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-All right.
-Okay. Hello.

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Stand by. We got speed.

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-You ready?
-Yeah.

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Now here's a little story
That I got to tell

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About three bad brothers
That you know so well

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It started way back in history

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-With Ad-Rock
-MCA

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-And me
-Mike D

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Who's your favorite Beastie Boy?

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I sort of identify
with bits of all of them really.

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I guess MCA resonates.

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Mike D.

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Ad-Rock is, like, big inspiration.

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When you listen to a group for that long,

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you go through phases
of who you feel you're more connected to

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at certain times in your life.

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My favorite is Mike D.

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He's really funny,
but in, like, a subtle way.

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Do you have a favorite Beasties video
over the years?

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Mine's actually an exercise video
that never came out.

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Call the number on your screen right now!

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MCA, I feel like, was the leader
of all of them. Kept them all together.

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He's the one that comes up
with all the crazy stuff.

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MCA definitely played a large part
in the world.

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Very influential man, a big heart.

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I always thought that Ad-Rock
kind of encapsulated the coolness.

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It's a word that is not really used
that much in these days,

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but I think it really suits me,
as well as these guys.

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It's "macho."

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It's a macho that we have.

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Because he's so honest.
He's, like, brutally honest.

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We're not very talented musically,

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so we figured we'd try all kinds
of different realms.

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Yauch.

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Yo, I'd just like to say, "What's up?"
to my grandma.

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Because it's all about the bass guitar
for me.

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Yo, hold up, wait up,
just sit down for a minute.

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It's not over yet.

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Go!

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Their music has just been so influential.

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The soundtrack of my life,
if you can call it that.

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It's the soundtrack of our lives.

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A lot of bands, they just break apart,

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and then they come back at the end.

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But they stayed together
the whole adventure.

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I can't stand it
I know you planned it

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I'mma set it straight, this Watergate

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I can't stand rockin' when I'm in here

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'Cause your crystal ball
Ain't so crystal clear

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So while you sit back and wonder why

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I got this fuckin' thorn in my side

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Oh, my God, it's a mirage

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I'm tellin' y'all, it's sabotage

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Yeah!

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All right.

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Yo!

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What's up?

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Brooklyn!

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Well, hi.

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Well...

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Hello, everyone.

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-Well, hi, everyone. I'm Adam.
-Hi, Adam.

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And I'm Mike.

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Also known as Michael Diamond or Mike D.

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And we're Beastie Boys from New York City.

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Now, tonight we're going
to tell you the story of three kids

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that met and became friends

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and did all kinds of crazy stuff
together for over 30 years.

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The two of us will do the best we can,
because one of us isn't here.

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Adam Yauch...

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who you also know as MCA.

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We lost him in 2012 to cancer.

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And when Adam died,
we stopped being a band.

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Yeah, it just felt too weird
to do the band without Yauch,

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because, well, I mean,
the band was his idea in the first place.

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So, although Yauch's not here with us,

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"What would Yauch do?"
is always on our minds.

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But trying to imagine what
Yauch would actually do is pretty hard,

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'cause he was very unpredictable.

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He was a wild card,
but we'll get to that later.

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The Beastie Boys have arrived.

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Always on the cutting edge of fashion.

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When they're not on the red carpet,
they are always at the shows in Paris.

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Look at the white dreads.

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The Beastie Boys are back
after a six-year absence.

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Guys, that's a long time.

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What have you been up to?
It's great to see you.

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-Hey!
-Actually, I know it sounds kinda funny,

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but we were actually
captured by Sasquatch.

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What we're gonna do right here
is go back.

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Way back. Back into time.

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Being a weird kid from, sorry, Mom,
a weird family, is just kind of weird.

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But it's also pretty lonely.

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One day, I heard this band The Clash.

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Not only did I love their music,

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but when I heard it,
I knew there'd be other weirdos out there.

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I just had to find them.

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I found my first other weirdo at school.

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His name is John Berry.

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One afternoon, we saw an ad in the back of
this free paper called The Village Voice.

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It was for a band that we loved
called the Bad Brains.

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And the Bad Brains were playing this show

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down at this place called
the Botany Talk House.

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So we go down to the club

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and there's, like, maybe all of 15 people
in the entire place,

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and they're all grown-ups.

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But there was one other kid our age there.

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And he looked really cool.

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He had this long trench coat on
from, like, a thrift store,

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he had combat boots,

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he had these homemade buttons
on his trench coat,

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and his name was Adam Yauch.

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So I met Yauch and Mike and John Berry
at a Misfits show in 1982.

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It might have been Circle Jerks,

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but I like the Misfits more, so I'm gonna
say that it was at a Misfits show.

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Now, somehow, me and my two friends heard

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that there were a bunch of kids
hanging out in a ladies' bathroom.

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So we walked in there

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and we found a bunch of super cool-looking
punk kids our age hanging out.

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And I actually recognized one of them,
Jill Cunniff,

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'cause we were
in fifth grade class together.

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And so she was my in.

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I also recognized one of the other kids
in the group,

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Kate Schellenbach,

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'cause we grew up
in the same neighborhood.

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Kate was just-- She was really cool.

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She was also smarter than we were.

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And she was into, I don't know, more
sophisticated, European kind of music--

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Just-- Sorry to interrupt, but just to say
that she was smarter than us--

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-I mean, Kate's very smart, but--
-Sure, it didn't take a lot.

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-Not that it's saying that much. Okay.
-But she was.

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-Fact.
-Correct.

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So, she was into cool bands
like Kraftwerk.

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And she lived in this loft on 14th Street
with her mom

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that was this big open old-style loft,

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and in the center of all of it
was her drum set.

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My first punk rock friend
was Dave Scilken. And he--

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That's him on the left.
And that's me on the right.

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So me and my best friend
in junior high school,

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we're playing basketball
outside of school,

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and we see this crazy-looking kid
with spiked hair and a trench coat

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walking down the street,
carrying a synthesizer.

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So we had to go over to talk to this kid.

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He was younger than us.

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He was in the sixth grade,
and he was cutting school.

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Now, let that sink in.

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You're 11 years old in the sixth grade.

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At that time, our main hangout
was at John Berry's apartment

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on 100th and Broadway.

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And that's where we'd play music.

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In the early '80s, everyone in our scene
was in some kind of band.

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And Yauch kept pushing us
to start a band with him.

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Now he already had a name for it:

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Beastie Boys.

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The band originally
was me, Kate, Adam Yauch, John Berry.

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The name stood for

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Boys Entering Anarchistic States
Towards Inner Excellence.

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The acronym alone makes no sense

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because "boys" is already
in the title of the band.

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So the name is ridiculous and redundant.

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And inaccurate,
because there was a girl drummer, Kate.

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So, our very first gig
was at John Berry's house,

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up where he lived, on the third floor.

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Yauch was turning 17.

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And Yauch's like, "You know what,

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I'm gonna have a party,
and we're gonna play at it."

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And then, when we go up to play,
somehow I got nominated to be the singer.

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Now, I was a super shy type of kid.

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I don't know why I ever agreed to this.

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I guess the main thing I remember is
probably, like, 10 or 12 kids in a room

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maybe 12 feet wide by 20 feet long
or something, just kind of, like,

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jumping up and down
and bumping into each other.

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But it was all basically, like,
friends having a good time.

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I wasn't in Beastie Boys back then.

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But I joined in 1983.

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John Berry wasn't into it anymore,
and so he quit.

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At that point, I was hanging out with
Mike and Yauch and Kate all the time.

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I guess since I was standing there,
I'm the new guitar player.

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We were a hardcore band,
but we kind of weren't.

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I mean, we were like Monty Python
as much as we were Black Flag.

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Introduce yourself.

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Yeah, yeah. So I'm Michael.
I'm in the Beastie Boys.

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My name is Kate. I'm a Capricorn,
and I have lint in my pocket.

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Now we're gonna get to an older,
more mature member.

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-Give us your name.
-My name's Ad, but you can call me Adam.

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And I'm just hanging out here on TV.
You know, your basic stuff.

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My name's Adam, as it says on my belt.

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Get a shot of Adam's belt if you can.

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How old are you? About 13, 14?

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-About.
-Yeah. Twelve, eleven.

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So, we're getting a little older now.

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We're no longer 15.

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We're 16.

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We were into all kinds of music.

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We listened to soul and punk
and rap and reggae.

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Rap was hard to find back then
'cause there was only a few 12-inches out.

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But we wanted to switch up our style.

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So we were obsessed
with this stupid commercial

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for this ice-cream store called Carvel.

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Hello, I'm a Carvel celestial person
from outer space.

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My real name is Cookie Puss.

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And someone had the smart idea

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to record a super stupid
prank phone call song called

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"Cooky Puss."

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-Hello, Carvel.
-Yo, man. Cookie Puss there?

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Who?

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Cookie Puss.
I wanna speak to Cookie Puss, man.

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No. Nobody here by that name.

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Cookie O'Puss then. Cookie Chick...

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So, this guy Dave Parsons,

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he had this record store downtown
called the Rat Cage.

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We would cut school
to go hang out at this place, right?

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By this time,
Dave started a small record label.

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Put "Cooky Puss" out as a 12-inch, right.

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And then something happened
that we never thought would happen.

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DJs started playing our record in clubs.

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Then other people besides our 15 friends
actually heard our music.

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And one day, I went to visit a friend at
some weird high school temp job she had.

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And we heard that DJ Afrika Bambaataa

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was on a talk show or something
on some other floor in the building.

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And we got fuckin' psyched.

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And we ran down
and we snuck onto the TV set.

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And this is what happened next.

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I was wondering--
There's a song I really like

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called "Cooky Puss" by the Beastie Boys.
I was wondering if you ever heard of it.

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Yes, I heard of "Cooky Puss."

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I've gotten the record
through the rock pool. It's tough.

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Okay.

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Yeah, you like that--
Why do you like that one?

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Yeah, it's just a really funny song.
I heard it on the radio--

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It's got scratching and work on it?
Like that?

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It has a little bit of scratching on it.

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It's funky.

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Chapter 2:

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"All We Do Is Listen to Rap."

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In 1984, a song came out

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that would change the course
of our band forever.

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"Sucker MC's" by Run-DMC.

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Two years ago, a friend of mine
Asked me to say some MC rhymes

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00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:17,881
So I said this rhyme I'm about to say

241
00:13:17,965 --> 00:13:20,926
The rhyme was def
A-then it went this way

242
00:13:21,009 --> 00:13:24,555
"Sucker MC's" was everywhere in New York
when it came out.

243
00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:26,557
You heard it coming out of cars,

244
00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,643
out of tape decks, out of pizza spots,
all over the city.

245
00:13:29,726 --> 00:13:31,854
Run-DMC was the shit.

246
00:13:31,937 --> 00:13:33,522
And we wanted to be just like them.

247
00:13:33,605 --> 00:13:36,233
I mean,
we studied every song, every lyric.

248
00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:38,902
We were lookin' at every picture,
tryin' to figure out their sneaks,

249
00:13:38,986 --> 00:13:40,487
their clothes, everything.

250
00:13:40,571 --> 00:13:44,783
We would study and repeat
all our favorite rap songs all day.

251
00:13:44,867 --> 00:13:47,536
Not that we felt we would ever be
a rap group or anything.

252
00:13:47,619 --> 00:13:49,997
But around this time,
we started writing our own rhymes.

253
00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,583
I think now we're gonna show
a little example

254
00:13:53,083 --> 00:13:56,128
that shows kind of where we were at
on the mic as MCs.

255
00:13:56,211 --> 00:13:59,131
Wait, we're not there yet.
You're jumping ahead there. Go back.

256
00:13:59,214 --> 00:14:01,216
-Am I jumping the gun?
-Turn around, Spike.

257
00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:03,802
-Really? Okay.
-All right. Time out.

258
00:14:03,886 --> 00:14:04,887
See, Spike?

259
00:14:04,970 --> 00:14:07,306
-We're definitely in the wrong place.
-The teleprompter...

260
00:14:11,476 --> 00:14:12,936
-All right. That's what I thought--
-Okay.

261
00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:14,771
-Here we go.
-Hey, hey, hey.

262
00:14:14,855 --> 00:14:19,318
We're back. We really-- We rehearsed this.
We practiced this, like, for real.

263
00:14:19,401 --> 00:14:21,987
I'm sorry. I fucked up the teleprompter.
Sorry about that.

264
00:14:22,070 --> 00:14:24,072
Teleprompter? I didn't even notice.

265
00:14:30,746 --> 00:14:31,747
Anyways.

266
00:14:32,748 --> 00:14:35,626
That's a good transition, you guys.
"Anyways."

267
00:14:36,376 --> 00:14:40,297
Around this time, we had this big show
coming up at Studio 54, right.

268
00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:44,051
Wait. The Studio 54.
You know, with, like, Brooke Shields.

269
00:14:44,134 --> 00:14:48,555
Okay. With, like, Baryshnikov,
Halston, Donna Summer.

270
00:14:49,139 --> 00:14:51,350
I didn't know if that was, like,
a call and response thing.

271
00:14:51,433 --> 00:14:53,810
-Yeah, no one really chimed in.
-I don't know. Anyway.

272
00:14:53,894 --> 00:14:58,190
Footnote about our show at Studio 54,
it was a Battle of the Bands and we lost.

273
00:14:58,273 --> 00:15:00,776
So, we had this show
coming up at Studio 54,

274
00:15:00,859 --> 00:15:02,819
and we wanted to play our song
"Cooky Puss."

275
00:15:02,903 --> 00:15:04,905
Now we never did it live before,
but we thought--

276
00:15:04,988 --> 00:15:07,366
We had this idea
to have a DJ do it with us.

277
00:15:07,991 --> 00:15:11,662
Our friend told us that he knew
about this NYU college kid that could DJ

278
00:15:11,745 --> 00:15:14,957
and wanted to be a rap producer
and had all this DJ equipment and stuff.

279
00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,544
But more important,
he had a bubble machine.

280
00:15:18,627 --> 00:15:21,880
Wait. Say what, Ad-Rock?
A bubble machine?

281
00:15:21,964 --> 00:15:24,800
Yo, homes. That's right, Mike D.
He had a bubble machine.

282
00:15:24,883 --> 00:15:25,884
Okay.

283
00:15:25,968 --> 00:15:29,137
So we went over to this guy's dorm room
to meet him.

284
00:15:29,221 --> 00:15:33,141
But when we get there, the door's opened
by this long-haired heavy metal guy

285
00:15:33,225 --> 00:15:36,562
with these weird leather zip-up gloves,
which totally freaked us out.

286
00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:38,939
This couldn't possibly be him.

287
00:15:39,022 --> 00:15:43,110
Now, he opens the door
to this teeny dorm room, right.

288
00:15:43,193 --> 00:15:46,029
And it's filled with, like, a huge PA

289
00:15:46,113 --> 00:15:48,949
and there's turntables
and all these drum machines.

290
00:15:49,032 --> 00:15:52,494
And yes, ladies and gentlemen,
a bubble machine.

291
00:15:53,495 --> 00:15:54,705
So what do we do?

292
00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:56,623
We hired him on the spot.

293
00:15:56,707 --> 00:15:58,375
And this is Rick Rubin.

294
00:16:03,547 --> 00:16:07,092
Now, at first, it seemed like
a weird fit with us and Rick Rubin.

295
00:16:07,176 --> 00:16:10,179
I mean, he's from Long Island
and we're from New York City.

296
00:16:10,262 --> 00:16:14,850
And also, Rick was into a bunch
of other stuff that we weren't into.

297
00:16:14,933 --> 00:16:16,685
Like wrestling and heavy metal.

298
00:16:16,768 --> 00:16:18,896
And we thought that shit
was kind of goofy.

299
00:16:18,979 --> 00:16:21,064
Rick seemed way older than us and--

300
00:16:23,817 --> 00:16:24,651
Well--

301
00:16:24,735 --> 00:16:26,403
We gotta work on the timing of that photo.

302
00:16:26,486 --> 00:16:27,571
-I mean--
-With the--

303
00:16:29,072 --> 00:16:31,909
Do we comment on the cable box or no?
I mean--

304
00:16:31,992 --> 00:16:34,536
-Everyone's thinking about it, yeah?
-Right.

305
00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:37,623
That was some high-tech shit for the time.

306
00:16:37,706 --> 00:16:41,668
They got the cable box,
the multi-line telephone. I mean--

307
00:16:42,711 --> 00:16:45,422
I mean, why can't it be like the old days,
with a pack of Salems

308
00:16:45,506 --> 00:16:47,799
and a fucking filled ashtray
next to your bed?

309
00:16:47,883 --> 00:16:48,884
I mean, right?

310
00:16:52,054 --> 00:16:55,641
Rick seemed way older than us,
and he seemed kind of more mature than us.

311
00:16:55,724 --> 00:16:57,809
And he had money to pay for things.

312
00:16:57,893 --> 00:17:00,145
But most of all, it was his confidence.

313
00:17:00,229 --> 00:17:02,439
Whatever he was into
was the thing to be into.

314
00:17:02,523 --> 00:17:04,107
And that could be infectious.

315
00:17:04,858 --> 00:17:06,193
You couldn't hang out with Rick

316
00:17:06,276 --> 00:17:09,070
and not be excited about
what he was excited about.

317
00:17:09,154 --> 00:17:10,571
So we kinda got into wrestling.

318
00:17:11,281 --> 00:17:12,324
Kinda.

319
00:17:12,866 --> 00:17:15,827
-And we definitely got into heavy metal.
-Definitely.

320
00:17:17,204 --> 00:17:19,080
-Definitely.
-Definitely.

321
00:17:19,915 --> 00:17:21,916
It only took a week for us
to go from thinking

322
00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,586
that the guy
with those zip-up gloves was goofy

323
00:17:24,670 --> 00:17:26,880
to thinking, "He's the coolest dude."

324
00:17:26,964 --> 00:17:28,799
He became part of our full-time crew.

325
00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,928
He kinda became, like,
this weird, cool older brother.

326
00:17:33,011 --> 00:17:35,097
And his dorm room
became our new headquarters.

327
00:17:35,180 --> 00:17:36,765
Like, our new Rat Cage.

328
00:17:36,849 --> 00:17:40,477
And every day, instead of going to school,
we'd go to Rick's dorm room to hang out.

329
00:17:40,561 --> 00:17:43,230
And we'd listen to records.
And then we'd go out to some club.

330
00:17:43,313 --> 00:17:45,566
And then we'd go to
Cozy Soup 'n' Burger to eat.

331
00:17:45,649 --> 00:17:48,068
And then we'd talk all about the night
and the music

332
00:17:48,151 --> 00:17:50,863
and all the music
we were gonna make together one day.

333
00:17:50,946 --> 00:17:53,782
After the Studio 54 show, we had a DJ.

334
00:17:53,866 --> 00:17:57,703
So we're like, "Fuck it. Let's try
to rap and do that as part of our show."

335
00:17:59,788 --> 00:18:03,250
So Rick joined our band
and became DJ Double R, of course.

336
00:18:03,333 --> 00:18:06,837
Our first shows with Rick,
we'd do, like, half as a hardcore band,

337
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,549
and then we'd leave the stage
and we'd do the other half as a rap group.

338
00:18:10,632 --> 00:18:12,593
-B-E-A
-S-T-I-E

339
00:18:12,676 --> 00:18:15,012
We're the Beastie four
Rock shockin' the scene

340
00:18:15,095 --> 00:18:17,347
-I'm Master Adam Yauch
-And Slop the Rock

341
00:18:17,431 --> 00:18:19,600
-With Mike D
-Katie Schellenbach

342
00:18:19,683 --> 00:18:22,019
Now hip-hop, just don't stop

343
00:18:22,102 --> 00:18:24,146
You rock to the beat
Till it makes you drop

344
00:18:24,229 --> 00:18:27,065
Okay, okay. I think, you know--

345
00:18:28,317 --> 00:18:29,401
You get the--

346
00:18:31,403 --> 00:18:32,529
You get the idea.

347
00:18:32,613 --> 00:18:36,366
Most rappers hold their rhymes
in little pieces of paper, right?

348
00:18:36,867 --> 00:18:38,118
Isn't that a thing?

349
00:18:38,202 --> 00:18:39,953
It's one thing to hang out
with your friends

350
00:18:40,037 --> 00:18:42,122
and rap "Sucker MC's" all day long.

351
00:18:42,206 --> 00:18:46,460
But being on stage with an audience
and rapping our own rhymes,

352
00:18:46,543 --> 00:18:47,836
well, that was different.

353
00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,297
Now we didn't realize it,
but as time went on,

354
00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:54,510
the more we were hanging out with Rick
and starting to act like Rick,

355
00:18:54,593 --> 00:18:56,845
the less we were hanging out with Kate.

356
00:18:56,929 --> 00:19:00,390
And maybe even more so,
the less Kate was hanging out with us.

357
00:19:00,474 --> 00:19:02,893
I think our friends were very confused

358
00:19:02,976 --> 00:19:05,062
as why we were hanging out with Rick
all the time.

359
00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,653
Well, you know, a band's gotta eat.

360
00:19:15,656 --> 00:19:20,619
So around this time, Rick was producing
his first real rap song, "It's Yours,"

361
00:19:20,702 --> 00:19:22,496
for a rapper named T La Rock.

362
00:19:24,998 --> 00:19:29,127
Up until then, music for rap records
was mostly played by a band.

363
00:19:29,211 --> 00:19:31,880
It was played to sound, like,
funky and smoothed out

364
00:19:31,964 --> 00:19:33,465
so it would get on the radio.

365
00:19:33,549 --> 00:19:36,426
But "It's Yours" was just a rapper
and a drum machine.

366
00:19:36,510 --> 00:19:39,096
It was raw and punk in sound.

367
00:19:39,179 --> 00:19:40,347
So one night,

368
00:19:40,430 --> 00:19:45,602
Rick told us that he's gonna go meet
this guy, Russell Simmons, at Danceteria.

369
00:19:45,686 --> 00:19:48,647
We didn't know what Rick and Russell
were meeting about,

370
00:19:48,730 --> 00:19:52,067
but we are just psyched
to spy on them talking at the bar.

371
00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:55,612
'Cause this Russell guy
was not only Run-DMC's manager,

372
00:19:55,696 --> 00:19:58,282
but he was also DJ Run's brother.

373
00:19:58,365 --> 00:19:59,950
It wasn't like he was some guy that, like,

374
00:20:00,033 --> 00:20:02,828
knew some guy
that knew somebody connected to rap.

375
00:20:02,911 --> 00:20:04,246
Russell was rap.

376
00:20:04,329 --> 00:20:06,748
He was at the center
of the business of rap.

377
00:20:06,832 --> 00:20:09,126
Now when Russell left,
we were so psyched.

378
00:20:09,209 --> 00:20:11,086
We ran over to Rick and we were like,

379
00:20:11,170 --> 00:20:14,548
"Yo, yo, yo, yo, Rick.
You gotta tell us, like, everything.

380
00:20:14,631 --> 00:20:16,508
What did this Russell guy say to you?

381
00:20:16,592 --> 00:20:19,094
You gotta tell us
everything you guys talked about."

382
00:20:21,346 --> 00:20:23,098
Well, I mean, that's-- We were excited.

383
00:20:23,182 --> 00:20:24,141
That's pretty good.

384
00:20:24,224 --> 00:20:27,311
And that's what we sounded like
when we were, like, 16.

385
00:20:27,394 --> 00:20:30,022
So Rick told us
that Russell couldn't believe

386
00:20:30,105 --> 00:20:33,275
that not only "It's Yours" was made
by someone he'd never heard of,

387
00:20:33,358 --> 00:20:34,902
but it was made by a white guy.

388
00:20:34,985 --> 00:20:36,570
And Rick said that they hit it off

389
00:20:36,653 --> 00:20:39,990
and they hatched a plan
to start a record label, Def Jam.

390
00:20:40,073 --> 00:20:41,200
Wait a minute, wait a minute.

391
00:20:41,283 --> 00:20:44,578
Pay attention, hang up the phone
and watch this.

392
00:20:44,661 --> 00:20:45,996
Jam means record.

