March 18, 2026
Beastie Boys Top 5: Ranking Sabotage to The New Style
Looking for the best Beastie Boys songs to add to your rotation? With a discography spanning punk, hip-hop, and funk, narrowing down the definitive hits of Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D is no easy task. In this episode of Top 5, hosts Garrett Gonzales and Mike Joseph take on the challenge of ranking their favorite tracks from the legendary trio.
From the foundational boom-bap of The New Style and the collaborative chemistry of Get It Together to the high-octane energy of Sabotage, Garrett and Mike break down why these songs defined an era. You will gain a deeper understanding of the Beastie Boys' evolution and the production secrets that made these tracks timeless. Whether you are a lifelong fan or a new listener, this deep dive offers a fresh perspective on the most influential group in hip-hop history.
Episode Highlights:
- The Evolution of Sound: From Licensed to Ill to Ill Communication.
- Track Deep Dives: Breaking down The New Style and Get It Together.
- The Sabotage Factor: Why this track remains a cinematic and sonic masterpiece.
- The Final List: Garrett and Mike reveal their personal "Top 5" rankings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is time for the BC boys top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks to folks who tuned in to the live stream of our last episode and for those of you on the audio side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We do the live stream.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The same as we do our normal episode.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We just may shout out YouTube a little bit or people who are commenting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, it's gonna be the same thing though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get too alarmed when we do do a live stream.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's still the same audio for the most part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But let's do our top five
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I'm, you know, my top five, I will let, you know, leans, it does not lean as heavily to their earlier stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It does lean a little later for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's just about my taste today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like if you were to ask me to name beasty boys songs just over the years, most of the songs I would know would come from licensed to ill, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I put together this list,
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[SPEAKER_01]: on my top five is from license to ill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know that that album holds up super well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, absolutely doesn't, lyrically.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's a lot of goofy stuff on that album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I can see why they apologize for a lot of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so let's kick it off unless you have some other beasty story that I do not know about of you running into them at a record shop and people want to make their babies and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, wish.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so why don't you kick it off?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is your number five song for your beasties top five?
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number five is probably what is now the most famous Beastie Boy song and that is sabotage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, it's a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely like them doing like the agro sort of like card rock punk thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The video is classic like probably one of the, you know, 50 or so best videos of all time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, it's just kind of a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ad Rocks of Voice is one of those things that...
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[SPEAKER_00]: isn't always the most pleasant to listen to because it's very like high pitched and nasal and kind of the tonal the tonal the opposite of MCA because MCA has a unique hip hop voice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like when you hear him you're like okay I know that is a very distinct scratchy like razor-y razor-like voice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah very raspy but you know if I like I'm glad Adarok never did a solo album
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[SPEAKER_00]: 45 minutes of that would have been like murder on my ears.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, Mike, Mike, these voices more similar to his voice as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they're, they're all kind of a little on the higher pitch set.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're both higher pitch, but ad rocks, waste particularly is like it's high pitched and it's nasal in kind of like screams sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very, it's whiny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sadatachi is also on my list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had to reconnect with this song because you mentioned the video.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This thing was played so much on MTV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All the regular stuff of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got sick of it because of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so in doing this, this research and you know, what I do, you don't have to do this because you're so familiar with a lot of these albums, but I go back and I try and listen to everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And how I listen to these albums are either, I'll be working if the background noise doesn't bother me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if I'm doing something kind of mundane,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll listen with that way, but the most important listen is when I'm at the gym or when I'm working out, I like, and that is a very like personal, like, you know, even though even if I'm at a gym.
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[SPEAKER_01]: with the way that headphones work now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm almost just kind of by myself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a very personal listen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so some of my picks over these episodes so far has been kind of influenced by that cause like what, you know, what am I getting jacked up to listen to while I'm working out?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And sabotage is maybe the best.
