Rappers React To Beastie Boys "So What'cha Want"!!!

[@groovelife415]

The guy saying "Yeah, you can't front on that!" in the chorus is none other than Biz Markie.

[@djprideone1]

i thought it was chuck d of public enemy who said that ?

[@anthonyv6962]

​@@djprideone1Biz for sure

[@groovelife415]

@@djprideone1 nope, it was Biz Markie.

[@bonerjams1334]

No shit! That's cool

[@elbruces]

"I'm as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce."

[@mikefetterman6782]

Cab Calloway was a famous jazz singer from the 1940s (see him in the movie The Blues Brothers) he and "Scat man" Caruthers, were known for "SCATTING" which is vocal improv, using the voice mostly as a rhythm instrument. Rap gets a lot of it's song structure from Big Band Music.

[@QualeQualeson]

Not throwing shade, but Cab Calloway and that big band song and dance scene was on a completely different level from what we know now. They had a very different view on what a show and a night out should be back then, and I dare say that it was a much more tempting proposition. I'd sacrifice every concert I've ever been to just to see it once.

[@josiepkat]

100% - I point this out all the time when I say to jazz musicians that rap has things in common with jazz. Ella Fitzgerald.. etc.

[@Bill-c8k]

Now you have to react to BAD BRAINS Great punk band fron DC

[@heathcornbeef]

Kia ora hello from Aotearoa new zealand 💥💥💥 BAD BRAINS have been a big part of the soundtrack to my life since first hearing them in 1984 seen them here 💥💥💥❤️🤘✌️

[@heathcornbeef]

I and I survive is my favourite reggae song of all time

[@ironlung2323]

React to Soulcraft.

[@heathcornbeef]

@@ironlung2323 i don't have a soul 🤘

[@Heinz57Sauce]

Fuck yeah!! Maybe they like it & start doing punk reactions!! I’m requesting ‘Screaming at a Wall’ & ‘Straight Edge’ by Minor Threat!!!!

[@sterling8298]

Besides sabotage , this is my second favorite song by the Beastie Boys.😊 The beat is fire.😊☄️🔥

[@DarthMohammedRules]

This is some of the illest flow that ever existed.

[@Heinz57Sauce]

You two should do some Bad Brains reactions!!!!

[@descantinginsalubrious]

So many good ones: Sailin On, Right Brigade, Pay to cum, I against I, Soul Craft...but please, no songs off of Rise.

[@Cargeorge996]

"You scream and you holler 'bout my Chevy Impala But the sweat is getting wet around the ring around your collar. " My fav Bar from Mike D periodt 🔥

[@chrisjarvis2287]

DJ Hurricane was actually the DJ on a lot of Beastie records.

[@anthonyv6962]

Mostly for the live shows. The Beasties Ad-Rock in particular did most of the scratching on the records.

[@rqu3-b2m]

DJ Double R (Rick Rubin) and Doctor Dré (from Yo MTV Raps) were the original DJs from License to Ill 1987 and Paul’s Boutique 1989. DJ Hurricane was the DJ for Check Your Head 1992 and Ill Communication 1994. Mix Master Mike took over for Hello Nasty 1998, To the 5 Boroughs 2004, and Hot Sauce Committee Part Two 2011 🍻

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

Rick Rubin had nothing to do with this song lol "But like a dream I'm flowing without no stopping Sweeter than a cherry pie with Reddi-wip topping"🤘🏼

[@kanjjn]

Rick Rubin was gone after the first album. Mario C produced this. In fact, the very first thing you hear on this song is Mike D saying "Mario C, you can't front on that!"

[@daveschneider7668]

-Wrong album -Wrong DJ -Wrong producer Other than that, ya’ll were close

[@gavinlucas6799]

BEASTIE - Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Inner Excellence. The acronym was an after thought after the band chose the name.

[@gonoannowhere]

its a backronym

[@theidajawho]

The Bad Brains are my all time fav Punk band. HR was just incred, and the band was talented.

[@otakubancho6655]

It's always a great time for The Beasties!💘💘💘

[@FeralPatrick]

Urban Dance Squad inspired the boys to play their own instruments on this album (Check Your Head). UDS also inspired two guys named Zach and Tom to form a little band called Rage Against the Machine. So, give flowers to Rude Boy Remington and crew, too!

