Description
Though 1986’s License to Ill was the first rap album to top the Billboard 200, Beastie Boys’ debut album reflects the onetime hardcore band’s rock-loving roots. After all, their bratty, braggy and adenoidal flows were backed by old Zeppelin and Sabbath samples, while none other than Slayer’s Kerry King riffed and wailed atop primordial rap-rock singles “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)” and “No Sleep till Brooklyn.” A crass and crafty look at the early days of one of hip-hop’s most legendary trios, ready to be blasted on old school black wax.