“The King” Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys | EP 167 | Hawk vs Wolf 

This is the first podcast where Tony seems nervous and Adrock is relaxed and actually wants to be interviewers

Seeing the joy in Ad-Rock's eyes when Julius is recounting the vert sesh is literally priceless. Nothing like seeing the human in your heroes

The look on Ad’s face watching his child talk to Tony is amazing.

I can still smell the brand-new cassette, hear the Sony Walkman, feel the wheels hitting gravel, riding home from the record store. Thanks ad-rock, MCA, and Mike D. RIPMCA

Liked upon clicking, Ad Rock appearing more is good for the world.

Paul's boutique is one of the most underrated albums of all time. The production and obscure samples on the album are insane. I am fortunate to have grown up with the Beastie boys. The music scene was different back then and much more exciting than it is today.

Ad-Rock is one of the coolest people alive. So effortlessly too.

I love how kind Jason and Tony were to Ad-rock's son.

I was there for the Madonna Tour and it was crazy. I will never forget it, the crowd did not get it at all, they hated them. It was awesome.

This is the most relaxed I haver seen ADRock in an interview.

IT's so rad watching Tony Hawk be a fan and be so excited to meet someone he looks up to.

A big connection between Beasties and skating = Spike

The In Sound From Way Out is very underrated. I can't believe it's never been used for a skate part.

In 1992 the culture of skateboarding change, the clothes, the boards, the wheels, the tricks, the look, Check your Head was also a major part of that culture change! 🔥🔥🔥

My heart skipped a beat. Excited for this one. Hoping for tales of the skate ramp at the studio

Out of my friends I was the one who owned the License to Ill vhs tape. We played that tape till the quality went bad. Every day after work I headed over to my friend’s apartment and watched that tape and blazed. Good times…

My favourite song to skate to growing up was "get it together" by a mile. Used to play it on cassette, when it started to get warped and worn out I re-recorded the song on a new mixed tape lol When I got a new board, at 41, the very first song I played was-- you guessed it. Beastie Boys are timeless

Beastie Boys forever, my biggest inspiration.

Thank you HvW for having The King Ad Rock on the show. I grew up with these guys and even saw the Young and Useless in NYC- Paul’s Boutique Changed everything for me. Still one of the greatest HipHop lps of all time. Still love guessing the samples on that record and play it weekly. Later when Ill and Check and all the Spike Jonez directed vids hit they further cemented the skate connection. Seeing them live was always incredible. In the round in Madison Square Garden on Intergalactic was a trip. Thank You for another great show

Summer of '86 I was about to be a freshman in HS. I was staying over at a school friend's house and brought my skateboard (it wasn't widespread at that point). My friend introduced me to his neighbor named Paul. Paul skateboarded as well and drove a nice '73 Beetle. We talked about skateboarding and VWs. He said he was going to be a senior in HS and that we'd go skating at lunch. School year started and we skated together. We'd go up to the Quad (U of I) to skate, hang out with Betties, punks, SHARPs. We had a core group of guys that always skated together. This was a whole new world for me. We went to all ages shows. He go me into bars that had bands we liked. People recognized me when we went out and it was a good feeling. We went to the record store in the winter and he bought the License to I'll LP. We went to his (parents) house and put that record on. We listened to both sides and didn't say a word. He made me a tape from the LP and that's all I listened to for two full weeks. Beastie Boys reminds me so much of that time. I was very fortunate to be a freshman that skated good, befriended some good older people and experience so much compared to my peers. When Paul graduated he moved out of state. We'd always hang out when he came back to town. We eventually lost contact. Such is life

jason asking adrock “friends with LL cool J?” lol adrock discovered LL cool J and produced some of his earliest records. ❤

RIP MCA...agreed. Great guest and chatter. Makes the Monday a happy one.

The video for 3 MCs and 1 DJ is one of the best things on the internet. Did he just say their music wasn't good? Tell that to the rest of hip hop royalty. They are widely respected by generations of the hip hop and skateboarding communities. Made my day seeing him on here.

He's such an intelligent self aware guy.

I specifically came to see the Beastie Boys when they toured with Run DMC. So did a lot of other people who came to see them in D.C. in 86. Loved that show!

