Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys ( "Bisti Boyz") - American rap group from New York. Beastie Boys were the first really famous "white" rap group. They are one of the few teams early times hip-hop successfully continuing his career today. Their rap affected by the impact of rock and punk as a strong influence on the development of hip-hop, and other styles.
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Beastie Boys were founded in 1979 as a punk group called The Young Aborigines. In 1981, Adam Yauh (Em-Si-Ey; English. MCA) joined the team and changed the name to the Beastie Boys. The word "Beastie" originally meant "Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Inner Evolution" ( "Boys, members of the anarchist state of seeking to internal development") and a reduction BB resembled the name of punk group from Washington Bad Brains. The initial membership consisted of Adam Yauha (bass guitar), Keith Shellenbah (drums), John Berry (guitar) and Michael Diamond (Mike Di; vocals).

The first performance was held at the Berry home at semnadtsatiletie Yauha. In the same year Beastie Boys recorded the first disc "Pollywog Stew" at the studio 171A studios.

Berry left the group (later he founded a group Thwig) and was replaced by Adam Horowitz (Adrok; English. Adrock), - which had previously played in punk group The Young and the Useless in 1983. The group also performed its first rap song Cooky Puss, based on hooliganism telephone calls to the company group, bidding ice cream Carvel Ice Cream. The song became a hit trendy dance clubs of New York immediately after the release.

Licensed to Ill: 1984-1987

During this period, appears well-known producer Rick Rubin of the rap label Def Jam and the Beastie Boys varies from punk rock band in hip-hop trio. The team released in 1984 single Rock Hard. Immediately after coming Rubin, became Shellenbah express dissatisfaction, saying that she can not read rap. Rubin objected to the participation Shellenbah, because it does not match the image of hip-hop. Shellenbah went to the group Luscious Jackson in 1991.

In 1985, the group worked on a heated round of Madonna in her Virgin. Later that same year, the group went to tour Raising Hell with Run DMC, Whodini, LL Cool J, and the Timex Social Club. With the emergence during this tour, composition "Hold It Now, Hit It" came in the first place hit parade Billboard R & B and Dance charts. Song "She's on It," with sound-track Krush Groove was rather hard-fatal, when the composition "Paul Revere / The New Style" released at the end of the year became a new dance hits.

The Group recorded Licensed to Ill in 1986 and produced album at the end of the year. The album was deafening success, becoming the best selling album in 80 - and the first rap album to reach the first places in the hit parade best albums Billboard, where he remained for five weeks. For Columbia Records' is still the fastest debut album sold, sold more than 5 million copies. The first single from the album, "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)," reached the seventh place on the Billboard Hot 100, and video (director - Rick Menello) entered the rotation MTV.

The following year group went to the world tour Licensed to Ill, which was quite scandalous, girls dancing in cages, moving a giant inflatable penis, similar to The Rolling Stones used in 1970 - x. Tour was overshadowed by lawsuits and arrests, the group was accused of instigating the crowd. In Britain, the command was accused of insulting leukaemia patients and almost expelled from the country. Beastie Boys say that the incident was an exaggeration of real case where the guys politely refused to give their autographs.

English Comic Houks Tony (Tony Hawks) recorded the song "Stutter Rap" under the pseudonym "Morris Minor and the Majors", then the image of vysmeyuvayuschuyu Beastie Boys'. It became a hit in the United Kingdom, reaching fourth place in the hit parade and No. 1 in Australia.

Paul's Boutique / Check Your Head: 1988-1992

The group povzroslela together with the release of second album - Paul's Boutique. Producers album made Dust Brothers and Matt Dike. Recording was conducted in 1988, in the album involves a huge number of samples - one of the best works Beastie Boys, and also named as the best rap album of all time. [1]. Album involved more than 100 samples that have honestly tried to group legally clear. Due to the fact that laws protecting the use of samples, have become much stricter now virtually not possible to create such an album.

The album was released in 1989 on Capitol Records after a quarrel between the Beastie Boys and Def Jam and has not reached those vpechetlyayuschih sales results, which were from Licensed to Ill, reaching the fourteenth place in the Billboard 200 and tenth places in the hit parade Billboard R & B. Home composition, "Hey Ladies," has reached 36 seats in the Billboard 100 chart and tenth places R & B. Rolling Stone magazine named this album as "the Pet Sounds / Dark Side of the Moon hip-hop." Later it was sold a million records Paul's Boutique.

The ensuing album, Check Your Head, was recorded at the studio's own "G-Son" in Atwater Village, California and released on the label Grand Royal. The group played instruments on this album, Mike D on drums, Yauh on bass, guitar Horowitz, and Mark Ramos Nishita ( "Keyboard Money Mark") played the keyboards. Mario Kaldato Jr. ( "Mario C") brought record and became cooperate with the team on a permanent basis.

Check Your Head was released in 1992 and became a double platinum in the U.S., reaching tenth place in the Billboard 200. The first single, "So What'cha Want," has reached 43 seats in the Billboard 100 and headed urban as well as rock charts, while "Pass the Mic" became a hit in dance clubs. Albom has brought more experimental sounding & mdash, seasonings art group funk and jazz compositions such as "Lighten Up" and "Something's Got To Give." hardkorny A punk song appeared in "Time For Livin '."

Beastie Boys attracted eclectic list of artists to participate in the label Grand Royal, including Lucy Jackson and Sean Lennon, Australian singer Ben Lee and Japanese duo Cibo Matto. Beastie Boys owned Grand Royal Records until 2001, when the label was sold on financial circumstances. The first independent release Grand Royal was Lucy Jackson album In Search Of Manny in 1993.

