Beastie Boys - Root Down (Official Music Video) 

I'm in Svalbard and im pretty sure I'm the only one at 78 degrees north drinking wine and crushing bb right now! I feel special just like bb - 41 btw

50 here, and I will always Love the BB's!

your message was too late....

ditto

They reminded me like the classic band from the day! All can sing and play multiple Instruments... that's a true band!

they were way ahead of their time.

Beastie Boys came out in 86' I was only 10 years old and I played there cassette on my walkman over and over and over... I fell in love with their music, them when I was a little whippersnapper!!

@@countloco5362 so great to read comments like that. much love beastie fam

Dig Jimmy Smith’s LP for the Full Experience

"This song still hits." Forever.

It’s never too late.

Ditto.

Now THATS a record

Find "free zone mix" version, I love the intro music

Paul Humphrey - drums Wilton Felder - bass guitar Buck Clarke - congas, percussion Arthur Adams - guitar Album: Jimmy Smith - "Root Down""

That’s all looped from the original song, also called Root Down.

That's why Jimmy Smith is the man

Mee too!!!! They're my favorite

Same here!

43 and used to hit the skating rink at 9 not knowing what brass monkey was.. kids nowadays will never know this music...

@@stevethorsen7614 i know this music cause im a hiphop/rap fanatic

@@stevethorsen7614 BB is timeles, so yeah, they will hear it!

It's all a sample from a live 1972 album by the jazz organist Jimmy Smith

You buried the lead...the sampled Jimmy Smith track is literally called "Root Down (And Get It)."

The bassist is Wilton Felder. Same guy who played for Jackson Five and Marvin Gaye in the 70s.

I'm not sure if any of the band members even played an instrument for this track. It all sounds like samples from Jimmy Smith's Root Down.

Good God...one of the best comments ever written. You sir are legit. Two movie scenes come to mind....About a Boy...kid walking with headphones one....shake ya ass. The other is Michael Bolton in traffic in Office Space...so fucking funny.

Trying to find a clever enough way to say that's one of the most awesome quotes ever. Can't come up with anything to do it justice, and I defy anyone to try. the fools.

Exactly🫣🫡🫠 STIL.¡!

Same.

Seriously might be the #1 comment ever left on a video. Congratulations sir!

Haha quality 👍

Damn thats how old my dad is. I wish he got into beastie boys lol

Grandmas can slamdance too thats totally punk rock

mca would be around that age how is that unusual

@@atravelerofbothtimespace4172 she said her kids not her grandkids

I saw kick it root down on my minecraft title screen so I googled it and found this.

Its 2020, times have been better.. song is still the shit!

2020 ... Brasil

(2020, up rocks still steady Yo!

2020, im coming back with a comment in 2021

the artist lasts on in his art in the best case !? the would be some other way of b-boyin and another expectation at the quality of hiphop music in generell without the influences the beasty boys took

Beastie boys best

Beastie boys

Yauch will always be with us - much like Phife Dawg - Big L - Tupac Shakur - JMJ - Scott La Rock .... (too many to name)!!

.... Prodigy (Mobb Deep) ..... etc. All of them died far too young & will never be forgotten! Hip Hop legends!!

Playing in punk bands before this definitely helped them

@resngaming2640 Hell yes. You might be one of only people that knew they in punk way before hip-hop.

@@shortbusdriver83 yessir!! Egg Man was actually re used from one of their punk band songs

Not on this tune, however! All instruments are sampled from an old Jimmy Smith record.

@larmstrong80 Well of course. Like most rap or hip hop they heavily used sampling, especially the early albums. But they also started out as a punk group, so no sampling there!

they were born before that

@@bizyizziaz4831 not them dip shit

Word is bond man I like that in you. Absolutely true.

@@bizyizziaz4831 you're not hearing my man. He might have been properly aged FOR THEIR RECORD RELEASES. Just think a minute you can do it.

👍

Rebel 🤣 love it

Exactly. Spot on!