[@trenchy1990]

This album was 'Check Your Head' not 'Ill Communication'. It's personally my fav Beastie Boys album. Should do Gratitude next by Beastie Boys.

[@joebrown5120]

Well,that’s right…

[@mikefetterman6782]

On this album DJ Hurricane was still with them. DJ RR (Rick Rubin) was on their first album. MiX Master Mike came along later in the mid 90s.

[@mikefetterman6782]

The is Ad ROCK playing the guitar, Mike D is playing a drum set on this one, and MCA is playing the bass. Mario C. (Caldinato) is on the keyboard.

[@mikefetterman6782]

The left NYC in 1988. The rest of their stuff was recorded in Los Angeles until much later. The bought their own studio in the valley. Rick Rubin and the Beasties parted ways after the first tour, the Beasties, got ripped of by Rick and Russel Simmons.

[@105932197]

@@mikefetterman6782Mario C is their soundman, keyboards was Money Mark

[@mikefetterman6782]

Originally, they were 2 punk bands that melded. The original line up also had Kate Shellenbach on drums.

[@mikefetterman6782]

John Barry was the guitarist, but couldn't stop partying enough to care. AD ROCK left his band, "The Young and the Useless.' Mike D, John, Kate, and Adam Yauch (MCA) in the band "The New Aboriginies". Changed their name to the Beastie Boys in 1980. and Kate left the group when they were focused on the 808 drum machine in their early rap days back in 1981-83.

[@mikefetterman6782]

They left DEF JAM after their very 1st album. There was a lot of money disputes.

[@WVUer21]

Check Yo Head is essential early 90s music.

[@kristaspecht]

Morning guys! Love love love the beastie boys!! This is such a great song and I love the video! Great choice fellas!❤❤

[@alexbonner2128]

When you talked about illin’ you reminded me of Run Dmc’s You Be Illin’ 😂

[@atdeacon]

Such a great tune that showed how fantastic they were. 3 distinct voices each with a vocal style, all in perfect syncopation

[@SevenEternities]

You gotta check out the Beasties Pass the Mic and An Open Letter to NYC 😎

[@drew65sep]

One of those bands who's timing couldn't have been any more perfect. MTV and VH1 owe just as much to these guys as the Beasties owe them for the meteoric rise that they all rode on. Absolutely perfect timing for the music and the cable TV worlds to collide. Arguably, the 80's decade was music's best for variety and popularity. It birthed a plethora of different bands and genres (Lord, how I hate that word) that came out of the commercial, bar, and underground scenes. No internet, vinyl was king, bootleg LP's and cassettes were handed out at the bar's front door after one paid the cover charge, and everybody knew the "Top 100" charts by heart just like a prepubecent kid spewing each and every statistic printed on the back of all the baseball cards Topps had. One could catch a live show in their hometown or within driving distance at least twice a week from the bands that were on tour...even if they lived in little "Po-dunk USA" it was a tour stop. I miss it. Apologies to all those who made it this far for the ratchet-jawing tangent I was just on. Kinda got lost in the sauce.

[@matthewgoodA1206]

Alwayz been my fave Beastie Boys song. One of the best beats in hip-hop & rap in my view.

[@PeeWeeGerman1313]

This was my dad's (R.I.P. to Karl Field senior) favorite Beastie Boys tracks! Thanks for reacting to this one! Y'all should do Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun! More of a punkish influenced tracks that I always thought was cool

[@heathcornbeef]

Kia ora hello brothers from Aotearoa new zealand. Hay dudes I've seen The Beastie Boys 3 times here in Aotearoa first time in a 1100 capacity club The Power Station they BLESSED US PUNKROCKERS with a short set of HARDCORE NYC style 💥💥💥. At the same club about a year earlier i saw BAD BRAINS at that club I've seen The RAMONES The CRAMPS PUBLIC IMAGE SOUND GARDEN THE PIXIES............. hundreds of bands over the last 35 years of going there

[@graysonberry]

In 6th grade my best friends mom took us to the “License to Ill” concert haha (they opened for RUN DMC at the Summit) Beasties are pure joy and originally wanted to be a thrash band. They show off their instrumental prowess on “Check Your Head”, still my favorite B Boys album…

[@beelzebob23]

Oh shit... now you gotta check out that"band called Bad Brains." I against I is such a killer album.

