*First Time Hearing BEASTIE BOYS* 🎵 SABOTAGE Reaction

This is our first time listening to Beastie Boys, probably lol. We listened to Sabotage on stream with the gang. It's an interesting song but the video was a little distracting.
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[@annaoswald5943]

The video was basically a parody of 70s police TV shows and movies. For a first listen, I could see how it was a distraction. Very comedic if you watched some of those shows.

[@normanleroy1874]

Real Starsky & Hutch vibes.

[@annaoswald5943]

@@normanleroy1874 Starsky & Hutch for sure. I loved Harry O. as a youth.

[@kat19805]

Agree - it was the best video of that year - EPIC. Directed by Spike Jonze.

[@bothellkenmore]

You have to be a 70's kid t get it. And now this song is 20 years old , holy shit

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

@@bothellkenmore Absolutely have to be a 70’s kid to really get it!

[@stephanieclark9849]

*Beastie Boys - "Three MC's and One DJ", "Intergalactic", and "Shake Your Rump" is a good start...*

[@JoeBlow_4]

Intergalactic it too late. Brass Monkey and No Sleep Til Brooklyn would be better. ;)

[@deltawldr]

@@JoeBlow_4 Root Down

[@gabethegreat722]

Intergalactic Planetary. Also the three mcs and 1 dj is fkng 🔥🔥🔥

[@BLaCkKsHeEp]

"So What'cha Want"

[@chopps75]

those are all good songs, but "Paul Revere" is, by far, their best song, from any album.

[@ABC-wm2vf]

So What'cha Want is also great. 'I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle' refers to the infamous tapes of drummer Buddy Rich cursing out his band - Beastie Boys have tons of references like this.

[@Ruleof2Review]

The Beastie Boys were notorious for being great rappers but also playing their own instruments and infusing rock elements into rap WAAAAAY before most other artists thought to do so. They’re truly amazing. I also believe they have the best selling rap album of the 80s? Don’t quote me on that…but I think it might be true. Love them.

[@FuckingFuckShitBitch]

@TexasBBQ Smokehouse I think given how much they were like "fuck the system", the beastie boys may agree with the wording.

[@jameslee5803]

Anthrax. Im the man

[@MrROTD]

Rick Rubin was a big part of the sound

[@jhamilton1007]

They were a punk band before Rick Rubin got ahold of them and had them mix hip hop and rock.

[@jhamilton1007]

@TexasBBQ Smokehouse No, he used it fine here

[@kaso8740]

Heck yeah Beasty Boys are epic! Do "Three MC's and one Dj" "Intergalactic", " Paul Revere", "Sure Shot", " Alive" , "Shake your Rump" and so many more tracs. You won't be dissapointed

[@BockwinkleB]

Beastie Boys are one of the best bands ever, all genres. Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication... Perfect Trifecta. The other albums are pretty damn good too.

[@carlhaldeman420]

Get real. Beastie Boys don't rank. I like them, though.

[@Ruleof2Review]

Also the video wasn’t trying to be serious. Even for its time it was definitely a parody. Classic goofballs! Lol.

[@djC653]

Must of been fun to record

[@irenephillips1523]

Didn't this music video win tons of awards because it was so cool and cheesy

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

It was a parody of all those shows us GenX’ers grew up with...Mannix, Streets of San Francisco, McCloud, Starsky & Hutch, Baretta etc etc. The first time I saw it, I couldn’t stop cracking up. They did it perfectly.

[@josephbenson4444]

@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 it blows my mind that it needs explaining. the video is so epic from day 1, still makes me laugh watching it. They even got Hurricane in there.

[@obiwonton369]

Brad nailed it Beasties were Punk-Hop thats their roots started as a punk band then fell in love with the NYC rap scene in 80s

[@robertfisher4356]

Beastie Boys actually started as a punk band. They are awesome!

[@Neelo5000]

Punky hip hop is a pretty good description. Beastie Boys started as a punk band in the early 80s and then got into a more hiphop style during their time working with Rick Rubin.

[@Nicole-sf5ms]

"Paul Revere" is a masterpiece and a piece of genius.

[@cometogether999]

"No Sleep Till Brooklyn" is a good Beastie Boys song.

[@justdave9610]

If I remember right didn't Kerry King play on that track?