Really, they are paying respect to their peers, Beastie Boys came out at the same time Run DMC and dudes like that. BB are one of the groups that paved the way, a founding sound of hiphop that gets downplayed too often as a novelty act just because they were white. They had a unique sound that no could really bite, except trippy bands like Dassen 3 from Japan, that was heavily inspired by them.

There wouldn't be an LL Cool Jay if it wasn't for BB, they gave his sample tape to Rick Rubin a founding member of Def Jam Records. BB were at the front of the genre even bk when Malcolm Maclaren come out with Buffalo Girls in 84.

Indeed. They were always, always respectful of the culture, which was very important to me.

WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT POSER?! They are the CULTURE!!!!!

Fuckkkk yeah !!!!!

Keep it up

Love them! Also the free down mix to this song is amazing. I need to watch the doc I’ve heard great things. They are one of my favorites behind Tribe.

@@maximilliangoffman3871 yeah I have been searching for there rare stuff, there isn't much else out there I haven't heard I don't think . I know they were on public enemy number won (tune) recently (apart mca obviously).

Who else can you think of for an immediate consideration, as to the big "greatest group ever"? The Beatsie boys are the only group on my list that hasn't ever been questioned or disregarded. Thanks for telling the truth, righteous.

@@vspec17 agreed. We're mesmerizing, tantalizing, captivating, devastating 😅(triple trouble).

- the Prodigy sampled that :-) both are my number ones in my life :-)

Too bad is censored here :(

It’s an interesting story, The Beastie Boys and Prodigy toured Australia together for The Big Day Out Festival and Beasties asked Prodigy NOT to play “Smack my Bitch up” Prodigy thought it was hypocritical given the Beasties history so they sampled that line for their song “Funky Shit” Beastie Boys were good sports though and allowed it 😂

nope. just manhattan-type jewish kids havin' fun.

Speaking as an 80s/90s NYC kid (born in '73), it was a bit of mixed bag. We were definitely at the epicenter of multiple influential artistic and social movements, but it was a far more dangerous place back then. It's hilarious hearing present-day politicians talk about crime in NYC being out of control. Seriously, look at historic statistics concerning violent crime in NYC. I'd been robbed at gunpoint twice before I turned 18, and most of my friends were similarly robbed at least once. My brother was literally robbed by a group of machete wielding bodybuilders. I shit you not. Haha! So, growing up here had its ups and downs.

@@mifune9634 Absolutely true. All the talk about NY or California in the media today is all politically driven and don't match with the actual numbers. Go back to NY in the 70s-80s and some parts of it looked like a bomb went off. LA in the 80-90s was covered in smog and was the murder capital of the country. Today these cities are miles better and safer they they used to be. Sure they are more expensive but inflation is a constant over time everywhere.

Спасибо, я не знал этого. Действительно - Jimmy Smith - Root Down (and Get It) - 1972 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DP4LGEAfUEY.html

none of them were poor

FrankNice....exactly...actually they were doin' pretty well :)

@@franknicebx3636 dressed like one. Not saying they were

The same with icp!!!

Not sure they are the "only" group to not sell out, seems like you could say the same about Public Enemy, EPMD, Rakim and a whole bunch others I can't remember right now.

Mca was great

Rapper

he's good brother but Eminem is a walking statue ...

@@therealjulez7886 Eminem can't rap to save his life.

Bruce Lee is my favourite ASIAN martial arts movie star, Niel Degrassi Tyson is my favourite BLACK scientist. Why do people need to include race when talent should be enough?

it''s still fresh. The like/dislike ratio is of the charts. What's going on???

when else have you kicked it root down?

🤘! 2020

@@lucrativelyrics2004 1989

@@lucrativelyrics2004 1990

I skate so well to this record so thats music for you

respect to the woRd EriK !

