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“Three Murals for Some of That”: Why the Wild Style Sample at the Start of “Professor Booty” Matters
Read more: “Three Murals for Some of That”: Why the Wild Style Sample at the Start of “Professor Booty” MattersBefore “Professor Booty” really begins, the Beastie Boys take us somewhere else. Not to G-Son Studios or even to 1992. They take us back roughly a decade, to the streets of New York City captured in Wild Style—Charlie Ahearn’s extraordinary 1983 film about the still-forming culture of hip-hop. We hear a group of guys arguing…
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“Yo Paul, This Is Allen”: How a Beastie Boys Voicemail Reached “Exit Planet Dust”
Read more: “Yo Paul, This Is Allen”: How a Beastie Boys Voicemail Reached “Exit Planet Dust”The strange path from a Brooklyn answering machine to “The Maestro,” “In Dust We Trust,” and the Chemical Brothers’ lifelong fascination with Beastie Boys. There is a great piece of Beastie Boys history buried inside the Chemical Brothers’ 1995 debut album, Exit Planet Dust. It is the furious voice of a stranger who called a telephone…
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“Jimmy James” & “Rockin’ It” by Fearless Four: The Harlem Rap Classic that Turned Kraftwerk Human
Read more: “Jimmy James” & “Rockin’ It” by Fearless Four: The Harlem Rap Classic that Turned Kraftwerk HumanThe Fearless Four’s “Rockin’ It” occupies a distinctive place in early hip-hop history. Released as a twelve-inch single on Bobby Robinson’s Enjoy Records in 1982, it joined the communal routines of first-generation rap crews to an electronic riff derived from Kraftwerk’s “The Man-Machine.” The result sounded simultaneously like a Harlem party and a transmission from…
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