393
00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:48,332
Def is short for definitive.

394
00:20:48,415 --> 00:20:51,126
Definitely the best records
you could buy today.

395
00:20:51,210 --> 00:20:54,213
So def, so def, so def
It's a def jam

396
00:20:54,296 --> 00:20:58,008
And somewhere in those plans,
Rick told Russell about us.

397
00:20:58,759 --> 00:21:01,094
"Hey, I got these three white rappers.

398
00:21:01,178 --> 00:21:02,971
They're still in high school.

399
00:21:03,055 --> 00:21:06,808
I mean, they're punk rock,
but they love hip-hop even more.

400
00:21:06,892 --> 00:21:09,645
I mean, all they do is listen to rap."

401
00:21:16,860 --> 00:21:21,240
Russell Simmons immediately saw the
possibility in managing a white rap group.

402
00:21:21,323 --> 00:21:24,034
And within days,
we went to his office to meet with him.

403
00:21:24,117 --> 00:21:26,578
We think he's gonna have
this huge fancy office,

404
00:21:26,662 --> 00:21:30,499
but we go up there,
it's just, in reality, two small rooms.

405
00:21:30,582 --> 00:21:32,292
But what's kinda cool is,

406
00:21:32,376 --> 00:21:38,215
in one of the rooms there's fucking
Kurtis Blow, the King of Rap, right?

407
00:21:39,049 --> 00:21:43,804
And he's in Russell's office
trying to learn to break-dance.

408
00:21:43,887 --> 00:21:46,765
He's trying to spin on his head
for some reason.

409
00:21:46,849 --> 00:21:48,684
And not only that, I don't know if--

410
00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:51,270
Does anybody in here know
this crew Full Force?

411
00:21:52,563 --> 00:21:56,692
Well, he's surrounded-- He's surrounded
by the dudes in Full Force,

412
00:21:56,775 --> 00:22:00,070
who are watching him learn to break-dance.

413
00:22:00,153 --> 00:22:03,490
I mean, it was a crazy fuckin' scene,
is what we're trying to tell you guys.

414
00:22:04,825 --> 00:22:06,368
So when it came to confidence,

415
00:22:06,451 --> 00:22:09,204
Russell was even more next-level
than Rick.

416
00:22:09,746 --> 00:22:10,914
If you were in his orbit,

417
00:22:10,998 --> 00:22:15,002
you couldn't help but believe all the
awesome shit he said was gonna happen.

418
00:22:15,085 --> 00:22:17,963
In 1984, no one cared about rap music.

419
00:22:18,046 --> 00:22:19,590
I mean, it was barely on the radio.

420
00:22:19,673 --> 00:22:23,218
But everywhere Russell went
he'd be selling to everybody.

421
00:22:23,302 --> 00:22:26,805
"Run-DMC is gonna be the biggest artist
of our generation."

422
00:22:28,348 --> 00:22:31,643
"Rick Rubin. He's gonna be
the Phil Spector of rap.

423
00:22:32,853 --> 00:22:34,062
Beastie Boys?

424
00:22:34,146 --> 00:22:38,150
They're white B-boys and they're gonna be
the biggest group in the world."

425
00:22:39,568 --> 00:22:40,569
All right.

426
00:22:41,737 --> 00:22:43,405
Let's slow things down for a minute.

427
00:22:43,488 --> 00:22:45,407
We had just started rapping.

428
00:22:45,490 --> 00:22:47,784
I mean, we were mediocre at best.

429
00:22:47,868 --> 00:22:50,954
But Rick and Russell believed in us,
and that gave us confidence.

430
00:22:53,749 --> 00:22:58,170
And so they hooked it up for us
to go record our first rap song.

431
00:22:58,253 --> 00:22:59,671
It's called "Rock Hard."

432
00:23:02,049 --> 00:23:04,426
I don't know. It's not our finest moment
on the mic, okay.

433
00:23:04,510 --> 00:23:08,805
But you gotta understand, we love rap
music and we wanted to be rappers so bad.

434
00:23:08,889 --> 00:23:11,099
We wanted to be Run-DMC so bad.

435
00:23:11,183 --> 00:23:13,685
"First white B-boys, we don't regret.

436
00:23:13,769 --> 00:23:16,021
There's nothing wrong with your TV set."

437
00:23:17,814 --> 00:23:19,274
Russell Simmons wrote that line.

438
00:23:19,358 --> 00:23:21,610
And he kept telling us we had to say it
'cause it was great

439
00:23:21,693 --> 00:23:24,363
and how B-boy it was and punk
and all this other stuff.

440
00:23:24,446 --> 00:23:26,532
He also really wanted us to say,

441
00:23:26,615 --> 00:23:29,409
"I can play the drums, I can play guitar.

442
00:23:29,493 --> 00:23:32,496
Not just B-boys, we're real rock stars."

443
00:23:32,579 --> 00:23:34,206
And we went along with it.

444
00:23:34,289 --> 00:23:36,917
I mean, you're the legit dude in rap, man.

445
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,087
You got fucking Kurtis Blow popping
and locking in your office and shit.

446
00:23:40,170 --> 00:23:43,006
I mean, if you think saying that's
gonna be fresh, fly, wild and bold,

447
00:23:43,090 --> 00:23:45,634
well, all right.
Turn me up in the headphones.

448
00:23:45,717 --> 00:23:47,469
Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA

449
00:23:48,053 --> 00:23:50,347
Not before long I could hear you say

450
00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:52,933
In a way, these boys got juice

451
00:23:53,016 --> 00:23:55,686
They're goin' off
You know they love to get loose

452
00:23:55,769 --> 00:23:57,896
Get loose, get loose

453
00:23:57,980 --> 00:23:59,356
Poose

454
00:24:00,107 --> 00:24:04,319
Now I would love to blame Rick
and Russell for the quality of the song,

455
00:24:04,403 --> 00:24:06,446
but that's all us on the mic.

456
00:24:06,530 --> 00:24:09,700
We wrote and said the rest of the lyrics
on that song.

457
00:24:09,783 --> 00:24:13,829
They wanted us to be a cartoon rap version
of an '80s metal band,

458
00:24:13,912 --> 00:24:18,041
but instead with Adidas shell toes
and tracksuits and shit.

459
00:24:18,125 --> 00:24:20,127
And we were all in.

460
00:24:20,210 --> 00:24:21,461
-Hell, yes.
-Right?

461
00:24:22,588 --> 00:24:23,630
For real.

462
00:24:25,591 --> 00:24:30,429
But it was decided at some point
that we had to kick Kate out of the band

463
00:24:30,512 --> 00:24:33,849
because she didn't fit
into our new tough rapper guy identity.

464
00:24:33,932 --> 00:24:35,559
Now how fucked-up is that?

465
00:24:36,685 --> 00:24:39,980
When Beastie Boys began,
the majority of our friends were girls.

466
00:24:40,063 --> 00:24:41,940
Like, the coolest girls.

467
00:24:42,024 --> 00:24:44,693
And it's really embarrassing
to think that we let them down.

468
00:24:45,444 --> 00:24:48,906
I mean, shit, maybe Kate would've quit
the band eventually,

469
00:24:48,989 --> 00:24:50,949
but it's just shitty
the way it all went down.

470
00:24:51,033 --> 00:24:54,161
See, up until then our band
was just more of a joke, you know?

471
00:24:54,244 --> 00:24:55,954
Something to do 'cause it was fun.

472
00:24:56,038 --> 00:24:58,707
Our big goal was to make each other laugh.

473
00:24:58,790 --> 00:25:02,711
But now we're with these Rick and Russell
guys, and they got big plans for us.

474
00:25:02,794 --> 00:25:04,546
It's like,
if Rick was the cool older brother,

475
00:25:04,630 --> 00:25:06,840
then Russell was, like,
the crazy-ass uncle.

476
00:25:06,924 --> 00:25:10,302
And we started hanging out every night,
all the time together.

477
00:25:10,385 --> 00:25:13,305
Going out to clubs.
Drinking screwdrivers, brass monkeys.

478
00:25:13,388 --> 00:25:16,225
And it was like this fucked-up fun family.

479
00:25:16,308 --> 00:25:20,187
Now, when you're young and drunk
and Russell Simmons is telling you

480
00:25:20,270 --> 00:25:23,357
that you're gonna be
the biggest rap group of all time,

481
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,277
well, I guess you hear it enough,
you just start to believe that shit.

482
00:25:27,361 --> 00:25:30,614
And then some crazy shit happened.

483
00:25:33,492 --> 00:25:34,618
Spike.

484
00:25:35,369 --> 00:25:38,997
I'm sorry. Sorry about that.
There's supposed to be a cue here where--

485
00:25:39,081 --> 00:25:41,458
It was actually a bad joke anyways.
Keep going.

486
00:25:42,334 --> 00:25:44,002
It's gonna happen
or it's not gonna happen?

487
00:25:44,086 --> 00:25:45,295
Not tonight.

488
00:25:45,379 --> 00:25:47,506
This is the last show.
When is it supposed to happen?

489
00:25:47,589 --> 00:25:49,132
We didn't load it into the machine.

490
00:25:49,216 --> 00:25:51,176
Maybe we'll get it
before the end of the night.

491
00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:52,719
I'll get it. I'll get it.

492
00:25:52,803 --> 00:25:55,055
Well, it's a voice that goes,
"Crazy shit."

493
00:25:55,138 --> 00:25:58,433
And there's, like, a whole animation.
My friend Max Tannone did the-- Anyway.

494
00:25:59,059 --> 00:26:02,104
Hey, did you guys know that we opened
for Madonna on her very first tour?

495
00:26:03,188 --> 00:26:05,482
Well, we did. And the story of
how we opened for Madonna--

496
00:26:05,566 --> 00:26:06,817
Crazy shit.

497
00:26:09,111 --> 00:26:10,445
I got it.

498
00:26:12,155 --> 00:26:13,282
At any rate.

499
00:26:13,740 --> 00:26:17,494
So one day Russell Simmons gets a call
from Madonna's manager, Freddy DeMann.

500
00:26:17,578 --> 00:26:20,539
He calls and asks if Run-DMC
would like to open for Madonna

501
00:26:20,622 --> 00:26:21,832
on her first ever tour.

502
00:26:21,915 --> 00:26:25,085
And Russell said,
"Yes, they get 20 grand a show."

503
00:26:25,169 --> 00:26:27,921
Madonna's manager said, "Thank you, no."

504
00:26:28,005 --> 00:26:31,175
Madonna's manager calls Russell Simmons
back a couple hours later and he's like,

505
00:26:31,258 --> 00:26:34,553
"Hey, Russell. Do the Fat Boys wanna open
for Madonna on tour?"

506
00:26:35,220 --> 00:26:39,558
And he said, "Aw, man. The Fat Boys
are busy. They just can't do it."

507
00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:41,852
Russell never managed the Fat Boys.

508
00:26:43,562 --> 00:26:44,813
"But," he said,

509
00:26:44,897 --> 00:26:47,858
"I got these guys Beastie Boys,
and they'll do it for 500 bucks."

510
00:26:47,941 --> 00:26:49,401
And the next thing you know,

511
00:26:49,484 --> 00:26:52,112
we're in Seattle, Washington
at the Four Seasons hotel,

512
00:26:52,196 --> 00:26:54,573
getting ready to open for Madonna on tour.

513
00:26:55,407 --> 00:26:56,783
Remember that?

514
00:27:00,204 --> 00:27:04,458
So, before the tour,
we came up with a brilliant plan.

515
00:27:04,541 --> 00:27:08,504
What could we do that would
make all these people remember us?

516
00:27:08,587 --> 00:27:12,883
It certainly wasn't gonna be
our microphone mastery at the time.

517
00:27:12,966 --> 00:27:18,514
I mean, our big idea was that we should be
as rude and as awful as possible on stage.

518
00:27:18,597 --> 00:27:23,894
Yo! You better look out,
Detroit, Philly, Cincy, LA!

519
00:27:23,977 --> 00:27:25,229
We're coming to your town!

520
00:27:25,312 --> 00:27:26,772
I mean, if we just went up there

521
00:27:26,855 --> 00:27:29,358
and we just played
the two songs that we knew,

522
00:27:29,441 --> 00:27:30,817
and that's all we had at the time,

523
00:27:30,901 --> 00:27:33,570
and we just said,
"Thank you, everybody. Good night,"

524
00:27:33,654 --> 00:27:34,696
who would care?

525
00:27:34,780 --> 00:27:37,157
Instead, we'd be memorable.

526
00:27:37,241 --> 00:27:39,910
Memorable fuckin' jerks.

527
00:27:39,993 --> 00:27:41,787
We're real rock stars.

528
00:27:41,870 --> 00:27:44,164
I mean, everyone's there to see Madonna,

529
00:27:44,248 --> 00:27:46,416
and they for sure
don't give a fuck about us.

530
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,461
But this is where
Rick's wrestling thing would come in.

531
00:27:49,545 --> 00:27:51,964
He wanted us
to be those wrestling villains

532
00:27:52,047 --> 00:27:54,800
screaming into the camera
at the side of the ring, like this:

533
00:27:54,883 --> 00:27:58,178
The only reason that we haven't done
a video yet is because as soon as we do,

534
00:27:58,262 --> 00:28:01,014
they're gonna have to change it
from MTV to Beastie TV.

535
00:28:01,098 --> 00:28:04,142
'Cause that's all they're gonna show
all day long, all night long.

536
00:28:04,226 --> 00:28:08,480
"The Beastie Boys. One of the finest
groups in music today." Right there.

537
00:28:08,564 --> 00:28:10,524
I think I'm wasting my breath
a little bit.

538
00:28:10,607 --> 00:28:12,109
Maybe I'm talking over your head.

539
00:28:12,192 --> 00:28:13,360
I think the interview's over.

540
00:28:13,443 --> 00:28:14,653
-Thank you very much.
-Me too.

541
00:28:18,323 --> 00:28:19,324
And so--

542
00:28:22,202 --> 00:28:24,246
And so every night on the Madonna tour,

543
00:28:24,329 --> 00:28:27,332
I would go out, front and center,
and I would do a speech like this.

544
00:28:29,209 --> 00:28:31,003
I'm the King Ad-Rock.

545
00:28:31,086 --> 00:28:33,422
And I'm the fucking king
of the Kings Theatre.

546
00:28:33,505 --> 00:28:34,631
And we're the Beastie Boys,

547
00:28:34,715 --> 00:28:37,342
and we're here tonight
to crush all competition.

548
00:28:37,426 --> 00:28:40,846
After we leave tonight you can
burn this motherfuckin' place down.

549
00:28:40,929 --> 00:28:43,098
'Cause y'all motherfuckers ain't shit.

550
00:28:48,687 --> 00:28:53,025
Just keep in mind
that this is who Adam was cursing out.

551
00:29:04,745 --> 00:29:06,788
It was, like,
a love-hate relationship type thing.

552
00:29:06,872 --> 00:29:10,375
You know, we hated them, they hated us.
It was, like, love.

553
00:29:11,418 --> 00:29:14,796
So we come home from tour,
and the very first thing we do

554
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:19,551
is we go up to everyone and anyone
that'll hear it, and we're like,

555
00:29:19,635 --> 00:29:22,888
"Yo, yo, yo.
We were on tour with Madonna."

556
00:29:22,971 --> 00:29:25,349
It was the fucking
most awesome thing ever.

557
00:29:25,432 --> 00:29:27,935
And now we get home and it's official.

558
00:29:28,018 --> 00:29:29,311
We're a rap group.

559
00:29:31,563 --> 00:29:33,023
Really?

560
00:29:33,106 --> 00:29:34,900
-High five?
-Yeah.

561
00:29:34,983 --> 00:29:36,985
Yeah, it's coming back, Adam.
It's coming back.

562
00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:42,866
One night, Russell gets us a gig
at this club called the Encore,

563
00:29:42,950 --> 00:29:46,370
opening up for Kurtis Blow,
the King of Rap.

564
00:29:46,453 --> 00:29:48,455
So we were both--
We look at each other and we're like,

565
00:29:48,539 --> 00:29:53,001
"Yo, we're opening up for Kurtis Blow?
That's def."

566
00:29:54,127 --> 00:29:56,255
-Now--
-That's a direct quote, by the way.

567
00:29:56,338 --> 00:29:57,881
-Just so you know.
-Yeah. It is.

568
00:29:57,965 --> 00:30:02,094
Now the Encore is an all-black rap crowd.

569
00:30:02,177 --> 00:30:04,888
And we're the only white guys
in this place, right.

570
00:30:04,972 --> 00:30:08,308
And somehow, we decide it's a good idea

571
00:30:08,392 --> 00:30:11,436
to go out there
in a limo dressed like this.

572
00:30:15,649 --> 00:30:17,109
What's so funny?

573
00:30:18,610 --> 00:30:21,154
Yes, those are do-rags on our heads.

574
00:30:21,238 --> 00:30:22,948
So...

575
00:30:24,825 --> 00:30:29,496
So when we got on stage at the Encore
to play our song "Rock Hard,"

576
00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:32,040
they turned on all the lights, right,
in the house.

577
00:30:32,124 --> 00:30:34,668
Like, fluorescent lights,
like a fuckin' supermarket.

578
00:30:34,751 --> 00:30:37,671
And all these dudes in the audience
started screaming at us.

579
00:30:37,754 --> 00:30:40,591
"Yo, yo, Menudos. What's up?"

580
00:30:41,341 --> 00:30:42,885
"Menudo, I love y'all."

581
00:30:44,178 --> 00:30:46,054
Yeah, they called us "Menudo."

582
00:30:47,389 --> 00:30:50,934
Actually, I think it was "Menudos,"
like, plural.

583
00:30:51,476 --> 00:30:52,477
Yeah.

584
00:30:52,561 --> 00:30:54,938
So yeah, we dropped this look real quick.

585
00:30:56,023 --> 00:30:57,566
Chapter 3:

586
00:30:57,649 --> 00:30:59,902
"The Song that Changed Everything."

587
00:31:04,239 --> 00:31:06,408
So we started writing songs
in a different way.

588
00:31:06,491 --> 00:31:09,620
It wasn't just on a guitar, like,
verse, chorus, verse, chorus.

589
00:31:09,703 --> 00:31:12,706
Fucking around became
our creative process.

590
00:31:12,789 --> 00:31:14,458
It would go something like this.

591
00:31:14,541 --> 00:31:16,084
Mikey.

592
00:31:16,168 --> 00:31:17,920
We'd be walking down the street.

593
00:31:20,631 --> 00:31:21,882
This is how--

594
00:31:21,965 --> 00:31:23,008
Hey.

595
00:31:23,091 --> 00:31:24,801
This is how we'd walk down the street.

596
00:31:26,011 --> 00:31:27,930
-How you doing?
-What's up, man?

597
00:31:29,097 --> 00:31:30,265
We rehearsed.

598
00:31:30,974 --> 00:31:32,476
We'd be walking down the street, right.

599
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:35,312
And we'd just start going back and forth
with little bits of records

600
00:31:35,395 --> 00:31:37,356
and stupid shit
we thought was real funny, right.

601
00:31:37,439 --> 00:31:40,609
Like, one of us would say a random lyric
from a song we loved like...

602
00:31:40,692 --> 00:31:42,236
Hold it now.

603
00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:45,489
And then another one would be like,
"Yo, that should be a song, like,

604
00:31:45,572 --> 00:31:48,742
he should say, 'Hold it now,'
and then we should have Slick Rick go"...

605
00:31:48,825 --> 00:31:49,868
Hit it!

606
00:31:49,952 --> 00:31:53,247
And then another one would be like,
"It should go"...

607
00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:54,831
Hey, Leroy!

608
00:31:54,915 --> 00:31:56,333
And that's the song.

609
00:31:57,626 --> 00:31:58,627
Now--

610
00:31:58,710 --> 00:32:03,090
And then we'd go into the studio
with that simple and stupid of an idea.

611
00:32:03,173 --> 00:32:04,591
And we'd make a song out of it.

612
00:32:04,675 --> 00:32:06,426
Yo, Leroy!

613
00:32:08,512 --> 00:32:10,931
Hold it now.
Hold it now, hold it now.

614
00:32:11,014 --> 00:32:11,849
Hit it!

615
00:32:11,932 --> 00:32:14,726
Like, Adam would be there
and he'd be tapping away, obsessed,

616
00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:16,937
on the pads of his DX drum machine.

617
00:32:17,020 --> 00:32:19,481
And when he was really psyched,
he'd take the headphones

618
00:32:19,565 --> 00:32:22,526
and he'd rip them off of his head,
throw them to the side, and he'd be like,

619
00:32:22,609 --> 00:32:25,279
"Yo, yo, yo, guys. Check this out."

620
00:32:25,362 --> 00:32:28,073
No, no, no. That's you, Mike.

621
00:32:28,156 --> 00:32:29,533
I was like this.

622
00:32:29,616 --> 00:32:31,451
Well, anyway, he made this--

623
00:32:31,535 --> 00:32:33,412
Honestly, I'm giving you props, Adam.

624
00:32:33,495 --> 00:32:36,164
He made, like, this
hot go-go, swing-type beat.

625
00:32:36,248 --> 00:32:39,293
But when Yauch and I heard that,
we were like, "Shit."

626
00:32:39,376 --> 00:32:43,255
But when that got layered
with this 808 beat,

627
00:32:43,338 --> 00:32:45,507
that changed everything.

628
00:32:45,591 --> 00:32:47,509
Hold it now.
Hold it now, hold it now.

629
00:32:47,593 --> 00:32:49,803
Hit it!

630
00:32:50,679 --> 00:32:53,682
So, the three of us were left
to our own devices

631
00:32:53,765 --> 00:32:56,018
and making music and loving it.

632
00:32:56,101 --> 00:32:58,687
Instead of trying to act and sound
like somebody else,

633
00:32:58,770 --> 00:33:00,189
like how we did on "Rock Hard,"

634
00:33:00,272 --> 00:33:01,815
now we were just being ourselves.

635
00:33:01,899 --> 00:33:04,526
Or at least a fantasy version
of ourselves.

636
00:33:05,444 --> 00:33:07,905
Rick came by the studio
and we played it for him.

637
00:33:07,988 --> 00:33:10,574
And he kinda flipped the fuck out.
He was like,

638
00:33:10,657 --> 00:33:13,118
"Hey, you guys. Don't change anything.

639
00:33:13,202 --> 00:33:16,205
It's great.
I want to play it for Russell.

640
00:33:16,288 --> 00:33:18,332
We need to just put this out."

641
00:33:18,415 --> 00:33:21,627
So, we're surprised, but we are psyched.

642
00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:24,922
Rick mixed it, making it sound bigger
and more professional.

643
00:33:25,005 --> 00:33:27,299
He made that 808 sound crazy.

644
00:33:29,134 --> 00:33:31,136
-Like that.
-Like that.

645
00:33:31,220 --> 00:33:34,389
You could hear it rattling the rear glass
on cars up and down the East Coast.

646
00:33:34,473 --> 00:33:36,975
It also detonated many a PA.

647
00:33:37,059 --> 00:33:40,395
We figured out how to piece together
different elements that we loved,

648
00:33:40,479 --> 00:33:44,274
like beats, samples, scratches,
and turn them into a song.

649
00:33:44,358 --> 00:33:46,068
Into a new style.

650
00:33:46,151 --> 00:33:49,404
Most importantly though,
we found our voice.

651
00:33:49,488 --> 00:33:51,949
Now I chill real ill
When I start to chill

652
00:33:52,032 --> 00:33:54,409
When I fill my pockets
With a knot of dollar bills

653
00:33:54,493 --> 00:33:56,995
Sipping pints of ale
Out the window sill

654
00:33:57,079 --> 00:33:59,540
When I get my fill I'm chilly chill

655
00:33:59,623 --> 00:34:02,417
Now I just got home
Because I'm out on bail

656
00:34:02,501 --> 00:34:05,337
What's the time?
It's time to buy ale

657
00:34:05,420 --> 00:34:09,007
So Russell and Rick put
"Hold It Now, Hit It" out on Def Jam.

