Beastie Boys - Rhymin' & Stealin' (Official Video)

[@mikeking1502]

I was at this show..The Capitol Theater in Passaic NJ. April 1987. First concert I ever went to. 13 years old and still cannot believe my mother allowed it. Still love the Beasties to this day. I just went to an awesome exhibit at Beyond the streets in LA last weekend. Absolute legends. RIP Yauch...you are missed!

[@lockandloadlikehell]

Damn I thought this was at The Palladium in L.A.

[@jeremyrybak1090]

I don't think this was at capitol

[@mikeking1502]

@@jeremyrybak1090 you might be right.. I always thought it was filmed at The Capitol because I know for sure they filmed a couple videos that might but maybe this is from a different night on that same tour?

[@Joe54Williamz]

no way your mom let you go to a beastie boys concert where they had cage dancers and spraying beers thats awesome

[@krismckusick332]

This video is a trip too funny❤

[@CharlesWagner-x9j]

This brings back memories. I 'm 51 & still like this..

[@BustlingHedgerow]

The Beastie Boys + Led Zeppelin + Black Sabbath + a dash of The Clash = What's not to LOVE!

[@jasonwalker79]

Absolutely especially zep and sab 2 of the best bands of all time

[@daweller]

Don't forget... Cage dancers

[@thesongremainsthesame76]

For those who don't know: Drums: Led Zeppelin -When The Levee Breaks Guitar riff: Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf

[@pascalarcade2330]

euh ... x'cuse me ... a dash Clash via Bobby Fuller Four, x'scuse me not

[@acidtears]

@@thesongremainsthesame76 I DID NOT HEAR THAT SWEAT LEAF IN ALL THESE YEARS HOLY SHIT 🫠

[@MetalWarrior-gm6mr]

I’m 47 years old, this song came out in 1986 and this is the first time I’m watching this video. Thanks for uploading it.

[@gowmitch069]

I'm 51 i bought this album the day before it came out, 1st time seeing this video too

[@loridoolaghty3453]

I was 24 when this song came out. I'm 58 now and I still listen all the time. It never gets old.

[@pnmwngy1]

Same. But 44

[@Chrisfb101270]

I'm 51 ,I saw these guys in Providence in 1986 ,License to ill tour!

[@jackwhite7317]

I'm 45 and had no idea there was a video

[@ChipJones-r7k]

No one could combine rock and hip hop in the most genius Way then The Beastie boys

[@lljcoolM]

They a true Super Group, went beyond gip hop and rap, only other crew compares and the Wu Tang clan....

[@fearthemonkey-72]

I would say Linkin Park, but BB would have been a key influence for them.

[@neuk111-j9v]

@@fearthemonkey-72 Omg Just NO

[@neuk111-j9v]

@@fearthemonkey-72 I don't get why people think people from certain Demographies listened to fvcking N U M E T A L !

[@lkgrave4959]

Anthrax anyone?

[@cphelps55]

Still to this day no other album starts this damn hard. Licensed To Ill is top 5 greatest album ever!!

[@ashleypatel5461]

Wow this song really holds its ground -- it's better than 95% of new music being released today -- for real!

[@mattmiller4821]

How can you go wrong with sampled sabbath, zeppelin, and beasties? I wish gotg3 would have used this instead of Brooklyn

[@NY2357]

RIP MCA!You will be missed.Wish I could have seen you guys live in concert.

[@peetti3608]

Although I loved them all, MCA was always my fave. Always.

[@Moshe.1972]

the beasties were sick as hell back in the 80s

[@joeytormey2255]

+bigmo72 No, they were ill,according to them

[@bradwilson7554]

i see what you did there

[@keianbrown8621]

Not sick..... ILL

[@geraldjohnson3216]

bigmo72 i love the first album they cant get no better n my opinion the first one kicks assesses

[@geraldjohnson3216]

D3STROYER No.1 i like that broham.very ill

[@earlcampbell7953]

I have this VHS to this day. I've had since 1987.

