🎼15 November 1986. 35 years ago American Rap Rock group Beastie Boys released their debut studio album Licensed to Ill. It was an immediate revolution for the entire contemporary #MusicHistory! 😱🤟
The album soon hit the USA charts, thus bringing Hip Hop & Rap genres out of their niche and to general attention. Hip Hop acts like #RunDMC, #PublicEnemy, #LLCoolJ (all of which contributed to define the genre and were later labeled as Old School Rap) were already around; #NWA, the band of #IceCube and #DrDre, would come 2 years later bringing Rap to a different level, from the initial fun and party music to the violence of racial conflicts, police hatred and street gangster (later called in fact Gansta Rap), but it was thanks to this trio of white irriverent guys that Rap music became popular worldwide!
And this was also due to Russell Simmons flair 👍: he was the manager of Def Jam recordings, legendary New York City record label that in 1980s specialized in urban rebel music. #DefJam at the time signed both Beastie Boys and popular Heavy⚡️Metal band #Slayer, who were the masters of the recently born Thrash Metal scene: Simmons called their #guitarist 🎸#KerryKing, to perform the solo 🎶 in Beastie Boys' single and rock video parody "No Sleep Till Brooklin"👇
The song became a standard along with "Fight For Your Right" (see today's #TheMondayRecharger☝️) and still today both are so popular and acclaimed among rockers all over the world, since they are often played as last background tracks just before a Heavy Metal concert begins🤟😈🔥
"Licensed to Ill" became the fastest selling record to date, it sold nearly 10 millions in few months 😳 and #BeastieBoys became equally appreciated by both new born Rap scene followers and Rock fans ! #15November
https://youtu.be/07Y0cy-nvAg
The album soon hit the USA charts, thus bringing Hip Hop & Rap genres out of their niche and to general attention. Hip Hop acts like #RunDMC, #PublicEnemy, #LLCoolJ (all of which contributed to define the genre and were later labeled as Old School Rap) were already around; #NWA, the band of #IceCube and #DrDre, would come 2 years later bringing Rap to a different level, from the initial fun and party music to the violence of racial conflicts, police hatred and street gangster (later called in fact Gansta Rap), but it was thanks to this trio of white irriverent guys that Rap music became popular worldwide!
And this was also due to Russell Simmons flair 👍: he was the manager of Def Jam recordings, legendary New York City record label that in 1980s specialized in urban rebel music. #DefJam at the time signed both Beastie Boys and popular Heavy⚡️Metal band #Slayer, who were the masters of the recently born Thrash Metal scene: Simmons called their #guitarist 🎸#KerryKing, to perform the solo 🎶 in Beastie Boys' single and rock video parody "No Sleep Till Brooklin"👇
The song became a standard along with "Fight For Your Right" (see today's #TheMondayRecharger☝️) and still today both are so popular and acclaimed among rockers all over the world, since they are often played as last background tracks just before a Heavy Metal concert begins🤟😈🔥
"Licensed to Ill" became the fastest selling record to date, it sold nearly 10 millions in few months 😳 and #BeastieBoys became equally appreciated by both new born Rap scene followers and Rock fans ! #15November
https://youtu.be/07Y0cy-nvAg
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Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Music video by Beastie Boys performing No Sleep Till Brooklyn.© 1986 The Island Def Jam Music Group