658
00:34:09,091 --> 00:34:12,761
And then it starts getting played
on all these mix shows and in clubs,

659
00:34:12,844 --> 00:34:14,388
which is a big deal to us.

660
00:34:15,138 --> 00:34:20,310
Our song was getting played next to songs
like LL Cool J's "Rock the Bells,"

661
00:34:20,393 --> 00:34:23,730
Run-DMC's "Peter Piper,"
songs that we loved.

662
00:34:23,813 --> 00:34:25,190
We got this gig going to Philly.

663
00:34:25,274 --> 00:34:27,234
And we went on
and we just dropped the record.

664
00:34:27,317 --> 00:34:30,112
I remember we put "Hold It Now" on,
and the whole place just went crazy,

665
00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:31,446
like, the whole club.

666
00:34:31,530 --> 00:34:34,699
And that was a pretty amazing feeling.
I was like, "Damn."

667
00:34:34,783 --> 00:34:37,286
So, I'm 19 years old.

668
00:34:37,369 --> 00:34:39,246
I got a little money in my pocket.

669
00:34:39,329 --> 00:34:40,831
Rappers know who I am.

670
00:34:40,914 --> 00:34:42,583
We're getting into clubs for free.

671
00:34:42,666 --> 00:34:45,002
We're getting drink tickets.
We're talking to girls.

672
00:34:45,085 --> 00:34:46,295
-We're getting drunk.
-"Ad-Rock."

673
00:34:46,378 --> 00:34:48,547
We're fuckin' around.
We're writing lyrics on napkins.

674
00:34:48,630 --> 00:34:49,672
We're cracking each other up.

675
00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:53,217
And then we go to the studio
and make a song out of all that shit.

676
00:34:53,302 --> 00:34:54,719
Next night, next song.

677
00:34:54,803 --> 00:34:57,973
Four and three and two and one
What up!

678
00:34:58,056 --> 00:35:01,101
And when I'm on the mic the suckers run
Word!

679
00:35:01,185 --> 00:35:03,103
Down with Ad-Rock and Mike D
And you ain't

680
00:35:03,187 --> 00:35:05,564
And I got more juice
Than Picasso got paint

681
00:35:05,647 --> 00:35:08,150
Got rhymes that are rough
And rhymes that are slick

682
00:35:08,233 --> 00:35:10,694
I'm not surprised you're on my dick

683
00:35:10,777 --> 00:35:11,778
B-E-A-S-T-I-E...

684
00:35:11,862 --> 00:35:15,490
So we're recording all the time,
making songs.

685
00:35:15,574 --> 00:35:18,577
And Russell would just keep
putting them out as singles.

686
00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:21,121
-We put out "Paul Revere."
-Smash hit.

687
00:35:21,705 --> 00:35:23,916
We put out "The New Style," this song.

688
00:35:23,999 --> 00:35:25,167
Smash hit!

689
00:35:25,918 --> 00:35:30,255
And at a certain point, Russell came
into the studio and he was like,

690
00:35:30,339 --> 00:35:33,050
"You guys are the greatest rap group
of all time.

691
00:35:33,133 --> 00:35:35,344
You're gonna be making
a full-length album."

692
00:35:35,427 --> 00:35:39,181
So, while we're doing that, Adam and I,

693
00:35:39,264 --> 00:35:41,350
we're still living
at these shitty apartments.

694
00:35:41,433 --> 00:35:43,644
You know, like you do when
you're 19 years old.

695
00:35:43,727 --> 00:35:48,315
But Yauch moved into this
nice new apartment in Brooklyn Heights.

696
00:35:48,398 --> 00:35:50,108
Now, he lived there for free

697
00:35:50,192 --> 00:35:52,611
because he was
the superintendent of the building.

698
00:35:53,195 --> 00:35:54,696
-It's true.
-Yeah.

699
00:35:54,780 --> 00:35:58,116
So if your radiator broke,
Yauch would come up to fix it.

700
00:35:59,451 --> 00:36:01,370
I mean, he had zero qualifications
for the job,

701
00:36:01,453 --> 00:36:03,872
but he could do just about anything
on instinct.

702
00:36:03,956 --> 00:36:06,583
But late one night,
me and Mike stopped by the apartment,

703
00:36:06,667 --> 00:36:09,545
and he had this tape deck set up
on a table in the kitchen.

704
00:36:09,628 --> 00:36:10,963
But it wasn't a cassette deck.

705
00:36:11,046 --> 00:36:13,382
It was a quarter-inch
reel-to-reel tape deck,

706
00:36:13,465 --> 00:36:14,883
which I didn't even know he had.

707
00:36:14,967 --> 00:36:17,052
And I'm there and I'm studying this,

708
00:36:17,135 --> 00:36:20,138
trying to figure out
what this whole thing is.

709
00:36:20,222 --> 00:36:22,391
I mean, he's got the tape
from the one reel.

710
00:36:22,474 --> 00:36:25,811
And instead of just going to, like,
the other reel, like it usually would,

711
00:36:25,894 --> 00:36:29,106
it comes out the one reel,
it's going around a mic stand,

712
00:36:29,189 --> 00:36:31,567
and then it goes around another mic stand.

713
00:36:31,650 --> 00:36:33,527
And then it goes around a chair.

714
00:36:33,610 --> 00:36:35,112
And then back into the second reel.

715
00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:37,614
I mean, Adam and I
are looking at this thing and we're like,

716
00:36:37,698 --> 00:36:40,742
"This is like
a fucking magic trick, right?"

717
00:36:40,826 --> 00:36:43,662
And then Yauch gets up
and he presses play.

718
00:36:50,919 --> 00:36:52,462
So the intro drumbeat

719
00:36:52,546 --> 00:36:55,299
to Led Zeppelin's
"When the Levee Breaks" starts playing.

720
00:36:55,382 --> 00:36:59,261
But instead of the whole song playing,
it was just the intro beat over and over.

721
00:36:59,344 --> 00:37:02,347
I'd seen DJs do it
with two records and turntables.

722
00:37:02,431 --> 00:37:05,184
But I'd never seen it done
with reel-to-reel tape.

723
00:37:05,267 --> 00:37:08,562
The sound and the visual
were so magical to us.

724
00:37:08,645 --> 00:37:10,063
Yauch told us that he'd heard about

725
00:37:10,147 --> 00:37:13,358
Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone
doing tape loops and he wanted to try it.

726
00:37:13,442 --> 00:37:15,152
Where did he hear about that?

727
00:37:15,235 --> 00:37:17,779
There was no YouTube or Google
back then, right?

728
00:37:18,363 --> 00:37:20,449
We took Yauch's creation to the studio,

729
00:37:20,532 --> 00:37:23,368
and we made a song called
"Rhymin' & Stealin'."

730
00:37:26,288 --> 00:37:29,333
Ali Baba and the forty thieves

731
00:37:29,416 --> 00:37:32,336
Ali Baba and the forty thieves

732
00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:35,631
Ali Baba and the forty thieves

733
00:37:35,714 --> 00:37:37,716
Torchin' and crackin'
And rhymin' and stealin'...

734
00:37:37,799 --> 00:37:41,220
So while we were writing and recording
what would become Licensed to Ill,

735
00:37:41,303 --> 00:37:45,516
Rick Rubin was also producing
Run-DMC's new album Raising Hell.

736
00:37:46,391 --> 00:37:49,937
Now, their version
of the Aerosmith song "Walk This Way"

737
00:37:50,020 --> 00:37:53,357
was a massive mainstream
radio and MTV hit, right?

738
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,485
And Run-DMC fuckin' blew up
all over the world.

739
00:37:56,568 --> 00:37:58,445
They went on tour that summer in '86.

740
00:37:58,529 --> 00:38:00,113
Russell had us open for them.

741
00:38:00,197 --> 00:38:02,199
Beastie Boys' function
in the Raising Hell Tour

742
00:38:02,282 --> 00:38:04,368
is to get everybody pumped up
to check out the shows.

743
00:38:04,451 --> 00:38:06,286
So we figured
we'd raise a lot of hell on stage.

744
00:38:06,370 --> 00:38:08,956
And we'd just, sort of,
you know, get the audience going.

745
00:38:09,039 --> 00:38:12,543
They were so large
by the time their tour got to Miami,

746
00:38:12,626 --> 00:38:16,588
the promoters upgraded their venue
from basketball arena to baseball stadium.

747
00:38:18,048 --> 00:38:22,427
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith
were flying down from Miami

748
00:38:22,511 --> 00:38:24,221
just to do the one song with them.

749
00:38:24,304 --> 00:38:26,682
And it was bound to be
a fuckin' spectacle.

750
00:38:27,641 --> 00:38:29,643
She starts swingin'
With the boys in tune

751
00:38:29,726 --> 00:38:31,562
And her feet just fly up in the air...

752
00:38:31,645 --> 00:38:37,192
Cut to the big moment, when Aerosmith
is about to hit the stage to join Run-DMC

753
00:38:37,276 --> 00:38:40,445
to play the number one song
on the entire planet.

754
00:38:40,529 --> 00:38:43,323
They walk out and the crowd goes wild.

755
00:38:43,407 --> 00:38:47,202
But now there's some other guy on stage.

756
00:38:47,286 --> 00:38:48,412
Yauch.

757
00:38:52,332 --> 00:38:54,918
Yauch happened to have a bass with him.

758
00:38:55,002 --> 00:38:58,046
And Jam Master Jay from Run-DMC
thought it'd be funny

759
00:38:58,130 --> 00:39:01,758
for him to play bass with them
and Aerosmith for the big song,

760
00:39:01,842 --> 00:39:05,971
on stage, in a baseball stadium, in Miami.

761
00:39:06,054 --> 00:39:09,349
And Yauch fucking delivered majestically.

762
00:39:09,433 --> 00:39:13,061
The look on the Aerosmith guys' faces
was fantastic bemusement.

763
00:39:13,145 --> 00:39:15,230
"Who's this dirty drunk guy on stage?

764
00:39:15,314 --> 00:39:18,275
And why is he playing bass with us?"

765
00:39:19,359 --> 00:39:20,736
Throughout the whole song,

766
00:39:20,819 --> 00:39:23,363
Yauch kept trying
to go back-to-back guitar-player style

767
00:39:23,447 --> 00:39:26,450
with fucking Joe Perry,
who was having none of it, right?

768
00:39:26,533 --> 00:39:27,534
And it's like--

769
00:39:27,618 --> 00:39:32,080
It ended up with Yauch chasing him
around the stage running backwards.

770
00:39:32,164 --> 00:39:35,792
And all of us were
on the side of the stage,

771
00:39:35,876 --> 00:39:40,464
watching, screaming,
laughing and loving it.

772
00:39:42,633 --> 00:39:46,178
And not only was it really fucking fun
being on tour

773
00:39:46,261 --> 00:39:48,180
and hanging out with Run-DMC,

774
00:39:48,263 --> 00:39:51,308
but we learned so much
watching them night after night.

775
00:39:51,391 --> 00:39:53,810
I mean, it was like
we were at rap finishing school.

776
00:39:53,894 --> 00:39:58,690
Yes, yes, y'all, we don't stop
Keep it on, shockin' the place

777
00:39:58,774 --> 00:39:59,775
Well...

778
00:40:01,109 --> 00:40:02,402
Got nothin' to prove

779
00:40:02,486 --> 00:40:05,072
Pay attention
My intention is to bust a move

780
00:40:05,155 --> 00:40:08,033
Drinkin' quarts and cans
And bottles and sixes

781
00:40:08,116 --> 00:40:11,119
Between the turntables
Keep the...

782
00:40:11,203 --> 00:40:13,580
My name's Run
I got the deuces wild

783
00:40:13,664 --> 00:40:16,333
Listen to the rhymes
I'm bustin' the style

784
00:40:16,416 --> 00:40:18,919
Name's DMC and he's by my side

785
00:40:19,002 --> 00:40:21,547
So take the mic...

786
00:40:21,630 --> 00:40:23,173
But when we got back home,

787
00:40:23,257 --> 00:40:27,302
we found out that Rick had gone
and mixed and finished our whole record.

788
00:40:27,386 --> 00:40:30,055
It was weird that he just went
and did it without us knowing.

789
00:40:30,764 --> 00:40:34,351
I mean, Yauch was always
into the technical aspects of recording,

790
00:40:34,434 --> 00:40:38,021
so I'm sure it must've bummed him out
or pissed him off.

791
00:40:38,105 --> 00:40:40,899
But what Rick did was pretty incredible.

792
00:40:40,983 --> 00:40:42,818
He took our weird rap songs

793
00:40:42,901 --> 00:40:47,447
and he made them sound clean, and big,
and polished, and ready for the radio.

794
00:40:47,531 --> 00:40:50,826
They are more like real anthems
and less like a joke.

795
00:40:55,247 --> 00:40:59,251
Brass Monkey, that funky Monkey

796
00:40:59,334 --> 00:41:03,213
Brass Monkey junkie
That funky Monkey

797
00:41:03,297 --> 00:41:04,798
Brass Monkey

798
00:41:05,549 --> 00:41:06,967
Chapter 4:

799
00:41:07,050 --> 00:41:10,596
"Earlier We Had Mentioned a Song
That We Thought Had Changed Everything.

800
00:41:10,679 --> 00:41:12,181
And It Had, In a Way.

801
00:41:12,264 --> 00:41:15,767
But This Is Actually the Song
That Changed Everything."

802
00:41:18,187 --> 00:41:23,066
So, fun fact, we were almost done
with our record Licensed to Ill,

803
00:41:23,150 --> 00:41:24,693
but Russell said it wasn't long enough

804
00:41:24,776 --> 00:41:27,029
and so we needed just,
like, one more song.

805
00:41:27,112 --> 00:41:30,574
And Yauch and his friend Tom Cushman
had a side band called Brooklyn.

806
00:41:30,657 --> 00:41:33,202
And they had this song called
"Fight for Your Right (To Party)."

807
00:41:33,285 --> 00:41:34,328
And Yauch was like,

808
00:41:34,411 --> 00:41:37,247
"Why don't we use that Brooklyn song
and use it for Beastie Boys?"

809
00:41:37,331 --> 00:41:38,498
They made that song as a joke.

810
00:41:38,582 --> 00:41:42,753
Like, a kind of fake anthem
making fun of party bros and frat guys.

811
00:41:42,836 --> 00:41:47,090
Now, we had never actually met
a party bro or a frat guy.

812
00:41:47,633 --> 00:41:50,052
But we thought that shit
was hilarious to make fun of.

813
00:41:50,135 --> 00:41:53,597
So our big idea was
to take a little bit of this.

814
00:41:55,057 --> 00:41:56,350
A little bit of that.

815
00:41:57,976 --> 00:41:59,645
A little bit of this.

816
00:42:01,146 --> 00:42:04,483
And then about half a cup of that.

817
00:42:04,566 --> 00:42:07,778
And then you mix
all these things together.

818
00:42:07,861 --> 00:42:09,363
And what you get is...

819
00:42:09,446 --> 00:42:13,951
You gotta fight for your right

820
00:42:14,034 --> 00:42:16,537
To party

821
00:42:17,829 --> 00:42:20,040
Shit starts happening really fast.

822
00:42:20,123 --> 00:42:23,001
I mean, it felt like the next day,
our record comes out.

823
00:42:23,085 --> 00:42:24,920
Then the video comes out.

824
00:42:25,003 --> 00:42:26,046
It's everywhere.

825
00:42:26,129 --> 00:42:28,841
I mean, I'm just at home
eating my Fruity Pebbles.

826
00:42:28,924 --> 00:42:32,636
And I'm watching it play, like,
five times an hour on MTV.

827
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,388
Everybody watched MTV back then.

828
00:42:34,471 --> 00:42:36,849
And we were on that shit constantly.

829
00:42:36,932 --> 00:42:40,769
Our homemade video that we made
at our friend's apartment is now playing

830
00:42:40,853 --> 00:42:44,982
in between fuckin' Michael Jackson,
Prince and Tina Turner videos.

831
00:42:45,065 --> 00:42:48,527
I mean, that was some crazy shit.

832
00:42:49,111 --> 00:42:51,530
So, we went from being famous in--

833
00:42:51,613 --> 00:42:53,907
-Crazy shit.
-Come on.

834
00:42:56,785 --> 00:42:59,997
We went from being famous in,
like, a 14-block radius

835
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,583
to being known
in the underground hip-hop scene

836
00:43:02,666 --> 00:43:06,879
to being recognized walking down
the street after Licensed to Ill came out.

837
00:43:06,962 --> 00:43:10,382
I mean, everywhere I went
people would start yelling like...

838
00:43:10,465 --> 00:43:12,342
"Yo, Mike D."

839
00:43:12,426 --> 00:43:14,136
"What's up, homeboy?"

840
00:43:14,219 --> 00:43:16,430
Same thing with me and Yauch.
We'd be walking down the street,

841
00:43:16,513 --> 00:43:18,557
someone might recognize us,
and they'd be like...

842
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,434
"Yo, Mike D."

843
00:43:23,103 --> 00:43:24,229
True story.

844
00:43:24,313 --> 00:43:27,149
So, we were really feeling ourselves.

845
00:43:27,232 --> 00:43:29,026
And about two months later,

846
00:43:29,109 --> 00:43:33,572
Russell sends us out on our first
big headlining tour of America.

847
00:43:33,655 --> 00:43:34,656
So what did we do?

848
00:43:34,740 --> 00:43:37,701
We brought Dave Scilken
and Cey and DJ Hurricane

849
00:43:37,784 --> 00:43:39,203
and all our other friends with us.

850
00:43:39,286 --> 00:43:41,580
Our record was selling like crazy.

851
00:43:41,663 --> 00:43:43,999
And that's when things started
to feel really different.

852
00:43:44,082 --> 00:43:46,126
Being famous in our city was one thing.

853
00:43:46,210 --> 00:43:48,545
But being famous in a mall
in Missoula, Montana

854
00:43:48,629 --> 00:43:50,839
is something else entirely.

855
00:43:50,923 --> 00:43:52,591
So before the tour started,

856
00:43:52,674 --> 00:43:54,676
Russell Simmons had us meet
with some weird dude

857
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,387
to talk about what we wanted on stage.

858
00:43:57,471 --> 00:44:01,892
So just to fuck with this guy,
we were like, "Yeah, homes, you know,

859
00:44:01,975 --> 00:44:07,064
we want a fuckin' ten-foot
six-pack of Budweiser for a DJ riser."

860
00:44:07,147 --> 00:44:09,274
-"Check."
-"We want a fuckin' go-go dancer cage."

861
00:44:09,358 --> 00:44:10,651
-"Check."
-"We want this big box

862
00:44:10,734 --> 00:44:13,529
with a 25-foot dick coming out of it
at the end of the show, right?"

863
00:44:13,612 --> 00:44:15,113
-"That's easy. Yeah. No problem."
-Right?

864
00:44:15,197 --> 00:44:16,615
And the next thing you know,

865
00:44:16,698 --> 00:44:20,035
we get to Missoula, Montana
for the first show, and there it is.

866
00:44:29,586 --> 00:44:32,297
Mike D, wop it up, wop it up, wop it up.

867
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,843
We were wopping it up.
We were pretty excited.

868
00:44:36,718 --> 00:44:40,430
Now, we had no idea who was gonna show up
to see us play.

869
00:44:41,265 --> 00:44:44,393
We definitely didn't think
that the party bro frat dudes

870
00:44:44,476 --> 00:44:46,270
that we were making fun of
were gonna come.

871
00:44:46,353 --> 00:44:50,566
But turns out that they loved
"Fight for Your Right (To Party)."

872
00:44:50,649 --> 00:44:53,026
And you know what? We liked being loved.

873
00:44:53,110 --> 00:44:56,947
So fuck it.
Pass me a 40. Let's get fucked up.

874
00:44:58,907 --> 00:45:03,537
Now, everything that Russell had said
would happen was actually happening.

875
00:45:03,620 --> 00:45:07,916
He'd show up all the time in some random
city on tour and remind us. He'd be like,

876
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,002
"See, I told you motherfuckers.

877
00:45:10,085 --> 00:45:12,546
Y'all gonna be bigger than Cap'n Crunch."

878
00:45:13,755 --> 00:45:15,757
The shows kept getting bigger and bigger.

879
00:45:15,841 --> 00:45:18,594
A thousand people one night,
2,000 the next.

880
00:45:18,677 --> 00:45:21,221
-Chicago, Atlanta--
-Miami.

881
00:45:21,305 --> 00:45:22,514
Miami.

882
00:45:23,140 --> 00:45:24,141
-Munich.
-Munich.

883
00:45:24,224 --> 00:45:25,225
Houston.

884
00:45:25,309 --> 00:45:28,145
Shows, hotels,
after-parties, after-after-parties.

885
00:45:28,228 --> 00:45:34,193
Now we were having the fucking times
of our lives, and shit was blowing up.

886
00:45:37,321 --> 00:45:39,531
Licensed to Ill has been certified

887
00:45:39,615 --> 00:45:43,493
as the fastest-selling debut
in the history of their label.

888
00:45:43,577 --> 00:45:45,662
-These are...
-The Beastie Boys.

889
00:45:45,746 --> 00:45:47,039
You got it.

890
00:45:51,627 --> 00:45:53,629
Foot on the pedal
Never ever false metal

891
00:45:53,712 --> 00:45:55,923
Engine running hotter
Than a boiling kettle...

892
00:45:56,006 --> 00:45:59,510
In 1987, the Beastie Boys
are gonna be taking over America!

893
00:46:01,428 --> 00:46:03,847
On location
Touring around the nation

894
00:46:03,931 --> 00:46:06,350
Beastie Boys always on vacation...

895
00:46:06,433 --> 00:46:09,144
How'd you all three get together?
Juilliard?

896
00:46:11,271 --> 00:46:13,690
Ain't no fakin'
Your money I'm takin'

897
00:46:13,774 --> 00:46:16,193
Going coast to coast
To watch all the girlies shakin'

898
00:46:16,276 --> 00:46:18,153
While you're at the job
Workin' 9 to 5

899
00:46:18,237 --> 00:46:21,198
The Beastie Boys at the Garden
Cold kickin' it live

900
00:46:21,281 --> 00:46:24,660
But something weird
was happening during all of this.

901
00:46:24,743 --> 00:46:29,581
We morphed from making fun of party bros
to actually becoming those dudes.

902
00:46:29,665 --> 00:46:31,291
Let's bang our heads together!

903
00:46:35,337 --> 00:46:36,839
Yo, what's up, MTV?

904
00:46:36,922 --> 00:46:39,383
-We're the Beastie Boys!
-Yeah!

905
00:46:39,466 --> 00:46:43,345
So songs that we'd written as a joke
took on a whole new light.

906
00:46:44,096 --> 00:46:47,099
For example, we had a song
on our first record

907
00:46:47,182 --> 00:46:51,144
that was supposed to be this,
like, stupid and ironic joke,

908
00:46:51,228 --> 00:46:53,230
but, understandably, it wasn't that funny.

909
00:46:53,814 --> 00:46:55,941
Now I'm gonna tell you the lyrics
to that song.

910
00:46:56,942 --> 00:47:00,529
"Girls, to do the dishes.

911
00:47:01,154 --> 00:47:03,532
Girls, to clean up my room.

912
00:47:04,366 --> 00:47:06,618
Girls, to do my laundry.

913
00:47:07,327 --> 00:47:10,581
Girls, and in the bathroom. Girls."

914
00:47:18,964 --> 00:47:21,633
We didn't know what was a joke
and what wasn't a joke at that time.

915
00:47:21,717 --> 00:47:24,178
I mean, shit got really blurry.

916
00:47:27,598 --> 00:47:30,601
The lines just got kind of blurred for us.

917
00:47:30,684 --> 00:47:35,731
Like, I have a break from tour,
but then I didn't even call my friends

918
00:47:35,814 --> 00:47:38,317
because I just didn't know
how to relate to them anymore.

919
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,154
I mean, I just didn't even recognize the
person that I had become at that point.

920
00:47:42,237 --> 00:47:45,616
I remember one specific time
I saw Kate Schellenbach at a deli,

921
00:47:46,283 --> 00:47:47,367
and I didn't say hi.

