1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:21,313 --> 00:00:23,273 -[man 1] All right. -[man 2] Okay. Hello. 4 00:00:23,357 --> 00:00:25,692 [man 3] Stand by. We got speed. 5 00:00:25,776 --> 00:00:27,069 -[man 2] You ready? -[man 3] Yeah. 6 00:00:27,152 --> 00:00:29,446 ♪ Now here's a little story That I got to tell ♪ 7 00:00:29,530 --> 00:00:32,323 ♪ About three bad brothers That you know so well ♪ 8 00:00:32,406 --> 00:00:34,910 ♪ It started way back in history ♪ 9 00:00:34,993 --> 00:00:36,411 -♪ With Ad-Rock ♪ -♪ MCA ♪ 10 00:00:36,495 --> 00:00:37,579 -♪ And me ♪ -♪ Mike D ♪ 11 00:00:40,290 --> 00:00:42,334 ["Sabotage" playing] 12 00:00:52,261 --> 00:00:53,595 [man] Who's your favorite Beastie Boy? 13 00:00:53,679 --> 00:00:55,806 I sort of identify with bits of all of them really. 14 00:00:55,889 --> 00:00:58,642 I guess MCA resonates. 15 00:00:58,725 --> 00:00:59,643 [man 3] Mike D. 16 00:00:59,726 --> 00:01:01,728 [woman] Ad-Rock is, like, big inspiration. 17 00:01:01,812 --> 00:01:03,230 When you listen to a group for that long, 18 00:01:03,313 --> 00:01:06,316 you go through phases of who you feel you're more connected to 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:07,651 at certain times in your life. 20 00:01:07,734 --> 00:01:09,027 My favorite is Mike D. 21 00:01:09,111 --> 00:01:11,864 He's really funny, but in, like, a subtle way. 22 00:01:11,947 --> 00:01:14,366 Do you have a favorite Beasties video over the years? 23 00:01:14,449 --> 00:01:18,120 Mine's actually an exercise video that never came out. 24 00:01:18,203 --> 00:01:20,873 Call the number on your screen right now! 25 00:01:20,956 --> 00:01:23,876 MCA, I feel like, was the leader of all of them. Kept them all together. 26 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:25,752 He's the one that comes up with all the crazy stuff. 27 00:01:25,836 --> 00:01:28,130 [man] MCA definitely played a large part in the world. 28 00:01:28,213 --> 00:01:30,215 Very influential man, a big heart. 29 00:01:30,299 --> 00:01:33,218 I always thought that Ad-Rock kind of encapsulated the coolness. 30 00:01:33,302 --> 00:01:36,763 It's a word that is not really used that much in these days, 31 00:01:36,847 --> 00:01:39,933 but I think it really suits me, as well as these guys. 32 00:01:40,017 --> 00:01:41,018 It's "macho." 33 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:42,644 It's a macho that we have. 34 00:01:42,728 --> 00:01:45,647 Because he's so honest. He's, like, brutally honest. 35 00:01:45,731 --> 00:01:47,357 We're not very talented musically, 36 00:01:47,441 --> 00:01:49,568 so we figured we'd try all kinds of different realms. 37 00:01:49,651 --> 00:01:50,527 Yauch. 38 00:01:51,028 --> 00:01:53,322 Yo, I'd just like to say, "What's up?" to my grandma. 39 00:01:53,405 --> 00:01:56,116 Because it's all about the bass guitar for me. 40 00:01:57,367 --> 00:01:58,619 [song ends] 41 00:01:59,286 --> 00:02:01,830 [cheering, applause] 42 00:02:01,914 --> 00:02:05,250 Yo, hold up, wait up, just sit down for a minute. 43 00:02:05,334 --> 00:02:06,668 It's not over yet. 44 00:02:07,419 --> 00:02:08,419 Go! 45 00:02:08,503 --> 00:02:10,506 [song resumes] 46 00:02:15,844 --> 00:02:17,846 [man] Their music has just been so influential. 47 00:02:17,930 --> 00:02:20,015 The soundtrack of my life, if you can call it that. 48 00:02:20,098 --> 00:02:22,184 It's the soundtrack of our lives. 49 00:02:22,267 --> 00:02:24,019 A lot of bands, they just break apart, 50 00:02:24,102 --> 00:02:26,688 and then they come back at the end. 51 00:02:26,772 --> 00:02:29,525 But they stayed together the whole adventure. 52 00:02:29,608 --> 00:02:33,362 ♪ I can't stand it I know you planned it ♪ 53 00:02:33,445 --> 00:02:35,572 ♪ I'mma set it straight, this Watergate ♪ 54 00:02:35,656 --> 00:02:38,700 ♪ I can't stand rockin' when I'm in here ♪ 55 00:02:38,784 --> 00:02:41,703 ♪ 'Cause your crystal ball Ain't so crystal clear ♪ 56 00:02:41,787 --> 00:02:44,998 ♪ So while you sit back and wonder why ♪ 57 00:02:45,082 --> 00:02:47,501 ♪ I got this fuckin' thorn in my side ♪ 58 00:02:47,584 --> 00:02:50,587 ♪ Oh, my God, it's a mirage ♪ 59 00:02:50,671 --> 00:02:53,465 ♪ I'm tellin' y'all, it's sabotage ♪ 60 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,885 -[song ends] -[man in audience] Yeah! 61 00:02:56,969 --> 00:02:58,345 [audience cheering, applauding] 62 00:02:58,428 --> 00:02:59,721 [Ad-Rock] All right. 63 00:03:03,308 --> 00:03:05,310 -[Ad-Rock] Yo! -[Mike D, indistinct] 64 00:03:05,394 --> 00:03:06,603 [Ad-Rock] Oh! 65 00:03:07,729 --> 00:03:08,730 [Mike D] What's up? 66 00:03:09,398 --> 00:03:10,858 Brooklyn! 67 00:03:17,781 --> 00:03:19,449 [Ad-Rock] Well, hi. 68 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:21,910 [inaudible] 69 00:03:21,994 --> 00:03:22,995 -Well... -[cheering quiets] 70 00:03:23,871 --> 00:03:25,539 Hello, everyone. 71 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:31,044 -Well, hi, everyone. I'm Adam. -[woman] Hi, Adam. 72 00:03:31,128 --> 00:03:32,129 And I'm Mike. 73 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:36,383 Also known as Michael Diamond or Mike D. 74 00:03:36,842 --> 00:03:39,094 And we're Beastie Boys from New York City. 75 00:03:43,182 --> 00:03:46,768 Now, tonight we're going to tell you the story of three kids 76 00:03:46,852 --> 00:03:48,520 that met and became friends 77 00:03:48,604 --> 00:03:52,191 and did all kinds of crazy stuff together for over 30 years. 78 00:03:52,983 --> 00:03:57,070 [Mike D] The two of us will do the best we can, because one of us isn't here. 79 00:03:57,696 --> 00:03:59,781 -Adam Yauch... -[cheering, applause] 80 00:04:02,367 --> 00:04:04,828 ...who you also know as MCA. 81 00:04:05,871 --> 00:04:08,373 We lost him in 2012 to cancer. 82 00:04:08,457 --> 00:04:11,376 And when Adam died, we stopped being a band. 83 00:04:12,127 --> 00:04:15,255 Yeah, it just felt too weird to do the band without Yauch, 84 00:04:15,339 --> 00:04:19,218 because, well, I mean, the band was his idea in the first place. 85 00:04:20,594 --> 00:04:23,138 So, although Yauch's not here with us, 86 00:04:23,805 --> 00:04:26,892 "What would Yauch do?" is always on our minds. 87 00:04:27,643 --> 00:04:30,812 But trying to imagine what Yauch would actually do is pretty hard, 88 00:04:30,896 --> 00:04:32,940 'cause he was very unpredictable. 89 00:04:33,023 --> 00:04:36,026 He was a wild card, but we'll get to that later. 90 00:04:36,109 --> 00:04:37,653 [female reporter] The Beastie Boys have arrived. 91 00:04:37,736 --> 00:04:39,821 Always on the cutting edge of fashion. 92 00:04:39,905 --> 00:04:44,117 When they're not on the red carpet, they are always at the shows in Paris. 93 00:04:44,201 --> 00:04:45,911 Look at the white dreads. 94 00:04:45,994 --> 00:04:49,790 The Beastie Boys are back after a six-year absence. 95 00:04:49,873 --> 00:04:51,667 Guys, that's a long time. 96 00:04:51,750 --> 00:04:54,169 What have you been up to? It's great to see you. 97 00:04:54,253 --> 00:04:56,255 -[Ad-Rock] Hey! -Actually, I know it sounds kinda funny, 98 00:04:56,338 --> 00:04:58,841 but we were actually captured by Sasquatch. 99 00:04:58,924 --> 00:05:00,008 [audience chuckling] 100 00:05:00,092 --> 00:05:02,594 [man] What we're gonna do right here is go back. 101 00:05:03,637 --> 00:05:05,764 Way back. Back into time. 102 00:05:05,848 --> 00:05:07,474 [audio playing backwards] 103 00:05:14,356 --> 00:05:20,112 Being a weird kid from, sorry, Mom, a weird family, is just kind of weird. 104 00:05:20,195 --> 00:05:21,780 But it's also pretty lonely. 105 00:05:22,239 --> 00:05:23,907 One day, I heard this band The Clash. 106 00:05:23,991 --> 00:05:26,994 ["Rubber Dub" by The Clash playing] 107 00:05:30,622 --> 00:05:31,665 [song fades] 108 00:05:31,748 --> 00:05:33,750 Not only did I love their music, 109 00:05:33,834 --> 00:05:37,546 but when I heard it, I knew there'd be other weirdos out there. 110 00:05:37,629 --> 00:05:38,964 I just had to find them. 111 00:05:39,756 --> 00:05:42,176 I found my first other weirdo at school. 112 00:05:42,259 --> 00:05:44,303 His name is John Berry. 113 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,891 One afternoon, we saw an ad in the back of this free paper called The Village Voice. 114 00:05:48,974 --> 00:05:51,685 It was for a band that we loved called the Bad Brains. 115 00:05:53,395 --> 00:05:54,855 [cheering] 116 00:05:54,938 --> 00:05:56,732 And the Bad Brains were playing this show 117 00:05:56,815 --> 00:05:58,942 down at this place called the Botany Talk House. 118 00:05:59,026 --> 00:06:01,737 [playing "Pay to Cum"] 119 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:04,823 So we go down to the club 120 00:06:04,907 --> 00:06:09,286 and there's, like, maybe all of 15 people in the entire place, 121 00:06:09,369 --> 00:06:11,205 and they're all grown-ups. 122 00:06:11,288 --> 00:06:14,499 But there was one other kid our age there. 123 00:06:14,583 --> 00:06:15,667 And he looked really cool. 124 00:06:15,751 --> 00:06:18,795 He had this long trench coat on from, like, a thrift store, 125 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:20,047 he had combat boots, 126 00:06:20,130 --> 00:06:23,258 he had these homemade buttons on his trench coat, 127 00:06:23,342 --> 00:06:25,886 and his name was Adam Yauch. 128 00:06:28,305 --> 00:06:33,519 [Ad-Rock] So I met Yauch and Mike and John Berry at a Misfits show in 1982. 129 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:36,396 It might have been Circle Jerks, 130 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,816 but I like the Misfits more, so I'm gonna say that it was at a Misfits show. 131 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:42,277 Now, somehow, me and my two friends heard 132 00:06:42,361 --> 00:06:45,113 that there were a bunch of kids hanging out in a ladies' bathroom. 133 00:06:45,447 --> 00:06:46,990 So we walked in there 134 00:06:47,074 --> 00:06:52,538 and we found a bunch of super cool-looking punk kids our age hanging out. 135 00:06:52,621 --> 00:06:55,332 And I actually recognized one of them, Jill Cunniff, 136 00:06:55,415 --> 00:06:57,376 'cause we were in fifth grade class together. 137 00:06:57,459 --> 00:06:59,169 And so she was my in. 138 00:06:59,253 --> 00:07:02,214 I also recognized one of the other kids in the group, 139 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:03,340 Kate Schellenbach, 140 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:05,425 'cause we grew up in the same neighborhood. 141 00:07:08,637 --> 00:07:10,681 [Mike D] Kate was just-- She was really cool. 142 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:12,432 She was also smarter than we were. 143 00:07:12,516 --> 00:07:16,979 And she was into, I don't know, more sophisticated, European kind of music-- 144 00:07:17,062 --> 00:07:20,148 Just-- Sorry to interrupt, but just to say that she was smarter than us-- 145 00:07:20,232 --> 00:07:22,192 -I mean, Kate's very smart, but-- -Sure, it didn't take a lot. 146 00:07:22,276 --> 00:07:24,069 -Not that it's saying that much. Okay. -But she was. 147 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:25,153 -Fact. -Correct. 148 00:07:26,488 --> 00:07:30,200 So, she was into cool bands like Kraftwerk. 149 00:07:30,284 --> 00:07:33,704 And she lived in this loft on 14th Street with her mom 150 00:07:33,787 --> 00:07:36,206 that was this big open old-style loft, 151 00:07:36,290 --> 00:07:39,251 and in the center of all of it was her drum set. 152 00:07:41,962 --> 00:07:45,382 [Ad-Rock] My first punk rock friend was Dave Scilken. And he-- 153 00:07:45,465 --> 00:07:47,885 That's him on the left. And that's me on the right. 154 00:07:47,968 --> 00:07:49,845 So me and my best friend in junior high school, 155 00:07:49,928 --> 00:07:51,763 we're playing basketball outside of school, 156 00:07:51,847 --> 00:07:54,641 and we see this crazy-looking kid with spiked hair and a trench coat 157 00:07:54,725 --> 00:07:57,436 walking down the street, carrying a synthesizer. 158 00:07:57,519 --> 00:07:59,980 So we had to go over to talk to this kid. 159 00:08:00,772 --> 00:08:02,149 He was younger than us. 160 00:08:02,232 --> 00:08:05,194 He was in the sixth grade, and he was cutting school. 161 00:08:06,236 --> 00:08:08,655 Now, let that sink in. 162 00:08:10,282 --> 00:08:12,951 You're 11 years old in the sixth grade. 163 00:08:14,411 --> 00:08:18,165 At that time, our main hangout was at John Berry's apartment 164 00:08:18,248 --> 00:08:19,541 on 100th and Broadway. 165 00:08:19,625 --> 00:08:21,543 And that's where we'd play music. 166 00:08:21,627 --> 00:08:26,048 In the early '80s, everyone in our scene was in some kind of band. 167 00:08:26,131 --> 00:08:29,760 And Yauch kept pushing us to start a band with him. 168 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:31,595 Now he already had a name for it: 169 00:08:32,136 --> 00:08:33,263 Beastie Boys. 170 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:42,438 The band originally was me, Kate, Adam Yauch, John Berry. 171 00:08:42,523 --> 00:08:43,899 The name stood for 172 00:08:43,982 --> 00:08:48,612 Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Inner Excellence. 173 00:08:51,031 --> 00:08:53,367 The acronym alone makes no sense 174 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:56,119 because "boys" is already in the title of the band. 175 00:08:56,203 --> 00:08:58,580 So the name is ridiculous and redundant. 176 00:08:58,664 --> 00:09:01,875 And inaccurate, because there was a girl drummer, Kate. 177 00:09:02,709 --> 00:09:06,004 So, our very first gig was at John Berry's house, 178 00:09:06,088 --> 00:09:08,173 up where he lived, on the third floor. 179 00:09:09,341 --> 00:09:11,343 Yauch was turning 17. 180 00:09:11,426 --> 00:09:12,886 And Yauch's like, "You know what, 181 00:09:12,970 --> 00:09:15,472 I'm gonna have a party, and we're gonna play at it." 182 00:09:15,556 --> 00:09:17,432 ["Holy Snappers" by the Beastie Boys playing] 183 00:09:20,394 --> 00:09:25,482 And then, when we go up to play, somehow I got nominated to be the singer. 184 00:09:25,566 --> 00:09:29,194 Now, I was a super shy type of kid. 185 00:09:29,278 --> 00:09:31,029 I don't know why I ever agreed to this. 186 00:09:31,113 --> 00:09:33,490 [song continues] 187 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:40,372 I guess the main thing I remember is probably, like, 10 or 12 kids in a room 188 00:09:40,455 --> 00:09:44,459 maybe 12 feet wide by 20 feet long or something, just kind of, like, 189 00:09:44,543 --> 00:09:46,336 jumping up and down and bumping into each other. 190 00:09:46,420 --> 00:09:49,548 But it was all basically, like, friends having a good time. 191 00:09:49,631 --> 00:09:53,010 -[song ends] -[audience cheering] 192 00:09:53,886 --> 00:09:55,929 I wasn't in Beastie Boys back then. 193 00:09:56,013 --> 00:09:57,764 But I joined in 1983. 194 00:09:57,848 --> 00:10:00,475 John Berry wasn't into it anymore, and so he quit. 195 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:04,771 At that point, I was hanging out with Mike and Yauch and Kate all the time. 196 00:10:04,855 --> 00:10:07,983 I guess since I was standing there, I'm the new guitar player. 197 00:10:10,611 --> 00:10:12,362 [playing "The White Shadow"] 198 00:10:14,531 --> 00:10:17,576 [song continues] 199 00:10:17,659 --> 00:10:20,329 [Mike D] We were a hardcore band, but we kind of weren't. 200 00:10:20,412 --> 00:10:25,834 I mean, we were like Monty Python as much as we were Black Flag. 201 00:10:25,918 --> 00:10:28,378 [song ends] 202 00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:29,463 Introduce yourself. 203 00:10:29,546 --> 00:10:31,840 Yeah, yeah. So I'm Michael. I'm in the Beastie Boys. 204 00:10:31,924 --> 00:10:35,427 My name is Kate. I'm a Capricorn, and I have lint in my pocket. 205 00:10:35,511 --> 00:10:37,888 Now we're gonna get to an older, more mature member. 206 00:10:37,971 --> 00:10:41,517 -Give us your name. -My name's Ad, but you can call me Adam. 207 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,854 And I'm just hanging out here on TV. You know, your basic stuff. 208 00:10:45,938 --> 00:10:48,857 My name's Adam, as it says on my belt. 209 00:10:48,941 --> 00:10:50,943 Get a shot of Adam's belt if you can. 210 00:10:51,026 --> 00:10:53,320 How old are you? About 13, 14? 211 00:10:53,403 --> 00:10:55,030 -About. -Yeah. Twelve, eleven. 212 00:10:55,113 --> 00:10:57,157 So, we're getting a little older now. 213 00:10:57,241 --> 00:10:58,951 We're no longer 15. 214 00:10:59,034 --> 00:11:00,118 We're 16. 215 00:11:01,078 --> 00:11:02,788 We were into all kinds of music. 216 00:11:02,871 --> 00:11:06,500 We listened to soul and punk and rap and reggae. 217 00:11:06,583 --> 00:11:09,294 Rap was hard to find back then 'cause there was only a few 12-inches out. 218 00:11:09,378 --> 00:11:11,588 But we wanted to switch up our style. 219 00:11:11,672 --> 00:11:13,924 So we were obsessed with this stupid commercial 220 00:11:14,007 --> 00:11:16,176 for this ice-cream store called Carvel. 221 00:11:16,260 --> 00:11:20,138 [female voice] Hello, I'm a Carvel celestial person from outer space. 222 00:11:20,222 --> 00:11:21,890 My real name is Cookie Puss. 223 00:11:21,974 --> 00:11:23,559 [Ad-Rock] And someone had the smart idea 224 00:11:23,642 --> 00:11:26,979 to record a super stupid prank phone call song called 225 00:11:27,062 --> 00:11:28,230 "Cooky Puss." 226 00:11:29,314 --> 00:11:30,941 -[song playing] -[telephone line ringing] 227 00:11:31,024 --> 00:11:33,735 -[record scratching] -[man babbling] 228 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:37,531 -[woman] Hello, Carvel. -[Ad-Rock] Yo, man. Cookie Puss there? 229 00:11:37,614 --> 00:11:38,615 Who? 230 00:11:38,699 --> 00:11:41,660 Cookie Puss. I wanna speak to Cookie Puss, man. 231 00:11:41,743 --> 00:11:43,287 No. Nobody here by that name. 232 00:11:43,370 --> 00:11:45,330 Cookie O'Puss then. Cookie Chick... 233 00:11:45,414 --> 00:11:47,040 [Mike D] So, this guy Dave Parsons, 234 00:11:47,124 --> 00:11:50,294 he had this record store downtown called the Rat Cage. 235 00:11:50,377 --> 00:11:54,089 We would cut school to go hang out at this place, right? 236 00:11:54,173 --> 00:11:56,884 By this time, Dave started a small record label. 237 00:11:56,967 --> 00:11:59,678 Put "Cooky Puss" out as a 12-inch, right. 238 00:11:59,761 --> 00:12:02,890 And then something happened that we never thought would happen. 239 00:12:02,973 --> 00:12:06,268 DJs started playing our record in clubs. 240 00:12:06,351 --> 00:12:11,023 Then other people besides our 15 friends actually heard our music. 241 00:12:11,106 --> 00:12:15,319 And one day, I went to visit a friend at some weird high school temp job she had. 242 00:12:15,402 --> 00:12:17,738 And we heard that DJ Afrika Bambaataa 243 00:12:17,821 --> 00:12:20,991 was on a talk show or something on some other floor in the building. 244 00:12:21,074 --> 00:12:22,492 And we got fuckin' psyched. 245 00:12:22,576 --> 00:12:25,829 And we ran down and we snuck onto the TV set. 246 00:12:25,913 --> 00:12:27,748 And this is what happened next. 247 00:12:28,207 --> 00:12:29,958 [Ad-Rock] I was wondering-- There's a song I really like 248 00:12:30,042 --> 00:12:32,878 called "Cooky Puss" by the Beastie Boys. I was wondering if you ever heard of it. 249 00:12:32,961 --> 00:12:34,505 [Bambaataa] Yes, I heard of "Cooky Puss." 250 00:12:34,588 --> 00:12:38,592 I've gotten the record through the rock pool. It's tough. 251 00:12:38,675 --> 00:12:39,676 [Ad-Rock] Okay. 252 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,470 Yeah, you like that-- Why do you like that one? 253 00:12:41,553 --> 00:12:43,931 Yeah, it's just a really funny song. I heard it on the radio-- 254 00:12:44,014 --> 00:12:47,809 It's got scratching and work on it? Like that? 255 00:12:47,893 --> 00:12:49,728 It has a little bit of scratching on it. 256 00:12:49,811 --> 00:12:51,396 It's funky. 257 00:12:53,649 --> 00:12:54,942 Chapter 2: 258 00:12:55,025 --> 00:12:58,195 "All We Do Is Listen to Rap." 259 00:12:58,278 --> 00:13:01,031 [hip-hop beat playing] 260 00:13:01,114 --> 00:13:03,784 In 1984, a song came out 261 00:13:03,867 --> 00:13:07,371 that would change the course of our band forever. 262 00:13:07,454 --> 00:13:10,207 "Sucker MC's" by Run-DMC. 263 00:13:10,832 --> 00:13:15,337 ♪ Two years ago, a friend of mine Asked me to say some MC rhymes ♪ 264 00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:17,881 ♪ So I said this rhyme I'm about to say ♪ 265 00:13:17,965 --> 00:13:20,926 ♪ The rhyme was def A-then it went this way ♪ 266 00:13:21,009 --> 00:13:24,555 "Sucker MC's" was everywhere in New York when it came out. 267 00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:26,557 You heard it coming out of cars, 268 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,643 out of tape decks, out of pizza spots, all over the city. 269 00:13:29,726 --> 00:13:31,854 Run-DMC was the shit. 270 00:13:31,937 --> 00:13:33,522 And we wanted to be just like them. 271 00:13:33,605 --> 00:13:36,233 I mean, we studied every song, every lyric. 272 00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:38,902 We were lookin' at every picture, tryin' to figure out their sneaks, 273 00:13:38,986 --> 00:13:40,487 their clothes, everything. 274 00:13:40,571 --> 00:13:44,783 [Mike D] We would study and repeat all our favorite rap songs all day. 275 00:13:44,867 --> 00:13:47,536 [Ad-Rock] Not that we felt we would ever be a rap group or anything. 276 00:13:47,619 --> 00:13:49,997 But around this time, we started writing our own rhymes. 277 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,583 I think now we're gonna show a little example 278 00:13:53,083 --> 00:13:56,128 that shows kind of where we were at on the mic as MCs. 279 00:13:56,211 --> 00:13:59,131 [man on PA] Wait, we're not there yet. You're jumping ahead there. Go back. 280 00:13:59,214 --> 00:14:01,216 -[Mike D] Am I jumping the gun? -[Ad-Rock] Turn around, Spike. 281 00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:03,802 -[Mike D] Really? Okay. -[Ad-Rock] All right. Time out. 282 00:14:03,886 --> 00:14:04,887 See, Spike? 283 00:14:04,970 --> 00:14:07,306 -We're definitely in the wrong place. -[Ad-Rock] The teleprompter... 284 00:14:07,389 --> 00:14:09,141 [audience laughing, cheering] 285 00:14:11,476 --> 00:14:12,936 -All right. That's what I thought-- -Okay. 286 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:14,771 -Here we go. -Hey, hey, hey. 287 00:14:14,855 --> 00:14:19,318 We're back. We really-- We rehearsed this. We practiced this, like, for real. 288 00:14:19,401 --> 00:14:21,987 I'm sorry. I fucked up the teleprompter. Sorry about that. 289 00:14:22,070 --> 00:14:24,072 Teleprompter? I didn't even notice. 290 00:14:30,746 --> 00:14:31,747 Anyways. 291 00:14:32,748 --> 00:14:35,626 That's a good transition, you guys. "Anyways." 292 00:14:36,376 --> 00:14:40,297 Around this time, we had this big show coming up at Studio 54, right. 293 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:44,051 Wait. The Studio 54. You know, with, like, Brooke Shields. 