[@eukerwoof]

OHH i wish i could have one, that's sick!

[@tonybandanna4895]

Yeah man.. with the cops at the end lol

[@blister9366]

Get it made i to dvds just in case. Some old vhs can erase themselves over time..

[@cubdukat]

I have mine somewhere. I'm still trying to find the Japanese LaserDisc of this, though; it came out around the time they were breaking up with DefJam and Columbia, and I think CBS ended up pulling it off the market. I think "Licensed to Ill" was out of print until Island bought DefJam. But that Laserdisc is seriously rare. Yeah, it may be large and not as cool as the DVD, but it has everything the DVD has: a good (enough) picture, digital sound, and it won't wear out like VHS.

[@dougward1969]

The green room/backstage party is from The Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ show. Also, when they're cruising around in the Blazer doing bong hits, they are on their way to White Castle in Clifton NJ as well. I know this because I grew up in Clifton

[@DonCarlosDonCarlos]

I'm 19 years old and I'm proud to say I'm one of the few kids in my generation who listens to them.

[@aliceborealis]

No, you're not.

[@evilsidsmonkey]

One of a few!!!

[@joshuamartins9487]

Buying this cassette , when it came out , as a 12 year old . Game changer!

[@hanskloss1331]

you had to fight for your right to party

[@vrsemurphy]

Words cant explain just how incredibly dope the Beastiies are. No one will ever be as fresh as these dudes. EVER!!!!!!!!

[@PaulOutsidetheWalls]

Drums: When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin Guitar : Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath

[@AlejandroElOyentePropio]

And... 'I fought the law' - The Clash!

[@Lena_b3]

Fav bands = epic combo

[@blippystiffington7593]

Steve M Thanks Mr wizard nobody knew that.

[@yankees29]

Rick Rubin was a beast getting all these samples cleared. Never would happen now a day.

[@hectoralvarez7811]

yankees29 u do realize licensed to ill(uminati) is a complete job, the beastie boys were made with a purpose. love their music, but the history behind them is tainted for me and now i understand their lyrics. and ILL COMMUNICATION was probably the most genuine record where as III was the intro to what was their purpose (entertainment)

[@brianwilsongoodmeme7800]

What I like about their videos is that they just seem to be having so much fun doing it

[@bobbycowper2915]

they acted how they were TOLD to act. by the record company. they have no fond memories of this era in their so called career.

[@lockandloadlikehell]

@@bobbycowper2915 meh

[@natalier222]

@@lockandloadlikehell that’s true Rick always told them to act like that.

[@lockandloadlikehell]

@@natalier222 maybe, but I do This is the preminent BB album imo This is what I'd put on my MP3 right before going in to break my own state deadlift records Well, this and PE, EASY E, etc I liked it cuz it's loud, aggressive and violent- this song in particular

[@decristo1021]

Yes, I’m sure they had a terrible time passing around the chicks gyrating in the cages, touring, drinking, rhyming and stealing and mixing wine and women and song and such….

[@therealjj2791]

My whole childhood was beasties. Boy times have changed

[@weewillywonka2716]

Women, beer, rock, REAL rap, wish I had a fucking time machine. I'd catch their tour with Run DMC.

[@jeffreyswiderski]

Wee Willy Wonka good times back then!

[@jeffreyswiderski]

Wee Willy Wonka good times back then!

[@S-A-CCL]

REAL RAP, TRUE HIP HOP, with Heavy Metal instrumental, helle yeah !

[@shadowmod3]

rap music today is shit comparing to this

[@yearginclarke]

69 likes

[@jasonevans1679]

beastie boys the most bad ass hip hop/rap group ever...

[@8849junior]

rock kinda

[@MysteryHandle76]

Well rap/rock/hip hop infact who cares they're fucking awesome

[@kingofscotland7268]

no dont worry they are a hip hop/rap group, iTunes defines them as such

[@christisummers1819]

Agreed!