922
00:47:48,410 --> 00:47:50,078
Maybe she didn't see me. I don't know.

923
00:47:50,162 --> 00:47:51,288
But if she did see me,

924
00:47:51,371 --> 00:47:55,167
she definitely would have seen
a very different version of me.

925
00:47:55,959 --> 00:47:58,629
I remember I was in the back
of the store by the coolers,

926
00:47:58,712 --> 00:48:00,422
and she was up front paying for something,

927
00:48:00,506 --> 00:48:03,008
and she was just laughing
and having fun with her friend.

928
00:48:03,842 --> 00:48:06,053
And I guess I didn't say hi
'cause I was embarrassed

929
00:48:06,136 --> 00:48:07,804
thinking about how much I'd changed.

930
00:48:10,849 --> 00:48:12,309
Also, speaking of change,

931
00:48:12,768 --> 00:48:16,605
I'd like to take a quick sidenote
to apologize to my brother, Matthew,

932
00:48:16,688 --> 00:48:18,565
for that time I kept calling him "money"

933
00:48:18,649 --> 00:48:20,776
when we were just trying
to have a serious conversation.

934
00:48:20,859 --> 00:48:23,028
I was like,
"Yo, money. I don't know, money."

935
00:48:23,111 --> 00:48:26,990
And he was like, "Yo, what the fuck
are you doing? We're just talking."

936
00:48:27,950 --> 00:48:29,076
Anyway.

937
00:48:29,159 --> 00:48:31,537
Matthew, I'm sorry. That was a dick move.

938
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,584
Which brings us to Chapter 5:
"Dicks in a Box."

939
00:48:38,919 --> 00:48:42,965
Our record was selling like crazy,
and the shows were getting crazier.

940
00:48:43,048 --> 00:48:44,633
A lot of booze and a lot of cursing.

941
00:48:44,716 --> 00:48:48,345
Now, in the South, they were trying
to ban us for lewd behavior.

942
00:48:48,428 --> 00:48:51,974
We would literally have to sneak off
a stage after a show and into a van

943
00:48:52,057 --> 00:48:54,726
and get across state lines
so we wouldn't get arrested.

944
00:48:54,810 --> 00:48:56,478
The British press were around at the time,

945
00:48:56,562 --> 00:48:58,230
and they were writing
all these stories about us.

946
00:48:58,313 --> 00:49:01,316
And so by the time we got to England
to go on tour,

947
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,277
they made up all of these stories about us

948
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,654
and put them on the cover
of the actual newspapers.

949
00:49:06,613 --> 00:49:10,242
So there was this weird expectation
for us to be fucking maniacs.

950
00:49:11,326 --> 00:49:15,831
We really did not do that. Just as
a sidenote, that just did not happen.

951
00:49:22,296 --> 00:49:26,466
Seriously, I do like it though.
They say, "'Horrible' Horovitz."

952
00:49:26,550 --> 00:49:28,135
-I really like that. But--
-Yeah.

953
00:49:28,218 --> 00:49:31,054
You know, it's too bad that didn't stick.

954
00:49:31,138 --> 00:49:32,806
-"Horrible" Horovitz?
-Yeah, it's a good name.

955
00:49:32,890 --> 00:49:35,309
There was an actual meeting of Parliament

956
00:49:35,392 --> 00:49:38,145
to decide whether they should let us
into the UK or not.

957
00:49:38,604 --> 00:49:39,855
Seriously.

958
00:49:39,938 --> 00:49:44,151
With each city we went to on the tour,
the crowd developed a

959
00:49:44,234 --> 00:49:45,986
"you motherfuckers ain't shit

960
00:49:46,069 --> 00:49:48,655
compared to us here" type of vibe, right?

961
00:49:49,364 --> 00:49:53,368
So by the time we got to
the last show of that tour in Liverpool,

962
00:49:53,452 --> 00:49:55,329
the punters went berserk.

963
00:49:56,163 --> 00:49:59,499
Right into the first song
of our show in Liverpool,

964
00:49:59,583 --> 00:50:02,961
the crowd started chanting these football
chants and throwing shit at us.

965
00:50:03,045 --> 00:50:05,839
And then it turned into
a full-on hailstorm of beer can--

966
00:50:05,923 --> 00:50:07,674
Jesus Christ, Mike. Come on.

967
00:50:08,258 --> 00:50:11,178
A full-on hailstorm
of beer cans and bottles.

968
00:50:11,678 --> 00:50:15,516
So mid-show, we broke the fuck out,
and we drove back to London.

969
00:50:16,433 --> 00:50:19,353
After all this, you think we would've
taken a break for a sec, right?

970
00:50:19,436 --> 00:50:21,438
You know, just to let things
calm down a little.

971
00:50:21,522 --> 00:50:22,523
But we didn't.

972
00:50:22,606 --> 00:50:26,235
We went straight from all of that
to tour Japan.

973
00:50:26,318 --> 00:50:27,694
Then after the tour of Japan,

974
00:50:27,778 --> 00:50:31,323
we came back to the United States
and toured that shit all over again.

975
00:50:31,406 --> 00:50:32,574
No breaks.

976
00:50:33,742 --> 00:50:34,910
We just didn't stop.

977
00:50:35,661 --> 00:50:37,704
Russell was like,
"You're going back on tour.

978
00:50:37,788 --> 00:50:40,999
You're gonna make a lot of money.
And you're gonna be happy rock stars."

979
00:50:41,083 --> 00:50:43,210
"All right, Russell. Whatever you say."

980
00:50:46,255 --> 00:50:47,673
I mean, he was the manager.

981
00:50:47,756 --> 00:50:51,635
If he's like, "You're going out on tour,"
well, then that's what you do.

982
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:54,429
We didn't really question it so much.

983
00:50:54,513 --> 00:50:57,599
We felt like we had to be
out there doing this.

984
00:50:57,683 --> 00:51:00,477
But we weren't really mature enough
to be able to express

985
00:51:00,561 --> 00:51:03,105
that we started to not like our own songs.

986
00:51:03,730 --> 00:51:05,524
Which is a really shitty feeling.

987
00:51:06,567 --> 00:51:10,070
Yauch was the first one to start
showing signs of not wanting to be there.

988
00:51:10,988 --> 00:51:13,448
I mean, it's not like we weren't having
fun as friends.

989
00:51:13,991 --> 00:51:16,326
It's just, the show started
to become just that.

990
00:51:16,410 --> 00:51:17,411
A show.

991
00:51:17,995 --> 00:51:19,121
A fucking gimmick.

992
00:51:20,372 --> 00:51:21,832
I mean, we were all tired.

993
00:51:22,749 --> 00:51:24,126
We missed our families.

994
00:51:24,668 --> 00:51:25,919
We missed being home.

995
00:51:26,837 --> 00:51:29,798
We missed things like
just going to the deli to get a sandwich.

996
00:51:30,465 --> 00:51:32,801
We missed being the people we used to be.

997
00:51:33,510 --> 00:51:36,597
All the dumb shit we were saying
and the go-go cage

998
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,516
and the fucking beer
and the dick in the box...

999
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,977
the whole thing was just
getting fucking embarrassing.

1000
00:51:43,061 --> 00:51:45,230
We were burning out.

1001
00:51:45,314 --> 00:51:48,233
In a flash,
Beastie Boys went from being

1002
00:51:48,317 --> 00:51:51,069
the funny, tipsy guy
with the lampshade on his head

1003
00:51:51,153 --> 00:51:55,157
to the ugly drunk dude that people
were trying to get out of their apartment.

1004
00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:57,993
It's like that Bill Murray movie
Groundhog Day.

1005
00:51:58,535 --> 00:52:01,788
You know, where he keeps living
the same day over and over.

1006
00:52:02,623 --> 00:52:05,083
But in our movie, it was the fucking dick

1007
00:52:05,167 --> 00:52:08,587
going up in the air
at the end of every show.

1008
00:52:10,172 --> 00:52:15,260
The problem was, we built the fucking box,
and we're the dicks stuck inside the box.

1009
00:52:16,178 --> 00:52:19,389
It became, "How can we
get through the show fast enough

1010
00:52:19,473 --> 00:52:25,395
so the stupid dick can get back in the box
and we can get the fuck off stage."

1011
00:52:38,158 --> 00:52:39,618
What ever happened to the Beastie Boys?

1012
00:52:39,701 --> 00:52:42,162
In late 1986,
they released Licensed to Ill,

1013
00:52:42,246 --> 00:52:44,623
one of the most successful
debut albums of all time.

1014
00:52:44,706 --> 00:52:47,459
But they've yet to record a follow-up
and have gone their separate ways

1015
00:52:47,543 --> 00:52:50,295
since their tour with Run-DMC
ended last fall.

1016
00:52:50,379 --> 00:52:53,507
These days, Mike D and MCA
are playing in bands around New York.

1017
00:52:53,590 --> 00:52:56,802
As for Ad-Rock, he's been in Los Angeles
making his movie debut.

1018
00:53:09,231 --> 00:53:11,400
You just transferred
to Sherman, didn't you?

1019
00:53:12,609 --> 00:53:14,945
Yeah. Moved here last summer.

1020
00:53:15,028 --> 00:53:16,488
Like, to this great house.

1021
00:53:17,406 --> 00:53:18,949
Do you wanna help me wash this car?

1022
00:53:20,075 --> 00:53:21,076
Now?

1023
00:53:33,881 --> 00:53:34,882
Okay.

1024
00:53:36,758 --> 00:53:37,885
Okay, so...

1025
00:53:38,927 --> 00:53:41,638
That was a movie I was in
right after the Licensed to Ill tour.

1026
00:53:42,431 --> 00:53:45,184
It's called Lost Angels, and it's awful.

1027
00:53:45,267 --> 00:53:47,102
Please don't go look it up, okay?

1028
00:53:47,186 --> 00:53:49,021
Please don't look it up and watch it.

1029
00:53:49,646 --> 00:53:50,689
Please don't.

1030
00:53:50,772 --> 00:53:51,773
Anyways...

1031
00:53:53,233 --> 00:53:54,776
The last 12 months of touring

1032
00:53:54,860 --> 00:53:57,946
felt like a tornado had ripped me
out of my apartment in New York,

1033
00:53:58,030 --> 00:54:02,367
spun me barfing all around the world,
and dropped me on my head in Hollywood.

1034
00:54:02,951 --> 00:54:05,245
And that's when I got cast
to do that movie.

1035
00:54:05,829 --> 00:54:09,583
I was 22 years old, and I did not know
what the fuck had just happened.

1036
00:54:10,417 --> 00:54:12,961
I hadn't talked to Adam or Mike
for a couple months.

1037
00:54:13,045 --> 00:54:14,713
We didn't have a fight
or a falling out or anything,

1038
00:54:14,796 --> 00:54:18,425
but it was, like, the first time we didn't
really wanna hang out with each other.

1039
00:54:18,509 --> 00:54:22,179
I guess we just needed a break
to go our separate ways for a minute.

1040
00:54:23,013 --> 00:54:26,517
Yauch was in New York, and he was
really into his other band, Brooklyn.

1041
00:54:27,643 --> 00:54:29,978
And I was in LA doing that movie.

1042
00:54:30,646 --> 00:54:32,147
And Mike was...

1043
00:54:33,023 --> 00:54:34,233
Mike, what were you doing?

1044
00:54:34,316 --> 00:54:39,071
Honestly, I was just
experimenting with a lot of drugs.

1045
00:54:39,488 --> 00:54:40,489
Right, right.

1046
00:54:43,784 --> 00:54:48,372
So as for me,
I was running from all kinds of things.

1047
00:54:48,455 --> 00:54:51,708
My mom had just passed away,
right before Licensed to Ill came out.

1048
00:54:51,792 --> 00:54:54,378
And the chance to escape
into becoming a different person

1049
00:54:54,461 --> 00:54:56,839
couldn't have come
at the more perfect time.

1050
00:54:57,673 --> 00:55:01,426
So after the tour, I continued to run away
from anything I was feeling.

1051
00:55:03,053 --> 00:55:05,848
One day after filming,
I got back to the hotel I was staying at,

1052
00:55:05,931 --> 00:55:07,182
and someone at the front desk said

1053
00:55:07,266 --> 00:55:09,351
that there was a package
waiting for me in my room.

1054
00:55:09,852 --> 00:55:13,355
I get in my room and there's this
huge box, and it's from Yauch.

1055
00:55:14,022 --> 00:55:17,359
I open the box,
and inside the box is another box.

1056
00:55:17,442 --> 00:55:20,070
And then another box,
and another box, and another box.

1057
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,992
And then there was this big ziplock bag
with coffee grounds in it.

1058
00:55:25,617 --> 00:55:28,829
So inside of that mess
was a cassette tape.

1059
00:55:30,372 --> 00:55:33,041
It was the demos for his band Brooklyn.

1060
00:55:33,750 --> 00:55:37,254
It's weird to go from talking to someone
every single day for years

1061
00:55:37,337 --> 00:55:39,965
to all of a sudden not hear from them
for a couple months.

1062
00:55:40,048 --> 00:55:42,801
So it was really cool
that he sent me this tape of his music.

1063
00:55:43,302 --> 00:55:46,138
Like, he did it
so we could be connected as friends.

1064
00:55:46,930 --> 00:55:48,891
But it definitely made me pause for a sec.

1065
00:55:48,974 --> 00:55:50,976
Like, maybe that's just
what he's doing now.

1066
00:55:51,059 --> 00:55:53,812
Maybe he's done with Beastie Boys,
and we're not a band anymore.

1067
00:55:54,313 --> 00:55:59,193
Well, turns out we kind of weren't a band,
because Yauch quit.

1068
00:55:59,276 --> 00:56:02,613
I mean, he didn't tell us about it
until a couple years later.

1069
00:56:03,113 --> 00:56:05,616
He was sick of being
the drunk guy at the party.

1070
00:56:05,699 --> 00:56:08,118
Yauch said that Russell
wasn't trying to hear him

1071
00:56:08,202 --> 00:56:10,662
and he kept trying to convince him
that it was all fine

1072
00:56:10,746 --> 00:56:12,372
and that he should just get back on tour

1073
00:56:12,456 --> 00:56:15,250
and put water in a beer can
and splash it all around

1074
00:56:15,334 --> 00:56:17,544
and a whole bunch of other clown stuff.

1075
00:56:17,628 --> 00:56:19,046
That was enough for Yauch.

1076
00:56:19,129 --> 00:56:21,673
So he told Russell, "I quit."

1077
00:56:21,757 --> 00:56:26,053
So during all this madness,
we stopped being paid royalties.

1078
00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:28,305
We made money for playing shows,

1079
00:56:28,388 --> 00:56:31,016
like, big shows, like,
Madison Square Garden shows.

1080
00:56:31,099 --> 00:56:36,104
But zero dollars for the multiplatinum
smash hit Licensed to Ill.

1081
00:56:36,188 --> 00:56:38,941
The fucking record
that a group of friends made together,

1082
00:56:39,024 --> 00:56:41,860
had intense and real fun making together,

1083
00:56:41,944 --> 00:56:43,779
spent hours and hours laughing

1084
00:56:43,862 --> 00:56:48,659
at coffee shops and clubs and studios,
dorm rooms, taxis, and parties...

1085
00:56:48,742 --> 00:56:51,078
But now, for whatever reason,

1086
00:56:51,161 --> 00:56:55,123
the record label decides
that they should not fucking pay us.

1087
00:56:55,666 --> 00:56:58,585
Rick and Russell. Our friends. Def Jam.

1088
00:56:59,169 --> 00:57:01,088
We'd been there with them
from the beginning.

1089
00:57:01,630 --> 00:57:05,342
We felt that Def Jam's success
was success for us and vice versa.

1090
00:57:05,425 --> 00:57:07,010
'Cause we were all friends.

1091
00:57:07,094 --> 00:57:09,763
Allegedly, Russell said
that we were in breach of our contract

1092
00:57:09,847 --> 00:57:13,058
because we hadn't started recording
a new record for Def Jam yet.

1093
00:57:13,517 --> 00:57:17,104
I mean, Russell wanted a "Fight for
Your Right (To Party) Part 2" now.

1094
00:57:17,187 --> 00:57:18,188
When Russell signed us,

1095
00:57:18,272 --> 00:57:22,067
we thought that he believed in us
in some bigger way.

1096
00:57:22,150 --> 00:57:26,488
But in hindsight, he just needed three
white rappers to get on MTV.

1097
00:57:26,572 --> 00:57:28,365
I mean, we could've been anybody.

1098
00:57:29,908 --> 00:57:32,244
Anyways, back to me. Los Angeles.

1099
00:57:33,495 --> 00:57:35,664
So I'm out there,
and I'm working on this project--

1100
00:57:35,747 --> 00:57:38,333
Actually, Spike, just indulge me.

1101
00:57:38,417 --> 00:57:41,253
Can we see that clip
where Adam goes into the pool?

1102
00:57:41,336 --> 00:57:43,130
-No, we can just--
-Can we see that again?

1103
00:57:48,385 --> 00:57:50,554
But play it, like, a few times in a row.

1104
00:57:50,637 --> 00:57:51,722
Just a few times.

1105
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,188
Now, I've never driven a car
into a swimming pool.

1106
00:57:59,271 --> 00:58:00,856
-Yeah. Clearly.
-Okay.

1107
00:58:00,939 --> 00:58:04,276
But I'd like to think
that if I were to do that,

1108
00:58:04,359 --> 00:58:07,487
and when I felt the car
going into the swimming pool,

1109
00:58:07,571 --> 00:58:12,242
my reaction wouldn't be some kind of,
like, sexual, orgasmic experience.

1110
00:58:15,037 --> 00:58:16,788
I don't know, you guys.
It's pretty fucking hot.

1111
00:58:16,872 --> 00:58:18,373
I don't know what else to say.

1112
00:58:20,167 --> 00:58:22,336
Anyways, I was out in Hollywood.

1113
00:58:22,419 --> 00:58:24,087
All right, all right, all right.

1114
00:58:26,924 --> 00:58:30,886
So, I'm out in Hollywood, and I was
at this big Hollywood party, right?

1115
00:58:30,969 --> 00:58:33,972
And I'm hanging out by the pool,
as you do at Hollywood parties.

1116
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:38,310
And so I hear this awesome music
playing from somewhere.

1117
00:58:41,438 --> 00:58:44,858
"What is that?" So I'm trying to
figure out where this music's coming from,

1118
00:58:44,942 --> 00:58:47,444
so I'm walking around the party
trying to figure it out, right?

1119
00:58:47,528 --> 00:58:49,196
-Champagne, sir?
-Thank you, Mike D.

1120
00:58:50,072 --> 00:58:52,533
This is how I walk
when I walk through Hollywood parties.

1121
00:58:53,450 --> 00:58:54,785
Donnie Wahlberg? Hey. What's up?

1122
00:58:54,868 --> 00:58:55,994
Are you done with that?

1123
00:58:56,787 --> 00:59:00,707
So, I'm following the sound to try
to figure out where it's coming from,

1124
00:59:00,791 --> 00:59:02,376
and I get to a cassette player.

1125
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:05,379
And at the cassette player
is this guy Matt Dike

1126
00:59:05,462 --> 00:59:07,172
and these guys the Dust Brothers.

1127
00:59:08,715 --> 00:59:10,592
And they said that they'd made this music.

1128
00:59:10,676 --> 00:59:14,346
It was so awesome that I called Adam
and Mike the next day, and I was like,

1129
00:59:14,429 --> 00:59:17,766
"You guys should come out to Los Angeles,
and we should meet with these guys."

1130
00:59:17,850 --> 00:59:18,934
And they came out.

1131
00:59:19,017 --> 00:59:21,311
Now, I didn't know what it was
gonna be like when they came out,

1132
00:59:21,395 --> 00:59:24,439
because we hadn't seen each
other for a few months.

1133
00:59:24,523 --> 00:59:27,943
But when they got there,
it felt like how it was supposed to be.

1134
00:59:28,026 --> 00:59:30,195
We hung out, we listened to this music.

1135
00:59:30,696 --> 00:59:33,824
So, like, any of this other stuff
we were doing was fine, right?

1136
00:59:33,907 --> 00:59:38,370
Yauch's band Brooklyn,
me in the movie, Mike being Mike.

1137
00:59:40,163 --> 00:59:41,999
But it reminded me

1138
00:59:42,082 --> 00:59:44,960
the Beastie Boys is what we should
be doing with our lives, right?

1139
00:59:45,043 --> 00:59:46,128
For me.

1140
00:59:49,590 --> 00:59:52,217
And we made a very conscious
decision moving forward.

1141
00:59:52,801 --> 00:59:57,681
No manager, no producer,
no record label would call the shots.

1142
00:59:57,764 --> 00:59:59,766
It would be just the three of us.

1143
01:00:04,771 --> 01:00:05,647
So...

1144
01:00:06,982 --> 01:00:11,445
There's not that many times in your life
when you realize you're in a new chapter.

1145
01:00:11,528 --> 01:00:13,947
Chapter 6: "A New Chapter."

1146
01:00:17,117 --> 01:00:20,954
The music the Dust Brothers was making
was incredible

1147
01:00:21,038 --> 01:00:24,333
and totally inspired us
to want to make another record.

1148
01:00:24,416 --> 01:00:27,503
But the reality is,
to continue being a band,

1149
01:00:27,586 --> 01:00:30,130
we had to meet with
some new record labels.

1150
01:00:30,214 --> 01:00:31,882
One of them was Capitol Records.

1151
01:00:31,965 --> 01:00:35,344
So we go up to meet the big-time
president guy and he was like,

1152
01:00:35,427 --> 01:00:38,639
"You guys didn't do anything
on Licensed to Ill. Let's be real.

1153
01:00:38,722 --> 01:00:40,474
Rick and Russell did all that shit.

1154
01:00:40,557 --> 01:00:42,351
You're, like, their creation."

1155
01:00:42,434 --> 01:00:46,146
But the same time,
they're willing to bet on us,

1156
01:00:46,230 --> 01:00:49,942
even though it's a long shot,
that we just might give them

1157
01:00:50,025 --> 01:00:52,611
a "Fight for Your Right
(To Party) Part 2."

1158
01:00:52,694 --> 01:00:55,072
Now, we're embarrassed about that song,

1159
01:00:55,155 --> 01:00:59,535
but we're not so embarrassed
that we won't use it to get a record deal.

1160
01:01:01,787 --> 01:01:04,998
Right? So we get the record deal,
but now we need a manager.

1161
01:01:05,082 --> 01:01:09,086
And so we pick a manager
for maybe not the smartest reasons ever.

1162
01:01:09,419 --> 01:01:13,298
We picked this guy because he managed
Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie.

1163
01:01:13,382 --> 01:01:15,133
And we thought that shit was funny.

1164
01:01:15,926 --> 01:01:19,471
Sometimes dumb jokes aren't always

1165
01:01:19,555 --> 01:01:22,516
the best things to guide
your financial future.

1166
01:01:22,599 --> 01:01:23,934
All right?

1167
01:01:24,017 --> 01:01:26,436
Also, we had this big idea.

1168
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,481
Like, okay, if we all live
in a house together,

1169
01:01:29,565 --> 01:01:32,025
we're really gonna get
a lot of stuff done.

1170
01:01:32,109 --> 01:01:36,697
So we took all this money
from our new fat record contract

1171
01:01:36,780 --> 01:01:42,369
and we rented a super-expensive
fancy house up in the Hollywood Hills.

1172
01:01:43,787 --> 01:01:46,081
But not just any house
in the Hollywood Hills.

1173
01:01:46,164 --> 01:01:49,418
This house was like a '70s museum.

1174
01:01:49,501 --> 01:01:53,505
It was like Hart to Hart combined with
The Love Boat combined with, like,

1175
01:01:53,589 --> 01:01:55,591
the Regal Beagle from Three's Company.

1176
01:01:56,675 --> 01:01:59,261
My man, Hart to Hart
was just a great callout right there.

1177
01:01:59,344 --> 01:02:00,345
That was awesome.