294 00:14:44,134 --> 00:14:48,555 Okay. With, like, Baryshnikov, Halston, Donna Summer. 295 00:14:49,139 --> 00:14:51,350 I didn't know if that was, like, a call and response thing. 296 00:14:51,433 --> 00:14:53,810 -Yeah, no one really chimed in. -I don't know. Anyway. 297 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. 298 00:14:58,273 --> 00:15:00,776 So, we had this show coming up at Studio 54, 299 00:15:00,859 --> 00:15:02,819 and we wanted to play our song "Cooky Puss." 300 00:15:02,903 --> 00:15:04,905 Now we never did it live before, but we thought-- 301 00:15:04,988 --> 00:15:07,908 We had this idea to have a DJ do it with us. 302 00:15:07,991 --> 00:15:11,662 Our friend told us that he knew about this NYU college kid that could DJ 303 00:15:11,745 --> 00:15:14,957 and wanted to be a rap producer and had all this DJ equipment and stuff. 304 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,544 But more important, he had a bubble machine. 305 00:15:18,627 --> 00:15:21,880 Wait. Say what, Ad-Rock? A bubble machine? 306 00:15:21,964 --> 00:15:24,800 Yo, homes. That's right, Mike D. He had a bubble machine. 307 00:15:24,883 --> 00:15:25,884 Okay. 308 00:15:25,968 --> 00:15:29,137 So we went over to this guy's dorm room to meet him. 309 00:15:29,221 --> 00:15:33,141 But when we get there, the door's opened by this long-haired heavy metal guy 310 00:15:33,225 --> 00:15:36,562 with these weird leather zip-up gloves, which totally freaked us out. 311 00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:38,939 This couldn't possibly be him. 312 00:15:39,022 --> 00:15:43,110 Now, he opens the door to this teeny dorm room, right. 313 00:15:43,193 --> 00:15:46,029 And it's filled with, like, a huge PA 314 00:15:46,113 --> 00:15:48,949 and there's turntables and all these drum machines. 315 00:15:49,032 --> 00:15:52,494 And yes, ladies and gentlemen, a bubble machine. 316 00:15:53,495 --> 00:15:54,705 So what do we do? 317 00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:56,623 We hired him on the spot. 318 00:15:56,707 --> 00:15:58,375 And this is Rick Rubin. 319 00:16:03,547 --> 00:16:07,092 [Ad-Rock] Now, at first, it seemed like a weird fit with us and Rick Rubin. 320 00:16:07,176 --> 00:16:10,179 I mean, he's from Long Island and we're from New York City. 321 00:16:10,262 --> 00:16:14,850 And also, Rick was into a bunch of other stuff that we weren't into. 322 00:16:14,933 --> 00:16:16,685 Like wrestling and heavy metal. 323 00:16:16,768 --> 00:16:18,896 And we thought that shit was kind of goofy. 324 00:16:18,979 --> 00:16:21,064 Rick seemed way older than us and-- 325 00:16:21,148 --> 00:16:23,066 [audience laughing] 326 00:16:23,817 --> 00:16:24,651 Well-- 327 00:16:24,735 --> 00:16:26,403 We gotta work on the timing of that photo. 328 00:16:26,486 --> 00:16:27,571 -I mean-- -With the-- 329 00:16:29,072 --> 00:16:31,909 Do we comment on the cable box or no? I mean-- 330 00:16:31,992 --> 00:16:34,536 -Everyone's thinking about it, yeah? -Right. 331 00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:37,623 That was some high-tech shit for the time. 332 00:16:37,706 --> 00:16:41,668 They got the cable box, the multi-line telephone. I mean-- 333 00:16:42,711 --> 00:16:45,422 I mean, why can't it be like the old days, with a pack of Salems 334 00:16:45,506 --> 00:16:47,799 and a fucking filled ashtray next to your bed? 335 00:16:47,883 --> 00:16:48,884 I mean, right? 336 00:16:52,054 --> 00:16:55,641 Rick seemed way older than us, and he seemed kind of more mature than us. 337 00:16:55,724 --> 00:16:57,809 And he had money to pay for things. 338 00:16:57,893 --> 00:17:00,145 But most of all, it was his confidence. 339 00:17:00,229 --> 00:17:02,439 Whatever he was into was the thing to be into. 340 00:17:02,523 --> 00:17:04,107 And that could be infectious. 341 00:17:04,858 --> 00:17:06,193 You couldn't hang out with Rick 342 00:17:06,276 --> 00:17:09,070 and not be excited about what he was excited about. 343 00:17:09,154 --> 00:17:10,571 So we kinda got into wrestling. 344 00:17:11,281 --> 00:17:12,324 Kinda. 345 00:17:12,866 --> 00:17:15,827 -And we definitely got into heavy metal. -Oh, definitely. 346 00:17:17,204 --> 00:17:19,080 -[softly] Definitely. -Definitely. 347 00:17:19,915 --> 00:17:21,916 It only took a week for us to go from thinking 348 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,586 that the guy with those zip-up gloves was goofy 349 00:17:24,670 --> 00:17:26,880 to thinking, "Wow. He's the coolest dude." 350 00:17:26,964 --> 00:17:29,299 He became part of our full-time crew. 351 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,928 He kinda became, like, this weird, cool older brother. 352 00:17:33,011 --> 00:17:35,097 And his dorm room became our new headquarters. 353 00:17:35,180 --> 00:17:36,765 Like, our new Rat Cage. 354 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. 355 00:17:40,561 --> 00:17:43,230 And we'd listen to records. And then we'd go out to some club. 356 00:17:43,313 --> 00:17:45,566 And then we'd go to Cozy Soup 'n' Burger to eat. 357 00:17:45,649 --> 00:17:48,068 And then we'd talk all about the night and the music 358 00:17:48,151 --> 00:17:50,863 and all the music we were gonna make together one day. 359 00:17:50,946 --> 00:17:53,782 After the Studio 54 show, we had a DJ. 360 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." 361 00:17:59,663 --> 00:18:03,250 So Rick joined our band and became DJ Double R, of course. 362 00:18:03,333 --> 00:18:06,837 Our first shows with Rick, we'd do, like, half as a hardcore band, 363 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. 364 00:18:10,632 --> 00:18:12,593 -♪ B-E-A ♪ -♪ S-T-I-E ♪ 365 00:18:12,676 --> 00:18:15,012 [Ad-Rock] ♪ We're the Beastie four Rock shockin' the scene ♪ 366 00:18:15,095 --> 00:18:17,347 -♪ I'm Master Adam Yauch ♪ -♪ And Slop the Rock ♪ 367 00:18:17,431 --> 00:18:19,600 -♪ With Mike D ♪ -♪ Katie Schellenbach ♪ 368 00:18:19,683 --> 00:18:22,019 ♪ Now hip-hop, just don't stop ♪ 369 00:18:22,102 --> 00:18:24,146 ♪ You rock to the beat Till it makes you drop ♪ 370 00:18:24,229 --> 00:18:27,065 [Ad-Rock] Okay, okay. I think, you know-- 371 00:18:28,317 --> 00:18:29,401 You get the, uh-- 372 00:18:31,403 --> 00:18:32,529 You get the idea. 373 00:18:32,613 --> 00:18:36,366 Most rappers hold their rhymes in little pieces of paper, right? 374 00:18:36,867 --> 00:18:38,118 Isn't that a thing? 375 00:18:38,202 --> 00:18:39,953 It's one thing to hang out with your friends 376 00:18:40,037 --> 00:18:42,122 and rap "Sucker MC's" all day long. 377 00:18:42,206 --> 00:18:46,460 But being on stage with an audience and rapping our own rhymes, 378 00:18:46,543 --> 00:18:47,836 well, that was different. 379 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,297 Now we didn't realize it, but as time went on, 380 00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:54,510 the more we were hanging out with Rick and starting to act like Rick, 381 00:18:54,593 --> 00:18:56,845 the less we were hanging out with Kate. 382 00:18:56,929 --> 00:19:00,390 And maybe even more so, the less Kate was hanging out with us. 383 00:19:00,474 --> 00:19:02,893 I think our friends were very confused 384 00:19:02,976 --> 00:19:05,062 as why we were hanging out with Rick all the time. 385 00:19:05,145 --> 00:19:07,356 [audience laughing] 386 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,653 Well, you know, a band's gotta eat. 387 00:19:15,656 --> 00:19:20,619 So around this time, Rick was producing his first real rap song, "It's Yours," 388 00:19:20,702 --> 00:19:22,496 for a rapper named T La Rock. 389 00:19:22,579 --> 00:19:24,915 [song intro] 390 00:19:24,998 --> 00:19:29,127 [Mike D] Up until then, music for rap records was mostly played by a band. 391 00:19:29,211 --> 00:19:31,880 It was played to sound, like, funky and smoothed out 392 00:19:31,964 --> 00:19:33,465 so it would get on the radio. 393 00:19:33,549 --> 00:19:36,426 But "It's Yours" was just a rapper and a drum machine. 394 00:19:36,510 --> 00:19:39,096 It was raw and punk in sound. 395 00:19:39,179 --> 00:19:40,347 So one night, 396 00:19:40,430 --> 00:19:45,602 Rick told us that he's gonna go meet this guy, Russell Simmons, at Danceteria. 397 00:19:45,686 --> 00:19:48,647 We didn't know what Rick and Russell were meeting about, 398 00:19:48,730 --> 00:19:52,067 but we are just psyched to spy on them talking at the bar. 399 00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:55,612 'Cause this Russell guy was not only Run-DMC's manager, 400 00:19:55,696 --> 00:19:58,282 but he was also DJ Run's brother. 401 00:19:58,365 --> 00:19:59,950 [Ad-Rock] It wasn't like he was some guy that, like, 402 00:20:00,033 --> 00:20:02,828 knew some guy that knew somebody connected to rap. 403 00:20:02,911 --> 00:20:04,246 Russell was rap. 404 00:20:04,329 --> 00:20:06,748 He was at the center of the business of rap. 405 00:20:06,832 --> 00:20:09,126 Now when Russell left, we were so psyched. 406 00:20:09,209 --> 00:20:11,086 We ran over to Rick and we were like, 407 00:20:11,170 --> 00:20:14,548 [high-pitched voice] "Yo, yo, yo, yo, Rick. You gotta tell us, like, everything. 408 00:20:14,631 --> 00:20:16,508 What did this Russell guy say to you? 409 00:20:16,592 --> 00:20:19,094 You gotta tell us everything you guys talked about." 410 00:20:21,346 --> 00:20:23,098 [normal voice] Well, I mean, that's-- We were excited. 411 00:20:23,182 --> 00:20:24,141 That's pretty good. 412 00:20:24,224 --> 00:20:27,311 And that's what we sounded like when we were, like, 16. 413 00:20:27,394 --> 00:20:30,022 So Rick told us that Russell couldn't believe 414 00:20:30,105 --> 00:20:33,275 that not only "It's Yours" was made by someone he'd never heard of, 415 00:20:33,358 --> 00:20:34,902 but it was made by a white guy. 416 00:20:34,985 --> 00:20:36,570 And Rick said that they hit it off 417 00:20:36,653 --> 00:20:39,990 and they hatched a plan to start a record label, Def Jam. 418 00:20:40,073 --> 00:20:41,200 Wait a minute, wait a minute. 419 00:20:41,283 --> 00:20:44,578 Pay attention, hang up the phone and watch this. 420 00:20:44,661 --> 00:20:45,996 Jam means record. 421 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:48,332 Def is short for definitive. 422 00:20:48,415 --> 00:20:51,126 Definitely the best records you could buy today. 423 00:20:51,210 --> 00:20:54,213 [distorted voice] ♪ So def, so def, so def It's a def jam ♪ 424 00:20:54,296 --> 00:20:58,008 And somewhere in those plans, Rick told Russell about us. 425 00:20:58,759 --> 00:21:01,094 [Long Island accent] "Hey, I got these three white rappers. 426 00:21:01,178 --> 00:21:02,971 They're still in high school. 427 00:21:03,055 --> 00:21:06,808 I mean, they're punk rock, but they love hip-hop even more. 428 00:21:06,892 --> 00:21:09,645 I mean, all they do is listen to rap." 429 00:21:16,860 --> 00:21:21,240 Russell Simmons immediately saw the possibility in managing a white rap group. 430 00:21:21,323 --> 00:21:24,034 And within days, we went to his office to meet with him. 431 00:21:24,117 --> 00:21:26,578 We think he's gonna have this huge fancy office, 432 00:21:26,662 --> 00:21:30,499 but we go up there, it's just, in reality, two small rooms. 433 00:21:30,582 --> 00:21:32,292 But what's kinda cool is, 434 00:21:32,376 --> 00:21:38,215 in one of the rooms there's fucking Kurtis Blow, the King of Rap, right? 435 00:21:39,049 --> 00:21:43,804 And he's in Russell's office trying to learn to break-dance. 436 00:21:43,887 --> 00:21:46,765 He's trying to spin on his head for some reason. 437 00:21:46,849 --> 00:21:48,684 And not only that, I don't know if-- 438 00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:51,270 Does anybody in here know this crew Full Force? 439 00:21:51,353 --> 00:21:52,479 [scattered cheers] 440 00:21:52,563 --> 00:21:56,692 Well, he's surrounded-- He's surrounded by the dudes in Full Force, 441 00:21:56,775 --> 00:22:00,070 who are watching him learn to break-dance. 442 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. 443 00:22:04,825 --> 00:22:06,368 So when it came to confidence, 444 00:22:06,451 --> 00:22:09,204 Russell was even more next-level than Rick. 445 00:22:09,746 --> 00:22:10,914 If you were in his orbit, 446 00:22:10,998 --> 00:22:15,002 you couldn't help but believe all the awesome shit he said was gonna happen. 447 00:22:15,085 --> 00:22:17,963 In 1984, no one cared about rap music. 448 00:22:18,046 --> 00:22:19,590 I mean, it was barely on the radio. 449 00:22:19,673 --> 00:22:23,218 But everywhere Russell went he'd be selling to everybody. 450 00:22:23,302 --> 00:22:26,805 [imitating Simmons] "Run-DMC is gonna be the biggest artist of our generation." 451 00:22:26,889 --> 00:22:28,265 -[audience laughing] -Oh. 452 00:22:28,348 --> 00:22:31,643 "Rick Rubin. He's gonna be the Phil Spector of rap. 453 00:22:32,853 --> 00:22:34,062 Beastie Boys? 454 00:22:34,146 --> 00:22:38,150 They're white B-boys and they're gonna be the biggest group in the world." 455 00:22:38,233 --> 00:22:39,484 [cheering] 456 00:22:39,568 --> 00:22:40,569 All right. 457 00:22:41,737 --> 00:22:43,405 Let's slow things down for a minute. 458 00:22:43,488 --> 00:22:45,407 We had just started rapping. 459 00:22:45,490 --> 00:22:47,784 I mean, we were mediocre at best. 460 00:22:47,868 --> 00:22:50,954 But Rick and Russell believed in us, and that gave us confidence. 461 00:22:51,038 --> 00:22:53,665 [song intro] 462 00:22:53,749 --> 00:22:58,170 And so they hooked it up for us to go record our first rap song. 463 00:22:58,253 --> 00:22:59,671 It's called "Rock Hard." 464 00:22:59,755 --> 00:23:01,965 [song continues] 465 00:23:02,049 --> 00:23:04,426 I don't know. It's not our finest moment on the mic, okay. 466 00:23:04,510 --> 00:23:08,805 But you gotta understand, we love rap music and we wanted to be rappers so bad. 467 00:23:08,889 --> 00:23:11,099 We wanted to be Run-DMC so bad. 468 00:23:11,183 --> 00:23:13,685 "First white B-boys, we don't regret. 469 00:23:13,769 --> 00:23:16,021 There's nothing wrong with your TV set." 470 00:23:16,104 --> 00:23:17,731 [song continues] 471 00:23:17,814 --> 00:23:19,274 Russell Simmons wrote that line. 472 00:23:19,358 --> 00:23:21,610 And he kept telling us we had to say it 'cause it was great 473 00:23:21,693 --> 00:23:24,363 and how B-boy it was and punk and all this other stuff. 474 00:23:24,446 --> 00:23:26,532 He also really wanted us to say, 475 00:23:26,615 --> 00:23:29,409 "I can play the drums, I can play guitar. 476 00:23:29,493 --> 00:23:32,496 Not just B-boys, we're real rock stars." 477 00:23:32,579 --> 00:23:34,206 And we went along with it. 478 00:23:34,289 --> 00:23:36,917 I mean, [chuckles] you're the legit dude in rap, man. 479 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,087 You got fucking Kurtis Blow popping and locking in your office and shit. 480 00:23:40,170 --> 00:23:43,006 I mean, if you think saying that's gonna be fresh, fly, wild and bold, 481 00:23:43,090 --> 00:23:45,634 well, all right. Turn me up in the headphones. 482 00:23:45,717 --> 00:23:47,469 ♪ Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA ♪ 483 00:23:48,053 --> 00:23:50,347 ♪ Not before long I could hear you say ♪ 484 00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:52,933 ♪ In a way, these boys got juice ♪ 485 00:23:53,016 --> 00:23:55,686 ♪ They're goin' off You know they love to get loose ♪ 486 00:23:55,769 --> 00:23:57,896 ♪ Get loose, get loose ♪ 487 00:23:57,980 --> 00:23:59,356 ♪ Poose ♪ 488 00:24:00,107 --> 00:24:04,319 Now I would love to blame Rick and Russell for the quality of the song, 489 00:24:04,403 --> 00:24:06,446 but that's all us on the mic. 490 00:24:06,530 --> 00:24:09,700 We wrote and said the rest of the lyrics on that song. 491 00:24:09,783 --> 00:24:13,829 They wanted us to be a cartoon rap version of an '80s metal band, 492 00:24:13,912 --> 00:24:18,041 but instead with Adidas shell toes and tracksuits and shit. 493 00:24:18,125 --> 00:24:20,127 And we were all in. 494 00:24:20,210 --> 00:24:22,504 -[Mike D] Oh, hell, yes. -[Ad-Rock] Right? 495 00:24:22,588 --> 00:24:23,630 For real. 496 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 497 00:24:30,512 --> 00:24:33,849 because she didn't fit into our new tough rapper guy identity. 498 00:24:33,932 --> 00:24:35,559 Now how fucked-up is that? 499 00:24:36,685 --> 00:24:39,980 When Beastie Boys began, the majority of our friends were girls. 500 00:24:40,063 --> 00:24:41,940 Like, the coolest girls. 501 00:24:42,024 --> 00:24:44,693 And it's really embarrassing to think that we let them down. 502 00:24:45,444 --> 00:24:48,906 I mean, shit, maybe Kate would've quit the band eventually, 503 00:24:48,989 --> 00:24:50,949 but it's just shitty the way it all went down. 504 00:24:51,033 --> 00:24:54,161 See, up until then our band was just more of a joke, you know? 505 00:24:54,244 --> 00:24:55,954 Something to do 'cause it was fun. 506 00:24:56,038 --> 00:24:58,707 Our big goal was to make each other laugh. 507 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. 508 00:25:02,794 --> 00:25:04,546 It's like, if Rick was the cool older brother, 509 00:25:04,630 --> 00:25:06,840 then Russell was, like, the crazy-ass uncle. 510 00:25:06,924 --> 00:25:10,302 And we started hanging out every night, all the time together. 511 00:25:10,385 --> 00:25:13,305 Going out to clubs. Drinking screwdrivers, brass monkeys. 512 00:25:13,388 --> 00:25:16,225 And it was like this fucked-up fun family. 513 00:25:16,308 --> 00:25:20,187 Now, when you're young and drunk and Russell Simmons is telling you 514 00:25:20,270 --> 00:25:23,357 that you're gonna be the biggest rap group of all time, 515 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,277 well, I guess you hear it enough, you just start to believe that shit. 516 00:25:27,361 --> 00:25:30,614 And then some crazy shit happened. 517 00:25:33,492 --> 00:25:34,618 Spike. 518 00:25:35,369 --> 00:25:38,997 [Spike] Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry about that. There's supposed to be a cue here where-- 519 00:25:39,081 --> 00:25:41,458 It was actually a bad joke anyways. Keep going. 520 00:25:42,334 --> 00:25:44,002 It's gonna happen or it's not gonna happen? 521 00:25:44,086 --> 00:25:45,295 Not tonight. 522 00:25:45,379 --> 00:25:47,506 This is the last show. When is it supposed to happen? 523 00:25:47,589 --> 00:25:49,132 We didn't load it into the machine. 524 00:25:49,216 --> 00:25:51,176 W-W-- Maybe we'll get it before the end of the night. 525 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:52,719 I'll-- I'll get it. I'll get it. 526 00:25:52,803 --> 00:25:55,055 Well, it's a voice that goes, "Crazy shit." 527 00:25:55,138 --> 00:25:58,433 And there's, like, a whole animation. My friend Max Tannone did the-- Anyway. 528 00:25:59,059 --> 00:26:02,104 Hey, did you guys know that we opened for Madonna on her very first tour? 529 00:26:03,188 --> 00:26:05,482 Well, we did. And the story of how we opened for Madonna-- 530 00:26:05,566 --> 00:26:06,817 [man] Crazy shit. 531 00:26:09,111 --> 00:26:10,445 [Spike] I got-- I got it. 532 00:26:12,155 --> 00:26:13,282 [Ad-Rock] At any rate. 533 00:26:13,740 --> 00:26:17,494 So one day Russell Simmons gets a call from Madonna's manager, Freddy DeMann. 534 00:26:17,578 --> 00:26:20,539 He calls and asks if Run-DMC would like to open for Madonna 535 00:26:20,622 --> 00:26:21,832 on her first ever tour. 536 00:26:21,915 --> 00:26:25,085 And Russell said, "Yes, they get 20 grand a show." 537 00:26:25,169 --> 00:26:27,921 Madonna's manager said, "Thank you, no." 538 00:26:28,005 --> 00:26:31,175 Madonna's manager calls Russell Simmons back a couple hours later and he's like, 539 00:26:31,258 --> 00:26:34,553 "Hey, Russell. Do the Fat Boys wanna open for Madonna on tour?" 540 00:26:35,220 --> 00:26:39,558 And he said, "Aw, man. The Fat Boys are busy. They just can't do it." 541 00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:41,852 Russell never managed the Fat Boys. 542 00:26:43,562 --> 00:26:44,813 "But," he said, 543 00:26:44,897 --> 00:26:47,858 "I got these guys Beastie Boys, and they'll do it for 500 bucks." 544 00:26:47,941 --> 00:26:49,401 And the next thing you know, 545 00:26:49,484 --> 00:26:52,112 we're in Seattle, Washington at the Four Seasons hotel, 546 00:26:52,196 --> 00:26:54,573 getting ready to open for Madonna on tour. 547 00:26:55,407 --> 00:26:56,783 [softly] Remember that? 548 00:27:00,204 --> 00:27:04,458 So, before the tour, we came up with a brilliant plan. 549 00:27:04,541 --> 00:27:08,504 What could we do that would make all these people remember us? 550 00:27:08,587 --> 00:27:12,883 It certainly wasn't gonna be our microphone mastery at the time. 551 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. 552 00:27:18,597 --> 00:27:23,894 Yo! You better look out, Detroit, Philly, Cincy, LA! 553 00:27:23,977 --> 00:27:25,229 We're coming to your town! 554 00:27:25,312 --> 00:27:26,772 [Mike D] I mean, if we just went up there 555 00:27:26,855 --> 00:27:29,358 and we just played the two songs that we knew, 556 00:27:29,441 --> 00:27:30,817 and that's all we had at the time, 557 00:27:30,901 --> 00:27:33,570 and we just said, "Thank you, everybody. Good night," 558 00:27:33,654 --> 00:27:34,696 who would care? 559 00:27:34,780 --> 00:27:37,157 Instead, we'd be memorable. 560 00:27:37,241 --> 00:27:39,910 Memorable fuckin' jerks. 561 00:27:39,993 --> 00:27:41,787 We're real rock stars. 562 00:27:41,870 --> 00:27:44,164 I mean, everyone's there to see Madonna, 563 00:27:44,248 --> 00:27:46,416 and they for sure don't give a fuck about us. 564 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,461 But this is where Rick's wrestling thing would come in. 565 00:27:49,545 --> 00:27:51,964 He wanted us to be those wrestling villains 566 00:27:52,047 --> 00:27:54,800 screaming into the camera at the side of the ring, like this: 567 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, 568 00:27:58,262 --> 00:28:01,014 they're gonna have to change it from MTV to Beastie TV. 569 00:28:01,098 --> 00:28:04,142 'Cause that's all they're gonna show all day long, all night long. 570 00:28:04,226 --> 00:28:08,480 "The Beastie Boys. One of the finest groups in music today." Right there. 571 00:28:08,564 --> 00:28:10,524 I think I'm wasting my breath a little bit. 572 00:28:10,607 --> 00:28:12,109 Maybe I'm talking over your head. 573 00:28:12,192 --> 00:28:13,360 I think the interview's over. 574 00:28:13,443 --> 00:28:14,653 -Thank you very much. -Me too. 575 00:28:14,736 --> 00:28:16,405 [cheering, applause] 576 00:28:18,323 --> 00:28:19,324 And so-- 577 00:28:22,202 --> 00:28:24,246 And so every night on the Madonna tour, 578 00:28:24,329 --> 00:28:27,332 I would go out, front and center, and I would do a speech like this. 579 00:28:27,958 --> 00:28:29,126 [drumbeat] 580 00:28:29,209 --> 00:28:31,003 I'm the King Ad-Rock. 581 00:28:31,086 --> 00:28:33,422 And I'm the fucking king of the Kings Theatre. 582 00:28:33,505 --> 00:28:34,631 And we're the Beastie Boys, 583 00:28:34,715 --> 00:28:37,342 and we're here tonight to crush all competition. 