No mumbling. Just fire bars. Old school rappers are awesome 😎👌

Even when this song came out in the late 90s, nobody else was really doing this style of hip-hop anymore. I remember people saying Beastie Boys were "too old school" around that time.

Beasties Are part of the hip hop foundation with Run DMC, LL Cool J, Def Jam etc they are a huge part of it.

AD Rock is the Man he was the Vibe of the Trio , When I was 15yrs old saw them in 86' @ Madison Square Garden with Run DMC and they stole that show ! The license to Ill album is amazing!

Adam "AdRock" Horowitz - guitar Michael 'MikeD'Diamond - drums Adam 'MCA' Yauch - bass guitar They also play instruments on some albums, and approx their first 9 yrs used DJ Hurricane - from the famed Hollis Crew / { RUN DMC } Then moved onto MixMaster Mike -- their best actual work, is the groundbreaking album -- Paul's Boutique, and had a lot of success with Licensed To iLL , Check Your Head , iLL Communication , Hello Nasty , To The Five Boroughs. . . . Extremely influential band, and was ever changing & growing. Keep digging, they have a lot to offer ! Root Down Sure Shot Car Thief Shadrach Pass The Mic Professor Booty Finger Lickin Good Lookin Down the Barrel Ch-Ch-Check It Out Skills To Pay The Bills Alive 3 Minute Rule Body Movin' Too Many Rappers-featuring Nas- . . Among many others... Enjoy, and keep it up ✌️ 🤘

Listen to Paul's Boutique start to finish, it is a masterpiece of samples. This album was made before sample copy right laws took place.

Live, one take, one DJ making all the beats with one record. 🔥

Ad-Rock IS a whole vibe. You nailed it.

He's name is Ad Rock and he's scorpio... He said it himself. All their song they introduce themselves many times hahaha... One of the best band ever... True genius, and funny guys.

Pretty much everything the Beastie Boys did in the 90s was perfect. They managed to be innovative while (in this case) channeling classic 70s hip hop. It's incredible.

fun-fact: this was a live shot! recorded in realtime ... impossible today! the boys knew how to do "hip hop" :-)

As I get older - I hear these guys records I just am awestruck. Every other minute I’m like GEEZZZUS! Mind blowing.

“I’m about to do another Beastie Boys right away”. You were not playing!

One little beastie I be. Man those were some days.

Mx Master Mike is from San Francisco, there's a documentary called "Scratch" which also highlights DJ Shadow and DJ Qbert who are from the SF Bay Area. Basically talks about the birth of hip hop and scratching via Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and so many more. For real, it's 1000% worth your time.

The cool part about this video is that it's performed live, the music is not the album version of this song.

License to ILL The whole Album is 🔥.

It is impossible to say how important these guys were and are , to rap and hip hop.

As talented as the Beastie Boys are lyrically, they truly would not have been the same band without Mix Master Mike...and they acknowledge that fact with this video...great songs, even today...👍👍

I'm glad you liked this. It's reminiscent of 80's rap that I fell in love with. I hope one day this style makes a comeback.

“Bro in the green” is AD Rock and has always been my favorite Beastie Boy.

Old school hip hop still keeps it bumpin.

Mix Master Mike is one of the best scratchers ever.

"bro in the green" lol that's The King Ad-Rock to you (and me)

I'm telling you. I grew up with this. Beastie Boys are pioneers. Glad young people getting ingrained with this. Get you a turntable.

Probably SOME truth and SOME "urban legend". Beastie Boys started out as NY Punkers. But the punk scene was dying by the time they came along. One thing they were hearing though, was RAP. So, as almost a Joke, they decided to try RAP out. They probably weren't the first, but they were the most authentic. Nothing really like them at the time.....Fight for your Right, Brass Monkey, No Sleep till Brooklyn....License to Ill was definitely something unique.

It's so fun to watch you enjoying this! Great reaction!

I was 19 when this song came out. I listen to the beastie boys since day one and I fucking love them. The one thing that I’m happy about is that the beastie boys is not underrated like people recognize their talent. And they are respected in their craft.

2 albums are the soundtrack of my childhood, run dmc raising hell and beastie boys license to ill xo

Miss all this old school. Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC. People danced and breakdanced to this like crazy. Good Olddays. Yall would loved living back then. Youre young folks but old school hearts. And thats a good thing. God bless. ✌️❤️ from Ky

In some people view, ALL these big rap stars would not exist if it weren’t for the beastie boys. Original rap/hip hop. Yeah there was musicians before them but fans didn’t pay much attention until beastie boys hit the air

These guys literally opened my mind, and many of my friends minds, to a new amazing genre of music!!! (Forever grateful)

GOATS of trio Hip hop. sorry to say the rappers to day dont compare. LEGENDS

Mixmaster Mike!!! Who out there could challenge this man.....nobody can do it like Mixmaster can!!!!