1178
01:02:01,096 --> 01:02:05,350
Anyway, this house was owned
by Alex and Madilyn Grasshoff.

1179
01:02:05,434 --> 01:02:06,727
-Exactly.
-Small detail.

1180
01:02:06,810 --> 01:02:09,271
Now, inside of this house
there's a locked closet.

1181
01:02:09,354 --> 01:02:12,232
And so, you know,
when you're, like, in your 20s

1182
01:02:12,316 --> 01:02:16,612
and you're curious and super high,
and there's a locked closet,

1183
01:02:17,237 --> 01:02:18,405
what do you do?

1184
01:02:18,488 --> 01:02:20,199
You fucking kick that closet open, right?

1185
01:02:20,282 --> 01:02:21,491
You wanna know what's inside.

1186
01:02:21,575 --> 01:02:25,537
Inside the closet
is all of Madilyn Grasshoff's

1187
01:02:25,621 --> 01:02:29,333
awesome ensembles from the '70s.

1188
01:02:29,416 --> 01:02:30,751
I mean...

1189
01:02:30,834 --> 01:02:32,544
Yeah. Yeah.

1190
01:02:32,628 --> 01:02:37,216
Like, we're talking suede
patchwork duster coats.

1191
01:02:37,299 --> 01:02:39,384
I mean, like, fucking satin jumpsuits.

1192
01:02:39,468 --> 01:02:42,721
Everything transplendent and wonderful.

1193
01:02:42,804 --> 01:02:46,266
Like fur hats. I mean, special vests.

1194
01:02:46,350 --> 01:02:48,435
You guys, would you
rather go have breakfast,

1195
01:02:48,519 --> 01:02:51,146
you know, like,
in your Oscar Madison clothes?

1196
01:02:51,230 --> 01:02:53,857
Or would you rather
go have breakfast like this?

1197
01:02:56,527 --> 01:02:58,820
This is the house
that we stayed in, right? That's Mike.

1198
01:02:58,904 --> 01:03:00,113
You look wonderful.

1199
01:03:00,197 --> 01:03:01,406
Thank you, Adam.

1200
01:03:01,490 --> 01:03:05,619
If you have a swimming pool and you don't
have a bridge over it, you're fucking up.

1201
01:03:06,119 --> 01:03:08,038
But listen.
So my room wasn't in the house.

1202
01:03:08,121 --> 01:03:10,832
It was, like, this weird side room
that was, like, over here.

1203
01:03:10,916 --> 01:03:13,126
And in the swimming pool
was this little window

1204
01:03:13,210 --> 01:03:16,839
that looked right into my room
and from the room into the pool.

1205
01:03:16,922 --> 01:03:19,049
And every couple days,
at 6:00 in the morning,

1206
01:03:19,132 --> 01:03:20,801
I'd hear this loud banging noise,

1207
01:03:20,884 --> 01:03:22,928
and I'd wake up and see this.

1208
01:03:25,430 --> 01:03:27,641
It was Yauch saying,
"Let's go get breakfast."

1209
01:03:28,892 --> 01:03:32,688
So our daily routine was to wake up
at this crazy Grasshoff house,

1210
01:03:32,771 --> 01:03:33,981
go have some breakfast,

1211
01:03:34,064 --> 01:03:36,859
and then we'd go meet Matt Dike
and the Dust Brothers at the studio.

1212
01:03:40,070 --> 01:03:41,363
Matt Dike was a DJ,

1213
01:03:41,446 --> 01:03:45,200
and he had thousands and thousands
of records piled all over his apartment.

1214
01:03:45,284 --> 01:03:47,119
And he was just cool.

1215
01:03:47,202 --> 01:03:49,705
I don't know.
We wanted to know what he knew about.

1216
01:03:49,788 --> 01:03:53,041
The Dust Brothers were computer science
students at Claremont College.

1217
01:03:54,084 --> 01:03:55,335
EZ Mike was a DJ.

1218
01:03:56,336 --> 01:03:58,046
John was, like, this computer wiz.

1219
01:03:58,672 --> 01:04:02,301
And shit, we'd never even seen
a computer in a recording studio before.

1220
01:04:02,926 --> 01:04:05,012
And we went sample crazy.

1221
01:04:06,054 --> 01:04:07,055
It's the joint

1222
01:04:15,439 --> 01:04:18,984
The Dust Brothers opened up
a whole new creative world for us.

1223
01:04:19,067 --> 01:04:22,446
We were just layering
and layering and layering,

1224
01:04:22,529 --> 01:04:26,241
making each song as dense as possible
with lyrics and samples and jokes.

1225
01:04:26,325 --> 01:04:28,285
We're taking two things, three things.

1226
01:04:28,368 --> 01:04:31,205
We're blending them in and out
so the song is like a whole collage.

1227
01:04:31,288 --> 01:04:34,625
We thought we were
on some next-level shit.

1228
01:04:34,708 --> 01:04:36,960
So like a pimp I'm pimpin'
I got a boat to eat shrimp in

1229
01:04:37,044 --> 01:04:39,254
Nothing wrong with my leg
Just B-boy limpin'

1230
01:04:39,338 --> 01:04:41,423
Got arrested at the Mardi Gras
For jumping on a float

1231
01:04:41,507 --> 01:04:44,176
My man MCA's
Got a beard like a billy goat

1232
01:04:44,259 --> 01:04:46,261
Ooh, ooh, is my disco call

1233
01:04:46,345 --> 01:04:48,889
MCA, I'm gettin' rope y'all

1234
01:04:52,684 --> 01:04:53,810
Now...

1235
01:04:57,981 --> 01:05:01,026
I remember one night,
up at the Grasshoff house,

1236
01:05:01,109 --> 01:05:05,280
Yauch was playing mixes of what
we were working on super, super loud.

1237
01:05:05,364 --> 01:05:09,201
And we were looking out all over
the twinkling lights of Los Angeles below,

1238
01:05:09,284 --> 01:05:12,120
and, well, we were
pretty stoned at the time.

1239
01:05:12,204 --> 01:05:17,251
And Yauch turns to me and he goes,
"Yo, this is dope."

1240
01:05:17,334 --> 01:05:22,089
And I elegantly replied,
"Yeah, this is pretty special, dude."

1241
01:05:23,924 --> 01:05:25,259
I mean, it was, actually.

1242
01:05:25,342 --> 01:05:29,346
I mean, because around this time,
Yauch got loose creatively.

1243
01:05:29,429 --> 01:05:34,142
Now, without Rick and Russell around,
we were doing everything ourselves.

1244
01:05:34,226 --> 01:05:37,688
See, a band's got a lot more to do
than just write a song and put it out.

1245
01:05:37,771 --> 01:05:39,523
Like photo shoots,
press photos or whatnot.

1246
01:05:39,606 --> 01:05:41,191
Like, after Licensed to Ill came out,

1247
01:05:41,275 --> 01:05:43,610
the last thing we wanted to do
was some weird photo session

1248
01:05:43,694 --> 01:05:45,445
with some stranger we didn't know.

1249
01:05:45,529 --> 01:05:48,323
So Yauch had this idea. He's telling us,
"We'll do the pictures ourselves.

1250
01:05:48,407 --> 01:05:51,451
You take this little, like, squeezy thing
and you connect to the camera,

1251
01:05:51,535 --> 01:05:52,578
then we take our"--

1252
01:05:52,661 --> 01:05:54,788
This here, right?

1253
01:05:54,872 --> 01:05:56,039
I love that picture of you, Mike.

1254
01:05:56,748 --> 01:05:57,958
Thank you.

1255
01:05:58,041 --> 01:06:00,794
So then we had to make a record cover.
Of course, Yauch's like,

1256
01:06:00,878 --> 01:06:06,675
"Simple. We're gonna use this camera
that takes a 360-degree picture

1257
01:06:06,758 --> 01:06:08,510
and that's gonna be the album cover."

1258
01:06:08,594 --> 01:06:12,097
Okay, here's the thing.
We're together every single day, always.

1259
01:06:12,181 --> 01:06:17,060
So, like, Yauch would just know about
all these things and we're always like,

1260
01:06:17,144 --> 01:06:18,145
"That's cool."

1261
01:06:18,228 --> 01:06:20,731
"How the fuck does he know about that?
That's just so weird."

1262
01:06:21,732 --> 01:06:23,817
Again, usually when you put out a record,

1263
01:06:23,901 --> 01:06:29,031
the fancy record company
assigns you to a big-time fancy director.

1264
01:06:29,114 --> 01:06:32,075
But, of course with us, like,
we were pretty paranoid at the time.

1265
01:06:32,159 --> 01:06:34,411
We didn't trust anybody,
so Yauch was like,

1266
01:06:34,494 --> 01:06:35,871
"No, no, we're gonna get my uncle,

1267
01:06:35,954 --> 01:06:38,874
the legendary Swiss filmmaker
Nathaniel Hörnblowér.

1268
01:06:38,957 --> 01:06:40,876
He's gonna come over,
he's gonna help us out,

1269
01:06:40,959 --> 01:06:43,462
and he's gonna direct all of our videos."

1270
01:06:44,671 --> 01:06:47,424
Yauch's humble about this, right?
Like, he credited his uncle

1271
01:06:47,508 --> 01:06:50,511
for a lot of the experimentation
and for the direction.

1272
01:06:50,594 --> 01:06:52,471
But, like, Yauch was the driving force.

1273
01:06:54,306 --> 01:06:56,642
Actually, in the
"Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" video,

1274
01:06:56,725 --> 01:06:59,561
that stuff is just really us
wearing Madilyn Grasshoff's clothes.

1275
01:06:59,645 --> 01:07:02,022
That was one day that we just
put on a bunch of her clothes

1276
01:07:02,105 --> 01:07:04,358
and just went and drove around
and videotaped ourselves.

1277
01:07:04,441 --> 01:07:07,027
So thanks, Madilyn, for the solid.

1278
01:07:07,945 --> 01:07:10,280
Steal from the rich
And I'm out robbing banks

1279
01:07:10,364 --> 01:07:12,449
Give it to the poor
And I always give thanks

1280
01:07:12,533 --> 01:07:15,285
Because I got more stories
Than J.D.'s got Salinger

1281
01:07:15,369 --> 01:07:17,538
-I hold the title
-And you are the challenger

1282
01:07:17,621 --> 01:07:19,665
Hörnblowér was around a lot at the time,

1283
01:07:19,748 --> 01:07:22,543
which was kinda cool
'cause he was Yauch's uncle,

1284
01:07:22,626 --> 01:07:25,796
but like, he was a fucking drunk, Mike.
I don't know how else to say it.

1285
01:07:25,879 --> 01:07:27,172
He liked his wineskin, yeah.

1286
01:07:27,256 --> 01:07:29,049
So we're all doing our thing
and then there's, like,

1287
01:07:29,132 --> 01:07:32,636
this weird old Swiss guy
just crashed out on the couch.

1288
01:07:32,719 --> 01:07:36,181
Look. This is what we used to
have to deal with, with Yauch's uncle.

1289
01:07:36,265 --> 01:07:38,308
Yeah, this is a little strange for me,

1290
01:07:38,392 --> 01:07:41,937
because I'm not used to
being on this side of the camera.

1291
01:07:42,020 --> 01:07:45,566
I'm preferred to be behind it.

1292
01:07:47,526 --> 01:07:49,152
You're certainly dressed for the part.

1293
01:07:49,236 --> 01:07:52,406
This is our traditional clothing
from where I'm from.

1294
01:07:52,489 --> 01:07:54,449
And you may joke about it,

1295
01:07:54,533 --> 01:07:59,246
but I may joke about you walking
around in a business suit someplace,

1296
01:07:59,329 --> 01:08:01,415
and maybe that's silly to me, okay?

1297
01:08:01,498 --> 01:08:03,417
Maybe I'm laughing at you right now.

1298
01:08:05,919 --> 01:08:10,007
Somehow, between the weed,
the breakfast, the parties,

1299
01:08:10,090 --> 01:08:13,594
we finish the record
and the artwork and we hand it all in.

1300
01:08:17,430 --> 01:08:18,432
Like this.

1301
01:08:18,515 --> 01:08:20,850
So, we were excited.

1302
01:08:20,934 --> 01:08:23,312
We finished this record
we were really proud of.

1303
01:08:23,395 --> 01:08:25,397
People were gonna buy it and hear it

1304
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:27,357
and see that we were more than just those

1305
01:08:27,441 --> 01:08:29,318
"Fight for Your Right (To Party)"
guys, right?

1306
01:08:29,401 --> 01:08:32,237
You think we would've been humbled
by the falling out with Def Jam.

1307
01:08:32,321 --> 01:08:33,529
-No.
-But no.

1308
01:08:33,613 --> 01:08:34,781
We were on top of the world.

1309
01:08:34,865 --> 01:08:37,618
Yo, what's up?
It's the Beastie Boys for Yo! MTV Raps.

1310
01:08:37,701 --> 01:08:38,577
Boy!

1311
01:08:38,660 --> 01:08:40,787
Girl, you know it's true

1312
01:08:41,580 --> 01:08:45,082
Mike D is in love with you

1313
01:08:45,167 --> 01:08:46,710
In the lead-up to the record release,

1314
01:08:46,792 --> 01:08:47,961
we were doing loads of interviews.

1315
01:08:48,045 --> 01:08:50,255
I mean, shit, we were ready
to play Madison Square Garden

1316
01:08:50,339 --> 01:08:51,965
and blow the fuck up.

1317
01:08:53,591 --> 01:08:55,844
And Capitol Records were all in.

1318
01:08:55,928 --> 01:08:57,679
They were maybe even
more amped than we were.

1319
01:08:57,763 --> 01:08:59,055
The Beasties are not

1320
01:09:00,557 --> 01:09:02,643
concept masterminded by someone else.

1321
01:09:03,644 --> 01:09:07,189
And the extraordinary success of their
first album, Licensed to Ill,

1322
01:09:07,272 --> 01:09:08,273
was no fluke.

1323
01:09:09,858 --> 01:09:11,902
Word on the street from respected rappers,

1324
01:09:11,984 --> 01:09:15,572
from Eazy-E to MC Hammer to Public Enemy,

1325
01:09:15,656 --> 01:09:17,866
is that these guys are real indeed.

1326
01:09:17,950 --> 01:09:19,618
The music is stupid fresh.

1327
01:09:20,786 --> 01:09:21,995
They have the stuff.

1328
01:09:22,955 --> 01:09:24,163
So enough talk.

1329
01:09:24,872 --> 01:09:26,917
Let's raise the flag up the pole.

1330
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:28,210
Batman, watch out.

1331
01:09:28,877 --> 01:09:31,587
The Beasties are gonna be
in your face this summer.

1332
01:09:32,214 --> 01:09:36,844
And then, on July 25th, 1989...

1333
01:09:36,926 --> 01:09:39,220
With the entire world waiting...

1334
01:09:39,888 --> 01:09:43,934
Our new record,
Paul's Boutique, comes out, and...

1335
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:48,479
nothing.

1336
01:09:50,107 --> 01:09:51,108
Crickets.

1337
01:09:53,109 --> 01:09:55,612
Chapter 7: "Crickets."

1338
01:09:57,155 --> 01:10:00,868
No radio was playing the new songs.
No MTVs playing the new video.

1339
01:10:00,951 --> 01:10:02,911
No shows. Nobody gave a shit.

1340
01:10:02,995 --> 01:10:04,121
They all moved on.

1341
01:10:04,788 --> 01:10:07,082
It felt like we were a haircut
that they got in the seventh grade

1342
01:10:07,165 --> 01:10:09,585
and thought was really cool,
but now they were embarrassed about it

1343
01:10:09,668 --> 01:10:11,712
and just wanted to pretend
it never happened.

1344
01:10:11,795 --> 01:10:13,714
I remember being really surprised

1345
01:10:13,797 --> 01:10:17,384
that Paul's Boutique didn't do better
than it did when it came out,

1346
01:10:17,467 --> 01:10:20,470
because I kept feeling
while we were working on it

1347
01:10:20,554 --> 01:10:22,931
like it was so much better of a record
than Licensed to Ill.

1348
01:10:23,015 --> 01:10:25,142
When we were working on
Paul's Boutique, I just kept thinking,

1349
01:10:25,225 --> 01:10:26,476
"Wow, this sounds so much better.

1350
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:29,229
I would imagine this is gonna do,
like, much better than that."

1351
01:10:29,313 --> 01:10:33,108
So when it didn't, then I was kinda like,
"Well, you never know."

1352
01:10:33,192 --> 01:10:35,402
So now I don't even
try and guess these days.

1353
01:10:35,485 --> 01:10:38,572
Nobody cared that we had a new record out.

1354
01:10:39,114 --> 01:10:45,204
No one, that is, except for
our dear old friend Mr. Don Cornelius.

1355
01:10:45,287 --> 01:10:47,372
Beasties, Beasties.

1356
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:48,999
How you doing, gentlemen?

1357
01:10:49,082 --> 01:10:50,417
-What's up, Don?
-All right.

1358
01:10:50,501 --> 01:10:51,710
-Hi.
-Hey, Don.

1359
01:10:51,793 --> 01:10:53,378
-Yo, what's up, man?
-What's up?

1360
01:10:54,338 --> 01:10:55,964
-What's up, Don?
-All right.

1361
01:10:56,048 --> 01:10:57,508
-Yeah. Okay.
-Peace.

1362
01:10:57,591 --> 01:10:59,092
To you too, brother.

1363
01:10:59,176 --> 01:11:01,303
Hey, man, what is "the Don Cornelius"?

1364
01:11:01,386 --> 01:11:03,847
-Don Cornelius.
-You made it up, man.

1365
01:11:03,931 --> 01:11:05,724
-You're the man.
-Don Cornelius.

1366
01:11:05,807 --> 01:11:09,770
Yo, but seriously, we just wanna say
we've been on the show before, whatever,

1367
01:11:09,853 --> 01:11:12,189
but we've been watching this show since--

1368
01:11:12,272 --> 01:11:15,317
You know, a lot of people don't realize,
since whatever, since we were kids.

1369
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:16,527
That's how long.

1370
01:11:16,610 --> 01:11:19,029
You know,
I got the Soul Train albums here.

1371
01:11:19,112 --> 01:11:21,114
Whenever you're in town,

1372
01:11:21,198 --> 01:11:23,575
you know, always make this a stop, okay?

1373
01:11:23,659 --> 01:11:24,660
-All right, man.
-All right.

1374
01:11:24,743 --> 01:11:27,079
The Beastie Boys!

1375
01:11:29,540 --> 01:11:32,209
You threatened Don Cornelius.
You got right in his--

1376
01:11:32,292 --> 01:11:33,293
Can we show that again?

1377
01:11:33,377 --> 01:11:36,296
You know,
I got the Soul Train albums here.

1378
01:11:36,839 --> 01:11:38,131
Why, Mike?

1379
01:11:38,423 --> 01:11:41,969
I'm wearing, like,
some kind of blouse, dude, okay?

1380
01:11:42,052 --> 01:11:44,429
It looks like you don't even know
how to wear a shirt.

1381
01:11:45,973 --> 01:11:49,351
We look like four different people
in four different bands.

1382
01:11:49,810 --> 01:11:52,104
Now, I just want to point out, Adam,

1383
01:11:52,187 --> 01:11:53,605
not to go in too hard,

1384
01:11:53,689 --> 01:11:58,569
but it looks like you're about to throw up
on DJ Hurricane's shoulder right there.

1385
01:11:58,652 --> 01:12:00,112
You're not doing too good.

1386
01:12:00,195 --> 01:12:02,447
I think I was either
about to fall asleep or cry.

1387
01:12:03,615 --> 01:12:08,120
And I have to apologize right now
to Mr. Don Cornelius,

1388
01:12:08,203 --> 01:12:13,709
because obviously I'm being
very unnecessarily aggressive towards him.

1389
01:12:14,251 --> 01:12:17,754
I guess whatever I smoked is, like,
the stuff that makes you, like--

1390
01:12:17,838 --> 01:12:21,383
I don't know, look at your best friend
and just, like, punch him in the gut

1391
01:12:21,466 --> 01:12:23,051
and then knee him in the nuts.

1392
01:12:25,304 --> 01:12:26,597
Like the mad, aggressive strain.

1393
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,725
Christ, Mike.
It's very-- It's very specific.

1394
01:12:29,808 --> 01:12:33,312
I think the one I smoked,
it must have been called Steven Seagal.

1395
01:12:36,106 --> 01:12:37,524
You guys.

1396
01:12:37,608 --> 01:12:42,738
Footnote: In, like, 1988,
we went to see Jimmy Cliff play.

1397
01:12:43,363 --> 01:12:46,116
And we're super stoned
in the back of the thing,

1398
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:47,743
and in the middle of
the Jimmy Cliff show--

1399
01:12:47,826 --> 01:12:51,830
It's like summertime, outdoor show.
Stops the song, and he's like, "Right now,

1400
01:12:51,914 --> 01:12:55,584
I wanna bring out to the stage
a great, great actor.

1401
01:12:55,667 --> 01:12:57,169
Mr. Steven Seagal."

1402
01:12:57,252 --> 01:12:58,420
He was a little more like,

1403
01:12:58,504 --> 01:13:01,673
"Right now, great, great actor!"

1404
01:13:02,007 --> 01:13:03,425
You had to do the Jamaican accent.

1405
01:13:03,759 --> 01:13:06,887
And fucking Steven Seagal comes out,
in like a full ninja outfit,

1406
01:13:06,970 --> 01:13:09,264
and starts banging on the timbales
and then leaves.

1407
01:13:09,348 --> 01:13:10,974
Yup. And you know what, Adam?

1408
01:13:11,058 --> 01:13:13,101
That was some crazy shit.

1409
01:13:13,185 --> 01:13:14,561
Cra-Cra-Cra--

1410
01:13:17,481 --> 01:13:18,815
Crazy shit.

1411
01:13:19,983 --> 01:13:21,944
Crazy shit.

1412
01:13:22,027 --> 01:13:22,903
Crazy shit.

1413
01:13:24,404 --> 01:13:27,324
Is that just not funny?
I don't know what-- It's not funny.

1414
01:13:27,407 --> 01:13:28,784
I think we were right to cut it.

1415
01:13:28,867 --> 01:13:30,494
Yeah, yeah. I think so. We'll cut it.

1416
01:13:31,828 --> 01:13:35,374
All right. So we clearly were a mess
right at this point, right?

1417
01:13:35,457 --> 01:13:36,667
Definitely.

1418
01:13:36,750 --> 01:13:41,255
So putting all your efforts, your time,
your excitement into something

1419
01:13:41,338 --> 01:13:42,756
and hearing crickets...

1420
01:13:43,298 --> 01:13:44,716
I was a little crushed.

1421
01:13:45,133 --> 01:13:48,011
I mean, we're all ready
to have Paul's Boutique blow up.

1422
01:13:48,262 --> 01:13:51,056
And it came and went,
and it was kind of sobering.

1423
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:58,814
Yo, what's up? Mike D here, what's up?

1424
01:13:59,773 --> 01:14:00,899
Oh, hello, my friend.

1425
01:14:00,983 --> 01:14:03,443
It's Bill Harper, your accountant.

1426
01:14:03,527 --> 01:14:05,362
Oh, shit. What's up, homes?
How you feeling?

1427
01:14:05,445 --> 01:14:07,489
I need to discuss some things with you.

1428
01:14:07,573 --> 01:14:10,325
As it turns out,
your financial picture has changed a bit.

1429
01:14:10,409 --> 01:14:13,120
Seems you guys
don't really have any money anymore.

1430
01:14:13,203 --> 01:14:14,288
What?

1431
01:14:14,371 --> 01:14:17,875
You see, my friend Mike D,
you guys went to LA, you moved there,

1432
01:14:17,958 --> 01:14:21,503
you rent this crazy house with
a fucking bridge over a swimming pool,

1433
01:14:21,587 --> 01:14:23,422
you get these crazy expensive cars,

1434
01:14:23,505 --> 01:14:26,425
you spend millions of dollars
at crazy-expensive studios.

1435
01:14:26,508 --> 01:14:27,509
That was for work though.

