This sample is taken from the opening line of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”. The full song can be found below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmd6fg0r4Ic

This reworking of “Stop That Train” attempts to play up the dub reggae influence suggested by its primary sample, taken from The Harder They Come soundtrack. Unfortunately, the mix reflects its title a bit too accurately, with the voices of Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D ricocheting arrhythmically of the horn-spiked riddim. –Excerpted from Dan LeRoy’s 33 1/3 Series book, Paul’s Boutique, (2006)

Sampled from “Hang On In There” by The Stovall Sisters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB9tAMl3BBI

Calls back the Original 94' version of “Intergalactic,“ found on the compilation, B-Sides and Bullshit Volume 2. "The worm is the spice, you bring the sauce” is a reference to the sci-fi book/movie Dune (which features sandworms that produce narcotic spice).

The spice must flow!

source: coltenhamhandsdune

Sample of “Jazzy Sensation” by Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five (1981).

In 1979, after years of progressively unpredictable & bizarre behavior, Lee “Scratch” Perry, took a magic marker and filled every available surface of the Black Ark studio with his writings. Then he reportedly set it ablaze. The loss of Perry’s inimitable studio more or less ended Jamaica’s most fertile creative period, wherein Jamaican reggae and dub had become dominant forces in the world’s music.

In interviews, Perry has said that he set the fire to purge “unclean spirits,” a reference to the hangers-on and possible gangsters angling for a cut of the profits who leached on Black Ark in its final years. In a 4.27.09 interview with Mike Diver for clashmusic.com, Perry had this to say when asked “Why did you burn down the Black Ark and then leave Jamaica?”

Too much stress in Jamaica, all the time. Everybody want money, everybody want paid. Everyone got problem and want me to solve their problem. Nobody gave me anything, people just took everything. Everybody take this, and take that. So the atmosphere in the Black Ark studio was changing; it wasn’t like it used to be. Then I decided to make a sacrifice as the energy wasn’t good anymore. Then I moved to London, lived four years in London. Then got up to Jamaica, met my wife and move to Switzerland. I been here ever since…"

Adrock’s brother, Matthew Horovitz. He’s a tv producer/editor/director who has done projects for Food Network, Travel Channel, History Channel, MTV, and the NBA. Apparently, Matt’s got handles on the court, but he shouldn’t get too cocky…

photo: Amateur Gourmet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgwtip1mB0&feature=player_embedded
Eric Haze is a pioneering graffiti & graphic artist, who innovated the “tag”-style lettering that appears on the cover of Check Your Head. HAZE remembers some times with Adam “MCA” Yauch here…

source: conoperative

G-Spot is a nickname for the home the Beastie Boys rented in Hollywood Hills throughout the recording of Paul’s Boutique. It was owned by Alex and Marilyn Grasshoff. According to Mike D in Beastie Boys Book:

It was a crazy house off of Mulholland Drive. (Just down the street from the spaceship-looking house from the movie Body Double.) There was a gate at the entrance to the house with a big G on it. Hence the name. You’d go through the gate and you’d drive down this little driveway, and straight ahead where you parked you could see right into the house, right into this crazy entryway with a rock wall, a bunch of fake plants, and a pool table. Outside the house was a swimming pool with a little bridge that went over it. It was butter on a roll at a shitty spaghetti place. THE BEST. (287)

Beastie Boys helped spark a cult following for the 1975 blaxploitation comedy, Dolemite. It starred Rudy Ray Moore, who began his career as a stand-up comedian in the late 1960s.

Moore heard a rhymed toast by a local homeless man about an urban hero named Dolemite, and adapted the character of the outsized African-American hero for his stand-up act. The Dolemite character, Joe Blow The Loverman, is name-checked in the “Lay It On Me” segment of “B-Boy Bouillabaisse.”

I’ve heard it before, but it never gets old.

Peace is eternal…

source: I’m Just Sayin'/arcasangels

source: Beastie Boys Fan Page

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