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Remembering The Beastie Boys: Part 1

Ongoing History of New Music

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The Beastly Boys Sampled a Track From a Four Song EP

British film director jeremy heely explains how he came to use a track called beasty revolution in that t v spot. British airways allegedly used a sample from that song in one of their commercials without permission. By november 19 84, the beastes had signed to deaf jam, a new record label cofonded by rick reuben and russell simons. Rap and hippop became more and more important to the beasti sound.

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