First Time Hearing Beastie Boys - So What'Cha Want (Reaction!!)

[@poloreacts27]

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[@Tommysimonsen]

Beastie Boys - Three MC's And One DJ Beastie Boys - Root Down Beastie Boys, Nas - Too Many Rappers

[@JackXombi]

Respect for admitting and overcoming past biases. I used to feel the same way about Rap in general how you felt about Beastie Boys with an ignorant 'rap is crap' attitude. The worlds a much better place now that I can see the beauty I was sleeping on. Also, +1 for Three MC's and One DJ.

[@budgetgrower2808]

Paul revere

[@michellez1414]

Today is the 11th anniversary of MCA's death from cancer. Rip Yauch. Save Sabatoge for after you've done a few others first. Deep catalog. Start with their old stuff and work up, it's fun to see their style develop.

[@crouchingotter]

Just react to every single one of their songs… :)

[@anatay10]

50 year old black woman... Brooklynite here. The Beastie Boys are the Truth. I'll never forget the first time I heard them... as a kid on Eastern Parkway in BK. Their breakout track "Hold it Now". When that track dropped a lot of us had no idea they were white. The Beastie boys were a part of a very niche culture, exclusive to NYC. Hip hop, punk, jazz... the Lower East side, Brooklyn etc created a unique fusion. I've always found it so difficult to articulate... paint a picture of what it was like. It was a magical time and place. They are true Legends 🔥🔥

[@genesutton6383]

True dat!

[@MicahScottPnD]

Love your post!!

[@Sieara]

I’m 49, and you painted that picture just fine.💯

[@rastomasstanford7708]

Hear Hear Sista 🎉

[@DocAce91]

You are SPOT ON!

[@donnielee5331]

3 MC's and 1 DJ is a clinic. Beastie Boys is a deeeeeeeep rabbit hole. They were there at the very beginning of hip hop.

[@dancarter482]

Hip Hop started in the South Bronx in the 70's.!

[@遠哲-e7p]

That's right, Dan. I think of the Beasties as the second or third generation of NY hip hop.

[@dancarter482]

@@遠哲-e7p _WORD_ !

[@fredtaylor9792]

​@dan carter The first album to contain "rap elements" came out in 81 but nobody was listening to "rap" until the early to mid 80s....I was there, I know. They were there in the beginning as it became mainstream. They truly were one of the first successful rap groups and they weren't even 100% rap.

[@dancarter482]

@@fredtaylor9792 WTF? HA HA ~ _YOU_ NEED a history lesson!

[@andrearodriguez9005]

Paul Revere has always been my favorite Beastie Boys song. I would check that out. Never gets old!

[@kj_H65f]

Me too love the reversed hi hat beat

[@TheOperz0]

ohhh, you going back back

[@fredrickrodriguez8848]

Paul Revere and High Plains Drifter are 🔥

[@jacqueline4514]

ABSOLUTELY! One of the hardest bass lines ever 🔥

[@DyingInPlainSight]

​@@fredrickrodriguez8848🔥🔥🔥 Love High Plains Drifter 🔥🔥🔥

[@aldo34]

'Check Your Head' remains one of my favourite albums of all time. It has everything; hip hop, jazz, funk, punk rock, daft comedy sh*t...legends

[@BrickNewton]

Me and my best friend played the shit out of my cassette tape whenever we went cruising in the car. Still have it stored away.

[@stuffbenlikes]

I bought the CD three times in the late 90's cuz people kept stealing mine.

[@Ou8y2k2]

@@stuffbenlikes lol. That sucks. That's why I told my brothers to fucking copy their CDs so if they're stolen, you can make another copy.

[@CaineKnight]

Check Your Head was a masterpiece. Will always live in my top 5 albums of all time.

[@mattiisosalo918]

@@BrickNewtonMe and my friends blasted CYH on repeat in my ’88 Honda Accord. Good times.