[@psychotom2000]

The Beastie Boys actually started out as a punk band; however, their art transended either rap or rock. One of the few artists in whick I enjoy all of their works.

[@Prone2Thrill]

You would never guess how many varieties of style and sound they had over the years. Gratitude is another song that doesn't reflect most of their songs but kicks ass! It's also filmed at Pompeii in homage to Pink Floyd Echo's. Saw them live thankfully at Santa Barbara Bowl - tiny venue and it was a BLAST

[@barnigranero5882]

That's not a tiny venue. That's twice the size of what I'd call a medium/large venue.

[@ciopespula]

They were originally a hardcore band from the 80s nyc hardcore scene but morphed into a hip hop act and blew up the whole scene and changed the game and are greatly respected in both the rock and hip hop circles

[@brandonhinrichs4393]

The Beastie boys started out as a punk rock band. So they've always kept that energy. Even rage against the machine being the first metal band with a hip hop twist their energy is pure punk rock

[@bigsistahtips]

Yes, here in New Zealand is Saturday, and I had a long week, so I'm binge-watching your channel, lol. This song made me want to have a band. I was like: yes, that's exactly what I want to do. Although I'm not a professional musician, I play the guitar whenever inspired. These 3 dudes... So wise and talented a such a young age. I'm glad I grew up with their music as the soundtrack of my life.

[@paulshaw9953]

I'm totally ready for you to deep dive on this band... Fight For Your Right No Sleep Til Brooklyn featuring a guitar solo from Slayer's Kerry King Brass Monkeys Intergalactic Check It Out Root Down Sure Shot There is a wealth of great stuff

[@paulyearley1084]

The Beastie Boys started as a punk band and transitioned into hiphop, and it was amazing. Sabotage is a perfect example of this

[@paulaleckey1968]

There's so much more Beastie Boys you need to listen to!! You won't be disappointed. They are beyond iconic!!

[@HandleTakenlol]

Sick! They did this song live on David Letterman. They actually do play instruments. They practically invented rap rock. So what you want, Paul Revere, three MCS and one DJ

[@christopherwolfe1029]

Me and my horsey horsey🐴and a quart of beer 🍺

[@3DJapan]

That's right, I remember that Letterman episode!

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

This^^

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

It's on KZbin best live performace ever

[@J-Schizzle69]

I believe this was the first album to top the Hip hop and rock charts. The Beastie boys have a lot of great songs. Over there albums the make quite an evolution in their music. Becoming better musicians and playing there own instruments. In the beginning they did more sampling. This video is a play on 70's cop tv shows. Beastie boys always seemed to have the most fun. Thanks for another excellent reaction.

[@1776SOL]

Beastie Boys started as a NYC Punk Rock band then morphed into Rap/Rock/Punk. Sabotage is straight back to their Punk Rock roots mixed with Rap & EDM.

[@Jlymansackhead]

Beastie Boys are 80s pioneers of rap/punk rock mix.

[@chrismckenzie403]

The Beastie Boys were first a punk rock band. Completely punk rock on their first album the Pollywog stew album . It was their second album Liscened to Ill where they introduced rap and hip hop. Their role models were the Bad Brains.The Beastie Boys took the B&B from Bad Brains and came up with the name Beastie Boys. Whereas the Bad Brains were an all black band playing hardcore punk rock .The Beastie Boys were inspired by the Bad Brains to do something similar being white kids making rap music. Later the Beastie Boys would produce a Bad Brains record Build a Nation on Megaforce records.

[@pointsur67]

Actually, they are doing a parody of the 1970's cop shows and movies. Also realize that the Beastie boys started out as a PUNK ROCK band at the beginning of the 1980's. Like Run-DMC, they incorporated a lot of rock vibes into their music. They actually made their own music and are very good musicians. I am surprised how so many people today cannot watch a video AND listen to the lyrics. It was always easy for us.

[@davedenicola673]

You should watch this performance live from a certain late night TV show....they totally blew people away, for their actual playing of all the music...yes, they had skills to play instruments live.

