I don't get the appeal of the Beastie Boys

[sknk80]

Pauls Boutique is a top 10 album production wise

 

[Long Live The Kane]

I don't personally enjoy their music, but it doesn't take a lot for me to figure out what their appeal is or was anyway...like rap's first big white act that made fun party music, makes sense in context...what I don't get so much (but have a pretty good reason as to why anyway) is how they maintained all the way through the 80's and well into the 90's with an outdated style...while their contemporaries like Run DMC and the like had long since been thrown in the bushes....they became something of proto-hipster critical darlings with an entire new generation of fans...

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Licence to Ill is a classic

 

[L. Deezy]

I don't personally enjoy their music, but it doesn't take a lot for me to figure out what their appeal is or was anyway...like rap's first big white act that made fun party music, makes sense in context...what I don't get so much (but have a pretty good reason as to why anyway) is how they maintained all the way through the 80's and well into the 90's with an outdated style...while their contemporaries like Run DMC and the like had long since been thrown in the bushes....they became something of proto-hipster critical darlings with an entire new generation of fans...

simple, white kids related to their early on success. it was like the ultimate whiteboy frat music that just got passed down on to the next generation. Yeah, they stopped the beer drinkin/girl rhymes, but the music didnt deviate from the sound too much...

 

[L. Deezy]

Licence to Ill is a classic

its not even debateable...

 

[Sucka Free]

Tell me more

Man f##k all that. Jus listen to License To I'll. By far it is their best work and best album. Paul Revere, Brass Monkey, New style, check those out. Paul Revere is one of the most memorable beats in hip hop history.

 

[Chief]

Man f##k all that. Jus listen to License To I'll. By far it is their best work and best album. Paul Revere, Brass Monkey, New style, check those out. Paul Revere is one of the most memorable beats in hip hop history.

There are a lot of comments about beats but not enough about their lyrics.

I guess I would be better off listening to their instrumentals

 

[Colilluminati]

Classic.


I couldn't tell you anything else about them tho.I couldn't even tell you why I PAID for the album.

 

[The Bilingual Gringo]

A lot of their older material is hilarious a lot of the times, and just overall fun to listen to. I never got into their more recent work, but that 5 Boroughs album was dope.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

I don't personally enjoy their music, but it doesn't take a lot for me to figure out what their appeal is or was anyway...like rap's first big white act that made fun party music, makes sense in context...what I don't get so much (but have a pretty good reason as to why anyway) is how they maintained all the way through the 80's and well into the 90's with an outdated style...while their contemporaries like Run DMC and the like had long since been thrown in the bushes....they became something of proto-hipster critical darlings with an entire new generation of fans...

They embraced their "whiteness" if that makes sense. They did more of the punk-rock stuff "Sabotage", and then moved into the electronic world with Hello Nasty and To The 5 Boroughs. The late 90s seems like the time a lot of people started listening to electronic music and labels were taking it seriously. They were still rapping, but at times it almost didnt feel like hip-hop.

They also had a full artistic image (kinda like Kanye) where their videos, album covers etc all had a distinct aesthetic to them. They branded themselves very well. Hipster journalists kinda love that stuff

Most of the older groups stuck to the script, where as the Beasties knew they couldnt cut it in the hip-hop world anymore. I think they also originated as a punk band

 

[KilluminaZi]

so now people trying to shyt on the Beastie Boys?? fukk outta here! Yeah they were white....but they were far from corny.....Paul Revere still goes hard in the whip....their music aint for everybody but they dont deserve any hate....

This.

They are well respected amongst Legends, it's all that matters...

 

[MouseTeeth]

How old are you OP?

 

[Chief]

How old are you OP?

30

 

[MouseTeeth]

30

oh, well damn then i thought u were young

 

[Chief]

oh, well damn then i thought u were young

Did you not see the post when I mentioned Slick Rick