584 00:28:37,426 --> 00:28:40,846 After we leave tonight you can burn this motherfuckin' place down. 585 00:28:40,929 --> 00:28:43,098 'Cause y'all motherfuckers ain't shit. 586 00:28:44,099 --> 00:28:45,976 -[drumbeat stops] -[cheering] 587 00:28:48,687 --> 00:28:53,025 Just keep in mind that this is who Adam was cursing out. 588 00:28:53,108 --> 00:28:54,985 [audience laughing] 589 00:29:04,745 --> 00:29:06,788 It was, like, a love-hate relationship type thing. 590 00:29:06,872 --> 00:29:10,375 You know, we hated them, they hated us. It was, like, love. 591 00:29:11,418 --> 00:29:14,838 So we come home from tour, and the very first thing we do 592 00:29:14,922 --> 00:29:19,551 is we go up to everyone and anyone that'll hear it, and we're like, 593 00:29:19,635 --> 00:29:22,888 [high-pitched voice] "Yo, yo, yo. We were on tour with Madonna." 594 00:29:22,971 --> 00:29:25,349 It was the fucking most awesome thing ever. 595 00:29:25,432 --> 00:29:27,935 And now we get home and it's official. 596 00:29:28,018 --> 00:29:29,311 We're a rap group. 597 00:29:29,394 --> 00:29:31,480 -Whoo! -[laughing] 598 00:29:31,563 --> 00:29:33,023 Really? 599 00:29:33,106 --> 00:29:34,900 -High five? -Yeah. 600 00:29:34,983 --> 00:29:36,985 Yeah, it's coming back, Adam. It's coming back. 601 00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:42,866 One night, Russell gets us a gig at this club called the Encore, 602 00:29:42,950 --> 00:29:46,370 opening up for Kurtis Blow, the King of Rap. 603 00:29:46,453 --> 00:29:48,455 So we were both-- We look at each other and we're like, 604 00:29:48,539 --> 00:29:53,001 [high-pitched voice] "Yo, we're opening up for Kurtis Blow? That's def." 605 00:29:54,127 --> 00:29:56,255 -Now-- -That's a direct quote, by the way. 606 00:29:56,338 --> 00:29:57,881 -Just so you know. -Yeah. It is. 607 00:29:57,965 --> 00:30:02,094 Now the Encore is an all-black rap crowd. 608 00:30:02,177 --> 00:30:04,888 And we're the only white guys in this place, right. 609 00:30:04,972 --> 00:30:08,308 And somehow, we decide it's a good idea 610 00:30:08,392 --> 00:30:11,436 to go out there in a limo dressed like this. 611 00:30:12,521 --> 00:30:14,773 [audience laughing] 612 00:30:15,649 --> 00:30:17,109 What's so funny? 613 00:30:18,610 --> 00:30:21,154 Yes, those are do-rags on our heads. 614 00:30:21,238 --> 00:30:22,948 So... 615 00:30:24,825 --> 00:30:29,496 So when we got on stage at the Encore to play our song "Rock Hard," 616 00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:32,040 they turned on all the lights, right, in the house. 617 00:30:32,124 --> 00:30:34,668 Like, fluorescent lights, like a fuckin' supermarket. 618 00:30:34,751 --> 00:30:37,671 And all these dudes in the audience started screaming at us. 619 00:30:37,754 --> 00:30:40,591 "Yo, yo, Menudos. What's up?" 620 00:30:41,341 --> 00:30:42,885 "Menudo, I love y'all." 621 00:30:44,178 --> 00:30:46,054 Yeah, they called us "Menudo." 622 00:30:47,389 --> 00:30:50,934 Actually, I think it was "Menudos," like, plural. 623 00:30:51,476 --> 00:30:52,477 Yeah. 624 00:30:52,561 --> 00:30:54,938 So yeah, we dropped this look real quick. 625 00:30:56,023 --> 00:30:57,566 Chapter 3: 626 00:30:57,649 --> 00:30:59,902 "The Song that Changed Everything." 627 00:31:04,239 --> 00:31:06,408 So we started writing songs in a different way. 628 00:31:06,491 --> 00:31:09,620 It wasn't just on a guitar, like, verse, chorus, verse, chorus. 629 00:31:09,703 --> 00:31:12,706 Fucking around became our creative process. 630 00:31:12,789 --> 00:31:14,458 It would go something like this. 631 00:31:14,541 --> 00:31:16,084 Mikey. 632 00:31:16,168 --> 00:31:17,920 We'd be walking down the street. 633 00:31:19,213 --> 00:31:20,547 [audience laughing] 634 00:31:20,631 --> 00:31:21,882 This is how-- 635 00:31:21,965 --> 00:31:23,008 Hey. 636 00:31:23,091 --> 00:31:24,801 This is how we'd walk down the street. 637 00:31:26,011 --> 00:31:27,930 -How you doing? -Oh. What's up, man? 638 00:31:29,097 --> 00:31:30,265 We rehearsed. 639 00:31:30,974 --> 00:31:32,476 We'd be walking down the street, right. 640 00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:35,312 And we'd just start going back and forth with little bits of records 641 00:31:35,395 --> 00:31:37,356 and stupid shit we thought was real funny, right. 642 00:31:37,439 --> 00:31:40,609 Like, one of us would say a random lyric from a song we loved like... 643 00:31:40,692 --> 00:31:42,236 [man 1] Hold it now. 644 00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:45,489 And then another one would be like, "Yo, that should be a song, like, 645 00:31:45,572 --> 00:31:48,742 he should say, 'Hold it now,' and then we should have Slick Rick go"... 646 00:31:48,825 --> 00:31:49,868 [man 2] Hit it! 647 00:31:49,952 --> 00:31:53,247 And then another one would be like, "Oh, it should go"... 648 00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:54,831 [man 3] Hey, Leroy! 649 00:31:54,915 --> 00:31:56,333 And that's the song. 650 00:31:57,626 --> 00:31:58,627 Now-- 651 00:31:58,710 --> 00:32:03,090 And then we'd go into the studio with that simple and stupid of an idea. 652 00:32:03,173 --> 00:32:04,591 And we'd make a song out of it. 653 00:32:04,675 --> 00:32:06,426 -[hip-hop song playing] -[man 3] Yo, Leroy! 654 00:32:08,512 --> 00:32:10,931 [man 1] Hold it now. Hold it now, hold it now. 655 00:32:11,014 --> 00:32:11,849 [man 2] Hit it! 656 00:32:11,932 --> 00:32:14,726 Like, Adam would be there and he'd be tapping away, obsessed, 657 00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:16,937 on the pads of his DX drum machine. 658 00:32:17,020 --> 00:32:19,481 And when he was really psyched, he'd take the headphones 659 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, 660 00:32:22,609 --> 00:32:25,279 [high-pitched voice] "Yo, yo, yo, guys. Check this out." 661 00:32:25,362 --> 00:32:28,073 No, no, no. That's you, Mike. 662 00:32:28,156 --> 00:32:29,533 [low-pitched voice] I was like this. 663 00:32:29,616 --> 00:32:31,451 Well, anyway, he made this-- 664 00:32:31,535 --> 00:32:33,412 Honestly, I'm giving you props, Adam. 665 00:32:33,495 --> 00:32:36,164 He made, like, this hot go-go, swing-type beat. 666 00:32:36,248 --> 00:32:39,293 But when Yauch and I heard that, we were like, "Oh, shit." 667 00:32:39,376 --> 00:32:43,255 But when that got layered with this 808 beat, 668 00:32:43,338 --> 00:32:45,507 that changed everything. 669 00:32:45,591 --> 00:32:47,509 [man 1] Hold it now. Hold it now, hold it now. 670 00:32:47,593 --> 00:32:49,803 -[man 2] Hit it! -[song continues] 671 00:32:50,679 --> 00:32:53,682 [Mike D] So, the three of us were left to our own devices 672 00:32:53,765 --> 00:32:56,018 and making music and loving it. 673 00:32:56,101 --> 00:32:58,687 Instead of trying to act and sound like somebody else, 674 00:32:58,770 --> 00:33:00,189 like how we did on "Rock Hard," 675 00:33:00,272 --> 00:33:01,815 now we were just being ourselves. 676 00:33:01,899 --> 00:33:04,526 Or at least a fantasy version of ourselves. 677 00:33:05,444 --> 00:33:07,905 Rick came by the studio and we played it for him. 678 00:33:07,988 --> 00:33:10,574 And he kinda flipped the fuck out. He was like, 679 00:33:10,657 --> 00:33:13,118 [Long Island accent] "Hey, you guys. Don't change anything. 680 00:33:13,202 --> 00:33:16,205 It's great. I want to play it for Russell. 681 00:33:16,288 --> 00:33:18,332 We need to just put this out." 682 00:33:18,415 --> 00:33:21,627 So, we're surprised, but we are psyched. 683 00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:24,922 Rick mixed it, making it sound bigger and more professional. 684 00:33:25,005 --> 00:33:27,299 He made that 808 sound crazy. 685 00:33:27,382 --> 00:33:29,051 [drumbeat] 686 00:33:29,134 --> 00:33:31,136 -Like that. -Like that. 687 00:33:31,220 --> 00:33:34,389 You could hear it rattling the rear glass on cars up and down the East Coast. 688 00:33:34,473 --> 00:33:36,975 It also detonated many a PA. 689 00:33:37,059 --> 00:33:40,395 We figured out how to piece together different elements that we loved, 690 00:33:40,479 --> 00:33:44,274 like beats, samples, scratches, and turn them into a song. 691 00:33:44,358 --> 00:33:46,068 Into a new style. 692 00:33:46,151 --> 00:33:49,404 Most importantly though, we found our voice. 693 00:33:49,488 --> 00:33:51,949 ♪ Now I chill real ill When I start to chill ♪ 694 00:33:52,032 --> 00:33:54,409 ♪ When I fill my pockets With a knot of dollar bills ♪ 695 00:33:54,493 --> 00:33:56,995 ♪ Sipping pints of ale Out the window sill ♪ 696 00:33:57,079 --> 00:33:59,540 ♪ When I get my fill I'm chilly chill ♪ 697 00:33:59,623 --> 00:34:02,417 ♪ Now I just got home Because I'm out on bail ♪ 698 00:34:02,501 --> 00:34:05,337 ♪ What's the time? It's time to buy ale ♪ 699 00:34:05,420 --> 00:34:09,007 [Mike D] So Russell and Rick put "Hold It Now, Hit It" out on Def Jam. 700 00:34:09,091 --> 00:34:12,761 And then it starts getting played on all these mix shows and in clubs, 701 00:34:12,844 --> 00:34:14,388 which is a big deal to us. 702 00:34:15,138 --> 00:34:20,310 Our song was getting played next to songs like LL Cool J's "Rock the Bells," 703 00:34:20,393 --> 00:34:23,730 Run-DMC's "Peter Piper," songs that we loved. 704 00:34:23,813 --> 00:34:25,190 [MCA] We got this gig going to Philly. 705 00:34:25,274 --> 00:34:27,234 And we went on and we just dropped the record. 706 00:34:27,317 --> 00:34:30,112 I remember we put "Hold It Now" on, and the whole place just went crazy, 707 00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:31,446 like, the whole club. 708 00:34:31,530 --> 00:34:34,699 And that was a pretty amazing feeling. I was like, "Damn." 709 00:34:34,783 --> 00:34:37,286 [Ad-Rock] So, I'm 19 years old. 710 00:34:37,369 --> 00:34:39,246 I got a little money in my pocket. 711 00:34:39,329 --> 00:34:40,831 Rappers know who I am. 712 00:34:40,914 --> 00:34:42,583 We're getting into clubs for free. 713 00:34:42,666 --> 00:34:45,002 We're getting drink tickets. We're talking to girls. 714 00:34:45,085 --> 00:34:46,295 -We're getting drunk. -"Ooh, Ad-Rock." 715 00:34:46,378 --> 00:34:48,547 We're fuckin' around. We're writing lyrics on napkins. 716 00:34:48,630 --> 00:34:49,672 We're cracking each other up. 717 00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:53,217 And then we go to the studio and make a song out of all that shit. 718 00:34:53,302 --> 00:34:54,719 Next night, next song. 719 00:34:54,803 --> 00:34:57,973 ♪ Four and three and two and one What up! ♪ 720 00:34:58,056 --> 00:35:01,101 -♪ And when I'm on the mic the suckers run -♪ Word! ♪ 721 00:35:01,185 --> 00:35:03,103 ♪ Down with Ad-Rock and Mike D And you ain't ♪ 722 00:35:03,187 --> 00:35:05,564 ♪ And I got more juice Than Picasso got paint ♪ 723 00:35:05,647 --> 00:35:08,150 ♪ Got rhymes that are rough And rhymes that are slick ♪ 724 00:35:08,233 --> 00:35:10,694 ♪ I'm not surprised you're on my dick ♪ 725 00:35:10,777 --> 00:35:11,778 ♪ B-E-A-S-T-I-E... ♪ 726 00:35:11,862 --> 00:35:15,490 So we're recording all the time, making songs. 727 00:35:15,574 --> 00:35:18,577 And Russell would just keep putting them out as singles. 728 00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:21,121 -We put out "Paul Revere." -Smash hit. 729 00:35:21,705 --> 00:35:23,916 We put out "The New Style," this song. 730 00:35:23,999 --> 00:35:25,167 Smash hit! 731 00:35:25,918 --> 00:35:30,255 And at a certain point, Russell came into the studio and he was like, 732 00:35:30,339 --> 00:35:33,050 [imitating Simmons] "You guys are the greatest rap group of all time. 733 00:35:33,133 --> 00:35:35,344 You're gonna be making a full-length album." 734 00:35:35,427 --> 00:35:39,181 So, while we're doing that, Adam and I, 735 00:35:39,264 --> 00:35:41,350 we're still living at these shitty apartments. 736 00:35:41,433 --> 00:35:43,644 You know, like you do when you're 19 years old. 737 00:35:43,727 --> 00:35:48,315 But Yauch moved into this nice new apartment in Brooklyn Heights. 738 00:35:48,398 --> 00:35:50,108 Now, he lived there for free 739 00:35:50,192 --> 00:35:52,110 because he was the superintendent of the building. 740 00:35:52,194 --> 00:35:53,111 [audience laughing] 741 00:35:53,195 --> 00:35:54,696 -[Mike D] It's true. -Yeah. 742 00:35:54,780 --> 00:35:58,116 So if your radiator broke, Yauch would come up to fix it. 743 00:35:59,451 --> 00:36:01,370 I mean, he had zero qualifications for the job, 744 00:36:01,453 --> 00:36:03,872 but he could do just about anything on instinct. 745 00:36:03,956 --> 00:36:06,583 But late one night, me and Mike stopped by the apartment, 746 00:36:06,667 --> 00:36:09,545 and he had this tape deck set up on a table in the kitchen. 747 00:36:09,628 --> 00:36:10,963 But it wasn't a cassette deck. 748 00:36:11,046 --> 00:36:13,382 It was a quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape deck, 749 00:36:13,465 --> 00:36:14,883 which I didn't even know he had. 750 00:36:14,967 --> 00:36:17,052 And I'm there and I'm studying this, 751 00:36:17,135 --> 00:36:20,138 trying to figure out what this whole thing is. 752 00:36:20,222 --> 00:36:22,391 I mean, he's got the tape from the one reel. 753 00:36:22,474 --> 00:36:25,811 And instead of just going to, like, the other reel, like it usually would, 754 00:36:25,894 --> 00:36:29,106 it comes out the one reel, it's going around a mic stand, 755 00:36:29,189 --> 00:36:31,567 and then it goes around another mic stand. 756 00:36:31,650 --> 00:36:33,527 And then it goes around a chair. 757 00:36:33,610 --> 00:36:35,112 And then back into the second reel. 758 00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:37,614 I mean, Adam and I are looking at this thing and we're like, 759 00:36:37,698 --> 00:36:40,742 "This is like a fucking magic trick, right?" 760 00:36:40,826 --> 00:36:43,662 And then Yauch gets up and he presses play. 761 00:36:44,288 --> 00:36:45,873 [drumbeat] 762 00:36:50,919 --> 00:36:52,462 [Ad-Rock] So the intro drumbeat 763 00:36:52,546 --> 00:36:55,299 to Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" starts playing. 764 00:36:55,382 --> 00:36:59,261 But instead of the whole song playing, it was just the intro beat over and over. 765 00:36:59,344 --> 00:37:02,347 I'd seen DJs do it with two records and turntables. 766 00:37:02,431 --> 00:37:05,184 But I'd never seen it done with reel-to-reel tape. 767 00:37:05,267 --> 00:37:08,562 The sound and the visual were so magical to us. 768 00:37:08,645 --> 00:37:10,063 Yauch told us that he'd heard about 769 00:37:10,147 --> 00:37:13,358 Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone doing tape loops and he wanted to try it. 770 00:37:13,442 --> 00:37:15,152 Where did he hear about that? 771 00:37:15,235 --> 00:37:17,779 There was no YouTube or Google back then, right? 772 00:37:18,363 --> 00:37:20,449 We took Yauch's creation to the studio, 773 00:37:20,532 --> 00:37:23,368 and we made a song called "Rhymin' & Stealin'." 774 00:37:23,452 --> 00:37:25,204 [song playing] 775 00:37:26,288 --> 00:37:29,333 ♪ Ali Baba and the forty thieves ♪ 776 00:37:29,416 --> 00:37:32,336 ♪ Ali Baba and the forty thieves ♪ 777 00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:35,631 ♪ Ali Baba and the forty thieves ♪ 778 00:37:35,714 --> 00:37:37,716 ♪ Torchin' and crackin' And rhymin' and stealin'... ♪ 779 00:37:37,799 --> 00:37:41,220 So while we were writing and recording what would become Licensed to Ill, 780 00:37:41,303 --> 00:37:45,516 Rick Rubin was also producing Run-DMC's new album Raising Hell. 781 00:37:46,391 --> 00:37:49,937 Now, their version of the Aerosmith song "Walk This Way" 782 00:37:50,020 --> 00:37:53,357 was a massive mainstream radio and MTV hit, right? 783 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,485 And Run-DMC fuckin' blew up all over the world. 784 00:37:56,568 --> 00:37:58,445 They went on tour that summer in '86. 785 00:37:58,529 --> 00:38:00,113 Russell had us open for them. 786 00:38:00,197 --> 00:38:02,199 [Ad-Rock] Beastie Boys' function in the Raising Hell Tour 787 00:38:02,282 --> 00:38:04,368 is to get everybody pumped up to check out the shows. 788 00:38:04,451 --> 00:38:06,286 So we figured we'd raise a lot of hell on stage. 789 00:38:06,370 --> 00:38:08,956 And we'd just, sort of, you know, get the audience going. 790 00:38:09,039 --> 00:38:12,543 They were so large by the time their tour got to Miami, 791 00:38:12,626 --> 00:38:16,588 the promoters upgraded their venue from basketball arena to baseball stadium. 792 00:38:16,672 --> 00:38:17,965 [song playing] 793 00:38:18,048 --> 00:38:22,427 [Mike D] Joe Perry and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith were flying down from Miami 794 00:38:22,511 --> 00:38:24,221 just to do the one song with them. 795 00:38:24,304 --> 00:38:26,682 And it was bound to be a fuckin' spectacle. 796 00:38:27,641 --> 00:38:29,643 ♪ She starts swingin' With the boys in tune ♪ 797 00:38:29,726 --> 00:38:31,562 ♪ And her feet just fly up in the air... ♪ 798 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 799 00:38:37,276 --> 00:38:40,445 to play the number one song on the entire planet. 800 00:38:40,529 --> 00:38:43,323 They walk out and the crowd goes wild. 801 00:38:43,407 --> 00:38:47,202 But now there's some other guy on stage. 802 00:38:47,286 --> 00:38:48,412 Yauch. 803 00:38:48,495 --> 00:38:49,746 [song continues] 804 00:38:52,332 --> 00:38:54,918 [Mike D] Yauch happened to have a bass with him. 805 00:38:55,002 --> 00:38:58,046 And Jam Master Jay from Run-DMC thought it'd be funny 806 00:38:58,130 --> 00:39:01,758 for him to play bass with them and Aerosmith for the big song, 807 00:39:01,842 --> 00:39:05,971 on stage, in a baseball stadium, in Miami. 808 00:39:06,054 --> 00:39:09,349 And Yauch fucking delivered majestically. 809 00:39:09,433 --> 00:39:13,061 The look on the Aerosmith guys' faces was fantastic bemusement. 810 00:39:13,145 --> 00:39:15,230 "Who's this dirty drunk guy on stage? 811 00:39:15,314 --> 00:39:18,275 And-- And why is he playing bass with us?" 812 00:39:19,359 --> 00:39:20,736 Throughout the whole song, 813 00:39:20,819 --> 00:39:23,363 Yauch kept trying to go back-to-back guitar-player style 814 00:39:23,447 --> 00:39:26,450 with fucking Joe Perry, who was having none of it, right? 815 00:39:26,533 --> 00:39:27,534 And it's like-- 816 00:39:27,618 --> 00:39:32,080 It ended up with Yauch chasing him around the stage running backwards. 817 00:39:32,164 --> 00:39:35,792 And all of us were on the side of the stage, 818 00:39:35,876 --> 00:39:40,464 watching, screaming, laughing and loving it. 819 00:39:40,547 --> 00:39:42,549 [cheering, applause] 820 00:39:42,633 --> 00:39:46,178 And not only was it really fucking fun being on tour 821 00:39:46,261 --> 00:39:48,180 and hanging out with Run-DMC, 822 00:39:48,263 --> 00:39:51,308 but we learned so much watching them night after night. 823 00:39:51,391 --> 00:39:53,810 I mean, it was like we were at rap finishing school. 824 00:39:53,894 --> 00:39:58,690 ♪ Yes, yes, y'all, we don't stop Keep it on, shockin' the place ♪ 825 00:39:58,774 --> 00:39:59,775 ♪ Well... ♪ 826 00:39:59,858 --> 00:40:01,026 [vocalizing] 827 00:40:01,109 --> 00:40:02,402 ♪ Got nothin' to prove ♪ 828 00:40:02,486 --> 00:40:05,072 ♪ Pay attention My intention is to bust a move ♪ 829 00:40:05,155 --> 00:40:08,033 ♪ Drinkin' quarts and cans And bottles and sixes ♪ 830 00:40:08,116 --> 00:40:11,119 ♪ Between the turntables Keep the... ♪ [indistinct] 831 00:40:11,203 --> 00:40:13,580 [Run] ♪ My name's Run I got the deuces wild ♪ 832 00:40:13,664 --> 00:40:16,333 ♪ Listen to the rhymes I'm bustin' the style ♪ 833 00:40:16,416 --> 00:40:18,919 ♪ Name's DMC and he's by my side ♪ 834 00:40:19,002 --> 00:40:21,547 ♪ So take the mic... ♪ [indistinct] 835 00:40:21,630 --> 00:40:23,173 [Mike D] But when we got back home, 836 00:40:23,257 --> 00:40:27,302 we found out that Rick had gone and mixed and finished our whole record. 837 00:40:27,386 --> 00:40:30,055 It was weird that he just went and did it without us knowing. 838 00:40:30,764 --> 00:40:34,351 I mean, Yauch was always into the technical aspects of recording, 839 00:40:34,434 --> 00:40:38,021 so I'm sure it must've bummed him out or pissed him off. 840 00:40:38,105 --> 00:40:40,899 But what Rick did was pretty incredible. 841 00:40:40,983 --> 00:40:42,818 He took our weird rap songs 842 00:40:42,901 --> 00:40:47,447 and he made them sound clean, and big, and polished, and ready for the radio. 843 00:40:47,531 --> 00:40:50,826 They are more like real anthems and less like a joke. 844 00:40:51,743 --> 00:40:55,163 -[song playing] -[no audible dialogue] 845 00:40:55,247 --> 00:40:59,251 ♪ Brass Monkey, that funky Monkey ♪ 846 00:40:59,334 --> 00:41:03,213 ♪ Brass Monkey junkie That funky Monkey ♪ 847 00:41:03,297 --> 00:41:05,465 -♪ Brass Monkey ♪ -[song stops] 848 00:41:05,549 --> 00:41:06,967 Chapter 4: 849 00:41:07,050 --> 00:41:10,596 "Earlier We Had Mentioned a Song That We Thought Had Changed Everything. 850 00:41:10,679 --> 00:41:12,181 And It Had, In a Way. 851 00:41:12,264 --> 00:41:15,767 But This Is Actually the Song That Changed Everything." 852 00:41:15,851 --> 00:41:18,103 [guitar riff plays] 853 00:41:18,187 --> 00:41:23,066 So, fun fact, we were almost done with our record Licensed to Ill, 854 00:41:23,150 --> 00:41:24,693 but Russell said it wasn't long enough 855 00:41:24,776 --> 00:41:27,029 and so we needed just, like, one more song. 856 00:41:27,112 --> 00:41:30,574 And Yauch and his friend Tom Cushman had a side band called Brooklyn. 857 00:41:30,657 --> 00:41:33,202 And they had this song called "Fight for Your Right (To Party)." 858 00:41:33,285 --> 00:41:34,328 And Yauch was like, 859 00:41:34,411 --> 00:41:37,247 "Why don't we use that Brooklyn song and use it for Beastie Boys?" 860 00:41:37,331 --> 00:41:38,498 They made that song as a joke. 861 00:41:38,582 --> 00:41:42,753 Like, a kind of fake anthem making fun of party bros and frat guys. 862 00:41:42,836 --> 00:41:47,090 Now, we had never actually met a party bro or a frat guy. 863 00:41:47,633 --> 00:41:50,052 But we thought that shit was hilarious to make fun of. 864 00:41:50,135 --> 00:41:53,597 So our big idea was to take a little bit of this. 865 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:54,973 [audience laughing] 866 00:41:55,057 --> 00:41:56,350 A little bit of that. 867 00:41:57,976 --> 00:41:59,645 A little bit of this. 868 00:42:00,354 --> 00:42:04,483 Whoo! And then about half a cup of that. 869 00:42:04,566 --> 00:42:07,778 And then you mix all these things together. 870 00:42:07,861 --> 00:42:09,655 And what you get is... 871 00:42:09,738 --> 00:42:13,951 ♪ You gotta fight for your right ♪ 872 00:42:14,034 --> 00:42:16,537 ♪ To party ♪ 873 00:42:17,829 --> 00:42:20,040 [Mike D] Shit starts happening really fast. 874 00:42:20,123 --> 00:42:23,001 I mean, it felt like the next day, our record comes out. 875 00:42:23,085 --> 00:42:24,920 Then the video comes out. 876 00:42:25,003 --> 00:42:26,046 It's everywhere. 877 00:42:26,129 --> 00:42:28,841 I mean, I'm just at home eating my Fruity Pebbles. 878 00:42:28,924 --> 00:42:32,636 And I'm watching it play, like, five times an hour on MTV. 879 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,388 [Ad-Rock] Everybody watched MTV back then. 880 00:42:34,471 --> 00:42:36,849 And we were on that shit constantly. 