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Moog synthesizer:
I was pretty fucked up when we did “Get It Together.” I can’t really remember making it, but I know Adrock took that beat from an old Moog record. The Beasties are the fucking Bugs Bunny of hip-hop. They just come up with the ill shit.
–Q-Tip, in Alan Light’s September 4 1998 piece for Spin…
(Yeah)
Praying mantis on the court, and I can't be beat Beastie Boys (Ft. Q-Tip) – Get It Together
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At our own basketball court at Atwater, our recording studio [in Atwater Village, Calif.], the guys would call me ‘The Praying Mantis.’
–Adam Yauch in Sam Alipour’s interview for the April 18, 2008 edition of ESPN Page 2
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“Suzy Is A Headbanger” is a Ramones song. Given how the sample sounds as it starts, it could be that a cassette of the Ramones album Leave Home was in the tape deck of the car the song’s protagonist just hot-wired.
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The Brooklyn House of Detention for Men, built on Atlantic Avenue in 1957, is a single-cell jail that can house 815 adult males, many of whom await trial in Brooklyn and Staten Island courts.
source: southbrooklyn.net
photo by Mark D. Phillips
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Policeman Harry Callahan, one of Clint Eastwood’s best known roles.
Don’t forget that High Plains Drifter is also one of Eastwood’s roles. So the Beastie Boys are taking the persona of a guy running away from one of his other personas.
Don’t let the pompadour fool ya. This dude’s savage.
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From IMDB, “Mary and Larry are two lovers who, with Larry’s ace mechanic, rob a grocery store and flee the police with hopes of making the professional racing circuit. They are chased over hill, over vale by the cops, who deploy everything from a 426 Hemi to a helicopter to stop Larry’s Dodge Charger culminating in a memorable ending.”
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Ballantine is an American brewery, best known for its pale ale and the rebus puzzles that appear on the underside of the cap. One of the oldest brands of beer in the US, Ballantine was the 4th largest brewer in America at its peak.
source: woolrich
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