Of course it's awesome!!! It's REAL HIP HOP!!! This is what's needed today!!!!‐

I subscribed because of this video! Awesome breakdown. I hope you go hard into the Beastie Boys. Legendary. Green=Ad Rock. Purple-MCA. Yellow= Mike D. Rapping from the 80s, through the 90s, and into t he 2000s. You should react to “Intergalactic” official music video. BTW, The Beastie Byos official channel doesn’t block anything. Excellent reaction!

Check out their induction ceremony into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to truly appreciate their contributions to American music.

Old school. Can’t beat it.

That's old school, I was in highschool when they started during the 80's and you're right, nobody mixes and scratches like that anymore, RUN DMC & Jam Master J was another.

From their vocals which had no sampling or distortion....just their voice...to the spinning of Master Mike....Who also had no sampling or mixes...straight scratching and using that wah wah pedal he had.

Party don’t start till the DJ gets there! And you introduce the DJ from the get go!

Mix Master Mike worked with the band on Hello Nasty (1998), To The 5 Boroughs (2004), and Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (2011). He also appears on the Beastie Boys single "Alive", which was released in 1999 in support of The Sounds of Science retrospective anthology. From the studio to world tours, Mix Master Mike is now effectively the Beastie Boys' resident DJ, having replaced DJ Hurricane, who was preceded by Doctor Dré (not to be confused with Dr. Dre) who replaced Rick Rubin known as DJ Double R

I've watched this video 494593 times and only paid attention to Mix Master Mike all 494593 times. He murders this beat with technique. The soft, reverse pulls after 10:59 are so sick.

Guy in the green is Adam (Adrock) Horovitz, the tan jacket is Michael ( Mike D) guy in the blu/ purple is Adam(MCA) Yauch, who passed away in 2012.

Check out Car Thief off Paul’s Boutique.

The guy in the green is Ad Rock. He created most of the Beastie Boys beats. He also discovered LL Cool J for Def Jam in the 80s.

It's a long gone era my friend. They are legendary.

Adam Horovitz/King Adrock is the guy in the green. If you want to react to some fire tracks where he goes off on the mic, you have to do "Shake Your Rump," "So Whatcha Want," "Professor Booty," Sure Shot, "Root Down," Gratitude," 3 Minute Rule," and "High Plains Drifter."

R.I.P. M.C.A. Excellent reaction 👍🏻great to see you enjoying the old skool stuff.i miss this band so much.managed to see mixmaster mike dj for another old skool rap band cypress hill a couple of years ago he did a 15 minute solo spot at the start pure 🔥

Sure Shot, Too Many Rappers Not Enough MC’s (feat. Nas), So Watcha Want, Root Down. Root down video pays homage to old school hip hop in NY, lots of breakdancing and graffiti throughout the video!

1999, it was a good year. and to think they started off a punk band back in 1981, Crazy stuff.

Dude in the green is the King Ad Rock.

Mix Master Mike - Anti-theft Device... It's a track on his album with the same name... He was also in a crew called Invisible Scratch Pickles, along with DJ Q-Bert and DJ Shortcut

Bro in the green IS a whole vibe!

Three MC's aint nothing without the DJ!!

You have to check out Gratitude. That song is a perfect blend of their punk rock and hip-hop roots. They started as a punk band in the late 70s when it was huge in the UK and the USA, but fell in love with hip hop when it got started and decided to switch it up and become a rap act out of pure love for the music. They didn't come fake and kept it real by doing rap with a punk rock attitude and it just worked (Honestly, as far as the message behind the music goes, rap and punk rock are both as revolutionary,, street poetry IMHO). The video for the song is a tribute to the legendary English rock band Pink Floyd (amazing music that you should check out), but the song itself just blends the rap and punk rock message and attitude perfectly. Check it out sometime soon! You'll love it! The music and lyrics are raw as hell, plus you get to see them on their instruments in the video.

MixMaster Mike got the job by repeatedly bugging them with voicemails. He'd call and leave these ridiculous cuts and scratches and mixes... over and over and over. It worked.

Bro in the green is The King AD Rock.

As others have said, guy in green is AdRock... and he was/is a goofball of energy. Videos, interviews, whatever he's just ready to be silly and has that underlying extra energy even when he’s talking serious (fairly rare, when interviews are added up). There are YT videos of this from each of the four cameras, both singly or as a grouping, and during that start where they’re holding position Mike D (tan pants) and MCA (purple shirt) from a side view cam you can se pe the other two are pretty decent at patiently waiting... meanwhile AdRock starts low key fidgeting trying to stay still and starts moving his lips and it feels like he’s just internally like “hold it together... hold it together...” And yep, out of the three MCA was the chillest. After their first coupla years rapping (they started in the punk/hardcore scene then took up a passion for rapping while still doing rock/punk/hardcore stuff over the years) had an inner calm regardless of what he was throwing himself into. He had a lot of lightness and fun in him, too, but like you caught on out of the three of them he was the most chill/at-peace.