881 00:42:36,932 --> 00:42:40,769 Our homemade video that we made at our friend's apartment is now playing 882 00:42:40,853 --> 00:42:44,982 in between fuckin' Michael Jackson, Prince and Tina Turner videos. 883 00:42:45,065 --> 00:42:48,527 I mean, that was some crazy shit. 884 00:42:49,111 --> 00:42:51,530 So, we went from being famous in-- 885 00:42:51,613 --> 00:42:53,907 -Crazy shit. -Come on. 886 00:42:55,325 --> 00:42:56,702 [chuckles] 887 00:42:56,785 --> 00:42:59,997 We went from being famous in, like, a 14-block radius 888 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,583 to being known in the underground hip-hop scene 889 00:43:02,666 --> 00:43:06,879 to being recognized walking down the street after Licensed to Ill came out. 890 00:43:06,962 --> 00:43:10,382 I mean, everywhere I went people would start yelling like... 891 00:43:10,465 --> 00:43:12,342 "Yo, Mike D." 892 00:43:12,426 --> 00:43:14,136 "Oh, what's up, homeboy?" 893 00:43:14,219 --> 00:43:16,430 Same thing with me and Yauch. We'd be walking down the street, 894 00:43:16,513 --> 00:43:18,557 someone might recognize us, and they'd be like... 895 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,434 "Yo, Mike D." 896 00:43:20,517 --> 00:43:22,019 [audience laughing] 897 00:43:23,103 --> 00:43:24,229 True story. 898 00:43:24,313 --> 00:43:27,149 So, we were really feeling ourselves. 899 00:43:27,232 --> 00:43:29,026 And about two months later, 900 00:43:29,109 --> 00:43:33,572 Russell sends us out on our first big headlining tour of America. 901 00:43:33,655 --> 00:43:34,656 [Ad-Rock] So what did we do? 902 00:43:34,740 --> 00:43:37,701 We brought Dave Scilken and Cey and DJ Hurricane 903 00:43:37,784 --> 00:43:39,203 and all our other friends with us. 904 00:43:39,286 --> 00:43:41,580 [Mike D] Our record was selling like crazy. 905 00:43:41,663 --> 00:43:43,999 And that's when things started to feel really different. 906 00:43:44,082 --> 00:43:46,126 [Ad-Rock] Being famous in our city was one thing. 907 00:43:46,210 --> 00:43:48,545 But being famous in a mall in Missoula, Montana 908 00:43:48,629 --> 00:43:50,839 is something else entirely. 909 00:43:50,923 --> 00:43:52,591 So before the tour started, 910 00:43:52,674 --> 00:43:54,676 Russell Simmons had us meet with some weird dude 911 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,387 to talk about what we wanted on stage. 912 00:43:57,471 --> 00:44:01,892 So just to fuck with this guy, we were like, "Uh, yeah, homes, you know, 913 00:44:01,975 --> 00:44:07,064 we want a fuckin' ten-foot six-pack of Budweiser for a DJ riser." 914 00:44:07,147 --> 00:44:09,274 -"Check." -"We want a fuckin' go-go dancer cage." 915 00:44:09,358 --> 00:44:10,651 -"Check." -"We want this big box 916 00:44:10,734 --> 00:44:13,529 with a 25-foot dick coming out of it at the end of the show, right?" 917 00:44:13,612 --> 00:44:15,113 -"That's easy. Yeah. No problem." -Right? 918 00:44:15,197 --> 00:44:16,615 And the next thing you know, 919 00:44:16,698 --> 00:44:20,035 we get to Missoula, Montana for the first show, and there it is. 920 00:44:20,118 --> 00:44:22,704 -[rock song playing] -[audience cheering] 921 00:44:29,586 --> 00:44:32,297 Oh, Mike D, wop it up, wop it up, wop it up. 922 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,843 We were-- We were wopping it up. We were pretty excited. 923 00:44:36,718 --> 00:44:40,430 Now, we had no idea who was gonna show up to see us play. 924 00:44:41,265 --> 00:44:44,393 We definitely didn't think that the party bro frat dudes 925 00:44:44,476 --> 00:44:46,270 that we were making fun of were gonna come. 926 00:44:46,353 --> 00:44:50,566 But turns out that they loved "Fight for Your Right (To Party)." 927 00:44:50,649 --> 00:44:53,026 And you know what? We liked being loved. 928 00:44:53,110 --> 00:44:56,947 So fuck it. Pass me a 40. Let's get fucked up. 929 00:44:58,907 --> 00:45:03,537 Now, everything that Russell had said would happen was actually happening. 930 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, 931 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,002 [imitating Simmons] "See, I told you motherfuckers. 932 00:45:10,085 --> 00:45:12,546 Y'all gonna be bigger than Cap'n Crunch." 933 00:45:13,755 --> 00:45:15,757 The shows kept getting bigger and bigger. 934 00:45:15,841 --> 00:45:18,594 A thousand people one night, 2,000 the next. 935 00:45:18,677 --> 00:45:21,221 -Chicago, Atlanta-- -Miami. 936 00:45:21,305 --> 00:45:22,514 Miami. 937 00:45:22,598 --> 00:45:24,141 -Uh... Munich. -Munich. 938 00:45:24,224 --> 00:45:25,225 -[chuckles] -Houston. 939 00:45:25,309 --> 00:45:28,145 [Ad-Rock] Shows, hotels, after-parties, after-after-parties. 940 00:45:28,228 --> 00:45:34,193 Now we were having the fucking times of our lives, and shit was blowing up. 941 00:45:34,276 --> 00:45:36,612 -[song lyrics playing] -["No Sleep Till Brooklyn" intro] 942 00:45:37,321 --> 00:45:39,531 [Dick Clark] Licensed to Ill has been certified 943 00:45:39,615 --> 00:45:43,493 as the fastest-selling debut in the history of their label. 944 00:45:43,577 --> 00:45:45,662 -These are... -The Beastie Boys. 945 00:45:45,746 --> 00:45:47,039 You got it. 946 00:45:47,122 --> 00:45:48,707 [song continues] 947 00:45:48,790 --> 00:45:50,000 [no audible dialogue] 948 00:45:51,627 --> 00:45:53,629 ♪ Foot on the pedal Never ever false metal ♪ 949 00:45:53,712 --> 00:45:55,923 ♪ Engine running hotter Than a boiling kettle... ♪ 950 00:45:56,006 --> 00:45:59,510 In 1987, the Beastie Boys are gonna be taking over America! 951 00:45:59,593 --> 00:46:01,345 [screaming] 952 00:46:01,428 --> 00:46:03,847 ♪ On location Touring around the nation ♪ 953 00:46:03,931 --> 00:46:06,350 ♪ Beastie Boys always on vacation... ♪ 954 00:46:06,433 --> 00:46:09,144 How'd you all three get together? Juilliard? 955 00:46:09,228 --> 00:46:11,188 [studio audience laughs] 956 00:46:11,271 --> 00:46:13,690 ♪ Ain't no fakin' Your money I'm takin' ♪ 957 00:46:13,774 --> 00:46:16,193 ♪ Going coast to coast To watch all the girlies shakin' ♪ 958 00:46:16,276 --> 00:46:18,153 ♪ While you're at the job Workin' 9 to 5 ♪ 959 00:46:18,237 --> 00:46:21,198 ♪ The Beastie Boys at the Garden Cold kickin' it live ♪ 960 00:46:21,281 --> 00:46:24,660 [Mike D] But something weird was happening during all of this. 961 00:46:24,743 --> 00:46:29,581 We morphed from making fun of party bros to actually becoming those dudes. 962 00:46:29,665 --> 00:46:31,291 Let's bang our heads together! 963 00:46:31,375 --> 00:46:33,877 [screaming] 964 00:46:35,337 --> 00:46:36,839 Yo, what's up, MTV? 965 00:46:36,922 --> 00:46:39,383 -We're the Beastie Boys! -Yeah! 966 00:46:39,466 --> 00:46:43,345 So songs that we'd written as a joke took on a whole new light. 967 00:46:44,096 --> 00:46:47,099 For example, we had a song on our first record 968 00:46:47,182 --> 00:46:51,144 that was supposed to be this, like, stupid and ironic joke, 969 00:46:51,228 --> 00:46:53,230 but, understandably, it wasn't that funny. 970 00:46:53,814 --> 00:46:55,941 Now I'm gonna tell you the lyrics to that song. 971 00:46:56,942 --> 00:47:00,529 "Girls, to do the dishes. 972 00:47:01,154 --> 00:47:03,532 Girls, to clean up my room. 973 00:47:04,366 --> 00:47:06,618 Girls, to do my laundry. 974 00:47:07,327 --> 00:47:10,581 Girls, and in the bathroom. Girls." 975 00:47:13,125 --> 00:47:15,586 -[laughing, cheering] -[exhales] 976 00:47:15,669 --> 00:47:17,421 [applause] 977 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. 978 00:47:21,717 --> 00:47:24,178 I mean, shit got really blurry. 979 00:47:26,054 --> 00:47:27,514 [indistinct] 980 00:47:27,598 --> 00:47:30,601 [Mike D] The lines just got kind of blurred for us. 981 00:47:30,684 --> 00:47:35,731 Like, I have a break from tour, but then I didn't even call my friends 982 00:47:35,814 --> 00:47:38,317 because I just didn't know how to relate to them anymore. 983 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. 984 00:47:42,237 --> 00:47:45,616 I remember one specific time I saw Kate Schellenbach at a deli, 985 00:47:46,283 --> 00:47:47,367 and I didn't say hi. 986 00:47:48,410 --> 00:47:50,078 Maybe she didn't see me. I-I don't know. 987 00:47:50,162 --> 00:47:51,288 But if she did see me, 988 00:47:51,371 --> 00:47:55,167 she definitely would have seen a very different version of me. 989 00:47:55,959 --> 00:47:58,629 I remember I was in the back of the store by the coolers, 990 00:47:58,712 --> 00:48:00,422 and she was up front paying for something, 991 00:48:00,506 --> 00:48:03,008 and she was just laughing and having fun with her friend. 992 00:48:03,842 --> 00:48:06,053 And I guess I didn't say hi 'cause I was embarrassed 993 00:48:06,136 --> 00:48:07,804 thinking about how much I'd changed. 994 00:48:10,849 --> 00:48:12,309 Also, speaking of change, 995 00:48:12,768 --> 00:48:16,605 I'd like to take a quick sidenote to apologize to my brother, Matthew, 996 00:48:16,688 --> 00:48:18,565 for that time I kept calling him "money" 997 00:48:18,649 --> 00:48:20,776 when we were just trying to have a serious conversation. 998 00:48:20,859 --> 00:48:23,028 I was like, "Yo, money. I don't know, money." 999 00:48:23,111 --> 00:48:26,990 And he was like, "Yo, what the fuck are you doing? We're just talking." 1000 00:48:27,950 --> 00:48:29,076 Anyway. 1001 00:48:29,159 --> 00:48:31,537 Matthew, I'm sorry. That was a dick move. 1002 00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,584 Which brings us to Chapter 5: "Dicks in a Box." 1003 00:48:38,919 --> 00:48:42,965 Our record was selling like crazy, and the shows were getting crazier. 1004 00:48:43,048 --> 00:48:44,633 A lot of booze and a lot of cursing. 1005 00:48:44,716 --> 00:48:48,345 Now, in the South, they were trying to ban us for lewd behavior. 1006 00:48:48,428 --> 00:48:51,974 We would literally have to sneak off a stage after a show and into a van 1007 00:48:52,057 --> 00:48:54,726 and get across state lines so we wouldn't get arrested. 1008 00:48:54,810 --> 00:48:56,478 The British press were around at the time, 1009 00:48:56,562 --> 00:48:58,230 and they were writing all these stories about us. 1010 00:48:58,313 --> 00:49:01,316 And so by the time we got to England to go on tour, 1011 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,277 they made up all of these stories about us 1012 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,654 and put them on the cover of the actual newspapers. 1013 00:49:06,572 --> 00:49:10,242 There was this weird expectation for us to be fucking maniacs. 1014 00:49:11,326 --> 00:49:15,831 We really did not do that. Just as a sidenote, that just did not happen. 1015 00:49:18,876 --> 00:49:20,669 [scattered laughter, clapping] 1016 00:49:22,296 --> 00:49:26,466 Seriously, I do like it though. They say, "'Horrible' Horovitz." 1017 00:49:26,550 --> 00:49:28,135 -I really like that. But-- -Yeah. 1018 00:49:28,218 --> 00:49:31,054 You know, it's too bad that didn't stick. 1019 00:49:31,138 --> 00:49:32,806 -"Horrible" Horovitz? -Yeah, it's a good name. 1020 00:49:32,890 --> 00:49:35,309 There was an actual meeting of Parliament 1021 00:49:35,392 --> 00:49:38,520 to decide whether they should let us into the UK or not. 1022 00:49:38,604 --> 00:49:39,855 Seriously. 1023 00:49:39,938 --> 00:49:44,151 With each city we went to on the tour, the crowd developed a 1024 00:49:44,234 --> 00:49:45,986 [British accent] "you motherfuckers ain't shit 1025 00:49:46,069 --> 00:49:48,655 compared to us here" type of vibe, right? 1026 00:49:49,364 --> 00:49:53,368 So by the time we got to the last show of that tour in Liverpool, 1027 00:49:53,452 --> 00:49:55,329 the punters went berserk. 1028 00:49:56,121 --> 00:49:59,499 Right into the first song of our show in Liverpool, 1029 00:49:59,583 --> 00:50:02,961 the crowd started chanting these football chants and throwing shit at us. 1030 00:50:03,045 --> 00:50:05,839 And then it turned into a full-on hailstorm of beer can-- 1031 00:50:05,923 --> 00:50:07,674 Jesus Christ, Mike. Come on. 1032 00:50:08,258 --> 00:50:11,178 A full-on hailstorm of beer cans and bottles. 1033 00:50:11,678 --> 00:50:15,682 So mid-show, we broke the fuck out, and we drove back to London. 1034 00:50:16,475 --> 00:50:19,353 After all this, you think we would've taken a break for a sec, right? 1035 00:50:19,436 --> 00:50:21,438 You know, just to let things calm down a little. 1036 00:50:21,522 --> 00:50:22,523 But we didn't. 1037 00:50:22,606 --> 00:50:26,235 We went straight from all of that to tour Japan. 1038 00:50:26,318 --> 00:50:27,694 Then after the tour of Japan, 1039 00:50:27,778 --> 00:50:31,323 we came back to the United States and toured that shit all over again. 1040 00:50:31,406 --> 00:50:32,574 No breaks. 1041 00:50:33,742 --> 00:50:34,910 [Mike D] We just didn't stop. 1042 00:50:35,661 --> 00:50:37,704 Russell was like, "You're going back on tour. 1043 00:50:37,788 --> 00:50:40,999 You're gonna make a lot of money. And you're gonna be happy rock stars." 1044 00:50:41,083 --> 00:50:43,210 "All right, Russell. Whatever you say." 1045 00:50:43,293 --> 00:50:46,171 ["Fight for Your Right (To Party)" playing] 1046 00:50:46,255 --> 00:50:47,673 I mean, he was the manager. 1047 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. 1048 00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:54,429 We didn't really question it so much. 1049 00:50:54,513 --> 00:50:57,599 We felt like we had to be out there doing this. 1050 00:50:57,683 --> 00:51:00,477 But we weren't really mature enough to be able to express 1051 00:51:00,561 --> 00:51:03,105 that we started to not like our own songs. 1052 00:51:03,730 --> 00:51:05,524 Which is a really shitty feeling. 1053 00:51:06,567 --> 00:51:10,070 [Ad-Rock] Yauch was the first one to start showing signs of not wanting to be there. 1054 00:51:10,988 --> 00:51:13,448 I mean, it's not like we weren't having fun as friends. 1055 00:51:13,991 --> 00:51:16,326 It's just, the show started to become just that. 1056 00:51:16,410 --> 00:51:17,411 A show. 1057 00:51:17,995 --> 00:51:19,121 A fucking gimmick. 1058 00:51:20,372 --> 00:51:21,832 I mean, we were all tired. 1059 00:51:22,749 --> 00:51:24,126 We missed our families. 1060 00:51:24,668 --> 00:51:25,919 We missed being home. 1061 00:51:26,837 --> 00:51:29,798 We missed things like just going to the deli to get a sandwich. 1062 00:51:30,465 --> 00:51:32,801 We missed being the people we used to be. 1063 00:51:33,510 --> 00:51:36,597 All the dumb shit we were saying and the go-go cage 1064 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,516 and the fucking beer and the dick in the box... 1065 00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,977 the whole thing was just getting fucking embarrassing. 1066 00:51:43,061 --> 00:51:45,230 We were burning out. 1067 00:51:45,314 --> 00:51:48,233 [Mike D] In a flash, Beastie Boys went from being 1068 00:51:48,317 --> 00:51:51,069 the funny, tipsy guy with the lampshade on his head 1069 00:51:51,153 --> 00:51:55,157 to the ugly drunk dude that people were trying to get out of their apartment. 1070 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:57,993 [Ad-Rock] It's like that Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. 1071 00:51:58,535 --> 00:52:01,788 You know, where he keeps living the same day over and over. 1072 00:52:02,623 --> 00:52:05,083 But in our movie, it was the fucking dick 1073 00:52:05,167 --> 00:52:08,587 going up in the air at the end of every show. 1074 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. 1075 00:52:16,178 --> 00:52:19,389 It became, "How can we get through the show fast enough 1076 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." 1077 00:52:25,479 --> 00:52:28,190 [rumbling] 1078 00:52:38,158 --> 00:52:39,618 What ever happened to the Beastie Boys? 1079 00:52:39,701 --> 00:52:42,162 In late 1986, they released Licensed to Ill, 1080 00:52:42,246 --> 00:52:44,623 one of the most successful debut albums of all time. 1081 00:52:44,706 --> 00:52:47,459 But they've yet to record a follow-up and have gone their separate ways 1082 00:52:47,543 --> 00:52:50,295 since their tour with Run-DMC ended last fall. 1083 00:52:50,379 --> 00:52:53,507 These days, Mike D and MCA are playing in bands around New York. 1084 00:52:53,590 --> 00:52:56,802 As for Ad-Rock, he's been in Los Angeles making his movie debut. 1085 00:52:56,885 --> 00:52:58,387 [insects chirping] 1086 00:52:59,763 --> 00:53:01,056 [car door opens] 1087 00:53:03,725 --> 00:53:04,893 [car door closes] 1088 00:53:09,231 --> 00:53:11,400 You just transferred to Sherman, didn't you? 1089 00:53:12,609 --> 00:53:14,945 Yeah. Moved here last summer. 1090 00:53:15,028 --> 00:53:16,488 Like, to this great house. 1091 00:53:16,989 --> 00:53:19,116 [buzzes lips] Do you wanna help me wash this car? 1092 00:53:19,741 --> 00:53:21,076 -[sighs] -Now? 1093 00:53:27,499 --> 00:53:30,169 -[gasps, moans] -[girl laughs] 1094 00:53:30,252 --> 00:53:31,879 [audience cheering] 1095 00:53:33,881 --> 00:53:34,882 [Ad-Rock] Okay. 1096 00:53:36,758 --> 00:53:37,885 Okay, so... 1097 00:53:38,927 --> 00:53:41,638 That was a movie I was in right after the Licensed to Ill tour. 1098 00:53:42,431 --> 00:53:45,184 It's called Lost Angels, and it's awful. 1099 00:53:45,267 --> 00:53:47,102 Please don't go look it up, okay? 1100 00:53:47,186 --> 00:53:49,021 Please don't look it up and watch it. 1101 00:53:49,646 --> 00:53:50,689 Please don't. 1102 00:53:50,772 --> 00:53:51,773 Anyways... 1103 00:53:53,233 --> 00:53:54,776 The last 12 months of touring 1104 00:53:54,860 --> 00:53:57,946 felt like a tornado had ripped me out of my apartment in New York, 1105 00:53:58,030 --> 00:54:02,367 spun me barfing all around the world, and dropped me on my head in Hollywood. 1106 00:54:02,951 --> 00:54:05,245 And that's when I got cast to do that movie. 1107 00:54:05,829 --> 00:54:09,958 I was 22 years old, and I did not know what the fuck had just happened. 1108 00:54:10,417 --> 00:54:12,961 I hadn't talked to Adam or Mike for a couple months. 1109 00:54:13,045 --> 00:54:14,713 We didn't have a fight or a falling out or anything, 1110 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. 1111 00:54:18,509 --> 00:54:22,179 I guess we just needed a break to go our separate ways for a minute. 1112 00:54:23,013 --> 00:54:26,517 Yauch was in New York, and he was really into his other band, Brooklyn. 1113 00:54:27,643 --> 00:54:29,978 And I was in LA doing that movie. 1114 00:54:30,646 --> 00:54:32,147 And Mike was, um... 1115 00:54:33,023 --> 00:54:35,400 -Mike, what were you doing? -Oh, um-- 1116 00:54:35,484 --> 00:54:39,071 Honestly, I was just experimenting with a lot of drugs. 1117 00:54:39,154 --> 00:54:40,489 -[audience laughing] -Right, right. 1118 00:54:43,784 --> 00:54:48,372 So as for me, I was running from all kinds of things. 1119 00:54:48,455 --> 00:54:51,708 My mom had just passed away, right before Licensed to Ill came out. 1120 00:54:51,792 --> 00:54:54,378 And the chance to escape into becoming a different person 1121 00:54:54,461 --> 00:54:56,839 couldn't have come at the more perfect time. 1122 00:54:57,673 --> 00:55:01,552 So after the tour, I continued to run away from anything I was feeling. 1123 00:55:03,053 --> 00:55:05,848 One day after filming, I got back to the hotel I was staying at, 1124 00:55:05,931 --> 00:55:07,182 and someone at the front desk said 1125 00:55:07,266 --> 00:55:09,351 that there was a package waiting for me in my room. 1126 00:55:09,852 --> 00:55:13,355 I get in my room and there's this huge box, and it's from Yauch. 1127 00:55:14,022 --> 00:55:17,359 I open the box, and inside the box is another box. 1128 00:55:17,442 --> 00:55:20,070 And then another box, and another box, and another box. 1129 00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,992 And then there was this big ziplock bag with coffee grounds in it. 1130 00:55:25,617 --> 00:55:28,829 So inside of that mess was a cassette tape. 1131 00:55:30,372 --> 00:55:33,041 It was the demos for his band Brooklyn. 1132 00:55:33,750 --> 00:55:37,254 It's weird to go from talking to someone every single day for years 1133 00:55:37,337 --> 00:55:39,965 to all of a sudden not hear from them for a couple months. 1134 00:55:40,048 --> 00:55:42,801 So it was really cool that he sent me this tape of his music. 1135 00:55:43,302 --> 00:55:46,138 Like, he did it so we could be connected as friends. 1136 00:55:46,930 --> 00:55:48,891 But it definitely made me pause for a sec. 1137 00:55:48,974 --> 00:55:50,976 Like, maybe that's just what he's doing now. 1138 00:55:51,059 --> 00:55:53,812 Maybe he's done with Beastie Boys, and we're not a band anymore. 1139 00:55:54,313 --> 00:55:59,193 Well, turns out we kind of weren't a band, because Yauch quit. 1140 00:55:59,276 --> 00:56:02,613 I mean, he didn't tell us about it until a couple years later. 1141 00:56:03,113 --> 00:56:05,616 He was sick of being the drunk guy at the party. 1142 00:56:05,699 --> 00:56:08,118 Yauch said that Russell wasn't trying to hear him 1143 00:56:08,202 --> 00:56:10,662 and he kept trying to convince him that it was all fine 1144 00:56:10,746 --> 00:56:12,372 and that he should just get back on tour 1145 00:56:12,456 --> 00:56:15,250 and put water in a beer can and splash it all around 1146 00:56:15,334 --> 00:56:17,544 and a whole bunch of other clown stuff. 1147 00:56:17,628 --> 00:56:19,046 That was enough for Yauch. 1148 00:56:19,129 --> 00:56:21,673 So he told Russell, "I quit." 1149 00:56:21,757 --> 00:56:26,053 So during all this madness, we stopped being paid royalties. 1150 00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:28,305 We made money for playing shows, 1151 00:56:28,388 --> 00:56:31,016 like, big shows, like, Madison Square Garden shows. 1152 00:56:31,099 --> 00:56:36,104 But zero dollars for the multiplatinum smash hit Licensed to Ill. 1153 00:56:36,188 --> 00:56:38,941 The fucking record that a group of friends made together, 1154 00:56:39,024 --> 00:56:41,860 had intense and real fun making together, 1155 00:56:41,944 --> 00:56:43,779 spent hours and hours laughing 1156 00:56:43,862 --> 00:56:48,659 at coffee shops and clubs and studios, dorm rooms, taxis, and parties... 1157 00:56:48,742 --> 00:56:51,078 But now, for whatever reason, 1158 00:56:51,161 --> 00:56:55,123 the record label decides that they should not fucking pay us. 1159 00:56:55,666 --> 00:56:58,585 Rick and Russell. Our friends. Def Jam. 1160 00:56:59,169 --> 00:57:01,088 [Mike D] We'd been there with them from the beginning. 1161 00:57:01,630 --> 00:57:05,342 We felt that Def Jam's success was success for us and vice versa. 1162 00:57:05,425 --> 00:57:07,010 'Cause we were all friends. 1163 00:57:07,094 --> 00:57:09,763 Allegedly, Russell said that we were in breach of our contract 1164 00:57:09,847 --> 00:57:13,058 because we hadn't started recording a new record for Def Jam yet. 1165 00:57:13,517 --> 00:57:17,104 I mean, Russell wanted a "Fight for Your Right (To Party) Part 2" now. 1166 00:57:17,187 --> 00:57:19,106 [Mike D] When Russell signed us, 1167 00:57:19,189 --> 00:57:22,067 we thought that he believed in us in some bigger way. 1168 00:57:22,150 --> 00:57:26,488 But in hindsight, he just needed three white rappers to get on MTV. 1169 00:57:26,572 --> 00:57:28,365 I mean, we could've been anybody. 