[@LINKINPARKSPAMPT5]

along with Run DMC

[@sleepyJem1982]

First Joe strummer,then Jam master jay and now MCA,these legends were gone too soon!I Will miss you MCA, always made me laugh or bring a smile to myface when listing to beastieboys music.You will never be forgotten and your always in my heart.

[@baxtronx5972]

This an Andy Kaufman level of commitment to an image. The next album was who they really are.

[@zestydude87]

i NEVER get tired of this.... RIP Adam

[@mluedey]

not all my high school days were winners and these guys kept it from beating me down. RIP MCA and THANK YOU!

[@ThePandorasbox13]

From listening to The Beastie Boys whole discography, I must say this is one of their best songs. Mixing Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath is a terrific idea, which makes them some of the best samplers in rap/hip-hop. I wish more modern rap groups would have better samples when they use them.

[@the9-2-5outlawgamer]

They started off as a punk band in the early 1980s, They got onto DEF jam thanks to Rick Rubin Riding the rap train, then they redefined themselves in the 90s With the dust Brothers.

[@lechanneldemysterieuxmante1807]

Piracy mixed with womanizing, dangerous drug use, and rhyme skills unparalleled makes for a rap shanty all MC Buccaneers must pay allegiance and salutations to!

[@ceceklyd8929]

I love this song ❤ now my son loves listening to Beastie Boys. He keeps telling me to put it on in the truck

[@thefek]

Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Beastie Boys all in one. Such greatness

[@decristo1021]

This to me was why they took off….it was rap, sure, but it was rock as well…

[@anotherinternetidiot6300]

One of my fav bands. Breaks my heart that they won't swear, but still refer to rape and degrade this woman on stage I hope in my lifetime women will be people. And I can listen to rap without turning a blind eye.

[@neuk111-j9v]

They completely changed their attitude not long after

[@benjaminrawson3386]

46 years old and I never knew there was a video for this song (I had a bootleg cassette back in '87) Argo brought me here - I've had that opening drum part stuck in my head for two days.

[@bizchazlien]

Rest in PEACE MCA! Long live THE BEASTIE BOYS!!! All the greats will NEVER be forgotten!

[@anthonysoley7121]

A very timeless song and video by one of the greatest hip-hop group of all time the Beastie Boys.

[@shiftycritter8272]

Man I forgot how hard this went.

[@djm0813]

"Rhyming and stealin' in a drunken state, and ill be rockin' my rhymes all the way to hells gates" -RIP MCA

[@chriswalshe499]

Best line in the song.

[@krypton7676]

ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! I miss ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! the good 'ole days ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! when you could rock out ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! to these songs. ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES! I remember singing & dancing to this song at a club in NYC in the 90's. Everyone started screaming & singing together, it was like a honed & simultaneous energy through out the club. Beastie Boys also proved you didn't have to perform for your fans with a lot of magic, explosions, or a huge decked out stage with back up singers choreographed to dance like the main performer, all you needed was talented singers & a hot chick in a cage, what else do ya' need?! I don't regret my youth, I embraced it.

[@MultiMrMiles]

these scratches in this track was like dope to me, and still is....80s virus NEVER NEVER left me! really.

[@mobus1603]

I wore this tape *_out_* back in the day!

[@cubdukat]

mobus1603 Same here. This came out on Laserdisc in Japan, but I never got a chance to get it. It never got released in the US because they left DefJam and CBS, and they couldn’t release it. The even ended up pulling the VHS copies of this.

[@dazbray1255]

Yep! Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom 💣💥💣💥

[@jc7885]

EATME

[@duaneplacek1716]

I love how people throw beer up on stage and they pop it open and drink it and then spray it all over the crowd arguably three of the best rappers of all time what a time to be alive

[@jerrybishop2115]

And to think LED ZEP never sued for usimg their beat from "when the levee breaks....Some record producer had approached Robert plant and told him that these new rappers named Beastie boys was using their music in a song and Robert said he wanted to hear this song and so finally the producer fetched a cassette tape and played it and it's told that Robert plant heard this song and said let them use it... Thats a cool gesture!❤

[@t00tednz00ted]

Because they initially stole the riff ?