It was hard for me to get into street skating back in 91 when I had put so much focus on ramps one day they were no more ramps to do airs but the air became doing a backside heelflip down a ten stairs. Now skating FDR loving going up the no masters wall and doing a turn is priceless. thank you skateboarding.

Skateboarding, Beastie Boys and Re-Animator. My childhood summed up.

Pauls Boutique is a masterpiece. We had the boombox and the halfpipe and the bonesbrigadevideoshow in daily rotation from 89 forward in nowhere Ohio. I had a MikeMcGill, Jeff Kendall pumpkin, and some yellow trackers. No handrails back then. Just slashes and ollies on boards that were tanks. I still roll and still love the BBoys. I bought the double vinyl years ago. I think my 84 Chevette ate that tape

Beastie Boys Forever! ♾️❤️✨

Beastie Boys - Girls/She's Crafty 7" was my first ever record.

Best podcast I've watched in a while.

I can't wait to buy that Birdhouse Grand Royale collab deck!!

Man if only adrock knew how much some young Michigan punk skateboard kids in the early 90s listened to pauls boutique over and over and studied the shit and loved check your head and listen to it over and over. We thought yall were fn geniuses bro. Thanks for the mooosic!

Best part of this is Tony quoting "Find one in every car" - Miller from Repo Man

Don't want this interview to end!!

The King Adrock!

Wish I could have seen the BBoys in concert. They are my high school and still today my favorite ! ❤️

I love that he's casually wearing a 7-11 hat like a younger dude. This is one I'm watching all the way through.

I just watched Tony on Celebrity IOU with the Property Bros and it was cool of him to hook up his videographer friend with a workspace 🙌

Shout out to the people that were sitting around in the early/mid 90s being introduced to beastie boys and green day and offspring and blink. Those albums were like an introduction into what the 90s would become and be remembered as.

3:56 back in the 90s, me and a mate went for a drunk sesh, and I watched him land 360 flips of 3 stairs in bare feet, was insane!

Great seeing Ad-Rock and meeting his son Julius! Beastie Boys are one of my inspirations for why I produce muzik. Shout-out to Hawk and Wolf as well! Thanks for this awesome interview 🔥

My philosophy on song writing: BANGERZ ONLY!!!

Cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce!

How did nobody mention the music video for Time For Livin?? The ultimate marriage of Beastie Boys and skateboarding. Incredible video.

Best live show I’ve ever seen, beastie boys Long Beach arena early 2000’s, multiple stages in the nose bleeds for the common folk, they rolled out multiple stages on wheels for the different genres, late late encore with heart attack man, causing everyone to run back into the lobby, it was incredible!!

Ill communication was such a good time. Ad Rocks kid dropping in on Tonys ramp is crazy. I skated for 15 years owned a 5 foot mini ramp in my yard. I never dropped in on vert. I stood up there with my tail on the coping and said nope.

Legend. Adam is a pioneer. A down-to-earth one at that.

Paul’s Boutique - when I was a kid, I was into it roughly a month after it came out when I was able to score it. It was dope af, different from anything else. referencing ecstasy many many years before I knew what it even was

Dropping' science like Galileo dropped the orange

"I'm like Sam the Butcher bringing Alice the meat." One of the greatest lines ever 🤙🤙🍻

That was amazing! Love Paul's Boutique but Hello Nasty is my all time favourite Beastie Boys album.

i loved every minute of this! thanks guys!

Love The Beach Boys.

Damn, I only see the Beastie Boys as kids, look at Ad Rock now all grown up :'(

Hell yeah, cant wait to listen. 3 absolute legends.

This is phenomenal. 🔥🔥🔥

SWEET!!! So excited to watch!

Hawks right, and for me also with Egg Man, that’s BB’s “boy named Sue” great story, it’s a journey and you go with them.

Awesome episode! Please get Jeff Ament on the show! He's doing great things in Montana for the skatepark scene.

I describe this as another 🔥 ep. 💜 I saved up babysitting $ for both Check Your Head & Ill Communication shows in DC 🖤 Ad-Rock being Ad-Rock is punk rock, it's the best!

If Joe Strummer and Mick Jones was there on the show, the world would have imploded......A Beastie, and a Hawk, oh my.