1436
01:14:27,593 --> 01:14:31,555
You spend fucking $4,200
on fucking almond milk a week.

1437
01:14:31,638 --> 01:14:32,639
Also for work.

1438
01:14:32,723 --> 01:14:36,185
And you know what happens?
You go fucking broke.

1439
01:14:36,268 --> 01:14:38,478
Shit, Bill. That sucks.

1440
01:14:38,854 --> 01:14:39,897
Yeah, it does.

1441
01:14:40,397 --> 01:14:41,356
Hey, I gotta go, Mike.

1442
01:14:41,440 --> 01:14:43,650
I got Donny Osmond on the other line.

1443
01:14:46,570 --> 01:14:49,698
Now we call this time period
Paul's Purgatory.

1444
01:14:51,575 --> 01:14:53,744
But the good news is

1445
01:14:53,827 --> 01:14:56,455
we signed a multi-record deal
with Capitol,

1446
01:14:56,538 --> 01:14:58,498
so whether they liked it or not,

1447
01:14:58,582 --> 01:15:02,419
they had to give us the money
to make another record.

1448
01:15:02,836 --> 01:15:05,672
But we had to downsize a little bit.

1449
01:15:05,839 --> 01:15:07,841
We had wasted all this money

1450
01:15:07,925 --> 01:15:11,011
recording Paul's Boutique
at these fancy studios.

1451
01:15:11,094 --> 01:15:12,721
So we figured, "Fuck it.

1452
01:15:12,804 --> 01:15:15,933
Let's take the money for the record,
build our own studio,

1453
01:15:16,016 --> 01:15:17,601
and we'd save a whole lot."

1454
01:15:17,976 --> 01:15:21,271
We found this old Elks Lodge ballroom
in Atwater,

1455
01:15:21,355 --> 01:15:23,357
this sleepy part of Los Angeles,

1456
01:15:23,440 --> 01:15:25,776
where nothing was happening, right?

1457
01:15:25,859 --> 01:15:29,071
We built a bare-bones recording studio
with a basketball hoop

1458
01:15:29,154 --> 01:15:31,073
and Yauch made a skate ramp.

1459
01:15:31,156 --> 01:15:34,076
We wanted to start playing
more and more of our own music again,

1460
01:15:34,159 --> 01:15:36,578
even if we didn't know
what that meant at first.

1461
01:15:36,912 --> 01:15:38,497
So we moved out of that Grasshoff house.

1462
01:15:38,580 --> 01:15:40,832
We each got much cheaper places to live.

1463
01:15:40,916 --> 01:15:44,378
I mean, shit, Yauch was living
in a fucking log cabin.

1464
01:15:44,628 --> 01:15:45,754
Right? For real.

1465
01:15:45,838 --> 01:15:47,714
We definitely downsized.

1466
01:15:48,465 --> 01:15:51,927
But like always, we wanted to do
what we always do:

1467
01:15:52,386 --> 01:15:54,805
Just make music, hang out, bullshit.

1468
01:15:55,180 --> 01:15:57,266
But this time
we wanted to do it differently.

1469
01:15:57,766 --> 01:16:00,102
We figured instead of just sampling
music that we love,

1470
01:16:00,185 --> 01:16:02,312
why not try playing it
with our instruments?

1471
01:16:02,396 --> 01:16:05,607
I mean, shit, why not try to sound
like The Meters?

1472
01:16:07,484 --> 01:16:09,069
We sucked at first.

1473
01:16:09,152 --> 01:16:11,947
I was a punk guitar player.
Now I'm trying to play jazz and soul.

1474
01:16:12,030 --> 01:16:13,532
It wasn't pretty.

1475
01:16:14,074 --> 01:16:16,493
-I mean, Mike was decent on the drums.
-Thank you.

1476
01:16:16,577 --> 01:16:18,996
But Yauch goes and buys an acoustic bass

1477
01:16:19,079 --> 01:16:20,873
and just magically knew how to play it.

1478
01:16:21,582 --> 01:16:24,501
Like-- I don't know if you've ever tried
to play one of those things,

1479
01:16:24,585 --> 01:16:25,919
but it's really fucking hard.

1480
01:16:26,003 --> 01:16:30,132
So our new routine was to show up
at our clubhouse every day

1481
01:16:30,215 --> 01:16:34,136
and play music with our friends
Money Mark and Mario C.

1482
01:16:34,428 --> 01:16:37,097
We met Mario C.
working on Paul's Boutique.

1483
01:16:37,347 --> 01:16:39,099
He was the Dust Brothers' engineer,

1484
01:16:39,183 --> 01:16:41,476
and we asked him
to help us build our studio.

1485
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:44,938
And we ended up getting him to stay
and make music with us.

1486
01:16:45,105 --> 01:16:48,108
Now, when we were staying at
that crazy expensive house in Hollywood,

1487
01:16:48,192 --> 01:16:50,485
Mike crashed his car
into the driveway gate.

1488
01:16:50,569 --> 01:16:51,612
True.

1489
01:16:51,695 --> 01:16:54,573
But Mario had a friend
who was a carpenter, Mark Nishita,

1490
01:16:54,656 --> 01:16:55,782
and he came over to fix it.

1491
01:16:55,866 --> 01:16:59,328
But Mario said he's also
this really great keyboard player.

1492
01:16:59,411 --> 01:17:01,830
So when we got our studio
and started playing,

1493
01:17:01,914 --> 01:17:05,667
we asked him to come help us
make our sound more funky.

1494
01:17:05,751 --> 01:17:06,835
Turn that up a little bit.

1495
01:17:11,798 --> 01:17:14,384
So that's Yauch on the bass.
I'm on the guitar.

1496
01:17:14,468 --> 01:17:17,596
Listen to that guitar, Adam.
Your guitar break.

1497
01:17:17,679 --> 01:17:19,848
You got some high-hat patterns, Mike.

1498
01:17:21,225 --> 01:17:24,311
Mark's on the organ. I mean,
we're getting it together, right, Mike?

1499
01:17:30,734 --> 01:17:33,529
So this went on for a year or so,
and we couldn't have been happier.

1500
01:17:34,321 --> 01:17:37,157
We're learning how to play our instruments
and we're chopping up samples.

1501
01:17:37,241 --> 01:17:38,825
We're making beats we were into.

1502
01:17:38,909 --> 01:17:41,286
We were making music
we really liked.

1503
01:17:42,037 --> 01:17:45,249
The only problem was
we weren't finishing any songs.

1504
01:17:46,416 --> 01:17:48,794
When it came time
to do vocals on a song,

1505
01:17:48,877 --> 01:17:50,712
we'd get hesitant and shy.

1506
01:17:50,796 --> 01:17:52,047
We'd been in a weird headspace,

1507
01:17:52,130 --> 01:17:55,008
just kind of confused with
what our voices were.

1508
01:17:55,092 --> 01:17:57,052
What should our vocals even sound like?

1509
01:17:57,511 --> 01:18:00,597
We think we're rappers, because
our first two albums were rap albums.

1510
01:18:00,848 --> 01:18:03,475
But what were we gonna rap about?

1511
01:18:03,559 --> 01:18:04,935
We didn't feel like we're the guys

1512
01:18:05,018 --> 01:18:07,729
who made
Licensed to Ill or Paul's Boutique.

1513
01:18:07,938 --> 01:18:10,649
But we didn't know exactly
where that left us.

1514
01:18:13,527 --> 01:18:15,487
And then one morning I was at home

1515
01:18:15,571 --> 01:18:18,615
and I got woken up by the kind of call
I never got before.

1516
01:18:19,700 --> 01:18:22,035
A call from a friend's parent,
crying on the phone.

1517
01:18:23,579 --> 01:18:25,289
Our friend Dave Scilken's dad called

1518
01:18:25,372 --> 01:18:27,291
and told me that Dave had died
of an overdose.

1519
01:18:27,666 --> 01:18:29,084
He was 20 years old.

1520
01:18:30,919 --> 01:18:33,172
I hadn't really lost
a close friend like that.

1521
01:18:34,381 --> 01:18:37,509
People on our periphery,
but no one that close.

1522
01:18:38,010 --> 01:18:39,636
This felt really different.

1523
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:41,221
David Scilken.

1524
01:18:42,389 --> 01:18:44,975
We all went back to New York
for Dave's service.

1525
01:18:45,058 --> 01:18:46,643
-Say hi, Dave.
-Hi.

1526
01:18:47,186 --> 01:18:48,437
It was just so fucking sad.

1527
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:50,898
Yo, this is Dave Scilken.
This is Shadi One.

1528
01:18:51,815 --> 01:18:54,109
Afterwards, we all ended up at some bar,

1529
01:18:54,193 --> 01:18:56,653
'cause that's just what you do
when a friend passes away.

1530
01:18:56,737 --> 01:19:00,240
You get beers and sit around
and tell stories about them.

1531
01:19:01,658 --> 01:19:03,243
Now we felt a little self-conscious

1532
01:19:03,327 --> 01:19:04,995
when we ran into old friends at that time.

1533
01:19:05,704 --> 01:19:08,624
We thought when they'd see us, they'd see
the "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" guys

1534
01:19:08,707 --> 01:19:10,209
and would be jerks about it.

1535
01:19:10,667 --> 01:19:12,836
But it wasn't like that with Kate
and all our old friends.

1536
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:15,422
We just sat around
and missed our friend Dave.

1537
01:19:15,506 --> 01:19:18,467
And it meant a lot more to the three of us
than we realized.

1538
01:19:19,009 --> 01:19:21,303
There was a reason
that we'd all been friends.

1539
01:19:22,012 --> 01:19:24,723
And the whole trip was like a connection
to New York City.

1540
01:19:26,350 --> 01:19:28,519
And it felt good
to be with everybody again.

1541
01:19:28,602 --> 01:19:33,065
Kills himself and

1542
01:19:33,148 --> 01:19:38,612
How do I make friends now

1543
01:19:39,321 --> 01:19:40,739
As sad as this all was,

1544
01:19:40,822 --> 01:19:43,075
we went back to our clubhouse in LA.

1545
01:19:43,534 --> 01:19:45,702
And I don't know if it was
meeting up with our friends

1546
01:19:45,786 --> 01:19:49,039
or having our lives switched up,
but we got inspired.

1547
01:19:49,122 --> 01:19:51,708
And all of a sudden,
we started finishing shit.

1548
01:19:55,921 --> 01:19:58,006
And it gave us this sense of, like,

1549
01:19:58,090 --> 01:19:59,675
just keep doing what you're doing.

1550
01:19:59,967 --> 01:20:02,177
Our music could include
everything we loved,

1551
01:20:02,261 --> 01:20:05,347
and our album could be like a mixtape
of all different types of music,

1552
01:20:05,430 --> 01:20:08,058
including any sounds
or dialogue or samples

1553
01:20:08,141 --> 01:20:09,685
or anything that we thought was funny.

1554
01:20:10,143 --> 01:20:13,438
When you're 22, you don't know
what to do with your feelings.

1555
01:20:13,522 --> 01:20:16,483
We couldn't articulate it to each other
how we felt.

1556
01:20:16,567 --> 01:20:18,902
But I do think that
having all of those feelings

1557
01:20:18,986 --> 01:20:20,654
and not knowing what to do with them,

1558
01:20:20,737 --> 01:20:23,198
you kind of just put it
into whatever you're making.

1559
01:20:23,574 --> 01:20:25,951
People, how you doin'
There's a new day dawnin'

1560
01:20:26,034 --> 01:20:28,370
For the earth mother
It's a brand new mornin'

1561
01:20:28,453 --> 01:20:30,789
For such a long while
There's been such a longin'

1562
01:20:30,873 --> 01:20:33,250
But now the sun is shinin'
Let's roll back the awnin'

1563
01:20:38,297 --> 01:20:40,716
This is a type of kinda
Like a formal dedication

1564
01:20:40,799 --> 01:20:43,093
Givin' out a shout
For much inspiration

1565
01:20:43,177 --> 01:20:45,262
All I ever really want to do
Is get nice

1566
01:20:45,345 --> 01:20:47,723
Get loose
And goof a little slice of life

1567
01:20:48,140 --> 01:20:50,434
Sendin' out love
To all corners of the land

1568
01:20:50,517 --> 01:20:52,561
I jump up on the stage
And take the mic in my hand

1569
01:20:52,644 --> 01:20:55,355
I'm not playin' the role
Just bein' who I am

1570
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:57,691
And if you try to dis me
I couldn't give a damn

1571
01:20:59,276 --> 01:21:01,987
Yo, we were like, "Fuck it," right?

1572
01:21:03,739 --> 01:21:04,948
I mean--

1573
01:21:05,908 --> 01:21:07,326
We should make whatever we like.

1574
01:21:07,409 --> 01:21:10,621
I mean, if The Clash have punk and reggae
and rap songs on their records,

1575
01:21:10,704 --> 01:21:11,830
why can't we?

1576
01:21:11,914 --> 01:21:14,833
I mean, why not a stoner song
next to a rap song

1577
01:21:14,917 --> 01:21:16,627
next to a hardcore song?

1578
01:21:25,093 --> 01:21:26,970
This is our song "Time for Livin'."

1579
01:21:27,346 --> 01:21:31,225
We just wanted to experiment and do all
different types of shit that we could do.

1580
01:21:31,433 --> 01:21:33,644
We played our instruments
and we sampled that.

1581
01:21:33,727 --> 01:21:35,229
We'd never done that before.

1582
01:21:35,312 --> 01:21:39,733
And while experimenting, we gave ourselves
permission to do stuff like sing.

1583
01:21:41,485 --> 01:21:43,111
We'd never done that either.

1584
01:21:43,195 --> 01:21:45,572
But we were like, "Fuck it. Let's try it."

1585
01:21:45,656 --> 01:21:49,701
There's something
Coming to the surface

1586
01:21:51,662 --> 01:21:54,206
There's fire all around

1587
01:21:55,374 --> 01:21:57,960
But this is all illusion

1588
01:21:58,043 --> 01:22:00,170
This song's called
"Something's Got to Give."

1589
01:22:00,254 --> 01:22:03,090
Yauch wrote the lyrics,
which are about change and growth.

1590
01:22:03,173 --> 01:22:07,094
And that makes sense, because right around
this time, Yauch was exploring everything.

1591
01:22:07,469 --> 01:22:10,180
There was no boundary
he wasn't interested in crossing.

1592
01:22:10,973 --> 01:22:13,642
Like calling me at fucking
4:30 in the morning, being like,

1593
01:22:13,725 --> 01:22:15,477
"I'm recording these pigeons.
You gotta hear 'em."

1594
01:22:15,561 --> 01:22:16,979
I'm like, "Dude, I'm sleeping."

1595
01:22:17,646 --> 01:22:19,106
That's not what we're talking about.

1596
01:22:20,315 --> 01:22:22,442
I'm saying he was
in full-on transformation mode.

1597
01:22:22,901 --> 01:22:24,152
He was traveling the world,

1598
01:22:24,236 --> 01:22:27,197
he was snowboarding out of helicopters,
he was trekking in Nepal.

1599
01:22:28,198 --> 01:22:30,659
Whatever it was, he went out
and found out about it.

1600
01:22:31,285 --> 01:22:33,996
Film, Buddhism, music,

1601
01:22:34,663 --> 01:22:37,249
meeting people everywhere
from all different worlds.

1602
01:22:38,208 --> 01:22:41,545
If you can feel what I'm feeling
Then it's a musical masterpiece...

1603
01:22:44,089 --> 01:22:46,842
What's running through my mind
Comes through in my walk

1604
01:22:46,925 --> 01:22:49,553
True feelings are shown
From the way that I talk...

1605
01:22:49,636 --> 01:22:53,557
So after two full years
of being immersed in our clubhouse,

1606
01:22:54,266 --> 01:22:56,435
we finished our record Check Your Head.

1607
01:22:59,396 --> 01:23:02,858
Chapter 8: "The Record
That Changed Everything."

1608
01:23:04,860 --> 01:23:07,112
We were really psyched on Check Your Head,

1609
01:23:07,446 --> 01:23:11,867
and we wanted to go out and play shows,
so we found a new manager, John Silva.

1610
01:23:12,951 --> 01:23:16,413
Now, he told us that if we were serious
about going on tour,

1611
01:23:16,496 --> 01:23:19,499
we'd have to bust our asses
playing tons of clubs

1612
01:23:19,583 --> 01:23:23,921
and work super hard to try and build it
back up to playing bigger places.

1613
01:23:24,379 --> 01:23:25,672
He was honest with us.

1614
01:23:25,756 --> 01:23:30,302
And he was right, 'cause not that many
people gave a shit about us at the time.

1615
01:23:30,385 --> 01:23:32,054
And he's still our manager today.

1616
01:23:32,387 --> 01:23:33,222
So...

1617
01:23:35,140 --> 01:23:39,186
Good news-- Good news,
we now had our squad to go on tour.

1618
01:23:40,062 --> 01:23:43,273
Bad news, we had to do a ton of work.

1619
01:23:48,362 --> 01:23:50,614
Tumble outta bed
And I stumble to the kitchen

1620
01:23:50,697 --> 01:23:52,699
Pour myself a cup of ambition

1621
01:23:52,783 --> 01:23:55,702
And yawn and stretch
And try to come to life

1622
01:23:57,746 --> 01:24:00,165
Jump in the shower
And the blood starts pumpin'

1623
01:24:00,249 --> 01:24:02,209
Out on the street
The traffic starts jumpin'

1624
01:24:02,292 --> 01:24:06,380
With folks like me on the job
From 9 to 5

1625
01:24:06,463 --> 01:24:11,176
Workin' 9 to 5
What a way to make a livin'

1626
01:24:11,260 --> 01:24:15,889
Barely gettin' by
It's all takin' and no givin'

1627
01:24:15,973 --> 01:24:20,352
They just use your mind
And they never give you credit

1628
01:24:20,435 --> 01:24:25,232
It's enough to drive you
Crazy if you let it...

1629
01:24:25,983 --> 01:24:29,361
So five years earlier,
we're at Madison Square Garden, right?

1630
01:24:29,444 --> 01:24:31,738
-Oh, yeah.
-And now we're playing clubs.

1631
01:24:31,989 --> 01:24:36,201
You'd think we'd be bummed out about it,
but actually, falling off can be fun.

1632
01:24:36,827 --> 01:24:39,371
Even though we're playing
to just a couple hundred people,

1633
01:24:39,746 --> 01:24:40,831
those shows were packed.

1634
01:24:41,456 --> 01:24:44,251
The crowd was way different now
than it was in '87.

1635
01:24:44,668 --> 01:24:46,962
Licensed to Ill was, like, arena rock.

1636
01:24:47,045 --> 01:24:51,300
The shows in '92 were packed
with like-minded weirdos.

1637
01:24:51,383 --> 01:24:52,843
People we felt connected to.

1638
01:24:53,218 --> 01:24:55,220
I mean, we were playing shows for people

1639
01:24:55,304 --> 01:24:56,930
we would actually wanna hang out with.

1640
01:24:57,306 --> 01:25:00,559
But we were still figuring out
how to be this new version of our band,

1641
01:25:00,976 --> 01:25:04,813
and after a year of playing shows,
we started to know what we were doing.

1642
01:25:04,897 --> 01:25:07,774
It wasn't until, like, the end
of the Check Your Head tour

1643
01:25:07,858 --> 01:25:12,070
that I actually and confidently
considered myself to be a musician.

1644
01:25:18,118 --> 01:25:22,497
So we'd just spent a year touring
and we started recording again.

1645
01:25:22,581 --> 01:25:26,001
We were having so much fun being together
and playing music together,

1646
01:25:26,084 --> 01:25:27,085
why stop?

1647
01:25:27,419 --> 01:25:31,423
It was almost like Check Your Head
and Ill Communication were one thing,

1648
01:25:31,507 --> 01:25:33,634
and we just kept going and going.

1649
01:25:34,218 --> 01:25:37,179
I mean, we were psyched
to go into the studio every night.

1650
01:25:37,513 --> 01:25:40,307
All of our friends would come through,
and they'd hang out.

1651
01:25:40,390 --> 01:25:43,685
I mean, shit,
we had a basketball court and a half-pipe.

1652
01:25:43,769 --> 01:25:45,896
I mean, not to mention tons of music gear.

1653
01:25:46,772 --> 01:25:48,941
So many amazing people would stop by.

1654
01:25:49,233 --> 01:25:54,821
Q-Tip played basketball, and he recorded
a verse on a song, "Get It Together."

1655
01:25:55,447 --> 01:25:58,617
Christian Hosoi and Jason Lee,
they'd come over to skate.

1656
01:25:59,034 --> 01:26:00,786
Biz Markie would come over a lot.

1657
01:26:01,203 --> 01:26:03,705
Now one day our old friend Jill Cunniff

1658
01:26:03,789 --> 01:26:07,543
called me and asked to listen to the demo
tape of her band Luscious Jackson.

1659
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:08,877
Yauch--

1660
01:26:10,963 --> 01:26:11,964
Yauch was like,

1661
01:26:12,047 --> 01:26:15,259
"This is awesome. We should just
start a record label and put it out."

1662
01:26:15,342 --> 01:26:17,427
Now we have a record label, Grand Royal.

1663
01:26:17,511 --> 01:26:21,223
The music was amazing,
and what made it even more special to us,

1664
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:25,018
Kate joined Luscious Jackson
when they went out to play shows.

1665
01:26:25,519 --> 01:26:28,605
So ten years later
we're back in each other's lives.

1666
01:26:32,150 --> 01:26:35,779
So all this stuff was happening
under one roof, G-Son, our studio.

1667
01:26:36,238 --> 01:26:38,323
Now one day I walked in,

1668
01:26:38,407 --> 01:26:41,076
and I heard Yauch playing
this awesome bass line.

1669
01:26:41,159 --> 01:26:44,538
It was so good, it seemed like
it must've been a song already.

1670
01:26:44,621 --> 01:26:47,124
I was like, "Yo, Yauch. What is that?"

1671
01:26:47,958 --> 01:26:50,377
And he was like,
"It's ours. I just wrote it."

1672
01:26:50,752 --> 01:26:53,422
So I sat down.
I start playing drums with him.

1673
01:27:00,637 --> 01:27:04,141
Then Keyboard Money Mark sits down.
He starts playing the organ.

1674
01:27:04,224 --> 01:27:07,227
And then Adam puts on his guitar.
He starts to play.

1675
01:27:07,311 --> 01:27:09,688
We made a quick arrangement
and we recorded it.

1676
01:27:10,105 --> 01:27:12,065
It was the fastest song we'd ever made,

1677
01:27:12,441 --> 01:27:14,818
and it was kind of
our favorite instrumental we had.

1678
01:27:14,902 --> 01:27:16,445
But for whatever reason,
it just sat around

1679
01:27:16,528 --> 01:27:18,447
for months and months with no vocals.

1680
01:27:19,031 --> 01:27:20,657
When we were getting ready
to finish the record,

1681
01:27:20,741 --> 01:27:23,076
we knew we had to
do something with that song.

1682
01:27:23,660 --> 01:27:25,746
We tried a bunch of different ideas
to make it a rap song,

1683
01:27:25,829 --> 01:27:26,872
but it wasn't working.

1684
01:27:26,955 --> 01:27:30,417
And I had this idea
that I would go to Mario C.'s house

1685
01:27:30,501 --> 01:27:33,504
and he would record me
screaming a bunch of stuff.

1686
01:27:33,587 --> 01:27:36,840
The lyrics were all about
how Mario was the worst person ever

1687
01:27:36,924 --> 01:27:39,968
and how he was always
sabotaging us and holding us back.

1688
01:27:40,052 --> 01:27:41,845
I thought it would be funny
to stand next to him

1689
01:27:41,929 --> 01:27:43,514
and scream that shit when he recorded it.

1690
01:27:44,056 --> 01:27:47,935
So, so, so, so listen up
'Cause you can't say nothin'

1691
01:27:48,393 --> 01:27:50,562
You'll shut me down
With a push of your button

1692
01:27:50,646 --> 01:27:51,605
But, yo, I'm...

