I Finally HEARD.... BEASTIE BOYS - PAUL REVERE | REACTION 

What makes this beat and this song so unique and so SICK is that it's just a beat and bass played backwards and the DJ on the turn tables, and THAT'S IT. Nothing else, no keyboard, no other instruments or sound effects, just a beat backwards and the DJ scratching , and they rapped to that. No other song has ever been made like that. Beastie Boys , the real OG'S AND G.O.A.T'S

The beat is a reversed 808. To the best of my understanding, MCA came up with the idea and this is the first instance of it on record. It's been used extensively since.

I have the absolute pleasure of growing up during this time. I always have been and continue to be a Beastie Boys fan and I’m 53 years old! They are so bad ass

Bro this is my kind of rap! Paul Revere was the first ACTUAL rap I knew all the words of. Legends! RIP MCA my favorite Beastie!

I bought this cassette on first day came out 8$. Grade 8. Was epic

A house party is not complete without some Beastie Boys!!

MCA reversed the beat to get that scratch thump sound. I always loved it.

I remember when this jawn dropped. I was in grade school. It was so different but again, during this time in Hip Hop, there were so many songs that dropped that were equally as good and unique. "The New Style" and "Hold it Now Hit It" by the Beasties were also my jams

It’s natural! There was zero technology yet at that time for these sounds. Mixmaster Mike did it all. ❤

The beat is explained on the wikipedia page for the song. Basically, MCA recorded the beat, flipped it and reversed it. RIH MCA Hold it now Hold it now Hold it now HIT IT

I love the Beasties!!! ❤️‍🔥 I've still got their "License to Ill" album on vinyl from when it came out. A friend of mine, Michelle, gave it to me in Nov '86, as a 10th birthday present. Thanks, Michelle ;-) ❤

The Beasties are legend!!! I remember back in high school when I got to borrow my parent’s Ford Aerostar van and driving with my friends blasting my new Licensed To Ill tape on repeat. Still remember every word to every song, in order, to this day. 😂 RIP Adam ❤️

Again..80's...Em shouts them out alot a major influence 4 him he mentioned them in his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame speech💙

Thanks for acknowledging their talent and what they brought to Hip Hop.

I love how much you love this! Beastie Boys are awesome!

LOL I love the beastie boys, I met Mike D once - he was a close talker, but man their music is special AF - nothing like it ever!! Loved your reaction man lol you make me smile 😃

Greatest hip hop group ever!!!

Rick Rubin was beastie boys first DJ. He quit to create Def Jam and immediately signed BB. They then brought in Mix master Mike. Saw them live in 97, sophomore in highschool. Amazing experiences.

I remember my guys I hung out with back in the early 90s making there own huge speaker boxes out of wood and I at least 2x the back windows literally explode from playing this song at bass competitions 😂... oh the good old days ❤

Their album was called licensed to ill

my favorite Beastie song, the beat was so dumb, i love it.

I love your stoke level on this bro!

This was when musicians WERE ARTISTS! They could personally come up with 🧠 and play 🤚🏽beats themselves, ahhh the good 'ol days, I miss art in music, I'll be clear, I miss art & creativity in Rap and Hip-Hop not computerized bs & lyrics have no meaning (well the songs where people actually say words, don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about) '80's & '90's Rap & Hip-Hop will always be the best I guess those artists took all the good ideas! Rock and metal on the other hand is still great each band member comes up with and plays actual instruments themselves now that's something to admire and appreciate

I'm 63 and loved the boys

License to Ill (1986 Album) Number 1 for 10+ weeks. First Hip Hop group to have a whole album to do #1. Even beat out Run D.M.C

I’m late on the video. But I love the beasties cause they hit all of the marks. Killers beats and mixing board with the drops, the obvious lyrics and that the three of em share the mic beautifully. I grabbed the piano player and punched him in the face. And the sheriff’s after me for what I did to his daughter.

Enjoyed the energy, and the appreciation of a classic great band. You should dig into arrested development

Those happy noises you make at 6:06 remind me of "Beavis & Butthead", when Beavis would get all hyped and sugared up and turn into Cornholio

Drop it like it’s hot beat always reminds me of this one.

I got to see them in 1992 (Check Your Head tour) in a club-type venue. They started, "NOW......" and tossed the mic into the audience. It was passed around and those lucky enough got to rap a bar. The audience loved it, the band loved it. Everyone knew the words! You probably know it, but "ill" was quite the popular word in the '80s. Between Beasties' License to Ill, and Run-DMC's "You Be Illin'."

Long before the independent army.. the Beastie Boys were undeniably enjoyable. Even for those of us that didn't listen to much between one era and the next

Legends, pioneers....

Dat shit hits home

Skated to this jam....

Slander and the beastie boys are never in the same sentence

It’s crazy that Mike D is Screech from Saved By the Bell’s brother

WAHHHHHH...love it

🔥Check out "Brass Monkey"

I'm 50. I was 12 when I was listening to this.

When we was growing up ⬆️ in the 80s if you had a car 🚘 with some beat in it every hood was bumping this it makes yo speakers 🔊 vibrate everything around factuality

The Beasties music was all personality, they imitated NO One. I consider them second only to Run DMC as the best rap act ever. And unlike most rappers, they were actual musicians.

Seventh grade 1987 for me. Beastie for life

Kendrick used this beat on LUST.

It's T La Rock and Jazzy Jays "it's yours" backwards

This beat is from T-La Rock it's yours in reverse. T-La Rock is one of the Ole School like Busy B that put Hip Hop on the map

3 mcs and 1dj great beastie boys

Who remembers the Fat Boys!?! Dude could beat box like no other! RIP😢

they just all fun.

3rd time🔥🌋whAaa

Had to be there 🙌🙌🙌🙌

Brought me back on this on!

Its all that

T la rock’s it’s yours played backwards .

I'll let someone else explain more fully, but about how they got that beat sound, I got one word for you to contemplate: backwards.

I thought of a good one for you. Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life" or Living Color "Cult of Personality"

and artist FALCO…. song AMADEUS

Are you like this all the time. God did good with you. 😊

rick rubin all the beats absolute genius

the beats are 808s in reverse. That's how. :)

Missy Elliott said it best. Let me work it put the best down and then reverse it!

SouthSide! Nice lid.

🤘🏻🤙🏼🤘🏻

I’m sad to say that I was a heavy metal fan and dismissed these guys until a few years later when Paul’s Boutique hit. Of course I soon realized what a mistake it was. But hey I was 16..

Best beat ever

I did it like this I did it like that I did it with a wiffel ball bat

Beastie Boys.......Goats. nothing more to say

3:25 close. License to Ill

Everybody knows the snare trap is all in reverse record

Rick Ross had a hit on this beat.

Sceez, you make the Beasties so much more tolerable and fun. 😁 Peace brother.

dood!!!!! 1st comment!!! ya gotta do Groove Holmes....

I just watched about 10 reaction videos in a row..every single one of them had 766 likes... assuming its a weird glitch

Boilubas is the 🔥 📛 👩‍🚒

🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🔥🔥🧯🧯

Pls review KRAFTWERK…. song is TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS

*Not bad hip hop from punk rockers.*

License to ill

These times and even those prior, like UTFO and Roxanne, were awesome. A little advice...don't get so damn high before making a video. Your span on YT will be short.

Reverse 808

Without the Beasties... Rap would have been a different gig ..

I prefer hip hop with lyrical content too. That tough guy stuff is meh.

Beasties don't play