[@subsanity667]

Beastie Boys looped the Zeppelin beat with a reel to reel tape wrapped around a mic stand ,edited with a razor blade until it was usable. Then they threw the Black Sabbath " Sweet Leaf" riff over Bonham's beat. This was before samplers were affordable (1985 or 1986) Lyrics reference Sex Pistols and The Clash

[@jerrybishop2115]

@@subsanity667 yes sir 🤟

[@t00tednz00ted]

@@oscarsoto9512 bro, put the meth pipe down! Educate yourself, for once in your life When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

[@t00tednz00ted]

@@oscarsoto9512 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWa5nomsqM-sgdk

[@Red_AIert]

2021 and this jam still gives me chills. Straight 🔥 RIP Adam Yauch. ✌🏽

[@angusdog22]

This song is pure anarchy !!! Brings me back .. I love my generation !!!

[@hawaiisown50]

1986 Mets 30 For 30 brought me here! "Little roller up along first...Behind the bag!!!!!"

[@castle4610]

This song still goes hard 35 years later, and still holds up today. For a different twist, go to your settings (gear icon) and play it at 1.25 speed. Boom

[@lechanneldemysterieuxmante1807]

You insane… Just tried it at your suggestion and it changed My life! Love it

[@castle4610]

@@lechanneldemysterieuxmante1807 🙌🏼

[@aphex14]

Damn!! Same here!!!

[@michaelarby]

😘👌

[@grgman8637]

Hoooooly $hit! Well played, brother!!!

[@sarahneack7582]

Illest guys ever. MCA, Adrock, Mike D...........Beastie Boys 4 ever. RIP MCA.

[@sikovert]

MOST ILLINEGST B-BOYS!

[@shelovesdisco2153]

Most illinegst steallinegst killinegst B-Boys!!!

[@paulleger6566]

Saw the beastie boys/ public enemy/ Murphy's law at the Providence Civic center R.I. 1987

[@MrOsshole21]

waaay ahead of their time

[@brettpierce5225]

Was thinking that the whole time watching it lol

[@yankees29]

I remember seeing this video for the first time when I was 8 years old. I had the vinyl 2days later. Some kick ass fucking 80s shit right here.

[@pixussb7524]

John Kempshki Yeahhh, you see now groups like BROCKHAMPTON with songs like HEAT having heavy ass beats and voices

[@bobbycowper2915]

your stupid.

[@christophereverett7483]

For sure. Their legends

[@Forced2DoThis1]

This is STILL my favorite offering from The Beastie Boys. Paul Revere and Sabotage follow respectively.

[@vix9441]

im 15 and just getting into them, theyre amazing

[@magicconches.]

They’re great!!

[@RC-qf3mp]

The When the Levee Breaks drums beat is properly honored here. Respect

[@one7decimal2eight]

This is the first song I ever heard by the beastie boys and consequently it is still my favorite after all these years.

[@TheBroDotTV]

Definitely one of the best from Licenced To Ill!!!

[@michaelbeal8709]

This is some Old School Shit!!!

[@mariaanast276]

Man I LOVE THIS. That beat.

[@bradquery779]

DOPE!!!! ali baba and the 40 thieves....

[@wallbreaker2]

Ali baba and my man Mike D!

[@cjhepburn7406]

Like a lemon 2 a lime, a lime 2 lemon...

[@fritzidler9871]

The song that won me over to rap. It's all in the title. "Rhymin' & Stealin.'" I'm going...... Oh, I get it now. Rhymin' & Stealin', of course! Talk about a new rebellion. Let the old farts keep howling about rap and sampling. What are they going to do about it anyway? The Genie is definitely still out of the bottle.