[@EllakGr]

Thanks for brightning up my day Lex and Brad! I hope you get to do this for as long as you like. You deserve it. Stay safe / Regards

[@mistabook]

YES! So glad you did these guys. I hope you do more. Their catalogue is deep and wide. They were kind of their own genre. Most of their stuff is more straight hip hop, but they combined hip hop, punk, metal (in their early days anyway), jazz, funk, psych-rock, and experimentation to make something that's not quite like any other band. Such a fun group.

[@juandelacruz365]

Nu Metal was prototyped by Rage Against the Machine in '92, it was officially made as Nu Metal by KoRn in '95. So every so called "Rap Rock/Metal" genre before '92 like Beastie Boys and Faith No More are probably the sounds that influenced Nu Metal. But they all must thank Aerosmith and RUN DMC with that unusual collab that gave birth to it all.

[@jeffreycherep8264]

Think about this: in the same 6-month span,at the same studio,"Raising Hell" by Run DMC,"Reign In Blood" by Slayer,and "License To Ill" by the Beastie Boys were recorded. You guys should check out some of "Pollywog Stew" by the Beasties,if for no other reason than to measure the vast difference. I personally love it.

[@josephgallagher945]

Beastie Boys supposedly started out playing punk rock. This song was a throwback. It was also used in commercials for the tv show Cops. Lol

[@richardlefaive1944]

Beasties are probably best described as ; rap, hip hop, punk fusion. Probably have to grant them the position as the generators of the screemo genre, w\o actually being screemo themselves

[@KlooKloo]

having this be the first Beasties song you hear is WILD.

[@arconeagain]

This is one of my favourite songs of all time. The video is the greatest ever. Classic.

[@reverandbigshow8171]

Slayer was recording their seminal album "Reign in Blood" in the same studio at the same time the Beastie Boys were recording this record. They got along and invited Kerry King to lay down the guitars and solo on "You gotta fight". The song is well worth checking out!

[@2DonChris]

Punk hip hop is spot on. The Beasties had a few punk songs sprinkled in their albums. Awesome group.

[@UnclePengy]

The video is great homage to TV cop shows from the 70s and 80s, especially Streets of San Francisco and Starsky and Hutch. Nailed every trope.

[@HalSchirmer]

Another - "I heard this in a movie" song- Memorable as the intro to the Star Trek reboot of James Tiberius Kirk thrashing his step-dads corvette, and later as a favorite song of with Sofia Boutella's alien character.

[@maryrobbins4087]

YES!!!!! More BEASTIE BOYS!

[@blairjjohnson]

Definitely a unique choice to dive in to the Beasties. Huge hit, but one of the biggest departures from their "genre." Please do more -- much more -- of them.

[@carlitosd.9699]

There was a huge crossover with the Hiphop scene and the Punk scene in NYC in the 70’s and the Beasties come straight out of that mixture, and are themselves a super important part of HipHop’s foundations, and as stated in some of the other comments, the video is a spoof of 70’s police shows. 😎

[@creativitycell]

Lex! This one if my fave Beastie tracks ever, the video was amazing at the time, a homage to the cops n robber TV shows of the 1970s! Hilarious! P.S, I love your 90s jackets, Uber cool!❤️

[@535wer]

Just love his raw, obnoxious loud cool voice!

[@anotherdeadweirdo382]

Just a personal pet peeve of mine re:the 90s revisited. Windbreakers like that were long gone by the mid-90s. That is all.

[@charleslatora5750]

My phone needs charging, but wait Lex, Beastie boys, sabotage, oh I must watch this👍👍👍

[@sattymike0155]

One of my favorite Beastie songs was Gratitude. Super solid.

[@JMulvy]

Most people classify the Beastie Boys as hip hop but you are right, they always experimented with their sound. They even had some heavy techno and electronic songs too.

[@ChadGPT-1.0]

I feel very blessed to have seen the Beasties twice... first time at Lollapalooza in ‘93 in Cloverdale, British Columbia in the front row. The second time was in Brooklyn, New York in 2007. This show was so cool as it was in an old decrepit community swimming/wading pool!! “No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn” was epic there. (Fun side note: while at the New York Beasties show I was missing a free Black Crowes concert at Central Park and Daft Punk was playing at Coney Island. First world problems!)

