The huge stylistic differences from Licensed to Ill to Paul's Boutique had fans unsure what to expect in their third studio album. When Check Your Head was released this track just assured us they were still top dog in our music catalog, always in the mix!

You like the feel of the bass in your face in the crowd? "The thing I always liked best about this cut was the sample of the intro to the Bad Brains song 'I.' There's something cool about sampling a hardcore record to make a hip-hop record, especially when that record happens to be the Bad Brains." - Adam Yauch, 1999. This is the Bad Brains song they sampled.

The standout track from the Beastie Boys' smash hit Ill Communication album nearly didn't make it onto the record at all. According to Ad-Rock, "'Sabotage' was recorded as an instrumental, and the vocals weren't added until two weeks before the record was completed. It was the last song on Ill Communication to be finished.

This song is so awesome & different from anything else-it stands alone. It is it's own genre. Name another song that has this much going on & still sound this good. Can't be done. There are a few unclassifiable songs on this album.

Shake Your Rump is one of the greatest things ever to blast out of the car speakers as you cruise through the city. The lyrics are ridiculous, funny and intricate. Nothing will make feel they way Shake Your Rump makes me feel. You just wanna get up and dance.

One of the Beasties' best songs, without a doubt. It's really rare for them to use that many samples from the same song. But It works & they made it their own without taking anything away from the original song. The original is called Root Down (And Get It) by Jimmy Smith.

One of our favorite cross overs with Q-Tip from Tribe Called Quest, this track was an instant love from their album Ill Communication.

The song reached number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, making it the first song by the Beasties to achieve such a feat.

“Shambala” was recorded with Tibetan Buddhist chants and mixed at G-Son Studios, Atwater Village, CA & Tin Pan Alley, New York, NY. Proceeds from the song go to Aboriginal Children’s Service, Tibet House and the Office of Tibet.

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The Beasties are at their best when they bring a lot of energy, which is exactly what they do here.  For the whole song, they just trade energetic rhymes and it sounds dope as hell.  The beat, however, is the main highlight of this song.  I mean, that flute loop...so good.  "Sure Shot" is just an all around stellar track.  It's easily one of my favorite Beastie Boys songs. It's one of those songs that I can hear in my head just by thinking about it.

This Track is on The Mix-Up, which won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album in 2008.  One of only 3 Grammy awards the Beasties have won, the other 2 were both for the 1998 Hello Nasty album and it's lead single Intergalactic.

“The Mix-Up” reverse-engineers their typical sound, pulling back toward the 1970s funk, soul and dub reggae that constitute the roots of hip-hop. Mike D plays drums, Ad-Rock on guitar and MCA (Adam Yauch) on bass. This is one of our more liked tracks on that album.

Talk about a fist-pumping banger, t his is something that you throw on when it calls for a night of crowdsurfing and tossing crushed brewskies everywhere.This one adds a little extra by bringing in Slayer's Kerry King for a solo even more wild than the rest of the song, that riff is monstrous, as his solo. "I've been rocking this party eight days a week!"

'Make Some Noise' came out of a jam that Mike and Adam [Horovitz] were doing, and they sampled and looped a part of that jam session. Then they overdubbed to that, adding samples and densely layering the track to make it sound exciting.

When I heard "Jimmy James" for the first time, it was like I got hit with a sonic BOOM! I was amazed from the moment the song started because it was unlike any Beastie Boys song I ever heard before.

This song is so awesome & different from anything else-it stands alone. It is it's own genre. Name another song that has this much going on & still sound this good. Can't be done. There are a few unclassifiable songs on this album.

“Car Thief” samples classics from the likes of Funk Factory and Funkadelic, so no wonder it’s probably the most soulful track on Paul’s Boutique. The minimalist drum part, the fuzzy bass, and the choppy guitars yield an uncompromisingly laid-back groove that captures the sound of casually strolling down a Brooklyn street on a Sunday afternoon. Its chill nature is a nice contrast to much of the record’s frenetic pacing.