[@yankees29]

This album is a sampling masterpiece. Amazing work

[@nancyc2172]

Yeah, I was there, and there has Never been another more amazing group of sick rappers since them. Check it.

[@eddiecalderas3162]

Nancy C bone thugs and h there are nice to see in concert the very time did see them was 94 or 95 in New Mexico it was a sold show

[@jeromejones1351]

Back than we wasn't singing bull. Those groups song about their real lives

[@TheLovedrug13]

RIP MCA!!!!!!!! My heart goes out to your family!!! You fought a long hard battle, but I hope now you are pain free and at peace. Shalom!

[@seanoconnor5730]

A great drum lick mixed with a great guitar riff. Beastie Boys lead rap rock for sure.

[@alexanderscott9001]

SeanO Covers1999 Pretty much invented it along with Run-Dmc

[@claireb3004]

I'm way too old now to still have a crush on Ad rock, but I can still only see him through my preteen/teen eyes.

[@artdeco64]

This album came out when I was in high school, i.e., this is the kind of music we had when I was in high school - as compared to now.

[@angiecyrulik3040]

and it's still good

[@dougward1969]

Class of 88!

[@dominickcolella5772]

RIP MCA❤

[@chrisbowenghosts]

I remember I used to work at Pizza hut and before the store opened, I decided to blast this album "Licensed to Ill " and when the opening beat to " Rhymin and Stealin " came on a rock n roll girl who worked there said "ahhh, Zepplin. " I still wonder what she thought when the Beastie Boys started rapping.

[@justincrowe9454]

Beastie Boys....got be the best ever bar none.....this song is so dope and fresh...

[@Punisher5791]

Born in 91 but I'm a beastie boy fan fr these fellas are genius

[@MCThomasCZ]

BEST SONG BEST INSTRUMENTAL BEST BEASTIE BOYS

[@RMack-e7y]

In the summer of '87, I wore this cassette out in my '81 Camaro Berlinetta while cruising around town with my friends. Oh, the memories!

[@timothyhyde]

MCA makes every song, every time ..

[@tonysmith5878]

BEST JOINT ON THAT ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!

[@mirkobruner]

Bloody Awesome so Many Years Later.

[@christisummers1819]

Bloody Mary- don't say it 3 times....she didn't birth Jesus.....long story 😂

[@tidalwizard]

Licensed to Ill was the first "tape" I ever bought and the best. I will never forget how sick an experience it was to listen to it the first time

[@LittleghOstGreen]

First song heard about those guys. Now I'm a big fan.

[@jtabor13]

I was 13 when this hit...different times and the 80s ladies can't be topped!

[@Spiderwick1989]

Drum loop adapted from "When the leevee breaks" by Led Zeppelin

[@NUNYABIZNNAAAZZZ]

***** what do you think? lol

[@darthsquints8740]

And riff from Black Sabbaths Sweat Leaf

[@tonysilliker5977]

Have License to I'll on vynal original Def Jam recording from 87. Also still have a 76 VW Golf 1600 GT I had at the time. Record is perfect condition.. The Golf is a bit on the rough side now though 😂😂😂.. Era I won't forget blasting Rymin n Stealin from the 100 watt Goodmans shelf speakers..😂😂😂

[@thingwhatever]

had this on repeat doin the treadmill the other day... gets me PUMPED!!!

[@yakuborigins]

one of my favorite hip hop tracks of all time

[@kgbmsu]

saw this tour in Detroit....fishbone and Murphys law as opening acts.....small venues, crazy antics, my favorite version of the boys.....beautiful

[@whitetailhunta]

The Pirates of hiphop

[@joelanson8399]

Saw the Beasties with Public Enemy and Murphy's Law at the CApitol Theater in Passaic N.J. and had a blast. RIP MCA you will not be forgotten, your music was the soundtrack to BHS high school 1986-87

[@Strimbles]

I WAS THERE!!

[@yahuyuah]

Yooo are you in the Video?

