Party’s Getting Rough Lyrics

Got the groove
Got the groove

Everybody say oh-waa, oh-waa
Say oh-waa, oh-waa
Say ta-daa, ta-daa
Say ta-daa, ta-daa
Ahh, yeah, ahh, yeah
Oh-waa, ta-da, oh-waa, ta-daa
Ta-daa, ahh, yeah, yo, ta-daa, ahh, yeah
Say oh-waa, ta-daa, oh-waa, ta-daa
Ta-daaa, ahh, yeah, ta-daaa, ahh, yeah
Say oh-waa, ta-ta, ahh, yeah, oh-waa, ta-ta, ahh, yeah
Say oh-waa, ta-ta, ahh, yeah, oh-waa, ta-ta, ahh, yeah
Say oh-waa, ta-ta, ahh, yeah, oh-waa, ta-ta, ahh, yeah
Ahh, oh, ahh...
[?]
Kick off the the spit, again and again
[?]

Hey has got the groove
Mr. Rich has got the groove
Abs One has got the groove
Classtina has got the groove
Chuck D has got the groove
Cey City has got the groove
Atook Adecima has got the groove
Sthamolt has got the groove
I said Troy has got the groove
Shock One has got the groove, that's right
Ted Knight [?] has got the groove
Special K has got the groove
Our pal [?] has got the groove
Beastie Boys has got the groove
DMC has got the groove
Chuck Chillout has got the groove
We ALL have got the groove
We all have got the groove
[Mike D]
Yo
Yo, man, Mark K, what's up with that?
Everything's rollin' along, and everything and now
Ahh, man
It all drops out
Dag, you tryin'
You tryin' to RUIN this record, man
We payin' you them long dollars, and you know that
And now what do you do?
You wanna make this sound nice?
You're just fessin', man
I don't even wanna hear about it
You're just fessin'

[Mark K]
That's it, that it
I give up, I can't make a record with you guys
You guys are a bunch of funky-monkey idiots
Man, I'm outta here. BYE

[Adrock]
Fine, man, just get outta here, man
You don't know how to produce a record, no how
Just take a walk, man
[Mike D]
Man, we don't even need you here in the studio
We can do it better ourselves
And Burzootie, you're not even helpin', anyway
So you get out

Word, man

[MCA]
That's right, man, you guys didn't even, ahh
Look at this, man, they didn't even turn on the boombox

Ahh, man, word, man
Ahh...
Yeah...

[Adrock]
Oh, wait, hold up, man

[MCA]
Where's the funky BASS at?
Ahh, the bass, man
The funky bass

[Rick]
Yo, I hook it up, I hook it up
Yeah, word, Rick
Ahh, yeah, yeah, man
Ahh, the bass is tight
The bass is fresh

[MCA]
That sound too wild for me

No, man

[Adrock]
But, yo, when that bass start breakin', man
That'll be smokin', man
That's crazy fresh

Word, man, word, word
Oh, dag, that is, that's, that's

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
Beastie, Beastie
Say Beastie, Beastie
Say Beastie Boys, Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys, the Beastie Boys
Say Beastie, Beastie
The Beastie Boys, the Beastie Boys
Say Beastie groove, Beastie groove
The Beastie groove, the Beastie groove
The Bea-Stie...GROOVE

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“Party’s Getting Rough” is a B-Side on the Rock Hard single, released in 1985 by Def Jam Recordings, a division of CBS/Columbia Records. The track was…

  • Produced by Rick Rubin and Beastie Boys.
  • Mixed by Jay Burzootie, Russell Simmons, and Rick Rubin
  • Recorded by Mark Kamins
  • Edited by Latin Rascals
  • Mastered by Herb “Boom Boom” Powers

Party’s Getting Rough” was never performed in concert.

The Boys' studio dialogue is priceless enough to have been sampled over a decade later on DJ Shadow’s masterpeice, Endtroducing…

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