So my Youtube algorithm has picked up a rabbit hole of unlikely music fan reacts to shit like Primus for the first time videos. But there seems to be a ton of "hip hop/rap fan reacts to listening to Beastie Boys for the first time" WTF? how have you never heard Beastie Boys? One of them was like "Ive heard my dad yelling NO SLEEP TIL... but I didn't know what it was. Another one after already reacting to Beach Boys was like "I seriously thought Beach Boys was what people were talking about when they said Beastie Boys" "there's no way this is a rap group and I dont know em"
How? it's like saying you've never heard of Ketchup.
When I was very young kid growing up in the 80s there was two rap artists in my universe. RUNDMC and Beastie Boys. I was in 4th grade and I was on team RUNDMC because even back then I felt like Beastie Boys was gimmicky but as I grew up I realized the genius and just pure coolness that Beastie Boys brought to the genre. As I got into punk and metal I learned that they started out as a punk band and it further pushed my interest. To this day they are some of the coolest people on the planet. Everything they have ever done is perfection. If MCA hadn't passed away we would have like 5 more awesome, cool as hell Beastie Boys albums. I'm really sad that the band had to die with MCA but I understand where they're coming from.
It's bonkers to me that a whole generation of young rap fans have either never heard of or just never thought to consider them enough to listen to their music. They are a part of the fabric of hip hop and paved the way for many to come after them. Their flow and Rick Ruben's vision, then for them to team up with Dust Brothers way before anyone was ready for it. And then for them to pick up their instruments again and create some of the swaggiest music ever... Any everything after that. Go watch the video for 3 MC's and one DJ. that's all live. You gotta respect all of it. Younguns, pay homage to the OG's. Beastie Boys.
It's bonkers to me that a whole generation of young rap fans have either never heard of or just never thought to consider them enough to listen to their music. They are a part of the fabric of hip hop and paved the way for many to come after them. Their flow and Rick Ruben's vision, then for them to team up with Dust Brothers way before anyone was ready for it. And then for them to pick up their instruments again and create some of the swaggiest music ever... Any everything after that. Go watch the video for 3 MC's and one DJ. that's all live. You gotta respect all of it. Younguns, pay homage to the OG's. Beastie Boys.
I feel like I need to start a react channel of GenXers reacting to videos of Millennial and GenZ rap fans literally discovering Beastie Boys for the first time in 2023. I guess if it's not on TikTok it doesn't exist to these kids.