[@almakolcke9379]

Nice. My father had tickets for another concert and couldn't go, because I was born right then, so sad

[@kriajundaz5714]

@@almakolcke9379 lol your what

[@almakolcke9379]

@@kriajundaz5714 ?

[@bigj2518]

I had this song on a cassette tape/mix when I was a freshman at Uk in 1993. My roommate and I wore it out, the tape that is, the song can’t be touched!

[@jdssurf]

Best shit ever.

[@laurakasic]

@1:59 Ad Rock being a Scorpio 😂

[@firstmusic00]

The drum sample from "When the Levee Breaks" by the great John Bonham is what makes this track.

[@firstmusic00]

***** I probably didn't either!

[@GreggBrightman]

This album is a classic.I was 10 years old when this came out

[@smokintiresburningtrees3244]

God, I’ve loved this song since I was 12 in 1987! RIP Yauch. 😢

[@nickf.2871]

I love how KZbin advertisements show shitty music when people wanna listen to good music

[@fabiobalenzano6439]

Just like Spotify.....I am listening to The Clash or the BBoys and they advertise Shawn Mendez.....and I get a sudden diarrhea attack

[@nickf.2871]

Diarrhea attacks suck

[@palobajo1]

@@fabiobalenzano6439 Pay for it! Why?!!

[@Dudechill99]

ALI BAHBA AND THE FORTY THIEVES!!!!! Best chant ever!

[@jelzinga1970]

26 years ago tonight was my first concert ever, this is a total flashback, so awesome!

[@travLee7]

skirt chasing ..free basing..killing every villain!!

[@christisummers1819]

Travis hortman it was in self- defense....scratch that- it was in population safety defense 😂

[@patricksheils402]

WE DRINK! AND ROB! AND RHYME! AND PILLAGE!

[@diePolizei]

Saw them back in 8th grade, freshman in college now...they were an amazing first concert..Place was packed too.

[@pooliansshots6731]

Ahhh a world without mobile phones. Isn't that great to see?

[@shadow12860]

It's the way life should be.

[@miverdezen1374]

preferiría un millón de veces estar aya que con el puto facebook

[@AdamHauger]

But imagine some of the footage that would exists if a Licensed To Ill era Beasties had iphones

[@lg6791]

No fake hair, lips, tits or asses either.

[@dougdavidson3260]

I agree as I currently am typing on my phone.

[@Inframidi]

Rap and metal go so well together if you're the Beasties. Legends!

[@LetsGoMetsGo33]

best use of sabbath's "sweet leaf" riff since sab themselves (later added to the end of RHCP "give it away"). clash sample in there ("i fought the law"). beastie's vibe was so funny then, compared to what it became. it's almost forgotten, but they were a sex pistols-like rude phenomenon. this needs more views!

[@fahimaljahangir3059]

holy shit never noticed Give it Away sounded like Sweet Leaf. FML I can play the bass line and didn't notice it.

[@dougdavidson3260]

Sweet Leaf is my favorite Sabbath song. Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh cough intro.

[@brucepapuni5372]

You forgot Led Zep break sample...

[@peetti3608]

This song still bangs the hardest. It just amps u up!

[@michaelsandoval6048]

I remember growing up my pops and uncles would always randomly say "Ali Baba and the 40 thieves" continuously lmao

[@soultheinterrogator]

This reminds me of My first ever concert. Beastie Boys along with Murphy's law and Fish Bone came to The Paramount Theater in Seattle in 86. The cages with dancers were suspended from the ceiling. Hurricanes DJ booth was a giant 6 pack of Budweiser. they sprayed us with beer and brought girls from the crowd to mop it off the stage. it remains as one of the most Lit Shows I've ever been to to this day!

[@chrisantweiler6507]

Yes beastie boys are the great 👍 ones of rap they really put it out in their shows 👍❤️🎵🐒

[@ssnthe10s]

Best jam on Licensed to ill for sure!

[@juulbad6507]

0:35 nice slide