1693
01:27:51,688 --> 01:27:53,774
I had this idea that we should
take some pictures of us

1694
01:27:53,857 --> 01:27:56,193
as undercover cops
eating donuts and shit, right?

1695
01:27:56,610 --> 01:28:00,989
But we were like, "Fuck it.
We should make a video for that instead."

1696
01:28:01,490 --> 01:28:04,201
And Spike came over, and we
played dress-up, like we usually do.

1697
01:28:04,284 --> 01:28:05,827
Just running around like maniacs

1698
01:28:05,911 --> 01:28:09,164
with no proper permits or cops
or fire department or anything.

1699
01:28:09,414 --> 01:28:11,750
'Cause what you see
You might not get

1700
01:28:12,125 --> 01:28:14,962
And we can bet
So don't you get souped yet...

1701
01:28:15,045 --> 01:28:17,756
Scheming on a thing, that's a mirage

1702
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:20,717
I'm trying to tell you now
It's sabotage

1703
01:28:29,893 --> 01:28:33,188
Well, that changed
everything for us again.

1704
01:28:33,730 --> 01:28:37,067
That summer, we begin headlining
the Lollapalooza tour.

1705
01:28:38,443 --> 01:28:40,571
So, we're in Minnesota.

1706
01:28:40,654 --> 01:28:44,825
We're in this huge field and there's,
like, bonfires off in the distance,

1707
01:28:44,908 --> 01:28:46,702
and people are going crazy.

1708
01:28:46,785 --> 01:28:50,455
And we go back on for our encore,
and we play "Sabotage."

1709
01:28:50,539 --> 01:28:53,959
And a sea of people go next-level crazy.

1710
01:28:54,042 --> 01:28:57,379
We come off the stage,
and we look at each other, and we're like,

1711
01:28:57,462 --> 01:28:59,840
"Wow. We have our new last song."

1712
01:29:02,342 --> 01:29:06,597
And to think all of that came from Yauch
just playing a bass line.

1713
01:29:12,728 --> 01:29:16,356
Now, all of us have been in a room
where a friend of yours, you know,

1714
01:29:16,440 --> 01:29:19,443
just kinda says or does something
randomly that seems cool.

1715
01:29:20,194 --> 01:29:23,113
But when one of those things
that doesn't seem like much in the moment

1716
01:29:23,197 --> 01:29:25,741
becomes something
long-lasting and impactful...

1717
01:29:26,909 --> 01:29:28,785
well, that just doesn't happen that often.

1718
01:29:29,119 --> 01:29:31,663
Now, last year
we did a bunch of interviews

1719
01:29:31,747 --> 01:29:33,665
about Beastie Boys Book that we wrote.

1720
01:29:34,041 --> 01:29:35,751
And the thing
that we were most asked about

1721
01:29:35,834 --> 01:29:39,004
were these lyrics that Yauch
had written for a song, "Sure Shot."

1722
01:29:39,296 --> 01:29:41,924
I want to say a little something
That's long overdue

1723
01:29:42,007 --> 01:29:44,134
The disrespect to women
Has got to be through

1724
01:29:44,218 --> 01:29:46,720
To all the mothers and the sisters
And the wives and friends

1725
01:29:46,803 --> 01:29:49,306
I want to offer my love
And respect to the end

1726
01:29:55,646 --> 01:29:59,483
Now, when he said that, it wasn't, like,
some huge, momentous occasion.

1727
01:29:59,566 --> 01:30:02,903
It was just something
that Yauch wrote with some other lyrics

1728
01:30:02,986 --> 01:30:05,155
and said it
when it was his turn on the mic.

1729
01:30:05,572 --> 01:30:08,575
And we were, like,
"Wow. That's cool that he said that."

1730
01:30:09,159 --> 01:30:13,622
Not only did he speak to a lot of people,
he spoke to the two of us.

1731
01:30:14,790 --> 01:30:19,086
So those years recording and touring on
those two records were so important to us.

1732
01:30:19,419 --> 01:30:21,129
We changed directions of our band.

1733
01:30:21,505 --> 01:30:24,299
We changed how we wanted to be
as people and friends.

1734
01:30:24,716 --> 01:30:27,386
We thought about the world
instead of just our world.

1735
01:30:28,512 --> 01:30:30,472
When we were large in 1987,

1736
01:30:30,556 --> 01:30:34,643
we were on American Bandstand
and we did not give a fuck.

1737
01:30:34,726 --> 01:30:38,188
You wake up late for school
Man, you don't wanna go

1738
01:30:41,900 --> 01:30:44,987
We weren't really, like,
working on our craft so much.

1739
01:30:46,947 --> 01:30:51,577
But seven years later, when we played
"Sabotage" at the MTV awards,

1740
01:30:51,827 --> 01:30:53,453
we were locked in.

1741
01:31:33,702 --> 01:31:38,123
Yo, when we would play festivals
or TV shows with other bands on it,

1742
01:31:38,207 --> 01:31:40,375
we looked at that shit like a competition.

1743
01:31:40,459 --> 01:31:41,835
We played to win.

1744
01:31:42,336 --> 01:31:43,879
We said that kinda half joking,

1745
01:31:43,962 --> 01:31:46,965
but, like, kinda half
almost for 100% serious, right?

1746
01:31:47,716 --> 01:31:51,386
I mean, we wanted everyone that watched
that show or went to that festival

1747
01:31:51,470 --> 01:31:53,388
to go home
and tell their friends the next day,

1748
01:31:53,472 --> 01:31:56,225
"Fucking Beastie Boys
housed the set," right?

1749
01:31:56,308 --> 01:31:57,893
We played that shit to win.

1750
01:31:59,269 --> 01:32:03,482
So when we played those MTV awards,
I mean, we won. Yeah, Mike? No?

1751
01:32:03,565 --> 01:32:04,399
-Yes? No?
-Definitely.

1752
01:32:04,483 --> 01:32:05,484
Got the "W," yes?

1753
01:32:05,567 --> 01:32:07,903
No doubt. Pulled down the "W," people.

1754
01:32:08,445 --> 01:32:12,282
But... later that night,
Spike Jonze was nominated

1755
01:32:12,366 --> 01:32:16,078
for best director
for the "Sabotage" video, but didn't win.

1756
01:32:18,455 --> 01:32:22,042
And that's when Yauch's Uncle Hörnblowér
fucking lost it.

1757
01:32:23,585 --> 01:32:26,630
The winner
of best director in a video is...

1758
01:32:30,008 --> 01:32:30,926
Go ahead.

1759
01:32:31,260 --> 01:32:32,261
R.E.M.

1760
01:32:42,563 --> 01:32:48,193
This is an outrage, because
Spike is the director that has just--

1761
01:32:48,277 --> 01:32:51,822
I'm from Switzerland, okay?
Let me just tell everyone that. And--

1762
01:32:53,031 --> 01:32:58,287
And since I was a small boy,
I had dream that Spike would win this.

1763
01:32:59,121 --> 01:33:00,622
And now this has happened,

1764
01:33:00,706 --> 01:33:03,208
and I just wanna tell everyone
that this is a farce.

1765
01:33:03,584 --> 01:33:07,588
That I had all the ideas
for Star Wars and everything.

1766
01:33:13,510 --> 01:33:14,761
Wow.

1767
01:33:18,557 --> 01:33:23,437
Chapter 9:
"I'm Going Back to New York City."

1768
01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:26,565
I do believe I've had enough

1769
01:33:28,233 --> 01:33:30,652
So Los Angeles was great for us, right?

1770
01:33:30,736 --> 01:33:33,071
From having houses
with bridges over swimming pools,

1771
01:33:33,530 --> 01:33:36,950
a great studio, making great friends,
making tons of music,

1772
01:33:37,534 --> 01:33:39,661
and actually becoming musicians.

1773
01:33:39,745 --> 01:33:42,247
But we were there for eight years,
and time kinda flew by.

1774
01:33:42,873 --> 01:33:45,417
We were around 30 years old by now,
and we missed home.

1775
01:33:45,501 --> 01:33:47,044
I mean, we missed our families.

1776
01:33:47,127 --> 01:33:49,338
Yauch was the first
to move back to New York.

1777
01:33:49,630 --> 01:33:51,632
He was done
with bouncing around the world,

1778
01:33:51,715 --> 01:33:54,801
and he just wanted to be back
in New York and be a New Yorker.

1779
01:33:55,344 --> 01:33:56,470
Me and Adam soon followed

1780
01:33:56,553 --> 01:33:58,722
so the three of us could pursue
our true passion,

1781
01:33:58,805 --> 01:34:00,098
astrophysics.

1782
01:34:00,766 --> 01:34:02,559
But that didn't really work out.

1783
01:34:03,644 --> 01:34:05,145
Summer of '96.

1784
01:34:05,687 --> 01:34:08,941
We're back home, living a grown-up version
of our high school days.

1785
01:34:09,024 --> 01:34:11,485
Nothing to do but wander around,
trying to link up,

1786
01:34:11,568 --> 01:34:16,031
hanging out with some new friends, hearing
some new music and making new music.

1787
01:34:16,114 --> 01:34:19,493
It's not so much that we settled down.
It's more like we settled in.

1788
01:34:20,077 --> 01:34:22,871
So after a couple years
of doing what we usually do,

1789
01:34:22,955 --> 01:34:27,376
make music, order some food,
bullshit, hang out, make more music,

1790
01:34:27,793 --> 01:34:29,211
we finished a record.

1791
01:34:29,294 --> 01:34:31,880
And maybe our favorite,
'cause it's so experimental.

1792
01:34:32,381 --> 01:34:33,423
Hello Nasty.

1793
01:34:38,303 --> 01:34:42,266
And when we went on tour for that record,
it was the biggest tour we'd ever done.

1794
01:34:42,933 --> 01:34:45,102
It's not that "Fight for Your Right
(To Party)" got erased,

1795
01:34:45,727 --> 01:34:48,105
but at this point,
we were kinda fine without it.

1796
01:34:48,897 --> 01:34:50,732
By that time, we were almost grown-ups.

1797
01:34:51,275 --> 01:34:55,028
The beer and the dick
and the frat dudes were gone.

1798
01:34:55,112 --> 01:34:56,989
You could barely see them anymore.

1799
01:34:57,322 --> 01:34:58,991
By now we were a little older.

1800
01:34:59,074 --> 01:35:02,452
We had other things to do separately,
like grown-up stuff.

1801
01:35:02,536 --> 01:35:04,788
We were in serious relationships,
we had a record label,

1802
01:35:04,872 --> 01:35:06,707
a magazine, a bicycle store,

1803
01:35:06,999 --> 01:35:08,333
but the three of us made a life

1804
01:35:08,417 --> 01:35:11,086
making records and touring
and playing shows together.

1805
01:35:11,962 --> 01:35:15,883
It's not so much that we grew up.
It's more like we wised up.

1806
01:35:17,050 --> 01:35:19,553
Now we can say that our reflection
on the mistakes we made

1807
01:35:19,803 --> 01:35:23,098
came from Yauch
and the ideas that he brought back to us.

1808
01:35:23,182 --> 01:35:24,433
But that's partly true.

1809
01:35:24,516 --> 01:35:26,143
I mean, we were ready for change.

1810
01:35:26,476 --> 01:35:29,605
We encouraged each other to do
and say what we wanted to do.

1811
01:35:29,938 --> 01:35:32,524
If Yauch wanted to make a song called
"Bodhisattva Vow,"

1812
01:35:32,608 --> 01:35:36,069
about a Buddhist vow to make
the world a better place, of course.

1813
01:35:36,153 --> 01:35:37,362
That's fucking awesome.

1814
01:35:39,615 --> 01:35:41,950
We have the maturity to realize

1815
01:35:42,034 --> 01:35:44,578
that what we make and have made matters

1816
01:35:44,661 --> 01:35:47,581
and affects people in good and bad ways.

1817
01:35:47,664 --> 01:35:50,834
We're grateful that we've been around
long enough to comment on it.

1818
01:35:50,918 --> 01:35:54,588
And we're lucky enough
to be able to do something about it now.

1819
01:35:54,671 --> 01:35:59,176
There's a song on Hello Nasty called
"Song for the Man" that Adam wrote...

1820
01:35:59,259 --> 01:36:01,762
Where are you? Adam wrote this one.

1821
01:36:01,845 --> 01:36:06,141
...about the ways that so many men act
when a woman walks by.

1822
01:36:06,225 --> 01:36:08,769
An interviewer called him out
as a hypocrite

1823
01:36:08,852 --> 01:36:10,479
and challenged him about the song

1824
01:36:10,562 --> 01:36:12,898
coming from
the "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" guy.

1825
01:36:12,981 --> 01:36:15,108
And when I heard his answer,

1826
01:36:15,192 --> 01:36:16,693
I was proud to be his friend.

1827
01:36:17,528 --> 01:36:19,905
He said something like,

1828
01:36:19,988 --> 01:36:23,242
"I'd rather be a hypocrite
than the same person forever."

1829
01:36:29,373 --> 01:36:30,874
All right.

1830
01:36:30,958 --> 01:36:32,876
I'm gonna tell you a story about--

1831
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:36,338
Well, I'm gonna tell you a story
from our book, Beastie Boys Book.

1832
01:36:38,131 --> 01:36:39,049
All right.

1833
01:36:40,008 --> 01:36:41,468
It's called, "The Last Gig."

1834
01:36:47,975 --> 01:36:50,602
We didn't know it was gonna be
the last gig we'd ever play.

1835
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:54,314
Everything that happened that day
was totally normal.

1836
01:36:54,398 --> 01:36:58,026
The gig was headlining a huge festival
in Tennessee called Bonnaroo.

1837
01:36:58,110 --> 01:37:00,028
And it was 2009.

1838
01:37:00,112 --> 01:37:02,865
Thousands and thousands of people
were gonna be there,

1839
01:37:02,948 --> 01:37:04,533
and we were the headliner.

1840
01:37:04,616 --> 01:37:06,785
We went down to Tennessee early,
'cause we were gonna shoot a video

1841
01:37:06,869 --> 01:37:08,704
for a new song that hadn't come out yet.

1842
01:37:08,787 --> 01:37:13,083
It was us, the rapper Nas,
and Roman Coppola was gonna direct it.

1843
01:37:13,166 --> 01:37:16,378
It was oddly normal for us
to play these huge concerts

1844
01:37:16,461 --> 01:37:19,173
and have someone like Roman
with a Bolex camera filming us

1845
01:37:19,256 --> 01:37:21,675
running around supermarkets in Tennessee.

1846
01:37:23,510 --> 01:37:26,388
The weirder,
the more normal for us by then.

1847
01:37:30,142 --> 01:37:32,644
Things in life never come full circle.

1848
01:37:33,478 --> 01:37:35,397
Maybe once or twice they're hexagonal,

1849
01:37:35,480 --> 01:37:38,442
but to me they're almost always misshapen,

1850
01:37:38,525 --> 01:37:41,570
as if drawn by a toddler in crayon.

1851
01:37:42,529 --> 01:37:44,823
There's common threads, sure.

1852
01:37:44,907 --> 01:37:47,034
Yauch and me and Mike are still together.

1853
01:37:47,117 --> 01:37:49,036
Still laughing. Still family.

1854
01:37:49,620 --> 01:37:53,248
Al Green was finishing his set
on one of the many stages at the festival,

1855
01:37:53,332 --> 01:37:56,168
and so hearing his voice in the distance
was comforting.

1856
01:37:56,251 --> 01:37:58,462
Just like how it was
when I was in high school,

1857
01:37:58,545 --> 01:38:00,631
in my bedroom,
waiting for them to come over.

1858
01:38:04,343 --> 01:38:07,012
But now was such a great distance
from that.

1859
01:38:14,269 --> 01:38:17,689
The rearview
was nearly impossible to reposition.

1860
01:38:18,982 --> 01:38:21,443
Kate Schellenbach wasn't there
with us in Tennessee.

1861
01:38:21,527 --> 01:38:23,070
John Berry wasn't there.

1862
01:38:23,153 --> 01:38:25,447
Dave Scilken, Bosco, the Captain,

1863
01:38:25,948 --> 01:38:27,574
Dave Parsons, Mike's dad--

1864
01:38:35,874 --> 01:38:37,876
Mike's dad, my mom, not there.

1865
01:38:38,669 --> 01:38:39,711
So many more.

1866
01:38:40,337 --> 01:38:43,298
Now me and Adam and Mike
were older, and we knew it.

1867
01:38:43,382 --> 01:38:44,925
We were about to put out a new record,

1868
01:38:45,008 --> 01:38:47,302
and we were still very much
in the game though.

1869
01:38:47,386 --> 01:38:49,555
We were getting ready
to start all over again.

1870
01:38:51,348 --> 01:38:56,562
Headlining a huge festival is very
different from a nice turnout at CBGBs.

1871
01:38:57,813 --> 01:39:00,983
But shit, man. We didn't know it was
gonna be the last show we'd ever play.

1872
01:39:06,655 --> 01:39:08,490
A major loss in the music business.

1873
01:39:08,574 --> 01:39:12,953
Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys
has died after a long fight with cancer.

1874
01:39:13,036 --> 01:39:15,664
He was known as MCA,
and the three musicians together

1875
01:39:15,747 --> 01:39:19,001
were among the few
at the vanguard of a movement.

1876
01:39:19,084 --> 01:39:23,005
Yauch was a self-taught musician
and later a filmmaker.

1877
01:39:23,088 --> 01:39:27,050
Adam Yauch, MCA, was 47 years old.

1878
01:39:37,519 --> 01:39:39,897
I mean, we all have
different types of friends.

1879
01:39:41,106 --> 01:39:43,400
There's the one
that's kind of an asshole...

1880
01:39:44,484 --> 01:39:46,653
but fun to be around once in a while.

1881
01:39:46,737 --> 01:39:48,655
Fun to get drunk and talk shit with,

1882
01:39:48,739 --> 01:39:52,409
but you'd never actually call on them
for physical or emotional help

1883
01:39:52,492 --> 01:39:54,328
'cause they're just unreliable.

1884
01:39:54,411 --> 01:39:58,540
Or there's a friend you see
once in a while, and it's a nice hangout,

1885
01:39:58,624 --> 01:39:59,791
and you're always like,

1886
01:39:59,875 --> 01:40:01,960
"I should spend more time
with that person,"

1887
01:40:02,044 --> 01:40:04,087
but for some reason, you just don't.

1888
01:40:04,922 --> 01:40:06,256
Then there's that true friend,

1889
01:40:06,340 --> 01:40:08,342
the one you'd
be on the phone with forever.

1890
01:40:09,134 --> 01:40:12,095
The one that helps you move
or meets you at the hospital

1891
01:40:12,179 --> 01:40:14,348
or has a permanent spot
on their couch for you

1892
01:40:14,431 --> 01:40:16,391
just in case you'd ever need it.

1893
01:40:17,309 --> 01:40:20,604
Now those types of friends are rare.
We all know.

1894
01:40:20,687 --> 01:40:23,440
But there's an even rarer type of friend:

1895
01:40:23,524 --> 01:40:25,442
The one that gets you motivated.

1896
01:40:25,526 --> 01:40:27,361
The one that not only
gets themselves going

1897
01:40:27,444 --> 01:40:29,196
and doing great things,

1898
01:40:29,279 --> 01:40:32,407
but says, "We should all
get together and do this."

1899
01:40:32,491 --> 01:40:34,535
And then does it.

1900
01:40:34,618 --> 01:40:36,578
Adam Yauch was that type of friend.

1901
01:40:45,045 --> 01:40:47,339
A once-in-a-lifetime type of friend.

1902
01:40:47,965 --> 01:40:50,217
The friend that makes it happen.

1903
01:40:50,300 --> 01:40:52,678
The friend that inspires you to go big.

1904
01:40:54,012 --> 01:40:56,723
Can we turn this up? This is a song
that Yauch wrote for Hello Nasty.

1905
01:41:01,103 --> 01:41:06,483
Now around 1990, Yauch went to India,
Nepal and met Tibetans in exile.

1906
01:41:06,567 --> 01:41:09,528
And he wanted to understand
their vow of nonviolence.

1907
01:41:10,445 --> 01:41:13,323
Why did they choose not to fight back
against the government

1908
01:41:13,407 --> 01:41:16,827
that would beat and imprison a person
just for waving a Tibetan flag?

1909
01:41:16,910 --> 01:41:18,370
He wanted to know more.

1910
01:41:18,453 --> 01:41:20,163
He wanted to help.

1911
01:41:20,247 --> 01:41:21,707
But in typical Yauch fashion,

1912
01:41:21,790 --> 01:41:23,959
instead of just writing a check
to some organization,

1913
01:41:24,042 --> 01:41:25,127
he started his own.

1914
01:41:25,210 --> 01:41:26,753
The Milarepa Fund.

1915
01:41:29,631 --> 01:41:32,384
And he organized the first
Tibetan Freedom Concert.

1916
01:41:32,467 --> 01:41:34,261
A massive two-day benefit concert

1917
01:41:34,344 --> 01:41:38,724
in Golden Gate Park
in San Francisco in 1996.

1918
01:41:40,100 --> 01:41:43,270
It was the biggest charity concert
since Live Aid.

1919
01:41:43,353 --> 01:41:45,022
What he did was historic.

1920
01:41:45,105 --> 01:41:48,483
Hundreds of thousands of people
had "Free Tibet" on their tongues

1921
01:41:48,567 --> 01:41:50,485
and on their bumper stickers.

1922
01:41:50,569 --> 01:41:52,863
They heard the call for nonviolence

1923
01:41:52,946 --> 01:41:55,782
all because of that guy in Beastie Boys.

1924
01:41:55,866 --> 01:41:57,576
I mean, who does that?

1925
01:42:03,665 --> 01:42:06,418
Yauch, Mike and I
have spent more time with each other

1926
01:42:06,502 --> 01:42:07,836
than with our own families.

1927
01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:09,004
Really.

1928
01:42:09,087 --> 01:42:11,131
So when it comes to my friend
the rapper Mike D,

1929
01:42:11,215 --> 01:42:14,843
AKA Sweet Lou, AKA Michael Louis Diamond,

1930
01:42:14,927 --> 01:42:16,553
I know him, right?

1931
01:42:16,637 --> 01:42:17,679
Like, everything.

1932
01:42:17,763 --> 01:42:19,348
And he knows me just the same.

1933
01:42:19,431 --> 01:42:22,184
But Adam Yauch, a puzzle.

1934
01:42:22,267 --> 01:42:23,435
A conundrum.

1935
01:42:24,645 --> 01:42:26,480
Finish up. I can't.

1936
01:42:26,563 --> 01:42:29,233
A labyrinth of ideas and emotions.

1937
01:42:29,316 --> 01:42:31,652
An enigma, a wild card.

1938
01:42:31,735 --> 01:42:34,530
And after 35 years of friendship,

1939
01:42:34,613 --> 01:42:38,492
I never knew
what he was gonna do or say next.

1940
01:42:38,575 --> 01:42:41,453
He was a living contradiction
of people's ideas

1941
01:42:41,537 --> 01:42:45,791
of how or what
you're supposed to be or do.

1942
01:42:46,625 --> 01:42:48,710
I mean,
he's the Buddhist guy who's telling me

1943
01:42:48,794 --> 01:42:53,173
how last night he was at this
after-after party for some fashion show.

1944
01:42:53,924 --> 01:42:56,802
And he's the
"Fight for Your Right (To Party)" dude

1945
01:42:56,885 --> 01:43:00,138
who went trekking through Nepal
on some kind of discovery quest.

1946
01:43:00,222 --> 01:43:03,016
And then he met with politicians
in Washington, DC,

1947
01:43:03,100 --> 01:43:06,478
letting them know what he'd seen
and what he learned.

1948
01:43:13,819 --> 01:43:17,573
He once told me that the main draw
to him about the Dalai Lama

1949
01:43:17,656 --> 01:43:19,491
was that he was a funny dude.

1950
01:43:21,076 --> 01:43:23,453
Now obviously
there were so many other reasons

1951
01:43:23,537 --> 01:43:26,540
he was drawn to spirituality,
faith and Buddhism, right?