[@jordangrant5383]

RIP MCA. Love your reacts man, '3 MC's and 1 DJ' is another banger by them.

[@lukelarsson]

It blows my mind how people are able to make it several decades into life without hearing some of these classics. Great reaction. Would love to hear more Beastie Boys reactions.

[@Lukeflesh]

Thanks for saying exactly what i was thinking.. dude looks my age! I never bought anything the album, like him, wrapped up in our own sounds..but hearing this song again, ya they were really good for us all!!🏴📸

[@harvestblades]

I know I've never been into rap & hip hop but I remember being exposed to this albulm as a kid & I was a metal head.

[@1Nevergone]

Like I posted, I don’t buy it for a second. With as big as this song was there is no chance this hasn’t been heard by someone if they’re over 25.

[@MercyfulKing]

😢😅😂 deprived of good music since birth, "You're blind, baby You're blind from the facts on who you are 'Cause you're watchin' that garbage"

[@rsktransport]

Exactly, how the heck you say you are into hip hop but never heard beastie boys. Dats whack!

[@tobytabor490]

Professor Booty and Root Down are a couple of their most underrated tracks in my opinion

[@BlackRoseImmortal]

Root Down is the shit

[@keeyoki1]

Professor Booty has a verse from MCA blasting MC Search from 3rd Bass!!

[@jeremyyoung7146]

Professor Booty is a masterpiece 😁

[@steviekc9057]

Professor Booty is my favorite of their entire catalog ❤ (dancing around like you think you're Janet Jackson 😉)

[@jeremyyoung7146]

@@steviekc9057 Everything MCA says after that line is why he is cemented in my top 5

[@merlynthecat]

My vote for your next BB song is "Sure Shot" off Ill Communication. It's my favorite and it's a great song, unquestionably, but its where their evolution as humans and their efforts to raise their social consciousness became part of their music. MCA's vocals: "I wanna say a little something that's long overdue/The disrespect to women has got to be through/To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends/I wanna offer my love and respect to the end" These guys were amazing for so many reasons but perhaps most especially because of how much they came to care about the world around them. RIP MCA. You are missed.

[@jerseyman252]

A favorite of mine is Sure Shot from the Beastie Boys. It's in a similar vibe to this track. Also RIP MCA, legend.

[@airwindows]

I was going to mention Sure Shot. I'm not a rap guy at all but I'm going to go listen to it now, just thinking about it :)

[@Braktooth]

I was just going to write this. Excellent choice.

[@ScottKiley]

They did Sabotage live on David Lettermen and they played all the instruments, they were a really unique group

[@jamesjdm]

They have always played their own instruments and wrote all their own music/lyrics They are musical geniuses

[@turkeytrac1]

Started as a punk band in Boston.

[@damienzillas]

@@turkeytrac1naw man NYC. All three were born there and got their start there. Also, their music is filled with references to NYC. I can’t even think of a reference to Boston.

[@KdotLINE]

@@damienzillas "Paul Revere" is about all I can think of.

[@rsktransport]

Anybody who knows anything about 80s-90s punk culture knows that beasties were actually a punk band that started rapping as a joke but it was excepted by the culture so they embraced eachother and took it all the way.

[@zeppelinl6275]

That just happens to be the greatest Beastie Boys song ever. The most wicked beat. Love that song

[@neotheone6796]

Old school 90’s Beastie boys damn was just a different time

[@ArmedAngryAtheist]

There was definitely less pain involved in simply existing, heh. Now get off my lawn.

[@neotheone6796]

@@ArmedAngryAtheist give damn near anything to go back and just live there forever🤣

[@punkroxgirl]

Same 🤣

[@justmadetocomment6873]

Before the Internet, life was so much easier.

[@lobotomizedjellyfish2171]

Late 80's man. Licenced to Ill was a game changer.

[@johnguest9881]

I CAN'T believe that this dude is that old and HAS NEVER, even ACCIDENTALLY, heard this song before!! It was EVERYWHERE for like, 6 months straight!