1170 00:57:29,908 --> 00:57:32,244 Anyways, back to me. Los Angeles. 1171 00:57:32,327 --> 00:57:33,412 [clears throat] 1172 00:57:33,495 --> 00:57:35,664 So I'm out there, and I'm working on this project-- 1173 00:57:35,747 --> 00:57:38,333 Oh, actually, Spike, just indulge me. 1174 00:57:38,417 --> 00:57:41,253 Can we see that clip where Adam goes into the pool? 1175 00:57:41,336 --> 00:57:43,130 -[Ad-Rock] No, we can just-- -Can we see that again? 1176 00:57:44,339 --> 00:57:46,592 -[gasps, moans] -[girl laughs] 1177 00:57:48,385 --> 00:57:50,554 But play it, like, a few times in a row. 1178 00:57:50,637 --> 00:57:51,722 Just a few times. 1179 00:57:51,805 --> 00:57:55,684 -[gasping, moaning] -[girl laughing] 1180 00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,188 Now, I've never driven a car into a swimming pool. 1181 00:57:59,271 --> 00:58:00,856 -Yeah. Clearly. -Okay. 1182 00:58:00,939 --> 00:58:04,276 But I'd like to think that if I were to do that, 1183 00:58:04,359 --> 00:58:07,487 and when I felt the car going into the swimming pool, 1184 00:58:07,571 --> 00:58:12,242 my reaction wouldn't be some kind of, like, sexual, orgasmic experience. 1185 00:58:12,326 --> 00:58:13,702 [gasps, moans] 1186 00:58:15,037 --> 00:58:16,788 I don't know, you guys. It's pretty fucking hot. 1187 00:58:16,872 --> 00:58:18,373 I don't know what else to say. 1188 00:58:20,167 --> 00:58:21,835 Anyways, I was out in Hollywood. 1189 00:58:21,919 --> 00:58:24,087 -[gasps, moans] -All right, all right, all right. 1190 00:58:26,924 --> 00:58:30,886 So, I'm out in Hollywood, and I was at this big Hollywood party, right? 1191 00:58:30,969 --> 00:58:33,972 And I'm hanging out by the pool, as you do at Hollywood parties. 1192 00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:38,310 And so I hear this awesome music playing from somewhere. 1193 00:58:38,393 --> 00:58:41,355 [hip-hop song playing] 1194 00:58:41,438 --> 00:58:44,858 "What is that?" So I'm trying to figure out where this music's coming from, 1195 00:58:44,942 --> 00:58:47,444 so I'm walking around the party trying to figure it out, right? 1196 00:58:47,528 --> 00:58:49,196 -Champagne, sir? -Oh, thank you, Mike D. 1197 00:58:50,072 --> 00:58:52,533 This is how I walk when I walk through Hollywood parties. 1198 00:58:53,450 --> 00:58:54,785 Donnie Wahlberg? Hey. What's up? 1199 00:58:54,868 --> 00:58:55,994 Are you done with that? 1200 00:58:56,787 --> 00:59:00,707 [chuckles] So, I'm following the sound to try to figure out where it's coming from, 1201 00:59:00,791 --> 00:59:02,376 and I get to a cassette player. 1202 00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:05,379 And at the cassette player is this guy Matt Dike 1203 00:59:05,462 --> 00:59:07,339 and these guys the Dust Brothers. 1204 00:59:08,757 --> 00:59:10,592 And they said that they'd made this music. 1205 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, 1206 00:59:14,429 --> 00:59:17,766 "You guys should come out to Los Angeles, and we should meet with these guys." 1207 00:59:17,850 --> 00:59:18,934 And they came out. 1208 00:59:19,017 --> 00:59:21,311 Now, I didn't know what it was gonna be like when they came out, 1209 00:59:21,395 --> 00:59:24,439 because we hadn't seen each other for a few months. 1210 00:59:24,523 --> 00:59:27,943 But when they got there, it felt like how it was supposed to be. 1211 00:59:28,026 --> 00:59:30,195 We hung out, we listened to this music. 1212 00:59:30,696 --> 00:59:33,824 So, like, any of this other stuff we were doing was fine, right? 1213 00:59:33,907 --> 00:59:38,370 Yauch's band Brooklyn, me in the movie, Mike being Mike. 1214 00:59:38,453 --> 00:59:40,080 [laughing] 1215 00:59:40,163 --> 00:59:41,999 But it reminded me 1216 00:59:42,082 --> 00:59:44,960 the Beastie Boys is what we should be doing with our lives, right? 1217 00:59:45,043 --> 00:59:46,128 For me. 1218 00:59:49,590 --> 00:59:52,718 And we made a very conscious decision moving forward. 1219 00:59:52,801 --> 00:59:57,681 No manager, no producer, no record label would call the shots. 1220 00:59:57,764 --> 00:59:59,766 It would be just the three of us. 1221 00:59:59,850 --> 01:00:02,477 [cheering, applause] 1222 01:00:04,771 --> 01:00:05,647 So... 1223 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. 1224 01:00:11,528 --> 01:00:14,072 Chapter 6: "A New Chapter." 1225 01:00:17,117 --> 01:00:20,954 The music the Dust Brothers was making was incredible 1226 01:00:21,038 --> 01:00:24,333 and totally inspired us to want to make another record. 1227 01:00:24,416 --> 01:00:27,503 But the reality is, to continue being a band, 1228 01:00:27,586 --> 01:00:30,130 we had to meet with some new record labels. 1229 01:00:30,214 --> 01:00:31,882 One of them was Capitol Records. 1230 01:00:31,965 --> 01:00:35,385 So we go up to meet the big-time president guy and he was like, 1231 01:00:35,469 --> 01:00:38,639 "You guys didn't do anything on Licensed to Ill. Let's be real. 1232 01:00:38,722 --> 01:00:40,474 Rick and Russell did all that shit. 1233 01:00:40,557 --> 01:00:42,351 You're, like, their creation." 1234 01:00:42,434 --> 01:00:46,146 But the same time, they're willing to bet on us, 1235 01:00:46,230 --> 01:00:49,942 even though it's a long shot, that we just might give them 1236 01:00:50,025 --> 01:00:52,611 a "Fight for Your Right (To Party) Part 2." 1237 01:00:52,694 --> 01:00:55,072 Now, we're embarrassed about that song, 1238 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. 1239 01:01:01,787 --> 01:01:04,998 Right? So we get the record deal, but now we need a manager. 1240 01:01:05,082 --> 01:01:09,086 And so we pick a manager for maybe not the smartest reasons ever. 1241 01:01:09,419 --> 01:01:13,298 We picked this guy because he managed Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie. 1242 01:01:13,382 --> 01:01:15,133 And we thought that shit was funny. 1243 01:01:15,926 --> 01:01:19,471 Sometimes dumb jokes aren't always 1244 01:01:19,555 --> 01:01:22,516 the best things to guide your financial future. 1245 01:01:22,599 --> 01:01:23,934 All right? 1246 01:01:24,017 --> 01:01:26,436 Also, we had this big idea. 1247 01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,481 Like, okay, if we all live in a house together, 1248 01:01:29,565 --> 01:01:32,025 we're really gonna get a lot of stuff done. 1249 01:01:32,109 --> 01:01:36,697 So we took all this money from our new fat record contract 1250 01:01:36,780 --> 01:01:42,369 and we rented a super-expensive fancy house up in the Hollywood Hills. 1251 01:01:43,787 --> 01:01:46,081 [Ad-Rock] But not just any house in the Hollywood Hills. 1252 01:01:46,164 --> 01:01:49,418 This house was like a '70s museum. 1253 01:01:49,501 --> 01:01:53,505 It was like Hart to Hart combined with The Love Boat combined with, like, 1254 01:01:53,589 --> 01:01:55,591 the Regal Beagle from Three's Company. 1255 01:01:56,675 --> 01:01:59,261 My man, Hart to Hart was just a great callout right there. 1256 01:01:59,344 --> 01:02:00,345 That was awesome. 1257 01:02:01,096 --> 01:02:05,350 Anyway, this house was owned by Alex and Madilyn Grasshoff. 1258 01:02:05,434 --> 01:02:06,727 -Exactly. -Small detail. 1259 01:02:06,810 --> 01:02:09,271 Now, inside of this house there's a locked closet. 1260 01:02:09,354 --> 01:02:12,232 And so, you know, when you're, like, in your 20s 1261 01:02:12,316 --> 01:02:16,612 and you're curious and super high, and there's a locked closet, 1262 01:02:17,237 --> 01:02:18,405 what do you do? 1263 01:02:18,488 --> 01:02:20,199 You fucking kick that closet open, right? 1264 01:02:20,282 --> 01:02:21,491 You wanna know what's inside. 1265 01:02:21,575 --> 01:02:25,537 Inside the closet is all of Madilyn Grasshoff's 1266 01:02:25,621 --> 01:02:29,333 awesome ensembles from the '70s. 1267 01:02:29,416 --> 01:02:30,751 I mean... 1268 01:02:30,834 --> 01:02:32,544 Yeah. Yeah. 1269 01:02:32,628 --> 01:02:37,216 Like, we're talking suede patchwork duster coats. 1270 01:02:37,299 --> 01:02:39,384 [Ad-Rock] I mean, like, fucking satin jumpsuits. 1271 01:02:39,468 --> 01:02:42,721 Everything transplendent and wonderful. 1272 01:02:42,804 --> 01:02:46,266 [Mike D] Like fur hats. I mean, special vests. 1273 01:02:46,350 --> 01:02:48,435 You guys, would you rather go have breakfast, 1274 01:02:48,519 --> 01:02:51,146 you know, like, in your Oscar Madison clothes? 1275 01:02:51,230 --> 01:02:53,857 Or would you rather go have breakfast like this? 1276 01:02:56,527 --> 01:02:58,820 This is the house that we stayed in, right? That's Mike. 1277 01:02:58,904 --> 01:03:00,113 You look wonderful. 1278 01:03:00,197 --> 01:03:01,406 [Mike D] Oh. Thank you, Adam. 1279 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. 1280 01:03:06,119 --> 01:03:08,038 But listen. So my room wasn't in the house. 1281 01:03:08,121 --> 01:03:10,832 It was, like, this weird side room that was, like, over here. 1282 01:03:10,916 --> 01:03:13,126 And in the swimming pool was this little window 1283 01:03:13,210 --> 01:03:16,839 that looked right into my room and from the room into the pool. 1284 01:03:16,922 --> 01:03:19,049 And every couple days, at 6:00 in the morning, 1285 01:03:19,132 --> 01:03:20,801 I'd hear this loud banging noise, 1286 01:03:20,884 --> 01:03:22,928 and I'd wake up and see this. 1287 01:03:25,430 --> 01:03:27,641 It was Yauch saying, "Let's go get breakfast." 1288 01:03:28,892 --> 01:03:32,688 So our daily routine was to wake up at this crazy Grasshoff house, 1289 01:03:32,771 --> 01:03:33,981 go have some breakfast, 1290 01:03:34,064 --> 01:03:36,859 and then we'd go meet Matt Dike and the Dust Brothers at the studio. 1291 01:03:36,942 --> 01:03:38,068 [drumbeat song intro] 1292 01:03:40,070 --> 01:03:41,363 Matt Dike was a DJ, 1293 01:03:41,446 --> 01:03:45,200 and he had thousands and thousands of records piled all over his apartment. 1294 01:03:45,284 --> 01:03:47,119 And he was just-- He was just cool. 1295 01:03:47,202 --> 01:03:49,705 I don't know. We wanted to know what he knew about. 1296 01:03:49,788 --> 01:03:53,041 The Dust Brothers were computer science students at Claremont College. 1297 01:03:54,209 --> 01:03:55,335 EZ Mike was a DJ. 1298 01:03:56,336 --> 01:03:58,046 John was, like, this computer wiz. 1299 01:03:58,672 --> 01:04:02,301 And shit, we'd never even seen a computer in a recording studio before. 1300 01:04:02,926 --> 01:04:05,012 And we went sample crazy. 1301 01:04:05,095 --> 01:04:07,055 -[song continues] -♪ It's the joint ♪ 1302 01:04:15,439 --> 01:04:18,984 [Ad-Rock] The Dust Brothers opened up a whole new creative world for us. 1303 01:04:19,067 --> 01:04:22,446 We were just layering and layering and layering, 1304 01:04:22,529 --> 01:04:26,241 making each song as dense as possible with lyrics and samples and jokes. 1305 01:04:26,325 --> 01:04:28,285 We're taking two things, three things. 1306 01:04:28,368 --> 01:04:31,205 We're blending them in and out so the song is like a whole collage. 1307 01:04:31,288 --> 01:04:34,625 We thought we were on some next-level shit. 1308 01:04:34,708 --> 01:04:36,960 ♪ So like a pimp I'm pimpin' I got a boat to eat shrimp in ♪ 1309 01:04:37,044 --> 01:04:39,254 ♪ Nothing wrong with my leg Just B-boy limpin' ♪ 1310 01:04:39,338 --> 01:04:41,423 ♪ Got arrested at the Mardi Gras For jumping on a float ♪ 1311 01:04:41,507 --> 01:04:44,176 ♪ My man MCA's Got a beard like a billy goat ♪ 1312 01:04:44,259 --> 01:04:46,261 ♪ Ooh, ooh, is my disco call ♪ 1313 01:04:46,345 --> 01:04:48,889 ♪ MCA, I'm gettin' rope y'all ♪ 1314 01:04:49,598 --> 01:04:50,933 -[song stops] -Ooh. 1315 01:04:52,684 --> 01:04:53,810 Now... 1316 01:04:57,981 --> 01:05:01,026 I remember one night, up at the Grasshoff house, 1317 01:05:01,109 --> 01:05:05,280 Yauch was playing mixes of what we were working on super, super loud. 1318 01:05:05,364 --> 01:05:09,201 And we were looking out all over the twinkling lights of Los Angeles below, 1319 01:05:09,284 --> 01:05:12,120 and, well, we were pretty stoned at the time. 1320 01:05:12,204 --> 01:05:17,251 And Yauch turns to me and he goes, "Yo, this is dope." 1321 01:05:17,334 --> 01:05:22,089 And I elegantly replied, "Yeah, this is pretty special, dude." 1322 01:05:23,924 --> 01:05:25,259 [Ad-Rock] I mean, it was, actually. 1323 01:05:25,342 --> 01:05:29,346 I mean, because around this time, Yauch got loose creatively. 1324 01:05:29,429 --> 01:05:34,142 Now, without Rick and Russell around, we were doing everything ourselves. 1325 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. 1326 01:05:37,771 --> 01:05:39,523 Like photo shoots, press photos or whatnot. 1327 01:05:39,606 --> 01:05:41,191 Like, after Licensed to Ill came out, 1328 01:05:41,275 --> 01:05:43,610 the last thing we wanted to do was some weird photo session 1329 01:05:43,694 --> 01:05:45,445 with some stranger we didn't know. 1330 01:05:45,529 --> 01:05:48,323 So Yauch had this idea. He's telling us, "We'll do the pictures ourselves. 1331 01:05:48,407 --> 01:05:51,451 You take this little, like, squeezy thing and you connect to the camera, 1332 01:05:51,535 --> 01:05:52,578 then we take our"-- 1333 01:05:52,661 --> 01:05:54,788 This here, right? 1334 01:05:54,872 --> 01:05:56,039 I love that picture of you, Mike. 1335 01:05:56,748 --> 01:05:57,958 [Mike D] Thank you. 1336 01:05:58,041 --> 01:06:00,794 So then we had to make a record cover. Of course, Yauch's like, 1337 01:06:00,878 --> 01:06:06,675 "Oh. Simple. We're gonna use this camera that takes a 360-degree picture 1338 01:06:06,758 --> 01:06:08,510 and that's gonna be the album cover." 1339 01:06:08,594 --> 01:06:12,097 Okay, here's the thing. We're together every single day, always. 1340 01:06:12,181 --> 01:06:17,060 So, like, Yauch would just know about all these things and we're always like, 1341 01:06:17,144 --> 01:06:18,145 "Oh, that's cool." 1342 01:06:18,228 --> 01:06:20,731 "How the fuck does he know about that? That's just so weird." 1343 01:06:21,732 --> 01:06:23,817 [Mike D] Again, usually when you put out a record, 1344 01:06:23,901 --> 01:06:29,031 the fancy record company assigns you to a big-time fancy director. 1345 01:06:29,114 --> 01:06:32,075 But, of course with us, like, we were pretty paranoid at the time. 1346 01:06:32,159 --> 01:06:34,411 We didn't trust anybody, so Yauch was like, 1347 01:06:34,494 --> 01:06:35,871 "Oh, no, no, we're gonna get my uncle, 1348 01:06:35,954 --> 01:06:38,874 the legendary Swiss filmmaker Nathaniel Hörnblowér. 1349 01:06:38,957 --> 01:06:40,876 He's gonna come over, he's gonna help us out, 1350 01:06:40,959 --> 01:06:43,462 and he's gonna direct all of our videos." 1351 01:06:44,838 --> 01:06:47,424 [Ad-Rock] Yauch's humble about this. He credited his uncle 1352 01:06:47,508 --> 01:06:50,511 for a lot of the experimentation and for the direction. 1353 01:06:50,594 --> 01:06:52,471 But, like, Yauch was the driving force. 1354 01:06:52,554 --> 01:06:54,223 [song playing] 1355 01:06:54,306 --> 01:06:56,642 [MCA] Actually, in the "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" video, 1356 01:06:56,725 --> 01:06:59,561 that stuff is just really us wearing Madilyn Grasshoff's clothes. 1357 01:06:59,645 --> 01:07:02,022 That was one day that we just put on a bunch of her clothes 1358 01:07:02,105 --> 01:07:04,358 and just went and drove around and videotaped ourselves. 1359 01:07:04,441 --> 01:07:06,777 So thanks, Madilyn, for the solid. 1360 01:07:06,860 --> 01:07:07,861 [song continues] 1361 01:07:07,945 --> 01:07:10,280 ♪ Steal from the rich And I'm out robbing banks ♪ 1362 01:07:10,364 --> 01:07:12,449 ♪ Give it to the poor And I always give thanks ♪ 1363 01:07:12,533 --> 01:07:15,285 ♪ Because I got more stories Than J.D.'s got Salinger ♪ 1364 01:07:15,369 --> 01:07:17,538 -♪ I hold the title ♪ -♪ And you are the challenger ♪ 1365 01:07:17,621 --> 01:07:19,665 Hörnblowér was around a lot at the time, 1366 01:07:19,748 --> 01:07:22,543 which was kinda cool 'cause he was Yauch's uncle, 1367 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. 1368 01:07:25,879 --> 01:07:27,172 He liked his wineskin, yeah. 1369 01:07:27,256 --> 01:07:29,049 So we're all doing our thing and then there's, like, 1370 01:07:29,132 --> 01:07:32,636 this weird old Swiss guy just crashed out on the couch. 1371 01:07:32,719 --> 01:07:36,181 Look. This is what we used to have to deal with, with Yauch's uncle. 1372 01:07:36,265 --> 01:07:38,308 [Swiss accent] Yeah, this is a little strange for me, 1373 01:07:38,392 --> 01:07:41,937 because I'm not used to being on this side of the camera. 1374 01:07:42,020 --> 01:07:45,566 I'm-- I'm preferred to be behind it. 1375 01:07:46,066 --> 01:07:47,442 [chuckles] 1376 01:07:47,526 --> 01:07:49,152 [woman] You're certainly dressed for the part. 1377 01:07:49,236 --> 01:07:52,406 This is our traditional clothing from where I'm from. 1378 01:07:52,489 --> 01:07:54,449 And you may joke about it, 1379 01:07:54,533 --> 01:07:59,246 but I may joke about you walking around in a business suit someplace, 1380 01:07:59,329 --> 01:08:01,415 and maybe that's silly to me, okay? 1381 01:08:01,498 --> 01:08:03,417 Maybe I'm laughing at you right now. 1382 01:08:03,500 --> 01:08:05,169 [audience laughing] 1383 01:08:05,919 --> 01:08:10,007 Somehow, between the weed, the breakfast, the parties, 1384 01:08:10,090 --> 01:08:13,594 we finish the record and the artwork and we hand it all in. 1385 01:08:13,677 --> 01:08:15,470 [song intro] 1386 01:08:17,430 --> 01:08:18,432 [Mike D] Like this. 1387 01:08:18,515 --> 01:08:20,850 [Ad-Rock] So, we were excited. 1388 01:08:20,934 --> 01:08:23,312 We finished this record we were really proud of. 1389 01:08:23,395 --> 01:08:25,397 People were gonna buy it and hear it 1390 01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:27,357 and see that we were more than just those 1391 01:08:27,441 --> 01:08:29,318 "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" guys, right? 1392 01:08:29,401 --> 01:08:32,237 You think we would've been humbled by the falling out with Def Jam. 1393 01:08:32,321 --> 01:08:33,529 -No. -But no. 1394 01:08:33,613 --> 01:08:34,781 We were on top of the world. 1395 01:08:34,865 --> 01:08:37,618 Yo, what's up? It's the Beastie Boys for Yo! MTV Raps. 1396 01:08:37,701 --> 01:08:38,577 Boy! 1397 01:08:38,660 --> 01:08:40,787 ♪ Girl, you know it's true ♪ 1398 01:08:40,871 --> 01:08:45,082 -Ah. -♪ Mike D is in love with you ♪ 1399 01:08:45,167 --> 01:08:46,710 [Ad-Rock] In the lead-up to the record release, 1400 01:08:46,792 --> 01:08:47,961 we were doing loads of interviews. 1401 01:08:48,045 --> 01:08:50,255 I mean, shit, we were ready to play Madison Square Garden 1402 01:08:50,339 --> 01:08:51,965 and blow the fuck up. 1403 01:08:53,591 --> 01:08:55,844 And Capitol Records were all in. 1404 01:08:55,928 --> 01:08:57,679 They were maybe even more amped than we were. 1405 01:08:57,763 --> 01:08:59,055 [man] The Beasties are not... 1406 01:09:00,557 --> 01:09:02,643 concept masterminded by someone else. 1407 01:09:03,644 --> 01:09:07,189 And the extraordinary success of their first album, Licensed to Ill, 1408 01:09:07,272 --> 01:09:08,273 was no fluke. 1409 01:09:09,858 --> 01:09:11,902 Word on the street from respected rappers, 1410 01:09:11,984 --> 01:09:15,572 from Eazy-E to MC Hammer to Public Enemy, 1411 01:09:15,656 --> 01:09:17,866 is that these guys are real indeed. 1412 01:09:17,950 --> 01:09:19,618 The music is stupid fresh. 1413 01:09:20,786 --> 01:09:21,995 They have the stuff. 1414 01:09:22,955 --> 01:09:24,163 So enough talk. 1415 01:09:24,872 --> 01:09:26,917 Let's raise the flag up the pole. 1416 01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:28,210 Batman, watch out. 1417 01:09:28,877 --> 01:09:31,587 The Beasties are gonna be in your face this summer. 1418 01:09:32,214 --> 01:09:36,844 And then, on July 25th, 1989... 1419 01:09:36,926 --> 01:09:39,220 With the entire world waiting... 1420 01:09:39,888 --> 01:09:43,934 Our new record, Paul's Boutique, comes out, and... 1421 01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:48,479 nothing. 1422 01:09:50,107 --> 01:09:51,108 Crickets. 1423 01:09:51,191 --> 01:09:53,026 [cricket chirping] 1424 01:09:53,109 --> 01:09:55,612 Chapter 7: "Crickets." 1425 01:09:57,155 --> 01:10:00,868 No radio was playing the new songs. No MTVs playing the new video. 1426 01:10:00,951 --> 01:10:02,911 No shows. Nobody gave a shit. 1427 01:10:02,995 --> 01:10:04,121 They all moved on. 1428 01:10:04,788 --> 01:10:07,082 It felt like we were a haircut that they got in the seventh grade 1429 01:10:07,165 --> 01:10:09,585 and thought was really cool, but now they were embarrassed about it 1430 01:10:09,668 --> 01:10:11,712 and just wanted to pretend it never happened. 1431 01:10:11,795 --> 01:10:13,714 I remember being really surprised 1432 01:10:13,797 --> 01:10:17,384 that Paul's Boutique didn't do better than it did when it came out, 1433 01:10:17,467 --> 01:10:20,470 because I kept feeling while we were working on it 1434 01:10:20,554 --> 01:10:22,931 like it was so much better of a record than Licensed to Ill. 1435 01:10:23,015 --> 01:10:25,142 When we were working on Paul's Boutique, I just kept thinking, 1436 01:10:25,225 --> 01:10:26,476 "Wow, this sounds so much better. 1437 01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:29,229 I would imagine this is gonna do, like, much better than that." 1438 01:10:29,313 --> 01:10:33,108 So when it didn't, then I was kinda like, "Well, you never know." 1439 01:10:33,192 --> 01:10:35,402 So now I don't even try and guess these days. 1440 01:10:35,485 --> 01:10:38,572 [Mike D] Nobody cared that we had a new record out. 1441 01:10:39,114 --> 01:10:45,204 No one, that is, except for our dear old friend Mr. Don Cornelius. 1442 01:10:45,287 --> 01:10:47,372 Beasties, Beasties. 1443 01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:48,999 How you doing, gentlemen? 1444 01:10:49,082 --> 01:10:50,417 -What's up, Don? -All right. 1445 01:10:50,501 --> 01:10:51,710 -Hi. -Hey, Don. 1446 01:10:51,793 --> 01:10:53,378 -Yo, what's up, man? -What's up? 1447 01:10:54,338 --> 01:10:55,964 -What's up, Don? -All right. 1448 01:10:56,048 --> 01:10:57,508 -Yeah. Okay. -Peace. 1449 01:10:57,591 --> 01:10:59,092 To you too, brother. 1450 01:10:59,176 --> 01:11:01,303 Hey, man, what is "the Don Cornelius"? 1451 01:11:01,386 --> 01:11:03,847 -Don Cornelius. -You made it up, man. 1452 01:11:03,931 --> 01:11:05,724 -You're the man. -Don Cornelius. 1453 01:11:05,807 --> 01:11:09,770 Yo, but seriously, we just wanna say we've been on the show before, whatever, 1454 01:11:09,853 --> 01:11:12,189 but we've been watching this show since-- 1455 01:11:12,272 --> 01:11:15,317 You know, a lot of people don't realize, since whatever, since we were kids. 1456 01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:16,527 That's how long. 1457 01:11:16,610 --> 01:11:19,029 You know, I got the Soul Train albums here. 1458 01:11:19,112 --> 01:11:21,114 [Cornelius] Whenever you're in town, 1459 01:11:21,198 --> 01:11:23,575 you know, always make this a stop, okay? 1460 01:11:23,659 --> 01:11:24,660 -All right, man. -All right. 