1952
01:43:26,623 --> 01:43:29,918
But "the funny dude" made perfect sense
to me, coming from Yauch.

1953
01:43:30,002 --> 01:43:33,005
'Cause funny is very important.

1954
01:43:40,470 --> 01:43:45,434
Who gets to show up to work every day
only to work with their two best friends?

1955
01:43:46,226 --> 01:43:47,769
I did.

1956
01:43:47,853 --> 01:43:49,771
I guess that makes me one lucky duck.

1957
01:43:49,855 --> 01:43:54,985
I mean, it's not like all of it was easy
or highlight-filled every moment.

1958
01:43:55,068 --> 01:43:58,906
I mean, there'd be times when two of us
wanted to do something so badly,

1959
01:43:58,989 --> 01:44:03,243
when every cell in your body
is like, "Yes. We're doing this,"

1960
01:44:03,327 --> 01:44:05,287
only to have one of us say,

1961
01:44:05,370 --> 01:44:11,376
"That might be cool for you guys,
but I'm just not so into it."

1962
01:44:12,461 --> 01:44:16,298
And then I'd go home
and I'd complain to whoever would listen.

1963
01:44:16,381 --> 01:44:20,677
And I'd be like, "Oh, my God.
You won't believe what Horovitz did today.

1964
01:44:20,761 --> 01:44:24,097
I mean, he fucking--
He's driving me fucking crazy."

1965
01:44:24,181 --> 01:44:30,229
But as attached as any of us might
have been to any song or lyric or idea,

1966
01:44:30,312 --> 01:44:34,233
we still loved each other
and being together even more.

1967
01:44:43,283 --> 01:44:46,453
Well, just plug me in
Just like I was Eddie Harris

1968
01:44:46,537 --> 01:44:49,122
You're eating crazy cheese
Like you would think I'm from Paris

1969
01:44:49,206 --> 01:44:51,834
You know I get fly
You think I get high

1970
01:44:51,917 --> 01:44:54,586
You know that I'm gone
And I'mma tell you all why

1971
01:44:54,670 --> 01:44:58,340
So tell me who are you dissing
Maybe I'm missing

1972
01:44:58,423 --> 01:45:01,301
The reason that you're smiling
Or wilding, so listen

1973
01:45:01,385 --> 01:45:03,262
In my head
I just want to take 'em down

1974
01:45:03,345 --> 01:45:06,557
Imagination set loose
And I'm gonna shake 'em down

1975
01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:08,475
Let it flow like a mudslide

1976
01:45:08,559 --> 01:45:11,186
When I get on
I like to ride and glide

1977
01:45:11,270 --> 01:45:14,022
I've got depth of perception
In my text, y'all

1978
01:45:14,106 --> 01:45:17,234
I get props at my mention
'Cause I vex, y'all

1979
01:45:17,317 --> 01:45:19,403
So what'cha, what'cha
What'cha want?

1980
01:45:19,486 --> 01:45:22,698
I get so funny with my money
That you flaunt

1981
01:45:22,781 --> 01:45:25,784
I said, "Where'd you get
Your information from, huh?"

1982
01:45:25,868 --> 01:45:28,662
You think that you can front
When revelation comes?

1983
01:45:28,745 --> 01:45:32,374
Yeah, you can't front on that

1984
01:45:39,798 --> 01:45:42,301
-So what'cha, what'cha, what'cha want?
-What'cha want?

1985
01:45:42,384 --> 01:45:44,887
-So what'cha, what'cha, what'cha want?
-What'cha want?

1986
01:45:44,970 --> 01:45:46,972
Said, what'cha, what'cha
What'cha want?

1987
01:45:47,055 --> 01:45:48,056
What'cha want?

1988
01:45:48,140 --> 01:45:50,017
Said, what'cha, what'cha
What'cha want?

1989
01:45:50,100 --> 01:45:51,351
So what'cha want?

1990
01:45:51,435 --> 01:45:53,645
If I can, I just wanna cut in here
and say that I love these guys,

1991
01:45:53,729 --> 01:45:56,106
and I've grown up with 'em, and I think
they're great, and I just love 'em.

1992
01:46:13,999 --> 01:46:15,918
Mike D, Mike D.

1993
01:46:19,171 --> 01:46:22,591
Well, now, don't you tell me to smile

1994
01:46:22,674 --> 01:46:24,510
You stick around
I'll make it worth your while

1995
01:46:24,593 --> 01:46:27,095
My number's beyond what you can dial

1996
01:46:27,179 --> 01:46:29,389
Maybe it's because I'm so versatile

1997
01:46:29,473 --> 01:46:31,433
Style, profile, I said

1998
01:46:31,517 --> 01:46:33,977
It always brings me back when I hear
"Ooh, child!"

1999
01:46:34,061 --> 01:46:36,188
From the Hudson River out to the Nile

2000
01:46:36,271 --> 01:46:38,607
I run the marathon
To the very last mile

2001
01:46:38,690 --> 01:46:40,651
Well, if you battle me
I will revile

2002
01:46:40,734 --> 01:46:42,611
People always sayin' my style is wild

2003
01:46:42,694 --> 01:46:45,155
You've got gall, you've got guile

2004
01:46:45,239 --> 01:46:47,115
Step to me
I'm a rap-o-phile

2005
01:46:47,199 --> 01:46:49,785
If you want to battle you're in denial

2006
01:46:49,868 --> 01:46:52,037
Comin' from Uranus to check my style

2007
01:46:52,120 --> 01:46:54,331
Go ahead, put my rhymes on trial

2008
01:46:54,414 --> 01:46:56,625
Cast you off into exile

2009
01:46:56,708 --> 01:47:01,129
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2010
01:47:01,213 --> 01:47:05,717
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2011
01:47:05,801 --> 01:47:07,928
Jazz and AWOL, that's our team

2012
01:47:08,011 --> 01:47:10,222
Step inside the party
Disrupt the whole scene

2013
01:47:10,305 --> 01:47:12,140
When it comes to beats
Well, I'm a fiend

2014
01:47:12,224 --> 01:47:14,268
I like my sugar with coffee and cream

2015
01:47:14,351 --> 01:47:16,436
Well, I gotta keep it going
Keep it going full steam

2016
01:47:16,520 --> 01:47:19,189
Too sweet to be sour
Too nice to be mean

2017
01:47:19,273 --> 01:47:21,108
Well, on the tough-guy style
I'm not too keen

2018
01:47:21,191 --> 01:47:23,777
Trying to change the world
I'mma plot and scheme

2019
01:47:23,861 --> 01:47:26,113
Mario C. likes to keep it clean

2020
01:47:26,196 --> 01:47:28,574
Gonna shine like a sunbeam

2021
01:47:28,657 --> 01:47:30,409
Keep on rappin'
'Cause that's my dream

2022
01:47:30,492 --> 01:47:32,911
Got an A from Moe Dee
For "sticking to themes"

2023
01:47:32,995 --> 01:47:35,163
Now when it comes to envy
Y'all is green

2024
01:47:35,247 --> 01:47:37,332
Jealous of the rhyme
And the rhyme routine

2025
01:47:37,416 --> 01:47:41,962
Another dimension, new galaxy
Intergalactic, planetary

2026
01:47:42,045 --> 01:47:46,508
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2027
01:47:46,592 --> 01:47:50,637
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2028
01:47:50,721 --> 01:47:55,601
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2029
01:47:55,684 --> 01:48:00,105
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2030
01:48:01,940 --> 01:48:04,568
We're from the family tree
Of old-school hip-hop

2031
01:48:04,651 --> 01:48:06,904
Kick off your shoes
And relax your socks

2032
01:48:06,987 --> 01:48:08,989
The rhymes will spread just like a pox

2033
01:48:09,072 --> 01:48:11,450
'Cause the music is live
Like an electric shock

2034
01:48:11,533 --> 01:48:15,996
I am known to do the wop
Also known for the Flintstone Flop

2035
01:48:16,079 --> 01:48:18,207
Tammy D getting biz on the crop

2036
01:48:18,290 --> 01:48:20,083
Beastie Boys known to let the beat

2037
01:48:21,418 --> 01:48:22,461
Drop

2038
01:48:22,544 --> 01:48:24,963
Now when I wrote graffiti
My name was Slop

2039
01:48:25,047 --> 01:48:27,216
If my rap's soup, my beats is stock

2040
01:48:27,299 --> 01:48:29,468
Step from the table
When I start to chop

2041
01:48:29,551 --> 01:48:31,845
I'm the lumberjack
DJ Ad-Rock

2042
01:48:31,929 --> 01:48:34,056
If you try to knock me
You'll get mocked

2043
01:48:34,139 --> 01:48:36,308
I'll stir-fry you in my wok

2044
01:48:36,391 --> 01:48:38,352
Your knees'll start shakin'
And your fingers pop

2045
01:48:38,435 --> 01:48:40,938
Like a pinch on the neck
Of Mr. Spock

2046
01:48:41,021 --> 01:48:45,484
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2047
01:48:45,567 --> 01:48:49,988
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2048
01:48:50,072 --> 01:48:54,493
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2049
01:48:54,576 --> 01:48:59,373
Intergalactic, planetary
Planetary, intergalactic

2050
01:48:59,456 --> 01:49:01,500
Another dimension
Another dimension

2051
01:49:01,583 --> 01:49:03,836
Another dimension
Another dimension

2052
01:49:17,182 --> 01:49:18,225
Do it

2053
01:49:58,348 --> 01:50:00,934
Listen, everybody
Listen, one and all

2054
01:50:01,018 --> 01:50:03,437
We're down in Daytona
And we're havin' a ball

2055
01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:06,398
Said one week spring break
It ain't funny

2056
01:50:06,481 --> 01:50:09,151
Said two days passed
And I'm runnin' outta money

2057
01:50:09,234 --> 01:50:11,904
Said sleepin' in the car
'Cause the hotel's booked

2058
01:50:11,987 --> 01:50:14,489
I met a frat girl cutie
And I got hooked

2059
01:50:14,573 --> 01:50:16,241
I said, "What's your major?"

2060
01:50:16,325 --> 01:50:17,659
Said she majors in psych

2061
01:50:17,743 --> 01:50:20,120
Said I'm down with MTV
And I rock the mic

2062
01:50:20,204 --> 01:50:22,915
She said she wants to meet Alan
And Martha Quinn

2063
01:50:22,998 --> 01:50:24,458
I said my name's MCA

2064
01:50:24,541 --> 01:50:27,669
And I can let you in
I said I'm down in Daytona

2065
01:50:27,753 --> 01:50:30,047
-To get my kicks
-We're the Beastie Boys

2066
01:50:30,130 --> 01:50:31,840
-MTV
-Spring Break

2067
01:50:31,924 --> 01:50:33,509
'86

2068
01:50:33,592 --> 01:50:34,468
What's up with that?

2069
01:50:35,594 --> 01:50:38,555
Last week I was in Chanhassen, Minnesota
with the Beastie Boys.

2070
01:50:39,389 --> 01:50:41,099
They're rehearsing for their tour,
and they said,

2071
01:50:41,183 --> 01:50:43,018
"We want a piece of
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch."

2072
01:50:43,852 --> 01:50:46,522
-I would love to dunk on them.
-I might have to set that up.

2073
01:50:46,605 --> 01:50:47,481
What's up with that?

2074
01:50:47,564 --> 01:50:51,818
"You motherfuckers ain't shit
compared to us here" kinda vibe.

2075
01:50:52,277 --> 01:50:55,489
-And so by the time--
-Let that sit. Let that sit, Mike.

2076
01:50:55,572 --> 01:50:56,740
That was a good British accent.

2077
01:50:59,201 --> 01:51:00,285
Yo, Mike.

2078
01:51:01,578 --> 01:51:03,956
-Let's go, man.
-Come on, man. We got work to do.

2079
01:51:04,039 --> 01:51:05,916
-Word up, man. It's time to get ill.
-Let's go.

2080
01:51:08,252 --> 01:51:11,129
"Another plane, another train,
another bottle in the brain,"

2081
01:51:11,213 --> 01:51:14,091
the Beastie Boys rapped
in "No Sleep Till" here.

2082
01:51:14,800 --> 01:51:16,760
-Eric.
-What is Brooklyn?

2083
01:51:16,844 --> 01:51:20,097
-You must be talking about grunge.
-Grunge.

2084
01:51:21,849 --> 01:51:22,975
Grunge.

2085
01:51:24,184 --> 01:51:25,185
Grunge.

2086
01:51:25,269 --> 01:51:27,271
Did anyone notice
at Cozy Soup 'n' Burger,

2087
01:51:27,354 --> 01:51:30,148
when you get the burger,
they'd have an ice cream scooper,

2088
01:51:30,232 --> 01:51:32,985
and they have, like,
a drawer with the meat,

2089
01:51:33,068 --> 01:51:34,653
and they just, like, put it in there,

2090
01:51:34,736 --> 01:51:37,030
and they put the scoop of meat
on the grill?

2091
01:51:37,781 --> 01:51:40,826
Fun fact, when we were kids, we'd be like,
"Yo, one day when we're grown-ups,

2092
01:51:40,909 --> 01:51:42,953
we're gonna get a fucking meat drawer
at our house."

2093
01:51:43,036 --> 01:51:45,247
-For real. For real.
-It's true.

2094
01:51:45,330 --> 01:51:46,748
-Right?
-Definitely.

2095
01:51:46,832 --> 01:51:49,710
What is it like touring with
the Foo Fighters and Sonic Youth?

2096
01:51:49,793 --> 01:51:52,713
I mean, the Foo Fighters, I grew up
with these guys, since like I was--

2097
01:51:52,796 --> 01:51:54,673
When I was 4 years old, I used to--

2098
01:51:54,756 --> 01:51:56,717
-Yo, let me tell you--
-These kids is nuts.

2099
01:51:56,800 --> 01:51:59,052
These kids is, like,
off the hook, these kids.

2100
01:51:59,136 --> 01:52:02,014
Let me tell you, me and Sonic Youth
go back like babies and pacifiers.

2101
01:52:02,097 --> 01:52:03,015
-That's right.
-For real.

2102
01:52:03,098 --> 01:52:06,310
-These kids is, like, gone.
-Yo, I used to wash dogs with Thurston.

2103
01:52:06,393 --> 01:52:08,604
Man, we already washed that dog already.

2104
01:52:08,687 --> 01:52:11,064
-You don't have to get mad at me.
-We washed it!

2105
01:52:11,148 --> 01:52:13,901
What's up, man? Y'all can't wash dogs
for the rest of your life, man.

2106
01:52:13,984 --> 01:52:17,070
Let's go on tour, man.
You know, let's go do some shows.

2107
01:52:17,154 --> 01:52:20,282
So we are psyched, and we are surprised.

2108
01:52:20,365 --> 01:52:22,117
But we are also--

2109
01:52:23,410 --> 01:52:25,746
We are also surprised that Rick--

2110
01:52:30,209 --> 01:52:35,130
"And we were also surprised--
Rick was Russian?"

2111
01:52:36,507 --> 01:52:39,510
That's why we, like, click. All these,
you know, groups just, like, click.

2112
01:52:39,593 --> 01:52:41,970
We're running like one big clique.
You know what I'm saying?

2113
01:52:42,054 --> 01:52:43,347
What was your favorite part of the show?

2114
01:52:43,430 --> 01:52:46,683
I think when we came out was a good part.

2115
01:52:46,767 --> 01:52:48,810
-What do you say?
-I think when these dudes were on,

2116
01:52:48,894 --> 01:52:50,562
when they were playing "King of Rock"
and we were on,

2117
01:52:50,646 --> 01:52:52,356
that was probably the best part.

2118
01:52:52,439 --> 01:52:55,526
-Yeah, the little flash pot, yeah.
-I think that's the greatest--

2119
01:52:55,609 --> 01:52:57,694
-It's just our clique.
-Yeah, it's a united clique.

2120
01:52:59,238 --> 01:53:00,531
'Cause you know--

2121
01:53:00,614 --> 01:53:02,950
-Mike's lost his fucking mind.
-Shit.

2122
01:53:03,033 --> 01:53:05,369
What the fuck is wrong with Mike?

2123
01:53:06,370 --> 01:53:08,205
You need shoes to go with those,
my brother.

2124
01:53:08,288 --> 01:53:09,623
Where are the shoes at?

2125
01:53:09,706 --> 01:53:11,750
I can't find the shoes or the suede pants.

2126
01:53:11,834 --> 01:53:14,253
When MTV comes across a video
that is visually striking

2127
01:53:14,336 --> 01:53:17,798
and pushes the boundaries of video making,
we crown it a breakthrough video.

2128
01:53:17,881 --> 01:53:19,591
"Shadrach" is interesting for two reasons.

2129
01:53:19,675 --> 01:53:21,552
First because the animation
is so well-done,

2130
01:53:21,635 --> 01:53:24,888
and second because it was directed
and animated by a member of the band.

2131
01:53:24,972 --> 01:53:27,599
Directors Jonathan Dayton
and Valerie Faris shot some footage

2132
01:53:27,683 --> 01:53:29,184
of the Beastie Boys in concert.

2133
01:53:29,268 --> 01:53:32,855
And then band member MCA took the footage
and painted over it frame by frame

2134
01:53:32,938 --> 01:53:34,648
to create some terrific animation.

2135
01:53:34,731 --> 01:53:35,816
Check out his handiwork.

2136
01:53:35,899 --> 01:53:38,694
This is the brand new one
from the Beastie Boys. It's "Shadrach."

2137
01:53:41,154 --> 01:53:42,656
Wait a second, Adam.

2138
01:53:42,739 --> 01:53:45,158
Wait one second. I'm sorry, Adam.

2139
01:53:45,242 --> 01:53:47,286
-Adam--
-What? What is it, David Cross?

2140
01:53:47,369 --> 01:53:49,746
What is--
I'm sorry, I'm just-- What is that?

2141
01:53:49,830 --> 01:53:51,331
What is it, Ben Stiller?

2142
01:53:51,415 --> 01:53:53,917
-Hey, guys.
-What? Who's--

2143
01:53:54,001 --> 01:53:55,752
-How you doing?
-Hey, Steve Buscemi.

2144
01:53:55,836 --> 01:53:57,212
Hey, how are you?

2145
01:53:57,296 --> 01:54:00,966
I'm sorry. I was walking down the street
to get my scratch-off tickets

2146
01:54:01,049 --> 01:54:02,426
and I couldn't help but overhear--

2147
01:54:02,509 --> 01:54:05,053
I just woke up.
But I thought I heard you--

2148
01:54:06,889 --> 01:54:09,391
I thought
I heard you mention Paul's Boutique.

2149
01:54:09,474 --> 01:54:12,186
Their newest album is called
Licensed to Kill,

2150
01:54:12,269 --> 01:54:14,438
and it went platinum
after only eight weeks.

2151
01:54:14,521 --> 01:54:15,564
Licensed to Kill, right?

2152
01:54:15,647 --> 01:54:17,191
-Ill.
-Ill!

2153
01:54:18,317 --> 01:54:19,401
That's "ill," Joan.

2154
01:54:19,484 --> 01:54:22,779
Well, I'm telling you.
I've got my stupid contacts in. Hold on.

2155
01:54:22,863 --> 01:54:25,616
Their album is called Licensed to Ill.

2156
01:54:26,116 --> 01:54:28,202
That's a stupid name for an album.

2157
01:54:29,036 --> 01:54:32,831
Everybody knows Paul's Boutique
was a huge commercial failure.

2158
01:54:32,915 --> 01:54:34,958
-An abject failure.
-It was a flop.

2159
01:54:35,042 --> 01:54:36,710
-Couldn't get any worse.
-Nobody bought it.

2160
01:54:36,793 --> 01:54:39,004
That must've been, like, so humiliating.

2161
01:54:39,087 --> 01:54:42,674
A huge massive failure.

2162
01:54:42,758 --> 01:54:45,344
-Thank you very much for reminding us.
-We all know that.

2163
01:54:45,427 --> 01:54:48,514
When that tree fell in the forest,
nobody heard that shit.

2164
01:54:49,723 --> 01:54:54,311
And so my question to you is,
like, how did you go on--

2165
01:54:54,394 --> 01:54:59,316
I mean, not even "how."
Why did you continue to go on as a band?

2166
01:54:59,399 --> 01:55:02,152
-But...
-Retroactively, as we all know,

2167
01:55:02,236 --> 01:55:06,949
it's now hailed as one of, like, the most
influential rap albums ever, right?

2168
01:55:07,699 --> 01:55:13,872
I'm just saying, Adam, that to me
it's kind of like a rap Pet Sounds...

2169
01:55:13,956 --> 01:55:17,835
...due to its dense use
of samples, layers--

2170
01:55:19,419 --> 01:55:21,630
Samples, layers.

2171
01:55:21,713 --> 01:55:22,923
Hip.

2172
01:55:23,006 --> 01:55:24,007
Hop.

2173
01:55:24,758 --> 01:55:29,221
And here you're talking about it like,
"Nobody liked it."

2174
01:55:29,304 --> 01:55:31,557
And I feel like you do this thing
where you're like,

2175
01:55:31,640 --> 01:55:34,351
"It wasn't good,
so I'm gonna say it wasn't good.

2176
01:55:34,434 --> 01:55:36,979
But I really I want you
to feel that it's good."

2177
01:55:37,062 --> 01:55:39,314
It's like a thing in your head
where you want us to feel bad,

2178
01:55:39,398 --> 01:55:40,774
but it's really
'cause you feel bad for yourself.

2179
01:55:40,858 --> 01:55:42,109
I don't wanna get into what it's about.

2180
01:55:42,192 --> 01:55:43,610
And this is not a big thing.

2181
01:55:43,694 --> 01:55:45,779
-Hey, Mike. How's it going, man?
-What's up?

2182
01:55:45,863 --> 01:55:47,364
-And tonight...
-Yo, what's up?

2183
01:55:47,447 --> 01:55:50,492
We're gonna world premiere "Jimmy James."

2184
01:55:50,576 --> 01:55:51,410
All right.

2185
01:55:51,493 --> 01:55:52,911
Is that from The Little Rascals,
where they go,

2186
01:55:52,995 --> 01:55:56,206
"What's your name?" "Jimmy James.
Ask me again, I'll tell you the same"?

2187
01:55:56,290 --> 01:55:57,875
No, actually it's from My Three Sons.

2188
01:55:57,958 --> 01:56:02,129
The episode where Uncle Charlie freaks out
with the cleaver on all the kids.

2189
01:56:02,713 --> 01:56:05,716
Okay, I think, when it comes to touring,
out of all of the tours we did,

2190
01:56:05,799 --> 01:56:08,760
I think, like, the weirdest person
we toured with is Mike, probably.

2191
01:56:08,844 --> 01:56:11,054
This kid is off the hook, man.

2192
01:56:15,601 --> 01:56:17,144
Hi, I'm Mike.

2193
01:56:17,227 --> 01:56:20,856
-So...
-I'm in a band called Beastie Boys.

2194
01:56:23,108 --> 01:56:24,359
Hello, man.

2195
01:56:25,736 --> 01:56:28,030
"Darkness at the break of noon.

2196
01:56:28,906 --> 01:56:31,658
Shadows over a silvery spoon.

2197
01:56:32,826 --> 01:56:36,538
Handmade blades, child's balloon."

2198
01:56:42,419 --> 01:56:44,880
Hey, don't miss the Beastie Boys,
'cause they're on tour, summer sweat '92.

2199
01:56:44,963 --> 01:56:46,924
-All right!
-What happens after?

2200
01:56:47,007 --> 01:56:50,052
-Hell, yeah!
-Where do you go next?

2201
01:56:52,971 --> 01:56:56,558
Party people, Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys
are on their way to your town right now.

2202
01:56:56,642 --> 01:56:59,353
And we're gonna be cold kickin' it live.
Ain't that right, fellas?

2203
01:57:03,815 --> 01:57:05,526
-Baby!
-What's up with that?

2204
01:57:05,609 --> 01:57:07,402
We already washed that dog already.

2205
01:57:07,486 --> 01:57:08,820
You don't have to get mad at me.