[@jacquiew.9165]

Not on most Black radio stations.

[@laraismyname821]

Yes, always more Beastie Boys. You've got like a 30yr catalog of music to go through. They switch it up as time goes on but stay true to their roots.

[@pubuapubua]

rock!

[@sandyleewhite]

Released. 1991 - US. Vinyl -. So hard to believe this is *33 years old!!!* 😊

[@thegreatinterpreter8382]

I bought this album the day it came out with the only $9 I had to my name. This track, in particular, kind of became the anthem to my younger life. I'm a married accountant now (with kids)... but every time I hear this song, I'm brought back to being a 15 year old, skater punk... and I'm proud of it!

[@wadsworthred9940]

Just play the whole Pauls Boutique record and then realize that specific record is why samples were so heavily regulated after it !!

[@pubuapubua]

Exactly right. Snuck that album in in time.

[@screamingcats72]

Paul’s Boutique is legendary for the sampling.

[@robertyates7242]

What's funny Polo, is that they started out as a punk rock band 😂

[@punkroxgirl]

Yes!! I’m a huge punk fan and I love beastie boys!

[@Hooderaw]

Not really a surprise considering rap and punk are 1st cousins in Genre. Look at the gear that hip hop used to wear back when it first came out on vinyl. It damn sure was punk rockish. Blondie came out with a rap song. Punk rap embraced rap in the beginning.

[@punkroxgirl]

@@Hooderaw yes! Blondie is another favorite. I also discovered Body Count with Ice T because of the first Lollapalooza. Most of the skate punk I like has a lot of similarities to early rap too. Bands like Bad Religion and NOFX. Now that I think about the style you brought up, these are early rappers did kinda dress like The Ramones 🤣

[@nathansanchez7232]

Mullet Head!!

[@punkroxgirl]

@@nathansanchez7232 “cut the sides, don’t touch the back” 😆

[@Kim-hc5si]

Weeks. We could spend weeks on them and only do the ‘essentials’. It’s deep. I’m glad you’ve gotten started! 🔥👏👏👏

[@dillweed40oz]

MCA- best voice. REST IN BEAST. He was the unofficial leader, but they were nothing without all 3 pieces.

[@xSpiderswebx]

I've never really been into rap, but I've casually listened to Beastie Boys since back when they were a punk band. I think the thing that makes them so endearing to me, is that they never seem to take themselves seriously. The tracks come across as a group of besties just dicking around and having fun, and I vibe with that. I also really love that they have strong NY accents and never try to hide it. They're just authentic artists, and it's always easy to pick up on groups like that.

[@firecracker187]

Holy snappers

[@deanarjones9114]

This is how I still answer people when they call out my name

[@monkeyman2590]

Beasties Boys are my favorite band ever. I just dropped $140 on the 25th anniversary of Hello Nasty. I fucking love these guys. I'm sad I only got to see them live once. These are my boys. From their first album to the last......

[@RubberTracksStudio1]

Hands down one of my favorite albums. I still remember every word to every song. Huge part of the fabric of my DNA.

[@tommywt1]

RIP MCA - Adam Yauch. Track # 3 on this album - Pass the Mic

[@ajg7783]

3mc's and a dj......sabatoge....No sleep till brooklyn. all bombs!

[@kevinsieg2076]

Hip-hop was born in New York City and the Beastie Boys were a product of that. They started out as a punk band and all the guitar riffs and the bass and the drums on the track were played by them in the studio. Check out more of their music and you'll find out why they're now considered as innovators.

[@berniebarroso7798]

Beastie boys were the first hip hop act I put in my ear. "Licensed to ill". Then of course many years later Wu, Gangstarr, Mobb deep, OGC, Biggie, Pac, Lil Kim, Nas, Redman, Nore, Big Pun, Tony Touch, Jeru, MOP, Capone, it goes on and on.

