B.E.A.S.T.I.E.

What happened to the love for the Beastie Boys?
I can remember a few personal injustices committed towards these fine, fine Jewish boys. For one, no one ever likes Ill Communication or Hello Nasty. Two, my Prof. in my old Hip-Hop class (living in sf we got to have crazy guests, and Ricky Vincent [aka Ohuru Maggot] pulls mad funk weight)touted the Boys as being 'thieves of African American style' (Ricky was cool, but not that cool). Three, Mtv a while back had a top ten of hip hop 'groups' discussion, now I would never accredit Mtv or it's employees with any firm concept or love for 'hip hop' but it's was kinda interesting at first and they had some decent points occasionally. But right off the bat, they had to have a fucking DISCUSSION over Beastie Boys or UGK. Now come on, for real? We're talking about this? And then Bridget Bland dismissively said 'Aren't they a punk band? Why are we talking about this?' BOOM shot to the face from yours truly. Ridiculous, anyone on that panel who believes they know what the fuck they're thinking about needed to be beat publicly. Anyhow the Beastie Boys ARE one of the best Hip Hop groups of all time, and they're talented and creative artists as well, WHO KNEW? Recently they've put out an instrumental album that is really, really good. The Beasties have always been outstanding musicians, usually laying down instrumentals on they're most eclectic albums (Check your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty, Some Old Bullshit). And besides that this album is unique in that it is their first instrumental album that is not a collection tracks off previous albums, but all new material. It's dope, they've always reminded me of The Meters in a way. Oh and BEASTIE was originally an acronym for Boys Entering Anarchistic States To Internal Excellence or some shit like that, and BB was supposed to be connected with Bad Brains an older New York punk band (feel free to use this as conversation starters New Yorkers, bitches over 24 will love it).
They'll also love Transitions, the last track off Ill Communication, apparently while performing at live shows, the Beasties used to stop in the middle of a song and switch instruments, kinda cool. Also this is not off of Sound In From Way Out, that particular little album cut out and edited most of the songs, kinda butchering them at times so just in case I'd rather anyone had the original conception of the track. ESG, claims that this is just a rip off of UFO which is one of the most sampled songs in Hip Hop, I think they're stretching it a little, but whatever.

Transitions

Son Of Neckbone is off the Sure Shot 12'' that I don't have, so maybe it's a little different but still. Neckbone refers to a Willie Bobo song that the Beasties always liked, and seeing as they played with Willies son Eric on percussion, they did this little diddy.

Son of Neckbone

Hello Nasty was received poorly by the die hards (get over Paul's Boutique already!) buuuut they won some Grammys (so it couldn't be all that bad right?), and Intergalactic did a little too well. But I liked it, very I guess...progressive, and just another evolution of theirs. This was after Dj Hurricane left, and Mix Master Mike forced his way into the group (from Sacramento no less) by leaving crazy scratch messages on their answering machine EVERY DAY! But MMM, commanding so much attention and awe with his truly amazing and unique turntable powers had a more aggressive role in song production, thus the scratching on Sneakin' Out Of The Hospital is more pronounced than it ever has been in any of their previous songs. I'll do more on the insanity and brilliance of MMM, he's nuts. And I believe Adam Horovitz (Ad Rock) did ALL the instruments on here.

Sneakin' Out Of The Hospital

AND this is a remix of So Whatcha Want by the Soul Assasins (Dj Muggs, Alchemist, and Dj Khalil), I'm assuming this is more Muggs than Alchemist. I have no fucking clue where this is from, there's also a little B Realness addition at the end. Cypress Hill is such pot head status it's ridiculous.

So Whatcha Want remix

Rhyme the Rhyme well over I got a Story to Tell, is so perfect it kinda weird, courtesy of Dj Green Lantern.

Rhyme the Rhyme Well