Beastie Boys are legends, MCA came up with the beat playing backwards, one of the best hip hop tunes ever. Amazing storytelling. Beastie Boys are all about fun and sending a positive message, definitely get in to them. Their albums Licensed to Ill and Paul's Boutique are beyond fantastic. Check out "Car Thief" or "Get It Together ft Q-Tip"
This was on their first Def Jam Album. MCA didn't have involvement until "ILL Communication". this was Beasties and One of the Goats Rick Rubin. License to ILL Pauls Boutique than Check Your Head and then ILL Communication with Grand Royal..which both the last were the Beastie Boys own production company partnership with MCA
Edit: this is their beat, not Run DMCs Incorporating a sample from “I Like Funky Music” by funk act Uncle Louie (featuring Walter Murphy, best known for his iconic '70s instrumental “A Fifth of Beethoven”) “Paul Revere” was so influential, N.W.A. even performed a bawdy version at early gigs.
My understanding is that it's both a Run DMC and Beasties beat. There was a beat that didn't make the cut for a Run DMC album, this was the beat that MCA decided to play in reverse and tinker with. Then he and Adrock built the rest of Paul Revere on top. I think that's why two members of each group have songwriting credit.
@@control_the_pet_population Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2012, Diamond recalled, “Run from Run-DMC was there, and he was like, ‘Man, this is crazy.’ But Yauch recorded this beat, bounced it to another tape, flipped it around-this is pre-digital sampling-and bounced it back to the multi-track tape.” According to Diamond, the backward beat was more than an inspired addition-it redefined the track. “The reversed beat basically became ‘Paul Revere.’ Yauch saw this thing we couldn’t see-and he killed it.”
@Jodi_Johnson I misspoke in my original reply, it's not two members of each group credited as songwriters. Horowitz is the only Beastie credited. I am familiar with the Rolling Stone article written right around the time of Yauch's death... but if he was so influential in the creation of the track, then why does he get no songwriting credit? That kind of thing is a big deal, it's how you get paid. I'll see if I can find an article... but prior to Yauch's death, I had read multiple sources that credit the basic drum pattern as an unused Run DMC beat that was played in reverse and expanded upon by the Beasties and Rubin.
That is the 808 drum machine. The same machine AD rock played for LL cool J's first hit, "I need a beat". The Beasties discovered LL and got him on Def Jam.
Got to see them in concert (in a dance club venue) in 1992. They started, "Now....." and tossed the mic into the audience. It was passed around, as everyone knew the words. The band loved it, the audience loved it. I miss story-telling rap/hiphop like Beastie Boys, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh....where you were enraptured with the story the entire time. Now, I'm a female minister. My vocal warmup is to do parts of this song. "His voice was hoarse, his throat was dry, he asked me for a sip." Said at speed, that's a tongue twister! Great reaction! RIP MCA.
that beat is Rick Rubin with a 808, backwards. First time anyone did it, and it's one of, if not THE, most epic beats in all of hiphop. Often imitated, never duplicated. This album revolutionized rap and hip hop, and everyone who came after it (and 'Paul's Boutique') were influenced by it.
This is the song on the album back in 1986 that if you couldn't recite this whole song,.........then you just were not cool. Nobody I knew cared much for the fight for your right song, but this, SHE"S CRAFTY, the NEW STYLE, and brass monkey were the shiners on this album.
Lil Wayne was probably 5 years old when this song came out. Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin came up with the beat by using a drum machine and running the beat in reverse.
so, THE BEAT!!!! rick rubin was producing them back then, its an old ass production trick, record the 808, flip the analog tape on the 4 trak, then record over the reversed beat! AND YES, ITS BEASTIES BEAT!!!!!!!!
Beasties Boys are 80s into 90s hip hop these are their beats even though this is the age of sampling that was really controversial between Rock and Pop artists feeling like the hip hop crews were stealing their work. Beasties Boys helped bring back a classic Rick band Aerosmith in a song called Walk This Way, a complete colab hit. Love you are discovering rap roots
Ther's only a few years between the very first Hip Hop tracks and Paul Revere so it would be pretty hard for them to be swiping beats. Remember the Beasties were so early they discovered LL, and taught Public Enemy everything they know about touring.
Check out 3mc's & 1dj next. Piped in live as their performance for an Mtv music awards. 1take, 1record, 1dj, no beat machine. Pure. 100 percent Hip Hop from concentrate at it's finest, enjoy!
i love seeing you react to the beats and rhymes. i was about 1 or 13 when i first heard this for the first time back in the 80"s because of my older brother. game changing shit baby!!
Story goes the Run was in the studio when the b boys and Rick Rubin were cutting the song. Run accidentally loaded the tape into the machine wrong playing in reverse. They decided to keep it that way.
1989 high school graduate, listen to what keeps you young! Look at the album cover, plane identification says EATME, as a high school teen the Beasties Boys were the shit!
I'm 55 going on 56 I've been listening to music all my life even Jazzy Jeff from Fresh Prince like Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince he could not even duplicate the Rhythm that the Beastie Boys are doing for Paul Revere because he's playing the records backwards he scratching the record backwards and that was unheard of back then yes and that is the original beat for the song
You have to remember back then you couldn't just reverse sounds like that with a computer. If I'm not mistaken they were using reels. A lot of beats and samples had to be cut and spliced. Something like this was much more difficult to do at that time.
This is Beastie Boys beat not Run-DMC, although Run-DMC did give them the song Slow and Low, that was originally written for Run-DMC, but they didn’t like it, so they gave it to the Beastie Boys who knocked it out of the park
How could they be before? When in the Beastie Boys Film Mike D and Ad Rock stated they wanted to be like Run DMC and Russell Simmons was the Brother of Joseph Simmons, known as Run or DJ Run.
If you like a good story song, checkout “Rosemary Lily and the Jack of hearts” by Bob Dylan. He’s a legend. Also, more recent story song “the mariners revenge song” by the Decemberists. Really interesting instrumentation on that one too.
Beastie boys got lots of the other started, they were first, Eminem got shit from them🥪✌️ ask him, these guys deserve credit. No fake ass shit, they're great in there time, well, so good they were ahead of the time.