Not the Generation then Amazing

whats a hipster? counter culture? Just part of the evolution (subjectively good or bad)

"Hipster" has the connotation of "counter culture lite." The stereotypical hipster is a young person from a wealthy background who embraces a Bohemian lifestyle for the sake of appearances. It's always been cool to be "alternative," so now we've finally reached the point where the alternative has been fully corporatized. In the past 25 years, young society has begun to place so much value on enjoying "obscure culture" (non-mainstream music, art, fashion, film, etc.) that the obscure is now peddled to us by the major entertainment companies who have finally caught on. Knowing that young people want to appear as though they have refined and unusual tastes, the corporate culture machine has adapted, . The result is that nowadays, having refined and unusual tastes is not only easy, but encouraged by mainstream society. Prior to this corporatization, a young person giving off a counter culture vibe would have had to put a lot of effort into it; being a fan of obscure culture was difficult, because that culture typically existed outside of the main lines of cultural distribution. Such a person would have had to find underground music shows (that aren't advertised on Facebook), to frequent second-hand record shops (that are rare and located only in hard-to-find ungentrified neighborhoods in cities), and to get all of their clothes at second-hand stores (back when that was a very weird thing to do if you weren't destitute). This weeded out the people who wanted to be alternative just for the sake of appearing alternative, so that the only people left were those who were truly willing to devote their entire lives to chasing the culture that they enjoyed. Now, all you have to do is head to Urban Outfitters and download music on iTunes to become a "hipser." Your app will tell you when your favorite underground band is playing a show several months in advance, and that second-hand record shop is now located next to a Starbucks in Williamsburg. The result is that anyone can be "alternative" now, and most of the people who embrace that image are actually not very interested in obscure culture, but are simply consuming whatever culture is fed to them by the mainstream (which now happens to be "counter culture lite"). I'm not saying that I embrace this view, I'm just explaining it.

@@Remembering00 in 1957 jack kerouac defined a hipster as "someone who can score drugs on any street corner in the world".

Yep! The term originated in the Jazz Age/1940's and it definitely had a "cool" connotation for a long time after that. It basically just meant "someone who is hip." I remember Elaine once called Kramer a "hipster doofus" on Seinfeld. Since that was the '90s, "hipster" itself simply referred to the fact that he wore vintage clothes and looked like a cool Bohemian-type, rather than being derisive (hence the need to add "doofus"!). It's interesting that you bring up Kerouac, because he coined the term "Beat Generation" (of which he was a member). The term "beatnik" came about later on and had a negative connotation much in the same way that "hipster" does nowadays, in that it referred to "posers," "try-hards," "Bohemians-lite," etc. Kerouac rejected the term and referred to himself and his contemporaries simply as "beats." Anyway, from what I'm reading online, the term "hipster" gained a mocking/condescending connotation around 2000-2003 when it was used to refer to the "Bohemians-lite" who were gentrifying Williamsburg at the time and emptying out thrift shops and used record stores using their parents' credit cards. Interesting stuff!

These guys were the original hipsters.

Laggards

Lol. Doing exactly that right now. And I'm 42. She's 15.

I discovered the Boys when my sons were teens, and I LOVED them, never stopped and so glad I can see & hear them to this day. If I'm feeling down or need to do some boring work, I turn up the BB & let them light me up! Their whole thing is so good, anyone of any age can get it.

I'm 38 got my daughter that's 10 listening to beastie boys..

Sonny Jones 😆 that’s so cool - I’m in my 40’s and I just introduced my 11 and 14 year old to this amazing music . Little Gen Z er’s

same!!! classic! im 45, daughter is 2....clip ended and she is like "more"

more like 12

@@bizyizziaz4831 and I still listen to Beastie Boys.

Good morning great coment nuf said !

Can't decide, will just go and listen to Sure Shot again to be sure...brb.

This entire album is just pure musical magic 💙💜❤💖

I only knew their most commercially successful songs by them growing up in the 2000s. Just got deep into their catalogue the last few months and CAN'T stop playing this track. Plus the misses is pregnant so it gets me even more pumped rapping it lmao.