[@timotulikallio6548]

Yes please more beastie boys

[@henrykosky3919]

License to ill... whole album deserves a listen

[@AmbassadorDvinn]

Hold it now......HIt iT!!!! Whistle whistle scratchy scratchy scratchy scratch scratch😂

[@punkroxgirl]

Yes!!! 🤘

[@thefourty-yearoldgamer8289]

Definitely get into The Beastie Boys! :D Root Down, Rhymin and Stealin, Looking Down the Barrel of a gun, get it together, intergalactic sure shot, brass monkey :D

[@isthatyoursomnomnom]

I got to be at that show in Saint Paul, MN in 1994 during the Lollapalooza tour. Mike D wasnt lying about that show - it was a surreal experience that I still treasure 29 years later.

[@JK-ld8cd]

Beastie Boys are a fun rabbit hole to go down.......they just look like they're having fun all the time!

[@as7326]

More Beastie Boys!! You can't go wrong!✌

[@joelbuff3254]

Beasties opened the door for a lot of hip hop acts, as well as tons of “weird” music that can’t be pigeonholed into a single genre. From punk to funk to hardcore to straight hip hop and all spaces in between. They were the fuckin coolest. Rip MCA

[@AdrianGraham4]

3 MC's and One DJ (music video version) should be next. You'll see why

[@dcnole]

It’s funny how sometimes the time just isn’t right to appreciate music, but then you come back to it years later at a different stage of your life and it suddenly resonates.

[@Kinuhbud]

this was always one of my favorites by them. sabotage is a classic.

[@PixelPro-4000]

Subscribed for more beastie boys! They released eight albums from 1986 through 2011. The albums went platinum, double platinum, triple, platinum, and even diamond. The beastie boys are the best selling rap group of all time by far. If you love this, you have a very deep well of tracks to listen to and I sincerely hope that you do

[@drumcoversbysean9802]

Dig way back into their early stuff. Brass Monkey, NoSleep till Brooklyn, She Crafty, Posse in Effect, Rhymin and Stealin…..all dope and different at the same time

[@friendocats7211]

Their albums Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head and Ill Communication are hip hop masterpieces.

[@Iam4wine]

I was a teen girl sporting the lumber jacket, Doc Martins and mahogany lipstick at this time. Nostalgic. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing your thoughts. Always keep it 100.

[@stanreaper3080]

Ill Communication is such a great album. Sure Shot, Root Down, and Get It Together w/ Q-Tip is so smooth, Flute Loop, The Scoop, all those instrumental tracks, so great.

[@beelzebob23]

"Cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce." Damn I love that line.

[@believeinjesus8300]

Yea

[@timrogers6270]

Phenomenal line. I still quote it from time to time.

[@df3575]

1992. This was the peak of Hip Hop remixes Punk Rock. A landmark album....Mike D (white T) flavored this entire release. They were theor own band for this album. MCA(plaid), as you notice, had the hardest flow of the 3 and everytime he stepped to the mic.....RIP. I had this track on heavy rotation back in that summer. Man....back when hip Hop's diversity, creativity was respected on a whole other level. So much on offer....so damn much.

[@williamsummerson1204]

One of the greatest and most influential groups of all time.

[@vonzfoto]

it's impossible to like only one beastie boy. they are one unit. One lonely beastie they be. Additionally, each DJ they have had, has just been instrumental to the music, no pun intended. Mario C and Money Mark just had a unique style, and along with some amazing percussion throughout the album, is what made Check Your Head so awesome. This album broke rules and stuck to no particular form. Punk rock, hip hop, hillbilly drunk rock. RIP MCA

[@KreamyKone]

Beastie boys are one of the best ever! always fire, unique AF!