[@marcusedwards8283]

This album, especially this song, along with A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory, and Poor Righteous Teachers' Pure Poverty album were the soundtrack to my 10th grade year of High School.

[@shawnstarck826]

Dont forget Slayer did work with the Beastie Boy also

[@KattMurr]

It wasn't the whole band. It was just Kerry King...

[@shawnstarck826]

@KattMurr Kerry is Slayer hahaha yes I know. I toured with them many times over the last 30yrs 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@KattMurr]

@shawnstarck826 what band were you in? Or you solo?

[@johnladd8421]

speaking of Bad Brains… you guys gotta checkout “I AGAINST I”. great song. I used to play it in a band I was in. it’s trippy timing, hard punk/metal and a sprinkle of Reggae. weird combo.

[@davidmatheny1993]

This may be a very loose interpretation of "freestyle" in rock, but there are quite a few to throw in bits from other songs in extended live versions of songs. Chris Cornell started singing parts of "Alive" by Pearl Jam and "Jesus is Just Alright" by the Doobie Brothers in an extended bridge of the Soundgarden song "Slaves and Bulldozers". Adam Duritz did a phenomenal spoken word like performance during a live version of "Round Here" by Counting Crows. Michael Stipe would start songs with poems and lyrics he liked from other bands before launching into R.E.M. songs in concerts.

[@kerriesavage2943]

so wacha want

[@sterling8298]

I wish they would bring back that boom bap rap.😊 Maybe even combine that boom bap rap with metal music.

[@ashleydixon4613]

SO glad I got to see these guys live, if only once-Lollapalooza ’94 in Dallas, I was 19. It was awesome. When they played Sabotage, it really got WILD. I thought people were gonna start ripping out the seats and eating them. 😂

[@joshuadeshaies7266]

RIP MCA

[@lakermd]

I’m as cool as a cucumber in a bowl hot sauce” one of the best lines in hip hop history

[@DS-182]

This is after rick Ruben and released on Grand Royal Records owned by the B-Boys under capital records produced by Mario Caldato Jr (Mario C) and money mark

[@anthonyguilford6563]

BEASTIE BOYS ARE MY DAWGS. WHATCHU WANT

[@paulreinhardt2552]

Just want to say ty if you played my suggestions. I was just trying to share my love of music, but I can understand if people who pay feel that you should be dedicated to them. So I won't suggest any more songs, but I will listen and give you fumbs up :) Peace love and all that crazy stuff.

[@Shammrock62]

React to so Bad Brains!

[@lindacoy7165]

“I’m the illest muthaf***a from here to Gardena” is my favorite line ever.

[@rqu3-b2m]

DJ Double R (Rick Rubin) and Doctor Dré (from Yo MTV Raps) were the original DJs from License to Ill 1987 and Paul’s Boutique 1989. DJ Hurricane was the DJ for Check Your Head 1992 and Ill Communication 1994. Mix Master Mike took over for Hello Nasty 1998, To the 5 Boroughs 2004, and Hot Sauce Committee Part Two 2011 🍻

[@gennyreese420]

Get ready to have this song stuck in your head all week ✌😎🖤

[@stevenwheat3621]

The "Mmmm Drooop" bit off Intergalactic came from "The New Style" off License To Ill.

[@Hippy1969]

I'm surprised ya'll haven't done this before! Super glad ya did, though. Cheers!!

[@SidSneer1]

You might be able to consider "scatting" done in jazz music to be freestyling. Im not sure that it counts but it seems like a form of freestyle in my opinion.

[@mikethemotormouth]

Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher might be the most famous example

[@robertschiavone5159]

They always have an amazing flow

[@Moss_and_Such]

I got sent to Buckley AFB for a med screen when I was in the army and I was blasting this song in my ex girlfriends shitbox Jetta with bullet holes in the side and was instantly pulled over by security forces 😂

[@alisarproductions]

Rick Rubin only produced LICENSED TO ILL. Dust Brothers did Paul's Boutique Beastie's produced everything else they ever did with the help of Mario C

[@eddievantrollen3459]

My favorite Beastie Boys jam!!!

