukeKnight]

Awesome performance RIP MCA

[@paulb808]

I LOVE this performance! Thanks for finally uploading this!!! Beastie Boys are the best.

[@johncornell3665]

Beastie Boys are the best and love the Handycams. Thanks Dave!

[@robbiegloverofficial]

5:00 - I love when Adam says "Sweet Lou tell em why" (for those who don't know Mike D's middle name is Louis 😊). I absolutely adore these guys!! ❤️🙏🏼

[@EyeTunz]

Well one lady was feeling it anyway. (7:05)

[@Dadmasterjames]

Beautiful dudes.

[@michaelscottibelli7813]

Beastie were one of the greatest live bands 🙌,especially with mix master mike

[@MrBrody420]

Got to see them once. Legends.

[@RommelsAsparagus]

Love seeing them on Letterman.

[@EpicNole]

Always had a little extra for the hometown

[@oceanwoods]

The ‘one’ dj got snubbed with the Dave handshake

[@prograde_adv]

Mike handled it like a pro! No worries....

[@dallastrujillo7540]

I know! Bad Dave! 😆 poor guy. He killed it!

[@JamesLaw-sf2ji]

wonderful performance!!...saw them in '86 philly spectrum!🎤

[@wardengentles53]

3 rappers who are so articulate enough to understand EVERY SINGLE WORD. And on point

[@tested123]

i love bands that are really true originals.

[@AbsenceOfLogic]

I've listened to these guys since the beginning and only found out today their name has always been an acronym. Genius. 😆

[@mikebostler2316]

Great post! We need a channel that replays all of Daves shows. Please!!!

[@LloydCea]

Real hip hop

[@PrankZabba]

They talk about it in their autobiography. I believe they just went and rented all the cameras to do it with. This looks pretty awesome as well. I don't remember seeing this one. Used to tape a lot of the music performances back in the day. Lost some tapes, but got maybe 8 between 90 to 95. Haven't played those tapes in years.

[@rangers11ization]

The one guy who had the camera facing his own face was great😂

[@thedude4672]

He was determined to get on national television

[@StephenConnor-d9x]

Legends forever!

[@ronaldgarcia6083]

Such a fun group love the beastie boys!

[@claudioloyola3080]

tears in my eyes for the master adam and beastie boys thanks.chile santiago ,2024.

[@ylette]

Great camerawork, Dave!

[@thelettermanpodcast]

Lol

[@vanlifephilippines7304]

@ 2 megapixel camera

[@RandallBelcher-xe1is]

One of the best HipHop crues legends .

[@dorongronski2328]

Great performance!! Ad Rock made a small mistake 04:50 and said " just plug me in just like I was GARY Harris" - Should have been EDDIE Harris! ('Plug me in' is the album title of Eddie Harris) I've been to a BB concert back in 1995 in Tel Aviv, great fun

[@Rob954ever]

Legends. 🙌🏻

[@emilianocruz11]

Yess finally waiting long Time found this live versión of so whatcha want in 2006 on letterman showb

[@dnawoodshop5431]

I'm tired of driving it's due time that I walk about ........classic

[@Strat_Twelve_in_Pit_Lane]

❤ Legende 🎧🎤🎛🎚🎙🎶🎵

[@jamesleaver1391]

Baller.

[@amonrodriguez3518]

I love how taste can change. Growin up hearing this at like 12 and liking hip hop n r&b, I would see songs /music videos like this and change it immediately like “this is weird” but at age 16-17 actually listen to the music and holy f***

[@BurmaJ]

Beasties start @ 4:00

[@EpicNole]

This is so tight. Most that crowd has no clue.

[@damianmcdonagh7908]

I saw them live in Brooklyn, New York.

[@MrSuperman2312]

Mind blowing 😮😅😅❤❤

[@makyeah]

03:05 obliterated that guy, "85 yr old cue card boy". Dang! lol

[@Artimao]

Itn hurts me that I will never attend a live performance of the Beastie Boys and those guys in the audience are frozen still watching them

[@TabethaAurochs]

I've been to two of their shows and seen them at Lollapalooza-all when I was in high school early-mid 90s. I promise everybody was going gorillas the whole time! They were unlike anything we'd seen before-hip hop/rap/punk/skate culture mixed together LOUDLY 😅 It felt revolutionary. Getting to go to those shows-and as a teenager, which still feels like it was the right age to do so? That's not something I take for granted 💜💜💜

[@Artimao]

@@TabethaAurochs I'm sure it must have been amazing, all the time I watch videos of theur live performances they look eletrifying

[@LiberalsArePoop]

I saw them on the License to Ill tour. They were amazing from the very start.

[@mikearon1970]

Saw them in Philly at Festival Pier in Aug 2007. Mid 90s, soooo hot, and they went non stop 2 hours in polyester suits… best show I’ve ever seen

[@JEFLEPPARD-lf1bv]

My wife's parents worked security at at Beastie/Run DMC concert. She was like 8 or something and didn't let her go.