[@bigdaddypiggy]

I saw the Beastie Boys open up for Run DMC before “Licsenced to Ill” had come out….they had like 3 songs ….”Hold it Now….” ….”Slow & Lo”….& “Cookie Puss”…..LL was there too & he only had like 3 songs…..I know,I’m old 🤷🏼‍♂️🖤

[@brettsilva]

Was there too my brother We are getting old 😆 god bless

[@seanslaughter5483]

True Rap legends. They discovered LL COOL J. He owes his career to the Beasties

[@vinylmonkeyTHFC]

More Beasties!!! Beasties are so talented, they were well respected in the east coast and New York. Plus the punk scene too. They made so many tunes. Legends. I think they are overlooked due to the colour of their skin. The original Eminem's. Multi instrumentalists too

[@tammyparsons5656]

Absolutely love the Beasties! This is my youth. ❤🎉❤🎉

[@arcticcirclepit2008]

One of the BEST concerts I have ever been to was Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest at Madison Square Garden in 1998. I've been to thousands of concerts and music shows and this one was top 10. Shit was NUTS.

[@jennifersmith3884]

This song is my favorite Beastie Boys song of all time! It's so cool you're listening.

[@BigFunDougsWorld]

If it wasn't for the Beastie Boys I would not have gotten into so many different types of music listening to the album of Paul's Boutique and trying to find all the different samples that they used between movies and other music I would paint three murals to hear that once again💚💚💚

[@davidmreyes77]

They performed this song at the VH1 Hip Honors and it just showed how tight they were at performing live.

[@7venb1090]

Beastie Boys are hip-hop royalty. New York City's finest. Great reaction !

[@caneyebus]

The Biz had a huge impact on this album. Nobody beats the Biz

[@deniseballard8699]

Makes me happy. Everyone should experience the Beastie Boys

[@dodgedforgottenn]

Perhaps the coolest music video of all time: 3 MCs and One DJ. Mix Master Mike 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@e.fstone6217]

Go down the rabbit hole. You’ll appreciate it.

[@jimbodavis1944]

I was partying in the 90s to Beastie Boys all the time. Good times!

[@robmausser]

Its cool that you heard the confidence in this track and you said it was like them saying "were here, listen up" because this was their "comeback" track in a way. Their first album "License to Ill" was super popular and people wrote them off as fake one hit wonder rappers produced by Rick Rubin and Def Jam. A fad. And then their second album, Paul's Boutique is actually incredible but extremely complex and dense and was nothing like their first album and everyone dismissed it. So this track was the one that saw them back on the charts for the first time and brought them back to the mainstream and showed people that they were not some one hit wonder posers and were the real deal. Everything about the track is produced by them too, that beat is a loop of the three of them (and some other musician friends) playing instruments themselves. They would jam for hours and create loops out of their jams to rap over. So its 100% true to them.

[@jeffsmith5249]

Oh man you need to watch Sabatage next!!

[@AMPR45]

Your favorite was definitely MCA. One of the coolest motherfuckers to ever live.

[@guydelaqua940]

Beastie boys just tear it up. I appreciate he said sorry. They are as good as Ice Cube. Easy E.. Rage kind of stomped them all out. Killing in the Name of.....

[@JBlood-gf5pv]

One of the most raw roots boom bap hip hop tracks all-time, yet completely avant- grade in its own context at the time it came out.

[@timjefferson2137]

Their "Awesome, I F*ckin' Shot That" is the best concert vid EVAR!

[@angelaromero5593]

I love Beasties! Sabotage is one of my favorites. Rest in peace, MCA. ❤

[@natea2006]

I love the use of the organ in this jam.

[@clanwaddell5628]

MCA has this swag that I have always liked. He was rocking the 5 o clock shadow in their early videos and he this raspiness to his rhymes.

[@StefLuvsFoo]

High school house parties when someone’s parents were out of town with a keg in the bathtub and the Kenwood rack system speakers on the dining room table. Life was good.

[@citythink]

Well. Now I feel old. Or rather, my love of the Beasties (from age 14 and Licensed to Ill came out) has never made me feel old until this moment watching this. 😢😅 glad you’re appreciative of their genius.

[@harrisonshields7084]

In the 90s this was the hype track for every high school basketball game I ever went to. We loved that our school had no idea it was playing a song with the word muthafucka in it. Good memories!