Beastie Boys published Grand Royal Magazine, whose first issue was released in 1993 with a capital story about Bruce Lee, drawings-funk musician George Clinton, as well as interviews with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and A Tribe Called Quest MC rappera Q-Tip. In this issue the magazine in 1995 there talking about hair, which is now called in English "mullet." (Front and side - ordinary men's haircut, in the back - shevelyura). Oxford Dictionary argues that this was the first printed use of the word Mullet, together with the words of the song 1994 Mullet Head. Dictionary argues that the term "apparently has been established, and certainly popularize hip-hop group from the U.S. Beastie Boys." [2]

Ill Communication: 1993-1996

Ill Communication, released in 1994, voznamenoval Beastie Boys return to the top of hit parades. The album debuted at the top of Billboard Top 200 and reached second place on the R & B / hip-hop hit parade albums. The single "Sabotage" became a hit modern-rock charts, and video - which was directed by Spike Jonze - was widely rotation in the American MTV. "Get It Together" has reached tens first dance chart Billboard, and also became a hit in urban style, "Sure Shot" became a dance hit. Some Old Bullshit, made up of songs first singles 82-83 "Pollywog Stew" and "Cooky Puss" along with live recordings of radio-punk "Noise The Show" those same years, entered the best fifty-hits Billboard chart an independent music.

Beastie Boys were hedlaynerami on the American rock festival Lollapalooza-in 1994, along with Smashing Pumpkins. Also, the team addressed the three-concert in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington-in order to collect money for the fund Milarepa Fund and listed deploy their royalties from the songs "Shambala" and "Bodhisattva Vow" from the album Ill Communication. The purpose of the fund The Milarepa Fund to attract attention to the issues of Tibet and human rights, as well as link the Dalai Lama. In 1996, Yauh Kotsert arranged for the freedom of Tibet-park two-day festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, which brought together 100 000.

In 1995, Beastie Boys popularity has been confirmed that tickets for their tour were sold out literally in minutes. For each dollar of the ticket went to local charitable needs. The Beastie Boys visited South America and Southeast Asia with a tour for the first time. The group also released in 1995 Aglio e Olio, a collection of eight songs, all eleven minutes continuing appeal to the punk roots. The In Sound From Way Out!, A collection of funk and jazz instrumental music, was released on Grand Royal Studios in 1996, cover and title of the album coincides with the historical album of electronic music pioneers Perrey and Kingsley (known for their product "Popkorn", used the transfer of Sport Loto-on Soviet television).

Hello Nasty: 1998-2001

The Beastie Boys returned to New York in 1997 to record and release the album Hello Nasty. The album marked a significant change in musical terms, group care DJ Hurricane. He was replaced by Mike Mix Masters (Mix Master Mike), who added to the group dynamic sounding style DJ-I. Hello Nasty album sales started on July 14, 1998, and in the first week it sold 700 000 copies in the States and he got right on the first line in the hit parade USA, UK, Germany, Australia, Holland, New Zealand and Sweden. The album reached the second place # 2 chart in Canada and Japan, and hit the hot top ten in Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, Finland, France and Israel.

Beastie Boys were awarded two Grammy awards in 1999; one - for best alternative music album for Hello Nasty and for best rap statement for the "Intergalactic". This is the only case in history when the artist simultaneously awarded award in the rap and alternative categories.

In 1998, the Video Music Awards MTV Video award they won-avant-garde for their contribution to the music video industry. The following year he was awarded the prize for best hip-hop videos "Intergalactic"

Beastie Boys began a new round in 1998. With the help of Ian Rodger (Ian C. Rogers), put their team record for free download. Beastie Boys were one of the first groups to allow mp3 download on its Web site that was widely publicized, including an article in The Wall Street Journal.

Concerts in 1999 in support of freedom of Tibet took place in East Troy, Wisconsin, Sydney, Tokyo and Amsterdam. September 28, 1999, the group joined the Elvis Costello to play "Radio, Radio" at 25 - anniversary show Saturday night in a live broadcast.

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Beastie Boys as equally influential in the history of rock, rap, and dance music, breykbita, in particular, their mixture between rap and punk rock was a precursor of such styles as repkor and nu-metal in the late 90 - e, representatives of whom were Limp Bizkit Ko and I n. The emergence and development breykbita largely obliged creativity Beastie Boys, semply of their compositions using The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and other representatives breykbit scene. The group priznavla its influence on the new currents and expressed their disapproval of songs Alive, poyavivsheysy in their anthology "The Sounds of Science" ( "Created a monster with these rhymes I write / Goatee metal rap please say goodnight" - ( "Goatee" - Goat borodka typical allternativnyh rockers, Eng.)

discography

Albums

* 1986 - Licensed to Ill
* 1989 - Paul's Boutique
* 1992 - Check Your Head
* 1994 - Ill Communication
* 1996 - The In Sound From Way Out!
* 1998 - Hello Nasty
* 2004 - To The 5 Boroughs
* 2007 - The Mix-Up

Mini-albums

* 1982 - Pollywog Stew
* 1983 - Cooky Puss
* 1984 - Rock Hard
* 1994 - Some Old Bullshit
* 1995 - Aglio E Olio
* 1995 - Root Down

Compilations

* 1999 - Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sound of Science
* 2005 - Solid Gold Hits