[@baybeachbeauty]

That was killer ❤ Dave!

[@dennyzartman]

I could see Ad Rock get his arm ready to do the pyramid move at the end, but he noticed MCA wasn't doing it and pulled back

[@kimberleyphillips6671]

Tooooo cool

[@timbauza1370]

Who was on the crowd, extras from the movie Coma?

[@mikedown1250]

Masters

[@ricklarock380]

FRESH!

[@smh-TV]

that crowd was so lame. I would’ve been so hyped to be there.

[@JaceBarretto]

we be gettin down with no delay, mix master mike what ya got to say?!

[@scottsharp3356]

The Film was great. Especially Interplanetary

[@Mgh-r]

U love the camera? Very good, it loves you too 😂😂 keep it then, it's useful for you 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

[@cyberprompt]

always RIP MCA

[@Some-guy-you-dont-know]

"We Made This Movie" vibes.

[@MichaelSilverMedia]

Their concert was filmed at MSG, come on Dave. It holds 19,500 beastie boys.

[@Mgh-r]

Everything s ok dear Dave ? ❤❤❤❤❤

[@keefriff99]

Now THIS is the hip hop I like. I’m getting old but I really dislike modern hip hop.

[@stephenm8725]

real deal hip hop. this is how its done, people

[@jaynesaysz]

I went to the msg show.

[@amonrodriguez3518]

Do they ever do the song?

[@Strong1up]

I'm trying to remember the last beat Mix Master Mike threw on.

[@a34rwl]

Dave used the camera for 'other stuff'

[@Jayizzo007]

Wow..new footage...I don't remember watching this back in the days!

[@RonGerstein]

Everyone does not remember, brainless.

[@limelight100]

MCA was the man.

[@amjh4lah809]

6th and relatively early 😊

[@thelettermanpodcast]

There’s only one number 6@!

[@marcoscastorrelano869]

Hip Hop needs to go back to this .... Tremendous!

[@mauricepeck1450]

3 nice Jewish Boys from Brooklyn

[@micahweedman]

Shout out to Paul’s Ed Sullivan impersonation

[@jeffwallace6176]

Noticed that this official Letterman post edited out the shots Dave filmed of his assistant Stephanie... She has been wiped from all shows apparently.

[@RonGerstein]

Onky 18 years ago.

[@echopathy]

Mike is like, WTF?

[@basicbreakfast]

Mike D needed faster kicks on that night 😝

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

Cool camcorder.(s)

[@rsgabrys----]

--------------------- sony was uno to use 8mm tape in camcorders ....thanks4sharing

[@Mgh-r]

Interesting song 😂😂😂

[@colonialstraits1069]

Its called a medley

[@Mgh-r]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏💐💐💐💐💐

[@johaniffsofiz]

Terrible audience but great performance by the best 😅

[@DOSkywalkR]

So the Beastie Boys started that thing about everybody in the audience filming a performance instead of living in the moment 😅

[@geoffreythomas1452]

you know, this is the kind of weirdness (shooting the hindu wheel of life) that is sorely missing from today's pop culture.

[@jimestooper1480]

Is this Lip synced? MCA's voice is coming through the mic at times and he's not singing into it. Never seen BBoys do that before

[@tominator23]

It looks like some of the handy cam shots weren’t edited in synchronously with the ‘production’ camera shots. Do you have a time stamp for an example?

[@mmg486]

It was wierd seeing them in front of such a dead crowd

[@BryonLetterman]

back when camcorders were a thing still

[@augusto3126]

Chavearo

[@nyujay2010]

Music today is a joke, especially the rap, compared to these legends.

[@curtfox91]

Crowd sucked they killed this

[@erics9511]

Dave made me barf with the zoom...other than that it was great.

[@thelettermanpodcast]

They’ve actually referred to them as ‘ the’ Beastie Boys, things he usually didn’t do… Normally he omitted the ‘the’

[@cactaceous]

It’s Beastie Boys because Beastie is an acronym.

[@chipypt]

the most boring crowd ever

[@nyujay2010]

Seriously! I only saw like 3 or 4 people into the music.

[@CrayogenicDeath]

Letterman is absolutely terrible at shooting

[@annemarie1507]

Rap is a low art form, but it is more fun when it's done by nice Jewish boys who get the joke.

[@dhpbear2]

What a waste of videotape :(

[@thedude4672]

They didn't use videotape, boomer Welcome to the digital world

[@dhpbear2]

@@thedude4672 This was from 2006. I'm sure there was TAPE in Dave's camcorder.

[@mikefarrington7141]

@@dhpbear2 Wrong, the cams all live-fed to the control board and was produced live by a director calling out camera switches in the control room. This wasn't edited together after the fact.

[@xl8751]

@@dhpbear2minidvd in 06 yo. But plenty home consumers still used tape then. But they’re in a fancy tv studio yo

[@notmyproblem88]

I can't help but see Dean Pelton everytime Paul pops up on camera.