[@StephanieSoftich]

They were so young in that video .. I remember when they first came out it was MTV started MTV Raps in the 90s ... this song reminds me of driving around in a lowrider with hydrolyics the windows heavily tinted but down ... Its hard to believe one of them passed away from cancer. I don't remember which one 😔

[@soulpatchjackson3076]

Man... I'm glad you on board now. Beasties is killer...all of it!

[@seankendle8471]

I've been a huge Beastie Boys fan since the early 90s, so, welcome to the club! They're incredible. Every album is different.

[@coolwata105]

I watched these guys evolve from STRAIGHT FOOLS to Hall of Fame ARTISTS. Paul's Boutique was a Masterpiece and my personal favorite.

[@Arisderp]

Just searched the song cos I had it stuck in my head. Your video played after and I was super curious to see what someone hearing this for the first time would think. It’s funny because even though I know the song I had goosebumps the exact same time you mentioned it. It’s a good one man.

[@BenRobinson1974]

You never need to think about who the Beasties sound like, because they are originators, and hip hops true innovators. They were there right at the start, they are part of the source from back in the 4 elements days.

[@dtw63]

This is one of my favorite Beastie boys songs.

[@josephmichelli2441]

Yo! I appreciate this one of my favorites growing up. Definitely more of them .. They also been around for a long minute but they hit it about 1986 before Gangster rap was a thing and had a punk rock backround

[@ggg4w.153]

Love the Beasties. I would love to see you check out more. MCA was the man (RIP)!

[@martykerker9464]

When i was in the Army back in the late 80s and early 90s we used to" Slam Dance" to stuff like this in the clubs in N.C.

[@tonyplove]

Subscribed with the hope that you go down the Beastie Boys rabbit hole. They made so many sick beats.

[@TheJereld]

The Beasties used the "terminator" to make their voices sound distorted. It's a musical instrument.

[@annagrisham2215]

Their CD Hello Nasty is still my favorite to listen to start to finish. I literally wore mine out!

[@saraphinn]

Beastrie Boys were THE MOMENT

[@MarthVaderxvida]

I had the same reaction in the 80's, I though they were a joke, but Paul's Boutique won me over and I became a fan forever. Makes me weepy knowing they will never create new music again. RIP Adam Yauch.

[@SteveDarby-uy1tq]

My all time fav. Beastie song. Drum sample from ledzepplin. When the levee breaks is the song.

[@horshack1973]

One thing that was a big deal at the time this came out was that they were actually playing instruments. They hadn't on most of their stuff before (though obviously they did back when they were in hardcore bands before the hip-hop), but on Check Your Head they recorded most of their own music and then sampled their recordings. It was pretty monumental back then, before the Roots and all that.

[@MichaelTrocki]

Beastie Boys have several "hit" songs, but it's their lesser known stuff is actually outstanding and takes hip hop into a progressive rock sphere. Check out their song "Something's Got to Give" to have your mind blown.

[@gregvandersteen3562]

There are so many good ones. Sure Shot, and Root Down are two of my favs

[@ehailey09]

Beastie Boys are one of my favorite music acts of all time

[@MEGATRON1069]

They are the reason we have LL Cool J and Rick Ruben was in college with them in New York and was the person who introduced them to hip hop because originally they were actually 2 different punk bands.

[@davidcanarte1305]

Beastie Boys and Tribe Called Quest "Get it Together"... One of my favzzz :)

[@jameshall6380]

When Licensed To Ill came out, I was 13-14. It was the tape that came up missing the most according to everyone I knew at the time. I think I bought it twice and dubbed it about 3 times

[@Kidarcana]

Yes! More Besties please. I've often found Mike D's voice alluring, but MCA's rhymes more fun and with additional depth.

[@Liquorsnurf]

Saw this video on a tv in shopko in 94. I’ve been a b-boy fan ever since. RIP MCA