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[SPEAKER_01]: beasty boys work out song like that song was like in my headphones and you know work with kettlebells or something and it's like this is perfect perfect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's actually my number three and you had it at number five but I think you know it is iconic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you think about the post
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[SPEAKER_01]: license to ill time frame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is probably the song that most people would say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They remember them for, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, probably the best remembered or the most popular Beastie boy song of all time is till you got a fight for your right to party.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I got to shout out our home boy, Andy Hello.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, because I don't know if you remember when we all did karaoke once he did, you got a fight for your right to party by the Beastie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he'll, I've, I've not talked to Andy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Very long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, good news.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good, guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number five, and this is, this is a funny one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the one that's going to stand out, I think, on both of our list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So actually maybe there, there might be a second one, but I imagine you're kind of wondering what, where you're going to put another song that I'm going to have my top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But so we talked about on the previous episode how much I like the Five Burrows album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is their most hip-hop album to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They feel like they're trying to do a hip-hop record after doing more like punk stuff in the previous two albums.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was like, oh, yeah, this is what I want to hear from them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and there's a song which is kind of silly and I don't think they meant for it to be anything other than silly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's called, hey, fuck you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the beat is just do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So like immediately in the pocket for me, I'm like, okay, this is right right at my alley.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just love it when the chorus comes up which is, hey, fuck you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, it's
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[SPEAKER_01]: on my list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, fuck you, which no one else is more than likely going to have on their top BC boy songs list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number four is actually from the same ill communication album that sabotage came from.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is, get it together, which co-star is cute tip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, this was the song I was wondering if it was going to be on your list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, um,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, so the communication came out on my 18th birthday, which, you know, is kind of like special in and of itself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but it was so cool to have like a respected rapper do a record, you know, with the Beastie Boys, and I was a huge, I mean, and was, was then, whole nine yards love a trap call quest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's funny because as much as I love that song, I had some issues back in the
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he uses on any other song in the Tribe Called Quest Catalog and I'm like, yo, you're unlike white people's records.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, don't use that word.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's such like a fun lighthearted record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was my roommate at the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Harry, his outgoing phone message was phone is ringing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just like cut off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just like it was, you know, it's just like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's find it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's my number one, get us together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think there's my number one and so that song?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like it could have been on the low end theory.
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[SPEAKER_01]: like as different and, you know, it's not like it's not like a pop song in any way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and I just like, you know, I remember because, you know, I was reading, I was reading the book and they mentioned Q tip and they talk about recording that song with Q tip and they look, they've done stuff with NOS, right, you know, over the years as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is a uniqueness about Q-tips sense of creativity and sense of humor that is throughout that song which makes it feel to me more like a tribe called Quest Song featuring the BC Boys than a BC Boy Song featuring Q-tips.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess they're not touring anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's never going to be an awkward moment where YouTube is like ad rocks down with the Ioni because they've been divorced for like 25 years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I forgot about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know if I remember the the the the end of that relationship.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, part of the low key not really being a celebrity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I said what it's do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They did it right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number four is, uh, check it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is also played the fuck out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I got sick of it, but in going back and like just digging through their works.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I was like, okay, I, this is, this is an excellent excellent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this, that was in the middle of my VH one era when I would get up every Saturday morning and watch the top 20 on VH one religiously.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This, that was the video where they're like stormtroopers, right, or is that intergalactic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, actually, I don't remember.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't go back, I should have gone back to watching the videos, because there's storm troopers in the video.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because there's an Amy Polar segment in the book where she talks about like I guess they did some video work later and she was portraying one of them in a video and I was like oh maybe I should go back and watch it because basically she her entire chapter is rewatching the BC boys videos and talking about them okay and I was like oh I need to go back and watch them but I just never got a chance to say I mean they made great videos shout out to Adam Yaku I think directed
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[SPEAKER_00]: And use the medium.