1461 01:11:24,743 --> 01:11:27,246 The Beastie Boys! 1462 01:11:29,540 --> 01:11:32,209 You threatened Don Cornelius. You got right in his-- 1463 01:11:32,292 --> 01:11:33,293 Can we show that again? 1464 01:11:33,377 --> 01:11:36,296 You know, I got the Soul Train albums here. 1465 01:11:36,839 --> 01:11:38,340 [Ad-Rock] Why, Mike? 1466 01:11:38,423 --> 01:11:41,969 [Mike D] I'm wearing, like, some kind of blouse, dude, okay? 1467 01:11:42,052 --> 01:11:44,513 It looks like you don't even know how to wear a shirt. 1468 01:11:45,973 --> 01:11:49,351 We look like four different people in four different bands. 1469 01:11:49,810 --> 01:11:52,104 Now, I just want to point out, Adam, 1470 01:11:52,187 --> 01:11:53,605 not to go in too hard, 1471 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. 1472 01:11:58,652 --> 01:12:00,112 You're not doing too good. 1473 01:12:00,195 --> 01:12:02,447 I think I was either about to fall asleep or cry. 1474 01:12:03,615 --> 01:12:08,120 And I have to apologize right now to Mr. Don Cornelius, 1475 01:12:08,203 --> 01:12:13,709 because obviously I'm being very unnecessarily aggressive towards him. 1476 01:12:14,251 --> 01:12:17,754 I guess whatever I smoked is, like, the stuff that makes you, like-- 1477 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 1478 01:12:21,466 --> 01:12:23,051 and then knee him in the nuts. 1479 01:12:25,304 --> 01:12:26,597 Like the mad, aggressive strain. 1480 01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,725 Christ, Mike. It's very-- It's very specific. 1481 01:12:29,808 --> 01:12:33,312 I smoked-- I think the one I smoked, it must have been called Steven Seagal. 1482 01:12:36,106 --> 01:12:37,524 You guys. 1483 01:12:37,608 --> 01:12:42,738 Footnote: In, like, 1988, we went to see Jimmy Cliff play. 1484 01:12:43,363 --> 01:12:46,116 And-- And, uh-- And we're super stoned in the back of the thing, 1485 01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:47,743 and in the middle of the Jimmy Cliff show-- 1486 01:12:47,826 --> 01:12:51,830 It's like summertime, outdoor show. Stops the song, and he's like, "Right now, 1487 01:12:51,914 --> 01:12:55,584 I wanna bring out to the stage a great, great actor. 1488 01:12:55,667 --> 01:12:57,169 Mr. Steven Seagal." 1489 01:12:57,252 --> 01:12:58,420 He was a little more like, 1490 01:12:58,504 --> 01:13:01,673 [Jamaican accent] "Right now, great, great actor!" 1491 01:13:02,007 --> 01:13:03,425 You had to do the Jamaican accent. 1492 01:13:03,759 --> 01:13:06,887 And fucking Steven Seagal comes out, in like a full ninja outfit, 1493 01:13:06,970 --> 01:13:09,264 and starts banging on the timbales and then leaves. 1494 01:13:09,348 --> 01:13:10,974 Yup. And you know what, Adam? 1495 01:13:11,058 --> 01:13:13,101 That was some crazy shit. 1496 01:13:13,185 --> 01:13:15,187 [overlapping] Cra-Cra-Cra-- 1497 01:13:17,481 --> 01:13:18,732 Crazy shit. 1498 01:13:18,815 --> 01:13:19,900 -[chimes tinkling] -[harp glissando] 1499 01:13:19,983 --> 01:13:21,944 [echoing] Crazy shit. 1500 01:13:22,027 --> 01:13:22,903 Crazy shit. 1501 01:13:24,404 --> 01:13:27,324 Is that just not funny? I don't know what-- It's not funny. 1502 01:13:27,407 --> 01:13:28,784 [Spike] I think we were right to cut it. 1503 01:13:28,867 --> 01:13:30,494 Yeah, yeah. I think so. We'll cut it. 1504 01:13:31,828 --> 01:13:35,374 All right. So we clearly were a mess right at this point, right? 1505 01:13:35,457 --> 01:13:36,667 Definitely. 1506 01:13:36,750 --> 01:13:41,255 So putting all your efforts, your time, your excitement into something 1507 01:13:41,338 --> 01:13:42,756 and hearing crickets... 1508 01:13:43,298 --> 01:13:44,716 I was a little crushed. 1509 01:13:45,133 --> 01:13:48,178 I mean, we're all ready to have Paul's Boutique blow up. 1510 01:13:48,262 --> 01:13:51,056 And it came and went, and it was kind of sobering. 1511 01:13:51,139 --> 01:13:52,558 [telephone bell ringing] 1512 01:13:55,435 --> 01:13:56,478 -[clears throat] -Oh. 1513 01:13:56,562 --> 01:13:58,814 Yo, what's up? Mike D here, what's up? 1514 01:13:59,773 --> 01:14:00,899 Oh, hello, my friend. 1515 01:14:00,983 --> 01:14:03,443 It's Bill Harper, your accountant. 1516 01:14:03,527 --> 01:14:05,362 Oh, shit. What's up, homes? How you feeling? 1517 01:14:05,445 --> 01:14:07,489 I need to discuss some things with you. 1518 01:14:07,573 --> 01:14:10,367 As it turns out, your financial picture has changed a bit. 1519 01:14:10,450 --> 01:14:13,120 Seems you guys don't really have any money anymore. 1520 01:14:13,203 --> 01:14:14,288 Wh-- What? 1521 01:14:14,371 --> 01:14:17,875 You see, my friend Mike D, you guys went to LA, you moved there, 1522 01:14:17,958 --> 01:14:21,503 you rent this crazy house with a fucking bridge over a swimming pool, 1523 01:14:21,587 --> 01:14:23,422 you get these crazy expensive cars, 1524 01:14:23,505 --> 01:14:26,425 you spend millions of dollars at crazy-expensive studios. 1525 01:14:26,508 --> 01:14:27,509 That was for work though. 1526 01:14:27,593 --> 01:14:31,555 You spend fucking $4,200 on fucking almond milk a week. 1527 01:14:31,638 --> 01:14:32,639 Also for work. 1528 01:14:32,723 --> 01:14:36,185 And you know what happens? You go fucking broke. 1529 01:14:36,268 --> 01:14:38,478 Shit, Bill. That sucks. 1530 01:14:38,854 --> 01:14:39,897 Yeah, it does. 1531 01:14:40,397 --> 01:14:41,356 Hey, I gotta go, Mike. 1532 01:14:41,440 --> 01:14:43,650 Uh, I got Donny Osmond on the other line. 1533 01:14:46,570 --> 01:14:49,698 Now we call this time period Paul's Purgatory. 1534 01:14:51,575 --> 01:14:53,744 [Mike D] But the good news is 1535 01:14:53,827 --> 01:14:56,455 we signed a multi-record deal with Capitol, 1536 01:14:56,538 --> 01:14:58,540 so whether they liked it or not, 1537 01:14:58,624 --> 01:15:02,419 they had to give us the money to make another record. 1538 01:15:02,836 --> 01:15:05,756 But we had to downsize a little bit. 1539 01:15:05,839 --> 01:15:07,841 We had wasted all this money 1540 01:15:07,925 --> 01:15:11,011 recording Paul's Boutique at these fancy studios. 1541 01:15:11,094 --> 01:15:12,721 So we figured, "Fuck it. 1542 01:15:12,804 --> 01:15:15,933 Let's take the money for the record, build our own studio, 1543 01:15:16,016 --> 01:15:17,601 and we'd save a whole lot." 1544 01:15:17,976 --> 01:15:21,271 We found this old Elks Lodge ballroom in Atwater, 1545 01:15:21,355 --> 01:15:23,357 this sleepy part of Los Angeles, 1546 01:15:23,440 --> 01:15:25,776 where nothing was happening, right? 1547 01:15:25,859 --> 01:15:29,071 We built a bare-bones recording studio with a basketball hoop 1548 01:15:29,154 --> 01:15:31,073 and Yauch made a skate ramp. 1549 01:15:31,156 --> 01:15:34,076 We wanted to start playing more and more of our own music again, 1550 01:15:34,159 --> 01:15:36,578 even if we didn't know what that meant at first. 1551 01:15:36,912 --> 01:15:38,497 So we moved out of that Grasshoff house. 1552 01:15:38,580 --> 01:15:40,832 We each got much cheaper places to live. 1553 01:15:40,916 --> 01:15:44,545 I mean, shit, Yauch was living in a fucking log cabin. 1554 01:15:44,628 --> 01:15:45,754 Right? For real. 1555 01:15:45,838 --> 01:15:47,714 We definitely downsized. 1556 01:15:48,465 --> 01:15:51,927 But like always, we wanted to do what we always do: 1557 01:15:52,386 --> 01:15:54,805 Just make music, hang out, bullshit. 1558 01:15:55,180 --> 01:15:57,266 But this time we wanted to do it differently. 1559 01:15:57,766 --> 01:16:00,102 We figured instead of just sampling music that we love, 1560 01:16:00,185 --> 01:16:02,312 why not try playing it with our instruments? 1561 01:16:02,396 --> 01:16:05,607 I mean, shit, why not try to sound like The Meters? 1562 01:16:05,691 --> 01:16:07,401 [playing funk music] 1563 01:16:07,484 --> 01:16:09,069 We sucked at first. 1564 01:16:09,152 --> 01:16:11,947 I was a punk guitar player. Now I'm trying to play jazz and soul. 1565 01:16:12,030 --> 01:16:13,532 It wasn't pretty. 1566 01:16:14,074 --> 01:16:16,493 -I mean, Mike was decent on the drums. -Thank you. 1567 01:16:16,577 --> 01:16:18,996 [Ad-Rock] But Yauch-- Yauch goes and buys an acoustic bass 1568 01:16:19,079 --> 01:16:20,873 and just magically knew how to play it. 1569 01:16:21,582 --> 01:16:24,501 Like-- I don't know if you've ever tried to play one of those things, 1570 01:16:24,585 --> 01:16:25,919 but it's really fucking hard. 1571 01:16:26,003 --> 01:16:30,132 So our new routine was to show up at our clubhouse every day 1572 01:16:30,215 --> 01:16:34,344 and play music with our friends Money Mark and Mario C. 1573 01:16:34,428 --> 01:16:37,264 We met Mario C. working on Paul's Boutique. 1574 01:16:37,347 --> 01:16:39,099 He was the Dust Brothers' engineer, 1575 01:16:39,183 --> 01:16:41,476 and we asked him to help us build our studio. 1576 01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:45,022 And we ended up getting him to stay and make music with us. 1577 01:16:45,105 --> 01:16:48,108 [Ad-Rock] Now, when we were staying at that crazy expensive house in Hollywood, 1578 01:16:48,192 --> 01:16:50,485 Mike crashed his car into the driveway gate. 1579 01:16:50,569 --> 01:16:51,612 [clears throat] True. 1580 01:16:51,695 --> 01:16:54,573 But Mario had a friend who was a carpenter, Mark Nishita, 1581 01:16:54,656 --> 01:16:55,782 and he came over to fix it. 1582 01:16:55,866 --> 01:16:59,369 But Mario said he's also this really great keyboard player. 1583 01:16:59,453 --> 01:17:01,830 So when we got our studio and started playing, 1584 01:17:01,914 --> 01:17:05,667 we asked him to come help us make our sound more funky. 1585 01:17:05,751 --> 01:17:06,835 Turn that up a little bit. 1586 01:17:06,919 --> 01:17:09,171 [music continues] 1587 01:17:11,798 --> 01:17:14,384 So that's Yauch on the bass. I'm on the guitar. 1588 01:17:14,468 --> 01:17:16,303 Listen to that guitar, Adam. 1589 01:17:16,803 --> 01:17:17,638 Your guitar break. 1590 01:17:17,721 --> 01:17:19,848 [Ad-Rock] You got some high-hat patterns, Mike. 1591 01:17:21,225 --> 01:17:24,311 Mark's on the organ. I mean, we're getting it together, right, Mike? 1592 01:17:24,394 --> 01:17:26,313 [music continues] 1593 01:17:30,734 --> 01:17:33,529 So this went on for a year or so, and we couldn't have been happier. 1594 01:17:34,321 --> 01:17:37,157 We're learning how to play our instruments and we're chopping up samples. 1595 01:17:37,241 --> 01:17:38,825 We're making beats we were into. 1596 01:17:38,909 --> 01:17:41,286 We were making music we really liked. 1597 01:17:42,037 --> 01:17:45,249 The only problem was we weren't finishing any songs. 1598 01:17:46,416 --> 01:17:48,794 [Mike D] When it came time to do vocals on a song, 1599 01:17:48,877 --> 01:17:50,712 we'd get hesitant and shy. 1600 01:17:50,796 --> 01:17:52,047 We'd been in a weird headspace, 1601 01:17:52,130 --> 01:17:55,008 just kind of confused with what our voices were. 1602 01:17:55,092 --> 01:17:57,052 What should our vocals even sound like? 1603 01:17:57,511 --> 01:18:00,764 We think we're rappers, because our first two albums were rap albums. 1604 01:18:00,848 --> 01:18:03,475 But what were we gonna rap about? 1605 01:18:03,559 --> 01:18:04,935 We didn't feel like we're the guys 1606 01:18:05,018 --> 01:18:07,855 who made Licensed to Ill or Paul's Boutique. 1607 01:18:07,938 --> 01:18:10,649 But we didn't know exactly where that left us. 1608 01:18:13,527 --> 01:18:15,487 And then one morning I was at home 1609 01:18:15,571 --> 01:18:18,615 and I got woken up by the kind of call I never got before. 1610 01:18:19,700 --> 01:18:22,035 A call from a friend's parent, crying on the phone. 1611 01:18:23,579 --> 01:18:25,289 Our friend Dave Scilken's dad called 1612 01:18:25,372 --> 01:18:27,291 and told me that Dave had died of an overdose. 1613 01:18:27,666 --> 01:18:29,084 He was 20 years old. 1614 01:18:30,919 --> 01:18:33,172 [Mike D] I hadn't really lost a close friend like that. 1615 01:18:34,381 --> 01:18:37,718 People on our periphery, but no one that close. 1616 01:18:37,801 --> 01:18:39,928 -["Instant Death" intro playing] -This felt really different. 1617 01:18:40,012 --> 01:18:41,221 [MCA] David Scilken. 1618 01:18:42,389 --> 01:18:44,975 We all went back to New York for Dave's service. 1619 01:18:45,058 --> 01:18:46,643 -Say hi, Dave. -Hi. 1620 01:18:47,186 --> 01:18:48,437 It was just so fucking sad. 1621 01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:50,898 Yo, this is Dave Scilken. This is Shadi One. 1622 01:18:51,815 --> 01:18:54,109 Afterwards, we all ended up at some bar, 1623 01:18:54,193 --> 01:18:56,653 'cause that's just what you do when a friend passes away. 1624 01:18:56,737 --> 01:19:00,240 You get beers and sit around and tell stories about them. 1625 01:19:00,324 --> 01:19:01,575 [inaudible] 1626 01:19:01,658 --> 01:19:03,243 [Ad-Rock] Now we felt a little self-conscious 1627 01:19:03,327 --> 01:19:04,995 when we ran into old friends at that time. 1628 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 1629 01:19:08,707 --> 01:19:10,209 and would be jerks about it. 1630 01:19:10,667 --> 01:19:12,836 But it wasn't like that with Kate and all our old friends. 1631 01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:15,422 We just sat around and missed our friend Dave. 1632 01:19:15,506 --> 01:19:18,467 And it meant a lot more to the three of us than we realized. 1633 01:19:19,009 --> 01:19:21,303 There was a reason that we'd all been friends. 1634 01:19:22,012 --> 01:19:24,723 And the whole trip was like a connection to New York City. 1635 01:19:26,350 --> 01:19:28,519 And it felt good to be with everybody again. 1636 01:19:28,602 --> 01:19:33,065 -[song continues] -♪ Kills himself and ♪ 1637 01:19:33,148 --> 01:19:38,612 ♪ How do I make friends now ♪ 1638 01:19:39,321 --> 01:19:40,739 As sad as this all was, 1639 01:19:40,822 --> 01:19:43,075 we went back to our clubhouse in LA. 1640 01:19:43,534 --> 01:19:45,702 And I don't know if it was meeting up with our friends 1641 01:19:45,786 --> 01:19:49,039 or having our lives switched up, but we got inspired. 1642 01:19:49,122 --> 01:19:51,708 And all of a sudden, we started finishing shit. 1643 01:19:51,792 --> 01:19:52,793 [song playing] 1644 01:19:55,921 --> 01:19:58,006 [Ad-Rock] And it gave us this sense of, like, 1645 01:19:58,090 --> 01:19:59,883 just keep doing what you're doing. 1646 01:19:59,967 --> 01:20:02,177 Our music could include everything we loved, 1647 01:20:02,261 --> 01:20:05,347 and our album could be like a mixtape of all different types of music, 1648 01:20:05,430 --> 01:20:08,058 including any sounds or dialogue or samples 1649 01:20:08,141 --> 01:20:09,685 or anything that we thought was funny. 1650 01:20:10,143 --> 01:20:13,438 [Mike D] When you're 22, you don't know what to do with your feelings. 1651 01:20:13,522 --> 01:20:16,483 We couldn't articulate it to each other how we felt. 1652 01:20:16,567 --> 01:20:18,902 But I do think that having all of those feelings 1653 01:20:18,986 --> 01:20:20,696 and not knowing what to do with them, 1654 01:20:20,779 --> 01:20:23,198 you kind of just put it into whatever you're making. 1655 01:20:23,574 --> 01:20:25,951 ♪ People, how you doin' There's a new day dawnin' ♪ 1656 01:20:26,034 --> 01:20:28,370 ♪ For the earth mother It's a brand new mornin' ♪ 1657 01:20:28,453 --> 01:20:30,789 ♪ For such a long while There's been such a longin' ♪ 1658 01:20:30,873 --> 01:20:33,250 ♪ But now the sun is shinin' Let's roll back the awnin' ♪ 1659 01:20:38,297 --> 01:20:40,716 ♪ This is a type of kinda Like a formal dedication ♪ 1660 01:20:40,799 --> 01:20:43,093 ♪ Givin' out a shout For much inspiration ♪ 1661 01:20:43,177 --> 01:20:45,262 ♪ All I ever really want to do Is get nice ♪ 1662 01:20:45,345 --> 01:20:47,723 ♪ Get loose And goof a little slice of life ♪ 1663 01:20:48,140 --> 01:20:50,434 ♪ Sendin' out love To all corners of the land ♪ 1664 01:20:50,517 --> 01:20:52,561 ♪ I jump up on the stage And take the mic in my hand ♪ 1665 01:20:52,644 --> 01:20:55,355 ♪ I'm not playin' the role Just bein' who I am ♪ 1666 01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:57,691 ♪ And if you try to dis me I couldn't give a damn ♪ 1667 01:20:59,276 --> 01:21:01,987 -[song fades] -Yo, we were like, "Fuck it," right? 1668 01:21:03,739 --> 01:21:04,948 I mean-- 1669 01:21:05,908 --> 01:21:07,326 We should make whatever we like. 1670 01:21:07,409 --> 01:21:10,621 I mean, if The Clash have punk and reggae and rap songs on their records, 1671 01:21:10,704 --> 01:21:11,830 why can't we? 1672 01:21:11,914 --> 01:21:14,833 I mean, why not a stoner song next to a rap song 1673 01:21:14,917 --> 01:21:16,627 next to a hardcore song? 1674 01:21:16,710 --> 01:21:18,629 [song playing] 1675 01:21:25,093 --> 01:21:26,970 This is our song "Time for Livin'." 1676 01:21:27,346 --> 01:21:31,350 We just wanted to experiment and do all different types of shit that we could do. 1677 01:21:31,433 --> 01:21:33,644 We played our instruments and we sampled that. 1678 01:21:33,727 --> 01:21:35,229 We'd never done that before. 1679 01:21:35,312 --> 01:21:39,733 And while experimenting, we gave ourselves permission to do stuff like sing. 1680 01:21:39,816 --> 01:21:41,401 ["Something's Got to Give" playing] 1681 01:21:41,485 --> 01:21:43,111 We'd never done that either. 1682 01:21:43,195 --> 01:21:45,572 But we were like, "Fuck it. Let's try it." 1683 01:21:45,656 --> 01:21:49,701 ♪ There's something Coming to the surface ♪ 1684 01:21:51,662 --> 01:21:54,206 ♪ There's fire all around ♪ 1685 01:21:55,374 --> 01:21:57,960 ♪ But this is all illusion ♪ 1686 01:21:58,043 --> 01:22:00,170 [Ad-Rock] This song's called "Something's Got to Give." 1687 01:22:00,254 --> 01:22:03,090 Yauch wrote the lyrics, which are about change and growth. 1688 01:22:03,173 --> 01:22:07,094 And that makes sense, because right around this time, Yauch was exploring everything. 1689 01:22:07,469 --> 01:22:10,180 There was no boundary he wasn't interested in crossing. 1690 01:22:10,973 --> 01:22:13,642 Like calling me at fucking 4:30 in the morning, being like, 1691 01:22:13,725 --> 01:22:15,477 "I'm recording these pigeons. You gotta hear 'em." 1692 01:22:15,561 --> 01:22:16,979 I'm like, "Dude, I'm sleeping." 1693 01:22:17,062 --> 01:22:19,106 [stammers] That's not what we're talking about. 1694 01:22:20,315 --> 01:22:22,442 I'm saying he was in full-on transformation mode. 1695 01:22:22,901 --> 01:22:24,152 He was traveling the world, 1696 01:22:24,236 --> 01:22:27,197 he was snowboarding out of helicopters, he was trekking in Nepal. 1697 01:22:28,198 --> 01:22:30,659 Whatever it was, he went out and found out about it. 1698 01:22:31,285 --> 01:22:33,996 Film, Buddhism, music, 1699 01:22:34,663 --> 01:22:37,249 meeting people everywhere from all different worlds. 1700 01:22:38,208 --> 01:22:41,545 ♪ If you can feel what I'm feeling Then it's a musical masterpiece ♪ 1701 01:22:41,628 --> 01:22:44,006 ♪ Hear what I'm dealing with Then that's cool at least ♪ 1702 01:22:44,089 --> 01:22:46,842 ♪ What's running through my mind Comes through in my walk ♪ 1703 01:22:46,925 --> 01:22:49,553 ♪ True feelings are shown From the way that I talk... ♪ 1704 01:22:49,636 --> 01:22:53,557 So after two full years of being immersed in our clubhouse, 1705 01:22:54,266 --> 01:22:56,518 we finished our record Check Your Head. 1706 01:22:59,396 --> 01:23:02,858 Chapter 8: "The Record That Changed Everything." 1707 01:23:04,860 --> 01:23:07,112 We were really psyched on Check Your Head, 1708 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. 1709 01:23:12,951 --> 01:23:16,413 Now, he told us that if we were serious about going on tour, 1710 01:23:16,496 --> 01:23:19,499 we'd have to bust our asses playing tons of clubs 1711 01:23:19,583 --> 01:23:23,921 and work super hard to try and build it back up to playing bigger places. 1712 01:23:24,379 --> 01:23:25,672 He was honest with us. 1713 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. 1714 01:23:30,385 --> 01:23:32,054 And he's still our manager today. 1715 01:23:32,387 --> 01:23:34,515 -So... -[cheering, applause] 1716 01:23:35,140 --> 01:23:39,186 Good news-- Good news, we now had our squad to go on tour. 1717 01:23:40,062 --> 01:23:43,273 Bad news, we had to do a ton of work. 1718 01:23:43,357 --> 01:23:46,026 ["9 to 5" by Dolly Parton playing] 1719 01:23:48,362 --> 01:23:50,614 ♪ Tumble outta bed And I stumble to the kitchen ♪ 1720 01:23:50,697 --> 01:23:52,699 ♪ Pour myself a cup of ambition ♪ 1721 01:23:52,783 --> 01:23:55,702 ♪ And yawn and stretch And try to come to life ♪ 1722 01:23:57,746 --> 01:24:00,165 ♪ Jump in the shower And the blood starts pumpin' ♪ 1723 01:24:00,249 --> 01:24:02,209 ♪ Out on the street The traffic starts jumpin' ♪ 1724 01:24:02,292 --> 01:24:06,380 ♪ With folks like me on the job From 9 to 5 ♪ 1725 01:24:06,463 --> 01:24:11,176 ♪ Workin' 9 to 5 What a way to make a livin' ♪ 1726 01:24:11,260 --> 01:24:15,889 ♪ Barely gettin' by It's all takin' and no givin' ♪ 1727 01:24:15,973 --> 01:24:20,352 ♪ They just use your mind And they never give you credit ♪ 1728 01:24:20,435 --> 01:24:25,232 ♪ It's enough to drive you Crazy if you let it... ♪ 1729 01:24:25,983 --> 01:24:29,361 So five years earlier, we're at Madison Square Garden, right? 1730 01:24:29,444 --> 01:24:31,905 -[Mike D] Oh, yeah. -And now we're playing clubs. 1731 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. 1732 01:24:36,827 --> 01:24:39,371 Even though we're playing to just a couple hundred people, 1733 01:24:39,746 --> 01:24:40,831 those shows were packed. 1734 01:24:41,456 --> 01:24:44,251 [Mike D] The crowd was way different now than it was in '87. 1735 01:24:44,668 --> 01:24:46,962 Licensed to Ill was, like, arena rock. 1736 01:24:47,045 --> 01:24:51,300 The shows in '92 were packed with like-minded weirdos. 1737 01:24:51,383 --> 01:24:52,843 [Ad-Rock] People we felt connected to. 1738 01:24:53,218 --> 01:24:55,220 [Mike D] I mean, we were playing shows for people 1739 01:24:55,304 --> 01:24:56,930 we would actually wanna hang out with. 1740 01:24:57,306 --> 01:25:00,559 But we were still figuring out how to be this new version of our band, 1741 01:25:00,976 --> 01:25:04,813 and after a year of playing shows, we started to know what we were doing. 1742 01:25:04,897 --> 01:25:07,774 It wasn't until, like, the end of the Check Your Head tour 1743 01:25:07,858 --> 01:25:12,070 that I actually and confidently considered myself to be a musician. 1744 01:25:17,034 --> 01:25:18,035 [song fades] 1745 01:25:18,118 --> 01:25:22,497 So we'd just spent a year touring and we started recording again. 1746 01:25:22,581 --> 01:25:26,001 We were having so much fun being together and playing music together, 1747 01:25:26,084 --> 01:25:27,085 why stop? 1748 01:25:27,419 --> 01:25:31,423 It was almost like Check Your Head and Ill Communication were one thing, 1749 01:25:31,507 --> 01:25:33,634 and we just kept going and going. 1750 01:25:34,218 --> 01:25:37,179 I mean, we were psyched to go into the studio every night. 