[@tlbryant4697]

Paul Revere next please the beat is wicked

[@BrickNewton]

Favourite BBoys album is Check your head, played that tape every time we went out cruising, that and Slayers Undisputed attitude

[@mattnoonan6519]

LOVE the Beastie Boys. Check out ‘So Whatcha Want’ as that song SLAPS! I remember buying the single CD of that song, back when you didn’t have to buy the whole CD for $20, you could get a single for like $8, and it would have like 5 tracks on it. That song hits so hard! DO IT!

[@barte3822]

Happy belated Birthday Lex, sorry I missed your party last night.🥳🎂 ✌❤

[@Joshuadgog]

The best beastie boys song. Sabatoge is groundbreaking and amazing. Im not even a rap/metal guy but this song slaps hard in a great way. The video is amazing it has cool action and is fun.

[@heathermencer3759]

Intergalactic is one of my all-time favorites from Beastie Boys. ♥️♥️♥️

[@BirdBrain0815]

That genre-mix was a big thing in the early nineties ... we used to call it Crossover ... Rage Against the Machine, Bodycount, Clawfinger, P.O.D., etc. etc. the whole Judgement Night soundtrack ... a bit like Run DMC vs. Aerosmith on steroids, the moment when Rappers and Rockers started to take each other seriously and recognised that there was a lot of common ground attitude-wise.

[@randyreynolds4252]

is more 80's then 90's just like her jacket. The video is a 70's throwback all us kids growing up in the 70's and 80's watched

[@bugvswindshield]

Beastie Boys are a wide and deep library. 3mc's and 1 mc. epic

[@libertylion6088]

If there was one thing that the Beastie Boys stood for was to NOT be taken seriously. They were always crackin on themselves.

[@keithgraham8588]

Beastie Boys started out as a punk band. Then started rapping later on. This song more of a punk song than a rock song. They play their own instruments in some of their beats like this one. Should watch them do a live version of this song.

[@Stuck-n-da-90s]

They Beastie Boys also play instruments. They have a very rock album and they have an instrument album.

[@AClark-jx9zp]

They started out as speed / punk rock.

[@steveelshoff3353]

90's, fuck yeah!

[@robertsaul234]

90s but the video is 70s looking Starsky and Hutch. Request The Beatles' 🦱🦱🦱🦱"Let It Be".

[@louielouie22]

Mid 80s. They have so many great songs. Intergalactic, what you want, Paul Revere, fight for your right..

[@firecrakka]

Intergalactic is the odd man out.... that was late 90's

[@bethshadid2087]

True first mainstream rap....from 70s....Rappers Delight by Sugar Hill Gang....and Blondie "Rapture" brought it out into limelight as well. Beastie Boys "Fight For Your Right" was the world's introduction to them. Btw they are the reason LL COOL J got his break into the scene.

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Beastie Boys always do such great videos !

[@jeknechtphotography7106]

One of my favorite groups. Def check out Sure Shot and 3 MCs and 1 DJ.

[@lordweldatron.9955]

Love the beastie boys, you got to check out " intergalactic" it's pure class 🙂👍🙂

[@quinceykirkland1227]

They came out in the 80's, doing things no-one did back then. People forget how long rap and rock have been fusing together...

[@AndrewTheFrank]

If I remember correctly they got their start when some music people were playing samples, probably stuff that was seen as bad and to be tossed, and they started rapping to it. Everyone was impressed. For the most part they are MCs who rap over guitar/rock riffs.

[@davidjb-750]

“I don’t like the video”…. Probably the best music video ever made 😊 .Beastie Boys we’re originally a punk band if that helps with the genre

[@Notthemikeurlookin4]

I remember see Jay-Z opening his shows with No Sleep Til Brooklyn by Beastie Boys. They are heavily influential and important to hip hop in general.

[@joshuabailey7246]

Every album is gold

[@johanjohansson9432]

Started as a garage punk band, saw hip hop emerging and embraced it. Like a lot of caucasion rappers they infuse humour into their lyrics to spread their appeal to the youth. Love it so much!! *edit* and you can just tell they are having so much fun making this clip, living and loving life

[@sundevilscott]

This song is a MASTERPIECE!

[@michaeloesterle6652]

BB were innovative. They have a really cool vibe. Whatcha Want is a great one by them.