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[SPEAKER_01]: some of this also, again, MTV was catering to white people, essentially.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they fit the MTV demographic of who they were trying to reach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they use the medium, almost better than anybody else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're in the upper two or three percent of who use that medium to get to get celebrity and gain popularity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're in the rap video hall of fame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, um, what is your number three, uh, my number three is hey, ladies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, one song completely changed my opinion on a group.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, first of all, I was like, like I said, you know, in our conversation about the album itself, it was like, I recognized a bunch of the samples.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's catchy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It had like a little bit of like a disco vibe to another fantastic video where there's like a part where
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, where the BC wars are underwater, and they actually manipulate the mix.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it sounds like they're wrapping underwater in the, it's, it's, watch the Hayla easy video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is fantastic way ahead of its time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and sort of behind the times at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, just a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we talked about them using MTV for the video medium.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They also,
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[SPEAKER_01]: goofed off on MTV just in general they were they were just host on stuff or at spring break or there was just beastie boys shows where they're just goofing off and hanging out with rndmc and like they they were just game for that stuff they were smart to know that that's where things were headed yeah
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, my number three was sabotage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we talked about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So what about number two for you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number two is Shake Your Rump.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So another just fun, danceable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a lot of cool like one liners on that record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mike, do you with the bad breath on your rings?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's just, it's a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is your favorite BC Boys line?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, keep coming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm coming back to that song and like I'm like Dean, I'm back from the dead chilling at the beach down a club made suckers They'd be saying they can take out any one of us suckers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They'd be saying they can no shit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I forget the rest of the line down in the beach climb.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Clubman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that part of this song is what's sticking out for you, but I can't remember the lyrics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think mine is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got more juice than Picasso has paint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and like some of the lyrics are so like New York.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Got more suits than Jacobi and Myers, which is like Jacobi and Myers is like a New York city based law firm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's just a lot of in jokes like that kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man, and they were just like they were not technically proficient MCs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, they knew their lane and they stayed in it, and they were very witty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they, you, I mean, you have to improve, yeah, as you do it, their entire career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they did get better, but also,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you listen to that song with Nause.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you listen to him versus them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, okay, like there's a crazy difference between the artistry that Nause has.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what they have, but I don't think I would have even wanted to hear them try.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, but also, you know, Nause is one of the 10 best rappers of all time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, if you are a good basketball player and you play, you know, Anthony Edwards, like you're going to look like a scrub.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, even if you're a very like you could be the best person in your rec league, but if you play Anthony Edwards, you ask is going to get waxed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could play Asia Wilson or Caitlyn Clark or Paige Beckers, and you're going to get waxed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number two is, if you know the name of our podcast that is related to 50 for 50 that where we talk about kind of new stuff it's called.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll check and take in from the new style.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And on the cool check and it's just classic and that is my one song from that era and some of it is just because I think it's cool and catchy and I like the way that they do it and I like the tour the term the cool check and but that's my number two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, and look, I'm not going to totally shit on license to ill like brass monkey almost made my list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I love that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Iconic, it's just, it's so memorable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, you can tell what that song is within two seconds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, one thing I didn't realize until a few years ago was that that song is a sample.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, really.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like the original song is by a group called like wild sugar or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, that that that's actually a song that came up and these dudes are just like looking for something to drink that didn't taste bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which if you can now brass monkeys, if you read in the description in the book they talk about what brass monkey actually is and it sounds terrible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when you're 19 years old and you're like drinking 40s, like, you know, you don't have taste at that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's the order yet?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my number one is actually from your favorite beasty boys album to the five girls and it's an open letter to NYC and again, just being a New Yorker having, you know, lived through 911 that song was so important and so emotional and so like uplifting and positive, it just, you know, like when I think about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that time period and you know they all didn't come out until I think two fibers came out oh four I think so it was a few years after 9-11 but you know sort of like backtracking my memory that's one of those songs that just you know made me proud to be a New Yorker made me happy to be a New Yorker
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I mentioned my number one is the song with Q-tip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this was, this was a blast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not, I mean, I like, I love doing all of these episodes because I learned so much and, you know, really, it's just kind of like, it reminds me of
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, why we're doing this because we're turning 50 this year and I actually started thinking about I know you've been planning your birthday party and I finally started to my wife about what we should do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it is right around the corner man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, you know, very close for closing in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then what we should probably do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is kind of have a little bit of like a recap episode or a recap plus talking about, you know, our birthdays and such on on one as a for one week just just to kind of push back some of the other episodes, but we're going to do 50 albums man and yeah and throughout this entire year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this has been a blast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, and for me, like my birthday celebration, I think officially kicked off last night with the new edition concert.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm going to say that that is the official start of the celebration in season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great way to kick it off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With way by the way, they're leading in this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The rock ball voting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They so at the beginning of the concert before any of the music started, Brooke Payne came out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was like, yeah, I want to talk to you all for a second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a QR code on this big ass screen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Scan it so you can vote for new addition for the Rocker roll hall if they.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if they win, what does that mean?
