| The Beastie Boys had it coming. From their early frat boy party raps, to the ground-breaking beats of their recent work, the Beasties have always been the supreme fiends of sampling, swiping anything that grooves, and laying it into their raucous rhymes. The Beasties aren’t only hip-hop, they’re punk, metal and hardcore -- too restless to be categorized, too rowdy to be respectable. So listen up, B Boy fans -- musical payback is here!
It’s time to dim the lights in the Boogaloo Lounge, as jazz organ legend Ruben Wilson hooks up with Parliament/Funkadelic keyboard madman Bernie Worrell and a crew of top session players to get down and Beastie... When these jazz and funk masters take on a B Boys’ tune, the only genre that applies is ultra-cool. After-dark organ grooves and pumped-up keyboard runs turn anthems like” Sabotage”, “Intergalactic” and the prank-pop classic “Cookie Puss” into instrumental jams so righteously hip, they’re pure Beastie.
“Boogaloo to the Beastie Boys” -- taste the funk and feel the chill.
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