[@TheKyoput]

The word "ill" influenced hip-hop greatly. It can be traced back as far as the 70s, when block parties would gather and folks would compete to have the best rhymes. Incredible performances would often lead to people siting down, mimicking some kind of exasperated sickness from the power of the words. All in good fun. This of course led to talk of "rhymes that will make you ill," then the rhymes themselves becoming ill and spreading that to the audience. It became a good thing. Like "bad" or "sick.

[@aprilwilliams8073]

I had to go look their catalog up because I was thinking they had started maybe mid 80s, and Licensed to Ill came out in 86. I was still a kid at that point, so I didn't hear them for the first time until the 90s.

[@kimzwolinski9919]

I chose Bonham out of the drummers listed. My favorite drummer is Roger Taylor of Queen. 👑

[@GangGreen80]

My favorite beastie boys song

[@lindacoy7165]

Mine too!

[@jamessomers8808]

I remember Bad brains, so long ago. I wouldn’t mind hearing some of that in the near future.😂

[@daveesmond1634]

They actually parted ways with Rick Rubin after License to Ill. Rubin wanted to make them basically do LTill 2.0 but they wanted creative freedom and picked their instruments back up starting w Check Your Head album

[@johnladd8421]

“Sweeter than cherry pie , with Reddi Whip topping”…..makes me laugh every time

[@NeverTrustGhost]

Fun Fact: The group used a karaoke microphone to distort their vocals. At the time, most elite rappers had big, powerful voices that might get some reverb, but never distortion. Beastie Boys were in a different, higher vocal range, so this effect suited them well. Years later, another vocal effect became the in-thing in rap: Auto-Tune. -This Song Was In The Rhythm Game Rock Band 2.

[@mike021478]

Yo Luscious Jackson has some bangers..........Naked Eye, Citysong,

[@ghouliethousandtrouser2905]

There's a great clip on youtube somewhere of Krist Novoselic freestyling to fill time when Kurt's mic cut out. I couldn't recommend it enough 👌

[@FredHaro]

"BEASTIE" stands for "Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Inner Excellence"

[@JeffC26131]

Check your head is a brilliant album. Definitely in my top 10.

[@ianwallace5646]

If I recall the story correctly, American Woman by The Guess Who was more or less freestyle at a show and they had to find someone that had recorded it to go back and learn it for real. I think in blues, into the electric era, and further on to rock there's some amount of freestyle vocals but more spots and fills than more full verses and tracks like hip hop. Much more common that the instruments would jam together and create music in the moment and off one another.

[@HandSoloRecords]

Tough beat and so many quotable in this one. In a catalogue of classic songs, this is definitely one of their best.

[@dmphax]

Freaking love Beastie Boys 🤘🤘

[@philb323]

I saw Bad Brains back in the day! Dope ass band.

[@DLT100]

the Goats not your typical American is fire guys

[@aaronsmuk2872]

You guys gotta do Pass the Mic!!!!!! It's so fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@darbygreen2857]

Mario Caldato Jr produced this album. He's shouted out on many BB songs.

[@tonytreacheroustee3902]

They had multiple dj's throughout their career.

[@lenperin4923]

These guy rock.

[@joebrown5120]

Boys Entering Anarchistic States Toward Inner Excellence

[@JustEnjoyAll84]

From MA, showing my age, still use ill and dope and wicked and nasty.

[@mcclane8812]

Rick Rubin is a musical genius

[@kenharness1417]

Michael Stipe of REM is well known for free styling his lyrics.

[@mikegloady]

Rubin was only on the first album, and the split was acrimonious. This was DJ Hurricane as DJ and Mario C as producer. Hurricane would later be replaced by Mix Master Mike.

[@Juan-be8kw]

Beastie Boys left Def Jam and Rick Rubin after their 1st Album Licensed to Ill and signed with Capital Records which gave them their own label Grand Royal. Their 2nd Album Paul's Boutique was produced by The Dust Brothers and every album after that (Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty, etc...) was co-produced with Mario Caldato Jr not Rick Rubin

[@AdrianGraham4]

Mix Master Mike only got picked up in time to make Hello Nasty (1998) and then stuck for To the 5 Burroughs and Hot Sauce Committee vol. 2 (vol. 1 got scrapped)

[@Bafcrawler]

White zombie shirts dope

[@ColinFurness77]

To me, this is the greatest rap song of all time. That said, I'm a middle aged metalhead, so I don't know much.lol

[@mrmurphy172]

If you played the Original Dead Rising video game this song played during your fight against the prisoners in the courtyard.