1751 01:25:37,513 --> 01:25:40,307 All of our friends would come through, and they'd hang out. 1752 01:25:40,390 --> 01:25:43,685 I mean, shit, we had a basketball court and a half-pipe. 1753 01:25:43,769 --> 01:25:45,896 I mean, not to mention tons of music gear. 1754 01:25:46,772 --> 01:25:49,149 So many amazing people would stop by. 1755 01:25:49,233 --> 01:25:54,821 Q-Tip played basketball, and he recorded a verse on a song, "Get It Together." 1756 01:25:55,447 --> 01:25:58,617 Christian Hosoi and Jason Lee, they'd come over to skate. 1757 01:25:59,034 --> 01:26:00,786 Biz Markie would come over a lot. 1758 01:26:01,203 --> 01:26:03,705 Now one day our old friend Jill Cunniff 1759 01:26:03,789 --> 01:26:07,543 called me and asked to listen to the demo tape of her band Luscious Jackson. 1760 01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:09,795 -Yauch-- [chuckles] -[cheering] 1761 01:26:10,963 --> 01:26:11,964 Yauch was like, 1762 01:26:12,047 --> 01:26:15,259 "This is awesome. We should just start a record label and put it out." 1763 01:26:15,342 --> 01:26:17,427 Now we have a record label, Grand Royal. 1764 01:26:17,511 --> 01:26:21,223 The music was amazing, and what made it even more special to us, 1765 01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:25,018 Kate joined Luscious Jackson when they went out to play shows. 1766 01:26:25,519 --> 01:26:28,605 So ten years later we're back in each other's lives. 1767 01:26:32,150 --> 01:26:35,779 So all this stuff was happening under one roof, G-Son, our studio. 1768 01:26:36,238 --> 01:26:38,323 [Mike D] Now one day I walked in, 1769 01:26:38,407 --> 01:26:41,076 and I heard Yauch playing this awesome bass line. 1770 01:26:41,159 --> 01:26:44,538 It was so good, it seemed like it must've been a song already. 1771 01:26:44,621 --> 01:26:47,124 I was like, "Yo, Yauch. What is that?" 1772 01:26:47,958 --> 01:26:50,377 And he was like, "It's ours. I just wrote it." 1773 01:26:50,752 --> 01:26:53,422 So I sat down. I start playing drums with him. 1774 01:26:53,505 --> 01:26:55,299 ["Sabotage" intro] 1775 01:27:00,637 --> 01:27:04,141 Then Keyboard Money Mark sits down. He starts playing the organ. 1776 01:27:04,224 --> 01:27:07,227 And then Adam puts on his guitar. He starts to play. 1777 01:27:07,311 --> 01:27:09,688 We made a quick arrangement and we recorded it. 1778 01:27:10,105 --> 01:27:12,065 [Ad-Rock] It was the fastest song we'd ever made, 1779 01:27:12,441 --> 01:27:14,818 and it was kind of our favorite instrumental we had. 1780 01:27:14,902 --> 01:27:16,445 But for whatever reason, it just sat around 1781 01:27:16,528 --> 01:27:18,447 for months and months with no vocals. 1782 01:27:19,031 --> 01:27:20,657 When we were getting ready to finish the record, 1783 01:27:20,741 --> 01:27:23,076 we knew we had to do something with that song. 1784 01:27:23,660 --> 01:27:25,746 We tried a bunch of different ideas to make it a rap song, 1785 01:27:25,829 --> 01:27:26,872 but it wasn't working. 1786 01:27:26,955 --> 01:27:30,417 And I had this idea that I would go to Mario C.'s house 1787 01:27:30,501 --> 01:27:33,504 and he would record me screaming a bunch of stuff. 1788 01:27:33,587 --> 01:27:36,840 The lyrics were all about how Mario was the worst person ever 1789 01:27:36,924 --> 01:27:39,968 and how he was always sabotaging us and holding us back. 1790 01:27:40,052 --> 01:27:41,845 I thought it would be funny to stand next to him 1791 01:27:41,929 --> 01:27:43,514 and scream that shit when he recorded it. 1792 01:27:44,056 --> 01:27:47,935 ♪ So, so, so, so listen up 'Cause you can't say nothin' ♪ 1793 01:27:48,393 --> 01:27:50,562 ♪ You'll shut me down With a push of your button ♪ 1794 01:27:50,646 --> 01:27:51,605 ♪ But, yo, I'm... ♪ 1795 01:27:51,688 --> 01:27:53,774 I had this idea that we should take some pictures of us 1796 01:27:53,857 --> 01:27:56,193 as undercover cops eating donuts and shit, right? 1797 01:27:56,610 --> 01:28:00,989 But we were like, "Fuck it. We should make a video for that instead." 1798 01:28:01,490 --> 01:28:04,201 And Spike came over, and we played dress-up, like we usually do. 1799 01:28:04,284 --> 01:28:05,827 Just running around like maniacs 1800 01:28:05,911 --> 01:28:09,164 with no proper permits or cops or fire department or anything. 1801 01:28:09,248 --> 01:28:11,750 ♪ 'Cause what you see You might not get ♪ 1802 01:28:12,125 --> 01:28:14,962 ♪ And we can bet So don't you get souped yet ♪ 1803 01:28:15,045 --> 01:28:17,756 ♪ Scheming on a thing That's a mirage ♪ 1804 01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:20,717 ♪ I'm trying to tell you now It's sabotage ♪ 1805 01:28:29,893 --> 01:28:33,188 Well, that changed everything for us again. 1806 01:28:33,730 --> 01:28:37,067 That summer, we begin headlining the Lollapalooza tour. 1807 01:28:38,443 --> 01:28:40,571 So, we're in Minnesota. 1808 01:28:40,654 --> 01:28:44,825 We're in this huge field and there's, like, bonfires off in the distance, 1809 01:28:44,908 --> 01:28:46,702 and people are going crazy. 1810 01:28:46,785 --> 01:28:50,455 And we go back on for our encore, and we play "Sabotage." 1811 01:28:50,539 --> 01:28:53,959 And a sea of people go next-level crazy. 1812 01:28:54,042 --> 01:28:57,379 We come off the stage, and we look at each other, and we're like, 1813 01:28:57,462 --> 01:28:59,840 "Wow. We have our new last song." 1814 01:29:01,133 --> 01:29:02,259 [song ends] 1815 01:29:02,342 --> 01:29:06,597 And to think all of that came from Yauch just playing a bass line. 1816 01:29:12,728 --> 01:29:16,356 Now, all of us have been in a room where a friend of yours, you know, 1817 01:29:16,440 --> 01:29:19,443 just kinda says or does something randomly that seems cool. 1818 01:29:20,194 --> 01:29:23,113 But when one of those things that doesn't seem like much in the moment 1819 01:29:23,197 --> 01:29:25,741 becomes something long-lasting and impactful... 1820 01:29:26,909 --> 01:29:28,785 well, that just doesn't happen that often. 1821 01:29:29,119 --> 01:29:31,663 Now, last year we did a bunch of interviews 1822 01:29:31,747 --> 01:29:33,665 about Beastie Boys Book that we wrote. 1823 01:29:34,041 --> 01:29:35,751 And the thing that we were most asked about 1824 01:29:35,834 --> 01:29:39,213 were these lyrics that Yauch had written for a song, "Sure Shot." 1825 01:29:39,296 --> 01:29:41,924 ♪ I want to say a little something That's long overdue ♪ 1826 01:29:42,007 --> 01:29:44,134 ♪ The disrespect to women Has got to be through ♪ 1827 01:29:44,218 --> 01:29:46,720 ♪ To all the mothers and the sisters And the wives and friends ♪ 1828 01:29:46,803 --> 01:29:49,306 ♪ I want to offer my love And respect to the end ♪ 1829 01:29:49,389 --> 01:29:52,392 [song continues, fades] 1830 01:29:55,646 --> 01:29:59,483 Now, when he said that, it wasn't, like, some huge, momentous occasion. 1831 01:29:59,566 --> 01:30:02,903 It was just something that Yauch wrote with some other lyrics 1832 01:30:02,986 --> 01:30:05,155 and said it when it was his turn on the mic. 1833 01:30:05,572 --> 01:30:08,575 And we were, like, "Wow. That's cool that he said that." 1834 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. 1835 01:30:14,790 --> 01:30:19,086 So those years recording and touring on those two records were so important to us. 1836 01:30:19,419 --> 01:30:21,129 We changed directions of our band. 1837 01:30:21,505 --> 01:30:24,299 We changed how we wanted to be as people and friends. 1838 01:30:24,716 --> 01:30:27,386 We thought about the world instead of just our world. 1839 01:30:28,512 --> 01:30:30,472 When we were large in 1987, 1840 01:30:30,556 --> 01:30:34,643 we were on American Bandstand and we did not give a fuck. 1841 01:30:34,726 --> 01:30:38,188 ♪ You wake up late for school Man, you don't wanna go ♪ 1842 01:30:41,900 --> 01:30:44,987 We weren't really, like, working on our craft so much. 1843 01:30:46,947 --> 01:30:51,743 But seven years later, when we played "Sabotage" at the MTV awards, 1844 01:30:51,827 --> 01:30:53,453 we were locked in. 1845 01:31:04,756 --> 01:31:06,758 [screaming] 1846 01:31:22,566 --> 01:31:24,985 [speaking foreign language] 1847 01:31:26,778 --> 01:31:28,280 [inaudible] 1848 01:31:28,363 --> 01:31:29,698 [song fades] 1849 01:31:33,702 --> 01:31:38,123 Yo, when we would play festivals or TV shows with other bands on it, 1850 01:31:38,207 --> 01:31:40,375 we looked at that shit like a competition. 1851 01:31:40,459 --> 01:31:41,835 We played to win. 1852 01:31:42,336 --> 01:31:43,879 We said that kinda half joking, 1853 01:31:43,962 --> 01:31:46,965 but, like, kinda half almost for 100% serious, right? 1854 01:31:47,716 --> 01:31:51,386 I mean, we wanted everyone that watched that show or went to that festival 1855 01:31:51,470 --> 01:31:53,388 to go home and tell their friends the next day, 1856 01:31:53,472 --> 01:31:56,225 "Fucking Beastie Boys housed the set," right? 1857 01:31:56,308 --> 01:31:57,893 We played that shit to win. 1858 01:31:59,269 --> 01:32:03,482 So when we played those MTV awards, I mean, we won. Yeah, Mike? No? 1859 01:32:03,565 --> 01:32:04,399 -Yes? No? -Definitely. 1860 01:32:04,483 --> 01:32:05,484 Got the "W," yes? 1861 01:32:05,567 --> 01:32:07,903 No doubt. Pulled down the "W," people. 1862 01:32:08,445 --> 01:32:12,282 But... later that night, Spike Jonze was nominated 1863 01:32:12,366 --> 01:32:16,078 for best director for the "Sabotage" video, but didn't win. 1864 01:32:16,870 --> 01:32:18,372 [audience groaning] 1865 01:32:18,455 --> 01:32:22,042 And that's when Yauch's Uncle Hörnblowér fucking lost it. 1866 01:32:23,585 --> 01:32:26,630 The winner of best director in a video is... 1867 01:32:30,008 --> 01:32:30,926 Go ahead. 1868 01:32:31,260 --> 01:32:32,261 R.E.M. 1869 01:32:35,722 --> 01:32:39,810 ["Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M. playing] 1870 01:32:42,563 --> 01:32:48,193 This is an outrage, because Spike is the director that has just-- 1871 01:32:48,277 --> 01:32:51,822 I'm from Switzerland, okay? Let me just tell everyone that. And-- 1872 01:32:53,031 --> 01:32:58,287 And since I was a small boy, I had dream that Spike would win this. 1873 01:32:59,121 --> 01:33:00,622 And now this has happened, 1874 01:33:00,706 --> 01:33:03,208 and I just wanna tell everyone that this is a farce. 1875 01:33:03,584 --> 01:33:07,588 That I had all the ideas for Star Wars and everything. 1876 01:33:08,422 --> 01:33:10,340 [audience cheering, applauding] 1877 01:33:13,510 --> 01:33:14,761 Wow. [chuckles] 1878 01:33:18,557 --> 01:33:23,437 [Mike D] Chapter 9: "I'm Going Back to New York City." 1879 01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:26,565 ♪ I do believe I've had enough ♪ 1880 01:33:28,233 --> 01:33:30,652 So Los Angeles was great for us, right? 1881 01:33:30,736 --> 01:33:33,071 From having houses with bridges over swimming pools, 1882 01:33:33,530 --> 01:33:36,950 a great studio, making great friends, making tons of music, 1883 01:33:37,534 --> 01:33:39,661 and actually becoming musicians. 1884 01:33:39,745 --> 01:33:42,247 But we were there for eight years, and time kinda flew by. 1885 01:33:42,873 --> 01:33:45,417 We were around 30 years old by now, and we missed home. 1886 01:33:45,501 --> 01:33:47,044 I mean, we missed our families. 1887 01:33:47,127 --> 01:33:49,546 Yauch was the first to move back to New York. 1888 01:33:49,630 --> 01:33:51,632 He was done with bouncing around the world, 1889 01:33:51,715 --> 01:33:54,801 and he just wanted to be back in New York and be a New Yorker. 1890 01:33:55,344 --> 01:33:56,470 Me and Adam soon followed 1891 01:33:56,553 --> 01:33:58,722 so the three of us could pursue our true passion, 1892 01:33:58,805 --> 01:34:00,098 astrophysics. 1893 01:34:00,766 --> 01:34:02,559 But that didn't really work out. 1894 01:34:03,644 --> 01:34:05,145 [Ad-Rock] Summer of '96. 1895 01:34:05,687 --> 01:34:08,941 We're back home, living a grown-up version of our high school days. 1896 01:34:09,024 --> 01:34:11,485 Nothing to do but wander around, trying to link up, 1897 01:34:11,568 --> 01:34:16,031 hanging out with some new friends, hearing some new music and making new music. 1898 01:34:16,114 --> 01:34:19,493 It's not so much that we settled down. It's more like we settled in. 1899 01:34:20,077 --> 01:34:22,871 [Mike D] So after a couple years of doing what we usually do, 1900 01:34:22,955 --> 01:34:27,376 make music, order some food, bullshit, hang out, make more music, 1901 01:34:27,793 --> 01:34:29,211 we finished a record. 1902 01:34:29,294 --> 01:34:31,880 And maybe our favorite, 'cause it's so experimental. 1903 01:34:32,381 --> 01:34:33,423 Hello Nasty. 1904 01:34:33,966 --> 01:34:36,385 [cheering, applause] 1905 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. 1906 01:34:42,933 --> 01:34:45,102 It's not that "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" got erased, 1907 01:34:45,727 --> 01:34:48,105 but at this point, we were kinda fine without it. 1908 01:34:48,897 --> 01:34:50,732 By that time, we were almost grown-ups. 1909 01:34:51,275 --> 01:34:55,028 The beer and the dick and the frat dudes were gone. 1910 01:34:55,112 --> 01:34:56,989 You could barely see them anymore. 1911 01:34:57,322 --> 01:34:58,991 By now we were a little older. 1912 01:34:59,074 --> 01:35:02,369 We had other things to do separately, like grown-up stuff. 1913 01:35:02,452 --> 01:35:04,872 We were in serious relationships, we had a record label, 1914 01:35:04,955 --> 01:35:06,915 a magazine, a bicycle store, 1915 01:35:06,999 --> 01:35:08,333 but the three of us made a life 1916 01:35:08,417 --> 01:35:11,086 making records and touring and playing shows together. 1917 01:35:11,962 --> 01:35:15,883 It's not so much that we grew up. It's more like we wised up. 1918 01:35:17,050 --> 01:35:19,720 Now we can say that our reflection on the mistakes we made 1919 01:35:19,803 --> 01:35:23,098 came from Yauch and the ideas that he brought back to us. 1920 01:35:23,182 --> 01:35:24,433 But that's partly true. 1921 01:35:24,516 --> 01:35:26,143 I mean, we were ready for change. 1922 01:35:26,476 --> 01:35:29,605 We encouraged each other to do and say what we wanted to do. 1923 01:35:29,938 --> 01:35:32,524 If Yauch wanted to make a song called "Bodhisattva Vow," 1924 01:35:32,608 --> 01:35:36,069 about a Buddhist vow to make the world a better place, of course. 1925 01:35:36,153 --> 01:35:37,362 That's fucking awesome. 1926 01:35:39,615 --> 01:35:41,950 We have the maturity to realize 1927 01:35:42,034 --> 01:35:44,578 that what we make and have made matters 1928 01:35:44,661 --> 01:35:47,581 and affects people in good and bad ways. 1929 01:35:47,664 --> 01:35:50,834 We're grateful that we've been around long enough to comment on it. 1930 01:35:50,918 --> 01:35:54,588 And we're lucky enough to be able to do something about it now. 1931 01:35:54,671 --> 01:35:59,176 There's a song on Hello Nasty called "Song for the Man" that Adam wrote... 1932 01:35:59,259 --> 01:36:01,762 Where are you? Adam wrote this one. 1933 01:36:01,845 --> 01:36:06,141 ...about the ways that so many men act when a woman walks by. 1934 01:36:06,225 --> 01:36:08,769 An interviewer called him out as a hypocrite 1935 01:36:08,852 --> 01:36:10,479 and challenged him about the song 1936 01:36:10,562 --> 01:36:12,898 coming from the "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" guy. 1937 01:36:12,981 --> 01:36:15,108 And when I heard his answer, 1938 01:36:15,192 --> 01:36:16,693 I was proud to be his friend. 1939 01:36:17,528 --> 01:36:19,905 He said-- He said something like, 1940 01:36:19,988 --> 01:36:23,242 "I'd rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever." 1941 01:36:23,325 --> 01:36:26,161 [cheering, applause] 1942 01:36:29,373 --> 01:36:30,874 [Ad-Rock] All right. 1943 01:36:30,958 --> 01:36:32,876 I'm gonna tell you a story about, uh-- 1944 01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:36,338 Well, I'm gonna tell you a story from our book, Beastie Boys Book. 1945 01:36:36,421 --> 01:36:39,049 [clears throat] All right. 1946 01:36:40,008 --> 01:36:41,468 It's called, "The Last Gig." 1947 01:36:45,389 --> 01:36:46,932 [clears throat] 1948 01:36:47,975 --> 01:36:50,602 We didn't know it was gonna be the last gig we'd ever play. 1949 01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:54,314 Everything that happened that day was totally normal. 1950 01:36:54,398 --> 01:36:58,026 The gig was headlining a huge festival in Tennessee called Bonnaroo. 1951 01:36:58,110 --> 01:37:00,028 And it was 2009. 1952 01:37:00,112 --> 01:37:02,865 Thousands and thousands of people were gonna be there, 1953 01:37:02,948 --> 01:37:04,533 and we were the headliner. 1954 01:37:04,616 --> 01:37:06,785 We went down to Tennessee early, 'cause we were gonna shoot a video 1955 01:37:06,869 --> 01:37:08,704 for a new song that hadn't come out yet. 1956 01:37:08,787 --> 01:37:13,083 It was us, the rapper Nas, and Roman Coppola was gonna direct it. 1957 01:37:13,166 --> 01:37:16,378 It was oddly normal for us to play these huge concerts 1958 01:37:16,461 --> 01:37:19,173 and have someone like Roman with a Bolex camera filming us 1959 01:37:19,256 --> 01:37:21,675 running around supermarkets in Tennessee. 1960 01:37:23,510 --> 01:37:26,388 The weirder, the more normal for us by then. 1961 01:37:30,142 --> 01:37:32,644 Things in life never come full circle. 1962 01:37:33,478 --> 01:37:35,397 Maybe once or twice they're hexagonal, 1963 01:37:35,480 --> 01:37:38,442 but to me they're almost always misshapen, 1964 01:37:38,525 --> 01:37:41,570 as if drawn by a toddler in crayon. 1965 01:37:42,529 --> 01:37:44,823 There's common threads, sure. 1966 01:37:44,907 --> 01:37:47,034 Yauch and me and Mike are still together. 1967 01:37:47,117 --> 01:37:49,036 Still laughing. Still family. 1968 01:37:49,620 --> 01:37:53,248 Al Green was finishing his set on one of the many stages at the festival, 1969 01:37:53,332 --> 01:37:56,168 and so hearing his voice in the distance was comforting. 1970 01:37:56,251 --> 01:37:58,462 Just like how it was when I was in high school, 1971 01:37:58,545 --> 01:38:00,631 in my bedroom, waiting for them to come over. 1972 01:38:04,343 --> 01:38:07,012 [voice breaking] But now was such a great distance from that. 1973 01:38:14,269 --> 01:38:17,689 The rearview was nearly impossible to reposition. 1974 01:38:18,982 --> 01:38:21,443 Kate Schellenbach wasn't there with us in Tennessee. 1975 01:38:21,527 --> 01:38:23,070 John Berry wasn't there. 1976 01:38:23,153 --> 01:38:25,447 Dave Scilken, Bosco, the Captain, 1977 01:38:25,948 --> 01:38:27,574 Dave Parsons, Mike's dad-- 1978 01:38:35,874 --> 01:38:37,876 Mike's dad, my mom, not there. 1979 01:38:38,669 --> 01:38:39,711 So many more. 1980 01:38:40,337 --> 01:38:43,298 Now me and Adam and Mike were older, and we knew it. 1981 01:38:43,382 --> 01:38:44,925 We were about to put out a new record, 1982 01:38:45,008 --> 01:38:47,302 and we were still very much in the game though. 1983 01:38:47,386 --> 01:38:49,555 We were getting ready to start all over again. 1984 01:38:51,014 --> 01:38:56,562 Headlining a huge festival is very different from a nice turnout at CBGBs. 1985 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. 1986 01:39:06,655 --> 01:39:08,490 [Brian Williams] A major loss in the music business. 1987 01:39:08,574 --> 01:39:12,953 Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has died after a long fight with cancer. 1988 01:39:13,036 --> 01:39:15,664 He was known as MCA, and the three musicians together 1989 01:39:15,747 --> 01:39:19,001 were among the few at the vanguard of a movement. 1990 01:39:19,084 --> 01:39:23,005 Yauch was a self-taught musician and later a filmmaker. 1991 01:39:23,088 --> 01:39:27,050 Adam Yauch, MCA, was 47 years old. 1992 01:39:37,519 --> 01:39:39,897 I mean, we all have different types of friends. 1993 01:39:41,106 --> 01:39:43,400 There's the one that's kind of an asshole... 1994 01:39:44,484 --> 01:39:46,653 but fun to be around once in a while. 1995 01:39:46,737 --> 01:39:48,655 Fun to get drunk and talk shit with, 1996 01:39:48,739 --> 01:39:52,409 but you'd never actually call on them for physical or emotional help 1997 01:39:52,492 --> 01:39:54,328 'cause they're just unreliable. 1998 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, 1999 01:39:58,624 --> 01:39:59,791 and you're always like, 2000 01:39:59,875 --> 01:40:01,960 "I should spend more time with that person," 2001 01:40:02,044 --> 01:40:04,087 but for some reason, you just don't. 2002 01:40:04,922 --> 01:40:06,256 Then there's that true friend, 2003 01:40:06,340 --> 01:40:08,342 the one you'd be on the phone with forever. 2004 01:40:09,134 --> 01:40:12,095 The one that helps you move or meets you at the hospital 2005 01:40:12,179 --> 01:40:14,348 or has a permanent spot on their couch for you 2006 01:40:14,431 --> 01:40:16,391 just in case you'd ever need it. 2007 01:40:17,309 --> 01:40:20,604 Now those types of friends are rare. We all know. 2008 01:40:20,687 --> 01:40:23,440 But there's an even rarer type of friend: 2009 01:40:23,524 --> 01:40:25,442 The one that gets you motivated. 2010 01:40:25,526 --> 01:40:27,361 The one that not only gets themselves going 2011 01:40:27,444 --> 01:40:29,196 and doing great things, 2012 01:40:29,279 --> 01:40:32,407 but says, "We should all get together and do this." 2013 01:40:32,491 --> 01:40:34,535 And then does it. 2014 01:40:34,618 --> 01:40:36,578 Adam Yauch was that type of friend. 2015 01:40:36,662 --> 01:40:38,872 [cheering, applause] 2016 01:40:45,045 --> 01:40:47,339 [Mike D] A once-in-a-lifetime type of friend. 2017 01:40:47,965 --> 01:40:50,217 The friend that makes it happen. 2018 01:40:50,300 --> 01:40:52,678 The friend that inspires you to go big. 2019 01:40:52,761 --> 01:40:53,929 ["I Don't Know" playing] 2020 01:40:54,012 --> 01:40:56,723 Can we turn this up? This is a song that Yauch wrote for Hello Nasty. 2021 01:41:01,103 --> 01:41:06,483 [Mike D] Now around 1990, Yauch went to India, Nepal and met Tibetans in exile. 2022 01:41:06,567 --> 01:41:09,528 And he wanted to understand their vow of nonviolence. 2023 01:41:10,445 --> 01:41:13,323 [Ad-Rock] Why did they choose not to fight back against the government 2024 01:41:13,407 --> 01:41:16,827 that would beat and imprison a person just for waving a Tibetan flag? 2025 01:41:16,910 --> 01:41:18,370 He wanted to know more. 2026 01:41:18,453 --> 01:41:20,163 He wanted to help. 2027 01:41:20,247 --> 01:41:21,707 But in typical Yauch fashion, 2028 01:41:21,790 --> 01:41:23,959 instead of just writing a check to some organization, 2029 01:41:24,042 --> 01:41:25,127 he started his own. 2030 01:41:25,210 --> 01:41:26,753 The Milarepa Fund. 2031 01:41:29,631 --> 01:41:32,384 And he organized the first Tibetan Freedom Concert. 2032 01:41:32,467 --> 01:41:34,261 A massive two-day benefit concert 2033 01:41:34,344 --> 01:41:38,724 in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 1996. 2034 01:41:40,100 --> 01:41:43,270 [Mike D] It was the biggest charity concert since Live Aid. 2035 01:41:43,353 --> 01:41:45,022 What he did was historic. 2036 01:41:45,105 --> 01:41:48,483 Hundreds of thousands of people had "Free Tibet" on their tongues 2037 01:41:48,567 --> 01:41:50,485 and on their bumper stickers. 