Their albums would benefit if they put in half the effort Non-Prophets – That Ain't Right
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Blimpie’s, a New York sub shop chain, has a breakfast sandwich named the “Bluffin”, which is essentially an Egg McMuffin. It’s hard to look tough when you’re carrying around your breakfast.
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Stax Records, a now obscure record label, once had Isaac Hayes, Richard Pryor, AND Bill Cosby signed to their roster. With talent like that, who wouldn’t want to jump on the financial bandwagon?
source: Paste Magazine
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During the Presidential Election of 2008, CNN debuted its “hologram correspondence,” where correspondent Wolf Blitzer had a conversation with a “hologram” of Jessica Yellin, who was in Chicago.
It turned out to be about as exciting as watching a toaster do its damn thing. It was more like a scene from the Matrix than a true hologram. Yellin explained:
There are thirty-five high-definition cameras … in a ring around me, I’m in the center, and they shoot my body in different angles and I’m told that transmits what looks like an entire body image back to New York.
As mentioned on the Beastie Boys Boards, this line is believed to be a subtle dis to Will.i.am, who was thrilled by the opportunity to appear as a hologram.
All these crab rappers, they're rappin' like crabs Beastie Boys (Ft. Nas) – Too Many Rappers
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This line is often misheard as “all these crap rappers”, but Ad-Rock confirmed in an interview that the line is, indeed, crab rappers.
To be a “crab” anything means to hide whenever trouble is around; interestingly, Nas was one of the first rappers to popularize the word.
Basically, Ad-Rock eats all these crab rappers like a seafood buffet, so he needs some extra tartar sauce.
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One of the sole female acts to record on Eazy-E’s Ruthless Records, JJ Fad was an old-school girl group, similar to Salt-N-Pepa. “Supersonic” was produced by Dr. Dre.
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“Strawberry Letter 23” is a song by R&B singer Shuggie Otis.
It was most recently covered by Quincy Jones and Akon
Cause death is the cousin of sleep Beastie Boys (Ft. Nas) – Too Many Rappers
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Paying homage to one of Nas' most famous lines, MCA’s afraid to sleep because death might come for him, so he just rocks the mic all night long. It was also the title of a track on the B-Boys' instrumental, The Mix-Up. The lyric cast an ominous shadow in light of MCA’s cancer diagnosis and subsequent passing on 5/4/12…
#Death is the cousin of Sleep
source: youremyonlychoice
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The Beastie Boys guest-starred on an episode of the animated comedy Futurama, which is set in the year 3000
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While these lyrics sound very similar to those in Jay-Z’s “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”, it’s actually unrelated. Nas was in the project hallways, writing his rhymes.
And yes, “oratorials” isn’t a word, we’re well aware. (But neither is real'a, so chill out.) Oratorial is an adjective derived from orator and oratorical.
“Broader than Broadway” is also used in the Beastie Boys song, “Hello Brooklyn”
“Broader than broadway” is also a reference to the Barrington Levy song “Here I Come”