Good on ya teaching people how to skate like that man you're really doing something positive for the world. 😊

The lumberjack DJ Ad-Rock ❤

Beastie Boys is Life !

Tony is fanboying so hard it's adorable

Hearing about Ian Fidance just casually skating with the Hawkster and Ellis is funny cause i still remember him as the unofficial 4th member of Cum Town

This was Gen-X punk dad paradise.

Egg man was one of my favorites on Paul's Boutique! (and even more now that I'm bald) Love that Tony Hawk and I were feeling the same song in the summer of 89. (A little bummed that Ad Rock himself doesn't like it)

30:47 Jason puts himself down but he too has staying power. I forgot about AD Rock yet I know all about Jason. Everyone is going to remember Jason after 2025.

I remember going to a demo at this skate shop called Rick's. Natas and Jim Theibaud were there. Paul's boutique have just come out that week, and there was a 12 ft wide 4 ft high mini ramp in the back they were skating on. We have this little piece of shit boombox sitting on top of the ramp and I stuck the tape in it and Hey Ladies started. Someone went to put another tape in and they demanded they keep Paul's Boutique in there. I don't remember who it was but one of them asked can I have this and I was like no. Lol

Great interview!

All hail Cardiel… but also, all hail BEASTIE Boys!

I could watch another hour or 2 of this interview 🤘😎 you're also right about how music and skate video co-exist so well together cause if it wasn't for daewon song segment on Rodney Mullen vs Daewon Song Round 3 I would've never heard of the The Killers. Also I just wanna say "Hey Julius keep skating bro!!!"

I definitely skated to License to Ill back in the 80’s.

Cool slice of life thanks dudes💯

Ardrock Mca and me Mike D ! So awesome you got the B boys on ! Best one ever ! Saw you guys live for Check Your Head at Rose Land best show ever .. Thanks for the memories Adrock ! Sincerely Mike M .

Holy snapper still holds up. Their best HC song

how did i miss a rewards run?! goat podcast. half of me wants it to take of the world, the other half likes how its low key and kinda underground. skate/punk type shit. also this is such a naturally wholesome podcast. i only wish the episodes were longer 😢

I STILL have my Red Cassette tape!

Hell yeah X-ray Spex is suuuuch an amazing band. Poly Styrene screaming her lungs out on live tracks is just incredible.

Check Your Head was so influential for the Questionable Plan B video. Paul's Boutique was my fave. MCA 🙏

Julius seems like a nice kid :)

Can you imaging seeing The Reanimator with most of the Clash and John Lydon at a movie theater? Wild!

The King Ad Rock!!! 🤩

Hey Guys just listened to Sicklers pod (please guys, have him on). Love you Jason. Much love from Sweden.

AHHH YEA……🤘🏻

On a macro level, it’s almost as though we all had the same childhood, which was, listening to Ill Communication while we stole plywood from construction sites to build our ramps and half pipes, or was it just me?

Such a perfect guest to have on! What are the chances of a future episode with all the Beastie Boys?!?!

When I played drums in Gorevette, we opened 15 or so shows for Blondie for 500 bux a show.

Loved egg man! We all dressed in black..

About the sample clearance thing, the original version of "3 MCs and 1 DJ" went "Bug out to the Mike 'every single day'" (Snoop Dog sample), instead of "Bug out to the Mike 'all the time'". Apparently they couldn't get the clearance.

That kid has some serious musical DNA between Ad-Rock and Kathleen Hanna

Birdhouse x Beastie Boys collab let's freakin' go!

Everyone I skated with or chilled with listened to The Beasties. Grandmas are listening to Beastie Boys now. That's wild.

"AD-ROCK! GO YOU GET IT?!? YOU WERE THE SHIT!" "ILL COM AND PAULS WAS EVERYTHING TO COOL PEOPLE!"

Tony and Jason, are you sure you didn’t just interview Kevin Pollack impersonating Alan Arkin? Mad respect Ad-Rock

Julius seems like a sweet kid. Reminds me of my nephew

I like that tail waxing for shove its hack. Great show, Beastie for LIFE SUCKAS!! LOVE YOU GUYS, KEEP SHREDDIN'!!!!

dope interview..somehow i ended up with AdRock’s old coffee table thru friends of friends haha