the phone is ringing..oh my god

Congrats for those of you who got the Beastie Boys reference there, way to go. I was listening to the Beastie's on the way home today after work and MJ made a joke about how i only like them because i'm white. I laughed and realized that i couldn't think of any black people that i know who like the Beastie's. I thought of their live dvd i saw called "Oh my God i fucking shot that" and it was a crowd full of white people, including Ben Stiller. Can you get whiter? I'm not trying to turn this into a racist thing but i just find it interesting. Now the title of this entry is from "Get it Together" which is a duo with the Boys and Q-tip, my fav Beastie song, and i wish there were more of these collabo's. I think it would be cool to hear a Beastie song featuring Jay-Z, Meth or Biggie back in the day. I'm also curious as to what those rappers think of the Beasties. You never hear anything about what other rappers think of them other than oldschool people like Tribe, Biz Markie, Doug E. Fresh and guys like that.

The Beasties original roots lie within punk rock. There are some cool vid's on Youtube of the Boys back in the early 80's, and even some in the 90's that show them rocking out, doing cover tunes of Minor Threat songs even. (check the vid below) I forget the name of their first punk album, its something silly but its really raw. I'm not quite sure how they got into hip hop but i know they never forgot about their punk roots. On "Ill Communication" they do a couple great punk tunes (Tough Guy and Heart Attack Man) and i've been trying to find the video of their SNL performance of Tough Guy for so long. Recently Adam Yauch produced the return album of the Bad Brains, a band who is highly influential in the punk scene from the 80's. (a band of black punk rockers...guess i was wrong about black people not liking them!) I didn't get a chance to check out their last instrumental record but i doubt it was punk-like. I think maybe they're a bit old now to rock out like they used to for a full length. Who knows tho, maybe hanging around with the Bad Brains influenced them a bit and reminded them how fun it is to rock out.

I'M CALLING IT: The Beasties are done with punk rock and will continue to focus on hip-hop whereby they ALL REPEAT every OTHER WORD in their RHYMES like they do on almost every song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0NJD7TsfII