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[SPEAKER_01]: If they win this, they get one vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think how many do you get?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But basically the fan, the fan group is like one member of the committee.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure the committee has like 50 or 100 people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, and if in if you're the rock and roll Hall of Fame committee, the reason why you're interested in this is because you want these people to understand that this is a giant television show that
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I don't think the favorite the fan vote has gotten in every year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but certainly it makes more people feel like they're part of the process, and I'm sure it gets more people to, you know, fly out to Cleveland and see the museum or buy merch or whatever it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, shout out to Brooke Payne and, you know, vote for, vote for whoever you feel like voting for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are some very worthy artists nominated this year, like shout out Mariah and Shaday and Phil Collins and, you know, whoever else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All of whom I think we're gonna talk about at some point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, New Edition holds a very, very, very special place in my heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would love to see them get their due.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Although, you know what, they just sold out in Arena pool of people in New York City.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they need any more validation, but he would be nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone sounded good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone sounded great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Bobby, I was actually most surprised by because Bobby did like, he did Roni, tender Roni by himself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then did my progative every he did don't be cruel and wrongy by himself and then he did every little step and my progative with the rest of new addition.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he sounded great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He, you know, it's funny he did like a little did a couple like little baby dance moves and it was like if you want to see how I used to be able to dance, Google me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: who you need to google them in because Bobby back in the day Bobby was bad was bad man all right okay that is it from here so we'll be back next week we serve new new episode for my com double g c u when we see you peace out
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is time for the BC boys top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks to folks who tuned in to the live stream of our last episode and for those of you on the audio side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We do the live stream.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The same as we do our normal episode.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We just may shout out YouTube a little bit or people who are commenting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, it's gonna be the same thing though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get too alarmed when we do do a live stream.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's still the same audio for the most part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But let's do our top five
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I'm, you know, my top five, I will let, you know, leans, it does not lean as heavily to their earlier stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It does lean a little later for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's just about my taste today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like if you were to ask me to name beasty boys songs just over the years, most of the songs I would know would come from licensed to ill, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I put together this list,
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[SPEAKER_01]: on my top five is from license to ill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know that that album holds up super well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, absolutely doesn't, lyrically.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's a lot of goofy stuff on that album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I can see why they apologize for a lot of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so let's kick it off unless you have some other beasty story that I do not know about of you running into them at a record shop and people want to make their babies and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, wish.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so why don't you kick it off?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is your number five song for your beasties top five?
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number five is probably what is now the most famous Beastie Boy song and that is sabotage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, it's a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely like them doing like the agro sort of like card rock punk thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The video is classic like probably one of the, you know, 50 or so best videos of all time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, it's just kind of a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ad Rocks of Voice is one of those things that...