[@RexDelorean]

My favorite Beastie song and the versión of the Huangs - Fresh off the boat. 😂

[@ladaddy19]

You should definitely check out the live version with B Real on Arsenio Hall in 92. Ad Rock is unhinged. It's amazing.

[@ladaddy19]

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[@throwabrick]

BEASTIE actually used to stand for Boys Entering Anarchistic States Toward Internal Excellence. That was back before they kicked Kate Schellenbach out of the group.

[@KimEllis-kt8ei]

That's interesting hearing about the acronym and the other thing about bad brains, I just always figured you know them being jewish, the synagogue of satan thing and spiritual father being the devil who is the beast, is where they came up with being children of the beast or beastie boys.

[@christopherglock7239]

Cypress hills was more than a band this collaboration was destine. Cypress hill was next to Forrest park in Queens Cypress hill had a small Forrest too next to Cypress hill Cemetery. Every once in a while we. Went to victory field where all kind of events happened there October fest. Also called the dome now dedicated to Beatles called strawberry fields. A tripping place of parties. Even the track and baseball field I actually played league in.

[@fmchef25]

Mix master mike!!!

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

Wasn't with them on this album lol

[@fmchef25]

@DefinitelyNotBender got ya, I just know he's been with for a bit!!

[@jamessomers8808]

Mixmaster Mike.❤

[@theidajawho]

We might say, You Illin? Today may be, You Cappin?

[@heygraberyo]

Rick Rubin produced License To Ill Dust Brothers produced Paul’s Boutique Beasties produced Check your head onward

[@EvilDave777]

Rick Rubin had nothing to do with this album. He produced their first record, and then they had a falling out. The Beastie Boys moved to L.A., signed with a different record label, and found a new sound with the help of the Dust Brothers. After the commercial failure of Paul's Boutique, the Beastie Boys had the freedom to make whatever music they wanted, so they built their own studio and picked up their instruments again and changed their sound for the third time. This song comes from Check Your Head, their third album and first to be made in their own studio (G-Son in L.A.) with the addition of a keyboard player and a percussionist. In my opinion, this is when they really hit their stride artistically. A lot of the best Beastie Boys stuff comes from the Check Your Head - Ill Communication - Hello Nasty era.

[@elbruces]

"Had a falling out" is pretty strong. They were just going a different way is all. So was he. They'd learned all he had to teach them about creativity, and he had a lot more people to teach.

[@ShanLH5]

Wow Hollywood didn’t say the ‘Y’ word this time 😆

[@Hollywood6IX]

@@ShanLH5 😂😂😂

[@MARSHOMEWORLD]

Speaking of their punk rock days... there is a beat so slamming fast on their early recordings, that it is widely considered to be one of the first blast Beats

[@jessellis5466]

Hard no. That title belongs to Buddy Rich

[@MARSHOMEWORLD]

@jessellis5466 well, admittedly Buddy was a beast, but he wasn't any further along than Louie bellson who is rocking that single stroke crazy sauce and drum solos at the same time. Actually I would imagine the traditional grip version of what could be considered a blast beat is actually rooted in military Cadence or Drumline technicality as opposed to outright jazz. And the first dude I can think of to actually incorporate that speed into a song not just as a solo unaccompanied would be Tony williams. But getting back to the point at hand in terms of a recorded work that has a tangible and traceable date chronologically..... in terms of using that beat in a song structure..... again, not just as a solo.... I still vote in the direction of the Beastie boys. There'll be some people who need to win at internet's that will bring up Napalm death, or terroriser which are totally valid I mean those are all embryonic in the same sort of way but spin that early beasties demo and tell me that that shit doesn't sound like a traditional fully formed blast beat

[@anthonyv6962]

Rick Rubin on worked on their first album.

[@regitmeisner3546]

This and 'Lens" Steal my sunshine song gotta be the beats for Yelawolf's Barn fire !?

[@kimzwolinski9919]

🔥😎

[@Shammrock62]

3 MC' san 1 DJ

[@mikethemotormouth]

They've done that one

[@icedhazelnut959]

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