[@davehansen7213]

Hip-Hop ! this came out they had been out for close to 10 yrs. and already established and respected act. I think when the 2 of you get deeper you will understand.They went into the Hall Of Fame 1yr after Run-DMC, then 2Pac went in the year after.So very respected in the hip-hop community. I look forward to more reactions,now some are corny,silly. But some are also bangers. 3MCs and 1 DJ!!

[@abstractjwl806]

The Beasties are always about funny, you will always feel better after listening to them.

[@gregbryant3826]

This was pretty much the peak of the Beastie Boys and the end of a pretty incredible run of albums. They did an album of Rick Rubin produced party jams. Then they did an experimental hip hop album composing with samples. Then they got sued a bunch and the laws on sampling changed so they picked up instruments and did a moody political hip hop album. The fourth album, the one with this song, is them taking everything they learned and making another party jam album. Their best song is actually off the moody political album. It's called "Somethings got to give" and it's still one of the most original sounding songs I've ever heard. Genre wise they are solidly hip hop. They played around with the edges of the genre but never really broke away from the rapping over a beat format, even if the beats got weird. Outkast pushed the boundaries a lot more and I never hear anyone questioning if they are hip hop. I blame vanilla ice. They idea that three jewish white kids from New York could be a legit hip hop group is met with skepticism but they worked with Qtip and Nas so good enough for me.

[@echopryme]

ALWAYS a decade ahead of the world!!!

[@stephenlackey5852]

This was an instant classic The music and the video

[@joehynes5452]

Paul's Boutique ,Check Your Head, and Ill Communication are their best albums, can't go wrong with anything off of those

[@DanAnkers]

The Beastie boys have always come out with stuff that makes you just go...these crazy MFers. 🙏

[@XravensunsetX]

Beastie Boys are truly in a class of their own....

[@WykkedMofo]

If you wanna do more Beastie Boys reactions. You gotta hit onto their classics, like... No Sleep 'til Brooklyn or Fight For Your Right To Party. They have been around longer than most peeps realize. Love the vid. Love the reaction. Keep up the GREAT work you 2! \m/

[@chrissarria]

Punk + rap + funk + electronic + trip hop + pizza + microsoft _________90s

[@jamescoleman8954]

I’ve listen to them since like 1985

[@hellboundrubber4448]

Believe it or not, the Beastie's wrote this tune from a time when they actually posed as NYC Detectives and discovered how they operated and how they perpetrate. The equipment used to record this album was borrowed from Pink Floyd. They originally used it to record Dark Side of the Moon.

[@Patriiiiick]

I think everyone who had a group of at least 3 friends dressed as these characters sometime during the early 2000's.

[@janosmarta8258]

Beasrie Boys are in hall of fames people! I listened this song on casette to crap, they were the phenomenes of my childhood.

[@deadmeat1240]

90's stream reacting to a 90's video that is a send up of 70's cop shows. Noice!

[@billtmarchi4320]

Call it Chaos rock. Where the choice of all the instruments and beats and tempos are crushed together create a chaotic gritty sound of music. There are songs that I love because the arrangements are so off and forced together that it's pure "chaos" at the studio or on stage. This song and Living colors song cult of personality and a Kidd rock song called "where U at rock where you at" I used to hear. My old home stereo had 2 reverbs hooked up to it And I would turn up the reverbs And the delays sound-effects all the way up. And it was so chaotic And crazy sounding that it made you call down or some thing .. And most ac/dc songs should be called chaos rock.

[@boxicuk1620]

Happy Birthday Lex ,hope you had a great day x

[@moonlily1]

"I feel like there are no guitars". But...there ARE guitars. It opens with a riff and has a solo in the middle just before the "WHOOOOAAA!"

[@kendon81]

lol.....I was a teenager in the 90s with this on cassette and in my Walkman.....Ill Communication grate album.

[@davidwalsh7128]

They were hitting on 70's cop shows, brilliant...

[@jameswestley5643]

Shit is lit. to this day, one of the best music videos I've ever seen.

[@chaost4544]

They must have had a ton of fun filming this music video.

[@PlaguedNevermore666]

I would love to hear yall react to beastie boys brass monkey song. I was a little one and i grew up listening to many forms on music and i loved these guys

[@nuketheswamp7774]

Another Beastie Boys song with the heavy rock rap sound is "Whatcha Want"