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[SPEAKER_00]: isn't always the most pleasant to listen to because it's very like high pitched and nasal and kind of the tonal the tonal the opposite of MCA because MCA has a unique hip hop voice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like when you hear him you're like okay I know that is a very distinct scratchy like razor-y razor-like voice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah very raspy but you know if I like I'm glad Adarok never did a solo album
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[SPEAKER_00]: 45 minutes of that would have been like murder on my ears.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, Mike, Mike, these voices more similar to his voice as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they're, they're all kind of a little on the higher pitch set.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're both higher pitch, but ad rocks, waste particularly is like it's high pitched and it's nasal in kind of like screams sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very, it's whiny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sadatachi is also on my list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had to reconnect with this song because you mentioned the video.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This thing was played so much on MTV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All the regular stuff of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got sick of it because of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so in doing this, this research and you know, what I do, you don't have to do this because you're so familiar with a lot of these albums, but I go back and I try and listen to everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And how I listen to these albums are either, I'll be working if the background noise doesn't bother me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if I'm doing something kind of mundane,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll listen with that way, but the most important listen is when I'm at the gym or when I'm working out, I like, and that is a very like personal, like, you know, even though even if I'm at a gym.
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[SPEAKER_01]: with the way that headphones work now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm almost just kind of by myself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a very personal listen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so some of my picks over these episodes so far has been kind of influenced by that cause like what, you know, what am I getting jacked up to listen to while I'm working out?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And sabotage is maybe the best.
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[SPEAKER_01]: beasty boys work out song like that song was like in my headphones and you know work with kettlebells or something and it's like this is perfect perfect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's actually my number three and you had it at number five but I think you know it is iconic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you think about the post
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[SPEAKER_01]: license to ill time frame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is probably the song that most people would say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They remember them for, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, probably the best remembered or the most popular Beastie boy song of all time is till you got a fight for your right to party.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I got to shout out our home boy, Andy Hello.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, because I don't know if you remember when we all did karaoke once he did, you got a fight for your right to party by the Beastie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he'll, I've, I've not talked to Andy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Very long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, good news.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good, guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number five, and this is, this is a funny one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the one that's going to stand out, I think, on both of our list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So actually maybe there, there might be a second one, but I imagine you're kind of wondering what, where you're going to put another song that I'm going to have my top five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But so we talked about on the previous episode how much I like the Five Burrows album.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is their most hip-hop album to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They feel like they're trying to do a hip-hop record after doing more like punk stuff in the previous two albums.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was like, oh, yeah, this is what I want to hear from them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and there's a song which is kind of silly and I don't think they meant for it to be anything other than silly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's called, hey, fuck you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the beat is just do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So like immediately in the pocket for me, I'm like, okay, this is right right at my alley.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just love it when the chorus comes up which is, hey, fuck you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, it's
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[SPEAKER_01]: on my list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, fuck you, which no one else is more than likely going to have on their top BC boy songs list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number four is actually from the same ill communication album that sabotage came from.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is, get it together, which co-star is cute tip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, this was the song I was wondering if it was going to be on your list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, um,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, so the communication came out on my 18th birthday, which, you know, is kind of like special in and of itself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but it was so cool to have like a respected rapper do a record, you know, with the Beastie Boys, and I was a huge, I mean, and was, was then, whole nine yards love a trap call quest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's funny because as much as I love that song, I had some issues back in the
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he uses on any other song in the Tribe Called Quest Catalog and I'm like, yo, you're unlike white people's records.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, don't use that word.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's such like a fun lighthearted record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was my roommate at the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Harry, his outgoing phone message was phone is ringing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just like cut off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just like it was, you know, it's just like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's find it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's my number one, get us together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think there's my number one and so that song?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like it could have been on the low end theory.