Mix Master Mike is a legend in his own right. Beastie Boys are GOATEd Mix Master Mike is also a founding member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz. DJ Babu still does this, along with the entire Beat Junkie crew. Real Hip Hop. “…a dangerous man/ who can speak with his hands”

Ad Rock (green) Mike D (jacket) MCA (purple) Mix Master Mike (DJ)

Dude!!! watch their concert live in Glasgow. Mix Master Mike was there. the concert will show you just how great they were as performers! true legends!

The one in the green is Ad-Rock, the one in the grey shirt is MCA, and the one in the khaki jacket is Mike D.

New sub here. Love the beastie boys, that's what brought me here. Keep it up I'll keep watching.

guy in the green sweater is Ad-Rock

Mix Master Mike invented Tweak Scratching along with DJ QBert and DJ Apollo. Watch anything with Invisibl Skratch Piklz. Mind will be blown

R.I.P. Ad-Rock.... the soul of the Boyz. 👊💜🔥

MCA passed away from Cancer in 2012. They no longer perform. I was lucky enuf to see them live 3 times

The "man in the green sweater" is Adrock. Probably the most linguistic of the Boys

Beasties let's go! Green sweater is Ad-Rock.

They helped other rap groups get to play at main stream clubs...they were on Rusell Simmons label with LL Cool J

Beastie Boys ain't havin no hacks around period. Check out Live in Glasgow 1999 Mix Master Mike opens the show by himself and you get to really know ALOT more about them, from their PUNK roots to playing their own instruments etc - these guys are legends! Biggest selling rap band by a wide margin - they go all the way back. RIP MCA! Saw them at Santa Barbara Bowl it was lit!!!

Mike did that all with one record- no drum machine.

If you gonna go down the Beastie Boys rabbit hole, you better settle in cuz it's gon be a while. And what an epic journey it will be. I haven't seen anybody react to their Triple Trouble video. Will you be the first?

I got to open for Mixmaster Mike and saw most of his set back in the 90s. Dude whipped out his dong and scratched records with it.

this was recorded live on MTV! :-)

Mix Master Mike is rocking pure vinyl and he’s getting the beat front the vinyl.

They are all the chill one

Check out, This is The New Style, from their first record

That's AdRock in the Green

Sacramento's finest. He got the job by mixing over the phone.

Green sweater: The King Ad Rock Purple: MCA Tan Jacket: Mike D DJ: Mix Master Mike

These guys were always fabulous. Real.

Dude made a whole ass beat just scratching one fuckin record. Legendary.

"BRO IN THE GREEN" WAS READY!! ONE OF HIS LAST GESTURES AT THAT MOMENT WAS A BASEBALL PLAYER "ON DECK" IF A MOVIE IS EVER MADE ABOUT THE BEASTIES, PLEASE FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GIVE THE PROPER RESPECT THROUGH A COMEDY. THEY ARE COOL YET HILARIOUS!!

This style is real talent. This isn't just dudes mumbling on a beat. Real music.

Mix Master Mike (dj beastie boys) - Greatest Opening 2004

Intergalactic. " sure shot.

green sweater, Adam Horowicz, Jacket, Michael Diamond, Purple, Adam Yauch. And mix master mike.

Bro in the green is THE KING ADROCK! ;)

Beastie Boys "checkit out" live on David Letterman

ANYONE WITH ME WHEN I SAY FROM BACK IN THE DAY... BREAKIN BEAT STREET BEASTIES

In 1999 nobody was doing this but the B-boys.. they always represented real (foundational) HIP HOP Culture ☝🏼❤️

The legendary Mix Master Mike. He was the first person to start an all DJ group The Invisibl Skratch Piklz. He also proved that a turntable was an instrument. They would have one DJ drumming, one DJ had a record of different guitar tones and chords on each track of the record, one with horn sounds, one on the bass. My dude is a legend. ….and him and Beastie Boys… get outta here. They’re unbeatable. The reason for the long intro is they wanted to show this is one take. No edits, it was live, no warming up… just 3 MC’s and 1 DJ. If you want to check out an amazing documentary on early hip-hop and scratch/DJ’s/Turntablism there is a video on KZfaq called “Scratch.” It’s super dope.

You have great attention to detail. I've seen this video hundreds of times and never noticed the one finger thing with the dj. Great reaction video. Subscribed!

Shout out to old school check out grandmaster Flash. 🔥Beastie Boy's🔥

Bro in green is Adrock🤣

Turntablism is a dying art form

For a bit more of Mix Master Mike and an amazing Beastie live performance watch Ch-Check It Out on Letterman

Pure old school hip hop. Mixmaster Mike, world champ DJ. Total class.