2038 01:41:50,569 --> 01:41:52,863 They heard the call for nonviolence 2039 01:41:52,946 --> 01:41:55,782 all because of that guy in Beastie Boys. 2040 01:41:55,866 --> 01:41:57,576 I mean, who does that? 2041 01:42:03,665 --> 01:42:06,418 Yauch, Mike and I have spent more time with each other 2042 01:42:06,502 --> 01:42:07,836 than with our own families. 2043 01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:09,004 Really. 2044 01:42:09,087 --> 01:42:11,131 So when it comes to my friend the rapper Mike D, 2045 01:42:11,215 --> 01:42:14,843 AKA Sweet Lou, AKA Michael Louis Diamond, 2046 01:42:14,927 --> 01:42:16,553 I know him, right? 2047 01:42:16,637 --> 01:42:17,679 Like, everything. 2048 01:42:17,763 --> 01:42:19,348 And he knows me just the same. 2049 01:42:19,431 --> 01:42:22,184 But Adam Yauch, a puzzle. 2050 01:42:22,267 --> 01:42:23,435 A conundrum. 2051 01:42:24,645 --> 01:42:26,480 [softly] Finish up. I can't. 2052 01:42:26,563 --> 01:42:29,233 A labyrinth of ideas and emotions. 2053 01:42:29,316 --> 01:42:31,652 An enigma, a wild card. 2054 01:42:31,735 --> 01:42:34,530 And after 35 years of friendship, 2055 01:42:34,613 --> 01:42:38,492 I never knew what he was gonna do or say next. 2056 01:42:38,575 --> 01:42:41,453 He was a living contradiction of people's ideas 2057 01:42:41,537 --> 01:42:45,791 of how or what you're supposed to be or do. 2058 01:42:46,625 --> 01:42:48,710 I mean, he's the Buddhist guy who's telling me 2059 01:42:48,794 --> 01:42:53,173 how last night he was at this after-after party for some fashion show. 2060 01:42:53,924 --> 01:42:56,802 And he's the "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" dude 2061 01:42:56,885 --> 01:43:00,138 who went trekking through Nepal on some kind of discovery quest. 2062 01:43:00,222 --> 01:43:03,016 And then he met with politicians in Washington, DC, 2063 01:43:03,100 --> 01:43:06,478 letting them know what he'd seen and what he learned. 2064 01:43:06,562 --> 01:43:09,773 -[person cheers] -[cheering, applause] 2065 01:43:13,819 --> 01:43:17,573 He once told me that the main draw to him about the Dalai Lama 2066 01:43:17,656 --> 01:43:19,491 was that he was a funny dude. 2067 01:43:21,076 --> 01:43:23,453 Now obviously there were so many other reasons 2068 01:43:23,537 --> 01:43:26,540 he was drawn to spirituality, faith and Buddhism, right? 2069 01:43:26,623 --> 01:43:29,918 But "the funny dude" made perfect sense to me, coming from Yauch. 2070 01:43:30,002 --> 01:43:33,005 'Cause funny is very important. 2071 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? 2072 01:43:46,226 --> 01:43:47,769 I did. 2073 01:43:47,853 --> 01:43:49,771 I guess that makes me one lucky duck. 2074 01:43:49,855 --> 01:43:54,985 I mean, it's not like all of it was easy or highlight-filled every moment. 2075 01:43:55,068 --> 01:43:58,906 I mean, there'd be times when two of us wanted to do something so badly, 2076 01:43:58,989 --> 01:44:03,243 when every cell in your body is like, "Yes. We're doing this," 2077 01:44:03,327 --> 01:44:05,287 only to have one of us say, 2078 01:44:05,370 --> 01:44:11,376 "That might be cool for you guys, but... [inhales] ...I'm just not so into it." 2079 01:44:12,461 --> 01:44:16,298 And then I'd go home and I'd complain to whoever would listen. 2080 01:44:16,381 --> 01:44:20,677 And I'd be like, "Oh, my God. You won't believe what Horovitz did today. 2081 01:44:20,761 --> 01:44:24,097 I mean, he fucking-- He's driving me fucking crazy." 2082 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, 2083 01:44:30,312 --> 01:44:34,233 we still loved each other and being together even more. 2084 01:44:36,193 --> 01:44:38,153 [song ends] 2085 01:44:38,237 --> 01:44:39,696 ["So What'cha Want" playing] 2086 01:44:43,283 --> 01:44:46,453 ♪ Well, just plug me in Just like I was Eddie Harris ♪ 2087 01:44:46,537 --> 01:44:49,122 ♪ You're eating crazy cheese Like you would think I'm from Paris ♪ 2088 01:44:49,206 --> 01:44:51,834 ♪ You know I get fly You think I get high ♪ 2089 01:44:51,917 --> 01:44:54,586 ♪ You know that I'm gone And I'mma tell you all why ♪ 2090 01:44:54,670 --> 01:44:58,340 ♪ So tell me who are you dissing Maybe I'm missing ♪ 2091 01:44:58,423 --> 01:45:01,301 ♪ The reason that you're smiling Or wilding, so listen ♪ 2092 01:45:01,385 --> 01:45:03,262 ♪ In my head I just want to take 'em down ♪ 2093 01:45:03,345 --> 01:45:06,557 ♪ Imagination set loose And I'm gonna shake 'em down ♪ 2094 01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:08,475 ♪ Let it flow like a mudslide ♪ 2095 01:45:08,559 --> 01:45:11,186 ♪ When I get on I like to ride and glide ♪ 2096 01:45:11,270 --> 01:45:14,022 ♪ I've got depth of perception In my text, y'all ♪ 2097 01:45:14,106 --> 01:45:17,234 ♪ I get props at my mention 'Cause I vex, y'all ♪ 2098 01:45:17,317 --> 01:45:19,403 ♪ So what'cha, what'cha What'cha want? ♪ 2099 01:45:19,486 --> 01:45:22,698 ♪ I get so funny with my money That you flaunt ♪ 2100 01:45:22,781 --> 01:45:25,784 ♪ I said, "Where'd you get Your information from, huh?" ♪ 2101 01:45:25,868 --> 01:45:28,662 ♪ You think that you can front When revelation comes? ♪ 2102 01:45:28,745 --> 01:45:32,374 ♪ Yeah, you can't front on that ♪ 2103 01:45:39,798 --> 01:45:42,301 -♪ So what'cha, what'cha, what'cha want? ♪ -♪ What'cha want? ♪ 2104 01:45:42,384 --> 01:45:44,887 -♪ So what'cha, what'cha, what'cha want? ♪ -♪ What'cha want? ♪ 2105 01:45:44,970 --> 01:45:46,972 ♪ Said, what'cha, what'cha What'cha want? ♪ 2106 01:45:47,055 --> 01:45:48,056 ♪ What'cha want? ♪ 2107 01:45:48,140 --> 01:45:50,017 ♪ Said, what'cha, what'cha What'cha want? ♪ 2108 01:45:50,100 --> 01:45:51,351 ♪ So what'cha want? ♪ 2109 01:45:51,435 --> 01:45:53,645 If I can, I just wanna cut in here and say that I love these guys, 2110 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. 2111 01:45:57,816 --> 01:46:02,821 ["Intergalactic" playing] 2112 01:46:13,999 --> 01:46:15,918 Mike D, Mike D. 2113 01:46:17,628 --> 01:46:18,837 [indistinct] 2114 01:46:19,171 --> 01:46:22,591 ♪ Well, now, don't you tell me to smile ♪ 2115 01:46:22,674 --> 01:46:24,468 ♪ You stick around I'll make it worth your while ♪ 2116 01:46:24,551 --> 01:46:27,095 ♪ My number's beyond what you can dial ♪ 2117 01:46:27,179 --> 01:46:29,389 ♪ Maybe it's because I'm so versatile ♪ 2118 01:46:29,473 --> 01:46:31,433 ♪ Style, profile, I said ♪ 2119 01:46:31,517 --> 01:46:33,977 ♪ It always brings me back when I hear "Ooh, child!" ♪ 2120 01:46:34,061 --> 01:46:36,188 ♪ From the Hudson River out to the Nile ♪ 2121 01:46:36,271 --> 01:46:38,607 ♪ I run the marathon To the very last mile ♪ 2122 01:46:38,690 --> 01:46:40,651 ♪ Well, if you battle me I will revile ♪ 2123 01:46:40,734 --> 01:46:42,611 ♪ People always sayin' my style is wild ♪ 2124 01:46:42,694 --> 01:46:45,155 ♪ You've got gall, you've got guile ♪ 2125 01:46:45,239 --> 01:46:47,115 ♪ Step to me I'm a rap-o-phile ♪ 2126 01:46:47,199 --> 01:46:49,785 ♪ If you want to battle you're in denial ♪ 2127 01:46:49,868 --> 01:46:52,037 ♪ Comin' from Uranus to check my style ♪ 2128 01:46:52,120 --> 01:46:54,331 ♪ Go ahead, put my rhymes on trial ♪ 2129 01:46:54,414 --> 01:46:56,625 ♪ Cast you off into exile ♪ 2130 01:46:56,708 --> 01:47:01,129 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2131 01:47:01,213 --> 01:47:05,717 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2132 01:47:05,801 --> 01:47:07,928 ♪ Jazz and AWOL, that's our team ♪ 2133 01:47:08,011 --> 01:47:10,222 ♪ Step inside the party Disrupt the whole scene ♪ 2134 01:47:10,305 --> 01:47:12,140 ♪ When it comes to beats Well, I'm a fiend ♪ 2135 01:47:12,224 --> 01:47:14,268 ♪ I like my sugar with coffee and cream ♪ 2136 01:47:14,351 --> 01:47:16,436 ♪ Well, I gotta keep it going Keep it going full steam ♪ 2137 01:47:16,520 --> 01:47:19,189 ♪ Too sweet to be sour Too nice to be mean ♪ 2138 01:47:19,273 --> 01:47:21,108 ♪ Well, on the tough-guy style I'm not too keen ♪ 2139 01:47:21,191 --> 01:47:23,777 ♪ Trying to change the world I'mma plot and scheme ♪ 2140 01:47:23,861 --> 01:47:26,113 ♪ Mario C. likes to keep it clean ♪ 2141 01:47:26,196 --> 01:47:28,574 ♪ Gonna shine like a sunbeam ♪ 2142 01:47:28,657 --> 01:47:30,409 ♪ Keep on rappin' 'Cause that's my dream ♪ 2143 01:47:30,492 --> 01:47:32,911 ♪ Got an A from Moe Dee For "sticking to themes" ♪ 2144 01:47:32,995 --> 01:47:35,163 ♪ Now when it comes to envy Y'all is green ♪ 2145 01:47:35,247 --> 01:47:37,332 ♪ Jealous of the rhyme And the rhyme routine ♪ 2146 01:47:37,416 --> 01:47:41,962 ♪ Another dimension, new galaxy Intergalactic, planetary ♪ 2147 01:47:42,045 --> 01:47:46,508 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2148 01:47:46,592 --> 01:47:50,637 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2149 01:47:50,721 --> 01:47:55,601 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2150 01:47:55,684 --> 01:48:00,105 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2151 01:48:01,940 --> 01:48:04,568 ♪ We're from the family tree Of old-school hip-hop ♪ 2152 01:48:04,651 --> 01:48:06,904 ♪ Kick off your shoes And relax your socks ♪ 2153 01:48:06,987 --> 01:48:08,989 ♪ The rhymes will spread just like a pox ♪ 2154 01:48:09,072 --> 01:48:11,450 ♪ 'Cause the music is live Like an electric shock ♪ 2155 01:48:11,533 --> 01:48:15,996 ♪ I am known to do the wop Also known for the Flintstone Flop ♪ 2156 01:48:16,079 --> 01:48:18,207 ♪ Tammy D getting biz on the crop ♪ 2157 01:48:18,290 --> 01:48:20,083 ♪ Beastie Boys known to let the beat ♪ 2158 01:48:20,584 --> 01:48:22,461 ♪ Mmm... drop ♪ 2159 01:48:22,544 --> 01:48:24,963 ♪ Now when I wrote graffiti My name was Slop ♪ 2160 01:48:25,047 --> 01:48:27,216 ♪ If my rap's soup, my beats is stock ♪ 2161 01:48:27,299 --> 01:48:29,468 ♪ Step from the table When I start to chop ♪ 2162 01:48:29,551 --> 01:48:31,845 ♪ I'm the lumberjack DJ Ad-Rock ♪ 2163 01:48:31,929 --> 01:48:34,056 ♪ If you try to knock me You'll get mocked ♪ 2164 01:48:34,139 --> 01:48:36,308 ♪ I'll stir-fry you in my wok ♪ 2165 01:48:36,391 --> 01:48:38,352 ♪ Your knees'll start shakin' And your fingers pop ♪ 2166 01:48:38,435 --> 01:48:40,938 ♪ Like a pinch on the neck Of Mr. Spock ♪ 2167 01:48:41,021 --> 01:48:45,484 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2168 01:48:45,567 --> 01:48:49,988 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2169 01:48:50,072 --> 01:48:54,493 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2170 01:48:54,576 --> 01:48:59,039 ♪ Intergalactic, planetary Planetary, intergalactic ♪ 2171 01:48:59,456 --> 01:49:01,500 ♪ Another dimension Another dimension ♪ 2172 01:49:01,583 --> 01:49:03,836 ♪ Another dimension Another dimension ♪ 2173 01:49:17,182 --> 01:49:18,225 ♪ Do it ♪ 2174 01:49:18,308 --> 01:49:21,520 -[song ends] -[groans] 2175 01:49:58,348 --> 01:50:00,934 ♪ Listen, everybody Listen, one and all ♪ 2176 01:50:01,018 --> 01:50:03,437 ♪ We're down in Daytona And we're havin' a ball ♪ 2177 01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:06,398 ♪ Said one week spring break It ain't funny ♪ 2178 01:50:06,481 --> 01:50:09,151 ♪ Said two days passed And I'm runnin' outta money ♪ 2179 01:50:09,234 --> 01:50:11,904 ♪ Said sleepin' in the car 'Cause the hotel's booked ♪ 2180 01:50:11,987 --> 01:50:14,489 ♪ I met a frat girl cutie And I got hooked ♪ 2181 01:50:14,573 --> 01:50:16,241 ♪ I said, "What's your major?" ♪ 2182 01:50:16,325 --> 01:50:17,659 ♪ Said she majors in psych ♪ 2183 01:50:17,743 --> 01:50:20,120 ♪ Said I'm down with MTV And I rock the mic ♪ 2184 01:50:20,204 --> 01:50:22,915 ♪ She said she wants to meet Alan And Martha Quinn ♪ 2185 01:50:22,998 --> 01:50:24,458 ♪ I said my name's MCA ♪ 2186 01:50:24,541 --> 01:50:27,669 ♪ And I can let you in I said I'm down in Daytona ♪ 2187 01:50:27,753 --> 01:50:30,047 -♪ To get my kicks ♪ -♪ We're the Beastie Boys ♪ 2188 01:50:30,130 --> 01:50:31,840 -♪ MTV ♪ -♪ Spring Break ♪ 2189 01:50:31,924 --> 01:50:33,509 ♪ '86 ♪ 2190 01:50:33,592 --> 01:50:34,468 What's up with that? 2191 01:50:35,594 --> 01:50:38,555 Last week I was in Chanhassen, Minnesota with the Beastie Boys. 2192 01:50:39,389 --> 01:50:41,099 They're rehearsing for their tour, and they said, 2193 01:50:41,183 --> 01:50:43,018 "We want a piece of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch." 2194 01:50:43,852 --> 01:50:46,522 -I would love to dunk on them. -I might have to set that up. 2195 01:50:46,605 --> 01:50:47,481 What's up with that? 2196 01:50:47,564 --> 01:50:51,818 [British accent] "You motherfuckers ain't shit compared to us here" kinda vibe. 2197 01:50:52,277 --> 01:50:55,489 -And so by the time-- -Let that sit. Let that sit, Mike. 2198 01:50:55,572 --> 01:50:56,740 That was a good British accent. 2199 01:50:59,201 --> 01:51:00,285 [man] Yo, Mike. 2200 01:51:01,578 --> 01:51:03,956 -Let's go, man. -Come on, man. We got work to do. 2201 01:51:04,039 --> 01:51:05,916 -Word up, man. It's time to get ill. -Let's go. 2202 01:51:05,999 --> 01:51:08,168 [all talking at once] 2203 01:51:08,252 --> 01:51:11,129 [Alex Trebek] "Another plane, another train, another bottle in the brain," 2204 01:51:11,213 --> 01:51:14,091 the Beastie Boys rapped in "No Sleep Till" here. 2205 01:51:14,800 --> 01:51:16,760 -Eric. -What is [slowed down] Brooklyn? 2206 01:51:16,844 --> 01:51:20,097 -You must be talking about grunge. -Grunge. 2207 01:51:20,180 --> 01:51:21,765 [vocalizing] 2208 01:51:21,849 --> 01:51:22,975 Grunge. 2209 01:51:24,184 --> 01:51:25,185 Grunge. 2210 01:51:25,269 --> 01:51:27,271 Did anyone notice at Cozy Soup 'n' Burger, 2211 01:51:27,354 --> 01:51:30,148 when you get the burger, they'd have an ice cream scooper, 2212 01:51:30,232 --> 01:51:32,985 and they have, like, a drawer with the meat, 2213 01:51:33,068 --> 01:51:34,653 and they just, like, put it in there, 2214 01:51:34,736 --> 01:51:37,030 and they put the scoop of meat on the grill? 2215 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, 2216 01:51:40,909 --> 01:51:42,953 we're gonna get a fucking meat drawer at our house." 2217 01:51:43,036 --> 01:51:45,247 -For real. For real. -It's true. 2218 01:51:45,330 --> 01:51:46,748 -Right? -Definitely. 2219 01:51:46,832 --> 01:51:49,710 What is it like touring with the Foo Fighters and Sonic Youth? 2220 01:51:49,793 --> 01:51:52,713 I mean, the Foo Fighters, I grew up with these guys, since like I was-- 2221 01:51:52,796 --> 01:51:54,673 When I was 4 years old, I used to-- 2222 01:51:54,756 --> 01:51:56,717 -Yo, let me tell you-- -These kids is nuts. 2223 01:51:56,800 --> 01:51:59,052 These kids is, like, off the hook, these kids. 2224 01:51:59,136 --> 01:52:02,014 Let me tell you, me and Sonic Youth go back like babies and pacifiers. 2225 01:52:02,097 --> 01:52:03,015 -That's right. -For real. 2226 01:52:03,098 --> 01:52:06,310 -These kids is, like, gone. -Yo, I used to wash dogs with Thurston. 2227 01:52:06,393 --> 01:52:08,604 Man, we already washed that dog already. 2228 01:52:08,687 --> 01:52:11,064 -You don't have to get mad at me. -We washed it! 2229 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. 2230 01:52:13,984 --> 01:52:17,070 Let's go on tour, man. You know, let's go do some shows. 2231 01:52:17,154 --> 01:52:20,282 So we are psyched, and we are surprised. 2232 01:52:20,365 --> 01:52:22,117 But we are also-- 2233 01:52:22,910 --> 01:52:25,746 [chuckling] We are also surprised that Rick-- 2234 01:52:30,209 --> 01:52:35,130 "And we were also surprised-- Rick was Russian?" 2235 01:52:36,507 --> 01:52:39,510 That's why we, like, click. All these, you know, groups just, like, click. 2236 01:52:39,593 --> 01:52:41,970 We're running like one big clique. You know what I'm saying? 2237 01:52:42,054 --> 01:52:43,347 What was your favorite part of the show? 2238 01:52:43,430 --> 01:52:46,683 I think when we came out was a good part. 2239 01:52:46,767 --> 01:52:48,810 -What do you say? -I think when these dudes were on, 2240 01:52:48,894 --> 01:52:50,562 when they were playing "King of Rock" and we were on, 2241 01:52:50,646 --> 01:52:52,356 that was probably the best part. 2242 01:52:52,439 --> 01:52:55,526 -Yeah, the little flash pot, yeah. -I think that's the greatest-- 2243 01:52:55,609 --> 01:52:57,694 -It's just our clique. -Yeah, it's a united clique. 2244 01:52:59,238 --> 01:53:00,531 'Cause you know-- 2245 01:53:00,614 --> 01:53:02,950 -[MCA] Mike's lost his fucking mind. -Shit. 2246 01:53:03,033 --> 01:53:05,369 What the fuck is wrong with Mike? 2247 01:53:06,370 --> 01:53:08,205 You need shoes to go with those, my brother. 2248 01:53:08,288 --> 01:53:09,623 Where are the shoes at? 2249 01:53:09,706 --> 01:53:11,750 [Mike D] I can't find the shoes or the suede pants. 2250 01:53:11,834 --> 01:53:14,253 When MTV comes across a video that is visually striking 2251 01:53:14,336 --> 01:53:17,798 and pushes the boundaries of video making, we crown it a breakthrough video. 2252 01:53:17,881 --> 01:53:19,591 "Shadrach" is interesting for two reasons. 2253 01:53:19,675 --> 01:53:21,552 First because the animation is so well-done, 2254 01:53:21,635 --> 01:53:24,888 and second because it was directed and animated by a member of the band. 2255 01:53:24,972 --> 01:53:27,599 Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris shot some footage 2256 01:53:27,683 --> 01:53:29,184 of the Beastie Boys in concert. 2257 01:53:29,268 --> 01:53:32,855 And then band member MCA took the footage and painted over it frame by frame 2258 01:53:32,938 --> 01:53:34,648 to create some terrific animation. 2259 01:53:34,731 --> 01:53:35,816 Check out his handiwork. 2260 01:53:35,899 --> 01:53:38,694 This is the brand new one from the Beastie Boys. It's "Shadrach." 2261 01:53:38,777 --> 01:53:41,071 ["Shadrach" playing] 2262 01:53:41,154 --> 01:53:42,656 [man] Wait a second, Adam. 2263 01:53:42,739 --> 01:53:45,158 Wait one second. I'm sorry, Adam. 2264 01:53:45,242 --> 01:53:47,286 -Adam-- -What? What is it, David Cross? 2265 01:53:47,369 --> 01:53:49,746 What is-- I'm sorry, I'm just-- I'm-- What is that? 2266 01:53:49,830 --> 01:53:51,331 Wh-What is it, Ben Stiller? 2267 01:53:51,415 --> 01:53:53,917 -[man] Hey, guys. -What? Who's-- 2268 01:53:54,001 --> 01:53:55,752 -How you doing? -[Ad-Rock] Oh, hey, Steve Buscemi. 2269 01:53:55,836 --> 01:53:57,212 Hey, how are you? 2270 01:53:57,296 --> 01:54:00,966 I'm sorry. I was walking down the street to get my scratch-off tickets 2271 01:54:01,049 --> 01:54:02,426 and I couldn't help but overhear-- 2272 01:54:02,509 --> 01:54:05,053 I just woke up. But I thought I heard you-- 2273 01:54:06,889 --> 01:54:09,391 I thought I heard you mention Paul's Boutique. 2274 01:54:09,474 --> 01:54:12,186 Their newest album is called Licensed to Kill, 2275 01:54:12,269 --> 01:54:14,438 and it went platinum after only eight weeks. 2276 01:54:14,521 --> 01:54:15,564 -[audience shouting] -Licensed to Kill, right? 2277 01:54:15,647 --> 01:54:17,191 -[audience] Ill. -Ill! 2278 01:54:18,317 --> 01:54:19,401 [director] That's "ill," Joan. 2279 01:54:19,484 --> 01:54:22,779 Well, I'm telling you. I've got my stupid contacts in. Hold on. 2280 01:54:22,863 --> 01:54:25,616 Their album is called Licensed to Ill. 2281 01:54:26,116 --> 01:54:28,202 That's a stupid name for an album. 2282 01:54:29,036 --> 01:54:32,831 Everybody knows Paul's Boutique was a huge commercial failure. 2283 01:54:32,915 --> 01:54:34,958 -An abject failure. -It was a flop. 2284 01:54:35,042 --> 01:54:36,710 -Couldn't get any worse. -Nobody bought it. 2285 01:54:36,793 --> 01:54:39,004 That must've been, like, so humiliating. 2286 01:54:39,087 --> 01:54:42,674 A huge massive failure. 2287 01:54:42,758 --> 01:54:45,344 -Thank you very much for reminding us. -[Cross] We all know that. 2288 01:54:45,427 --> 01:54:48,514 When that tree fell in the forest, nobody heard that shit. 2289 01:54:49,723 --> 01:54:54,311 And so my question to you is, like, h-how did you go on-- 2290 01:54:54,394 --> 01:54:59,316 I mean, not even "how." Why did you continue to go on as a band? 2291 01:54:59,399 --> 01:55:02,152 -But... -Retroactively, as we all know, 2292 01:55:02,236 --> 01:55:06,949 it's now hailed as one of, like, the most influential rap albums ever, right? 2293 01:55:07,699 --> 01:55:13,872 I'm just saying, Adam, that to me it's-- it's kind of like a rap Pet Sounds... 2294 01:55:13,956 --> 01:55:17,835 ...due to its dense use of samples, layers-- 2295 01:55:19,419 --> 01:55:21,630 Samples, layers. 2296 01:55:21,713 --> 01:55:22,923 Hip. 2297 01:55:23,006 --> 01:55:24,675 Hop. [grunts] 2298 01:55:24,758 --> 01:55:29,221 And here you're talking about it like, "Oh, nobody liked it." 2299 01:55:29,304 --> 01:55:31,557 And I feel like you do this thing where you're like, 2300 01:55:31,640 --> 01:55:34,351 "It wasn't good, so I'm gonna say it wasn't good. 2301 01:55:34,434 --> 01:55:36,979 But I really I want you to feel that it's good." 2302 01:55:37,062 --> 01:55:39,314 It's like a thing in your head where you want us to feel bad, 2303 01:55:39,398 --> 01:55:40,774 but it's really 'cause you feel bad for yourself. 2304 01:55:40,858 --> 01:55:42,109 I don't wanna get into what it's about. 2305 01:55:42,192 --> 01:55:43,610 And this is not a big thing. 2306 01:55:43,694 --> 01:55:45,779 -Hey, Mike. How's it going, man? -What's up? 2307 01:55:45,863 --> 01:55:47,364 -[woman] And tonight... -Yo, what's up? 2308 01:55:47,447 --> 01:55:50,492 We're gonna world premiere "Jimmy James." 2309 01:55:50,576 --> 01:55:51,410 All right. 2310 01:55:51,493 --> 01:55:52,911 Is that from The Little Rascals, where they go, 2311 01:55:52,995 --> 01:55:56,206 "What's your name?" "Jimmy James. Ask me again, I'll tell you the same"? 2312 01:55:56,290 --> 01:55:57,875 No, actually it's from My Three Sons. 2313 01:55:57,958 --> 01:56:02,129 The episode where Uncle Charlie freaks out with the cleaver on all the kids. 2314 01:56:02,713 --> 01:56:05,716 Okay, I think, when it comes to touring, out of all of the tours we did, 2315 01:56:05,799 --> 01:56:08,760 I think, like, the weirdest person we toured with is Mike, probably. 2316 01:56:08,844 --> 01:56:11,054 This kid is off the hook, man. 2317 01:56:13,307 --> 01:56:15,517 [audience chuckling] 2318 01:56:15,601 --> 01:56:17,144 Hi, I'm Mike. 2319 01:56:17,227 --> 01:56:20,856 -So... -I'm in a band called Beastie Boys. 2320 01:56:23,108 --> 01:56:24,359 Hello, man. 2321 01:56:25,736 --> 01:56:28,030 "Darkness at the break of noon. 2322 01:56:28,906 --> 01:56:31,658 Shadows over a silvery spoon. 2323 01:56:32,826 --> 01:56:36,538 Handmade blades, child's balloon." 2324 01:56:42,419 --> 01:56:44,880 Hey, don't miss the Beastie Boys, 'cause they're on tour, summer sweat '92. 2325 01:56:44,963 --> 01:56:46,924 -All right! -What happens after? 2326 01:56:47,007 --> 01:56:50,052 -Hell, yeah! -Where do you go next? 2327 01:56:50,135 --> 01:56:52,262 -[shouts] -[laughs] 2328 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. 2329 01:56:56,642 --> 01:56:59,353 And we're gonna be cold kickin' it live. Ain't that right, fellas? 2330 01:56:59,436 --> 01:57:00,562 [all shouting] 2331 01:57:02,940 --> 01:57:05,526 -[yells] Baby! -What's up with that? 2332 01:57:05,609 --> 01:57:07,402 We already washed that dog already. 2333 01:57:07,486 --> 01:57:08,820 You don't have to get mad at me. 2334 01:57:10,155 --> 01:57:12,032 ["Something's Got to Give" playing] 2335 01:58:13,093 --> 01:58:16,138 [song ends]