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[SPEAKER_01]: like as different and, you know, it's not like it's not like a pop song in any way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and I just like, you know, I remember because, you know, I was reading, I was reading the book and they mentioned Q tip and they talk about recording that song with Q tip and they look, they've done stuff with NOS, right, you know, over the years as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is a uniqueness about Q-tips sense of creativity and sense of humor that is throughout that song which makes it feel to me more like a tribe called Quest Song featuring the BC Boys than a BC Boy Song featuring Q-tips.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess they're not touring anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's never going to be an awkward moment where YouTube is like ad rocks down with the Ioni because they've been divorced for like 25 years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I forgot about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know if I remember the the the the end of that relationship.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, part of the low key not really being a celebrity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I said what it's do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They did it right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number four is, uh, check it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is also played the fuck out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I got sick of it, but in going back and like just digging through their works.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I was like, okay, I, this is, this is an excellent excellent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this, that was in the middle of my VH one era when I would get up every Saturday morning and watch the top 20 on VH one religiously.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This, that was the video where they're like stormtroopers, right, or is that intergalactic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, actually, I don't remember.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't go back, I should have gone back to watching the videos, because there's storm troopers in the video.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because there's an Amy Polar segment in the book where she talks about like I guess they did some video work later and she was portraying one of them in a video and I was like oh maybe I should go back and watch it because basically she her entire chapter is rewatching the BC boys videos and talking about them okay and I was like oh I need to go back and watch them but I just never got a chance to say I mean they made great videos shout out to Adam Yaku I think directed
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[SPEAKER_00]: And use the medium.
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[SPEAKER_01]: some of this also, again, MTV was catering to white people, essentially.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they fit the MTV demographic of who they were trying to reach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they use the medium, almost better than anybody else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're in the upper two or three percent of who use that medium to get to get celebrity and gain popularity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're in the rap video hall of fame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, um, what is your number three, uh, my number three is hey, ladies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, one song completely changed my opinion on a group.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, first of all, I was like, like I said, you know, in our conversation about the album itself, it was like, I recognized a bunch of the samples.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's catchy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It had like a little bit of like a disco vibe to another fantastic video where there's like a part where
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, where the BC wars are underwater, and they actually manipulate the mix.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it sounds like they're wrapping underwater in the, it's, it's, watch the Hayla easy video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is fantastic way ahead of its time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and sort of behind the times at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, just a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we talked about them using MTV for the video medium.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They also,
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[SPEAKER_01]: goofed off on MTV just in general they were they were just host on stuff or at spring break or there was just beastie boys shows where they're just goofing off and hanging out with rndmc and like they they were just game for that stuff they were smart to know that that's where things were headed yeah
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, my number three was sabotage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we talked about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So what about number two for you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: My number two is Shake Your Rump.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So another just fun, danceable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a lot of cool like one liners on that record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mike, do you with the bad breath on your rings?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's just, it's a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is your favorite BC Boys line?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, keep coming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm coming back to that song and like I'm like Dean, I'm back from the dead chilling at the beach down a club made suckers They'd be saying they can take out any one of us suckers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They'd be saying they can no shit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I forget the rest of the line down in the beach climb.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Clubman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that part of this song is what's sticking out for you, but I can't remember the lyrics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think mine is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got more juice than Picasso has paint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and like some of the lyrics are so like New York.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Got more suits than Jacobi and Myers, which is like Jacobi and Myers is like a New York city based law firm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's just a lot of in jokes like that kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man, and they were just like they were not technically proficient MCs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, they knew their lane and they stayed in it, and they were very witty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they, you, I mean, you have to improve, yeah, as you do it, their entire career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they did get better, but also,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you listen to that song with Nause.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you listen to him versus them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, okay, like there's a crazy difference between the artistry that Nause has.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what they have, but I don't think I would have even wanted to hear them try.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, but also, you know, Nause is one of the 10 best rappers of all time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, if you are a good basketball player and you play, you know, Anthony Edwards, like you're going to look like a scrub.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, even if you're a very like you could be the best person in your rec league, but if you play Anthony Edwards, you ask is going to get waxed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could play Asia Wilson or Caitlyn Clark or Paige Beckers, and you're going to get waxed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number two is, if you know the name of our podcast that is related to 50 for 50 that where we talk about kind of new stuff it's called.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll check and take in from the new style.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And on the cool check and it's just classic and that is my one song from that era and some of it is just because I think it's cool and catchy and I like the way that they do it and I like the tour the term the cool check and but that's my number two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, and look, I'm not going to totally shit on license to ill like brass monkey almost made my list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I love that song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Iconic, it's just, it's so memorable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, you can tell what that song is within two seconds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, one thing I didn't realize until a few years ago was that that song is a sample.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, really.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like the original song is by a group called like wild sugar or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, that that that's actually a song that came up and these dudes are just like looking for something to drink that didn't taste bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which if you can now brass monkeys, if you read in the description in the book they talk about what brass monkey actually is and it sounds terrible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when you're 19 years old and you're like drinking 40s, like, you know, you don't have taste at that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's the order yet?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my number one is actually from your favorite beasty boys album to the five girls and it's an open letter to NYC and again, just being a New Yorker having, you know, lived through 911 that song was so important and so emotional and so like uplifting and positive, it just, you know, like when I think about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that time period and you know they all didn't come out until I think two fibers came out oh four I think so it was a few years after 9-11 but you know sort of like backtracking my memory that's one of those songs that just you know made me proud to be a New Yorker made me happy to be a New Yorker
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I mentioned my number one is the song with Q-tip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this was, this was a blast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not, I mean, I like, I love doing all of these episodes because I learned so much and, you know, really, it's just kind of like, it reminds me of
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, why we're doing this because we're turning 50 this year and I actually started thinking about I know you've been planning your birthday party and I finally started to my wife about what we should do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it is right around the corner man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, you know, very close for closing in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then what we should probably do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is kind of have a little bit of like a recap episode or a recap plus talking about, you know, our birthdays and such on on one as a for one week just just to kind of push back some of the other episodes, but we're going to do 50 albums man and yeah and throughout this entire year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this has been a blast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, and for me, like my birthday celebration, I think officially kicked off last night with the new edition concert.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm going to say that that is the official start of the celebration in season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great way to kick it off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With way by the way, they're leading in this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The rock ball voting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They so at the beginning of the concert before any of the music started, Brooke Payne came out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was like, yeah, I want to talk to you all for a second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a QR code on this big ass screen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Scan it so you can vote for new addition for the Rocker roll hall if they.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if they win, what does that mean?
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[SPEAKER_01]: If they win this, they get one vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think how many do you get?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But basically the fan, the fan group is like one member of the committee.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure the committee has like 50 or 100 people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, and if in if you're the rock and roll Hall of Fame committee, the reason why you're interested in this is because you want these people to understand that this is a giant television show that
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I don't think the favorite the fan vote has gotten in every year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but certainly it makes more people feel like they're part of the process, and I'm sure it gets more people to, you know, fly out to Cleveland and see the museum or buy merch or whatever it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, shout out to Brooke Payne and, you know, vote for, vote for whoever you feel like voting for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are some very worthy artists nominated this year, like shout out Mariah and Shaday and Phil Collins and, you know, whoever else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All of whom I think we're gonna talk about at some point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, New Edition holds a very, very, very special place in my heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would love to see them get their due.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Although, you know what, they just sold out in Arena pool of people in New York City.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they need any more validation, but he would be nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone sounded good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone sounded great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Bobby, I was actually most surprised by because Bobby did like, he did Roni, tender Roni by himself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then did my progative every he did don't be cruel and wrongy by himself and then he did every little step and my progative with the rest of new addition.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he sounded great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He, you know, it's funny he did like a little did a couple like little baby dance moves and it was like if you want to see how I used to be able to dance, Google me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: who you need to google them in because Bobby back in the day Bobby was bad was bad man all right okay that is it from here so we'll be back next week we serve new new episode for my com double g c u when we see you peace out
