RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

love pop goes the weasel tbh

Damn, Shakey. Did 3rd Bass take shots at Ice Cube before he started dissing dancing rappers?

The Gas Face, Brooklyn Queens, Steppin' To The AM, Products Of The Environment and a few other tracks on the Cactus still hold up pretty well. I mean what, late '80s Prince Paul and Bomb Squad tracks aren't enough?

rap beef magic eye

pete nice always had nice suits

ade is otm tho

So many wack M.C.'s you get the T.V. bozack
Ain't even gonna call out your names 'cause you're so wack
But one big oaf whose faker than plastic
A dictionary definition of the word spastic
You should have never started something that you couldn't finish
'Cause writin' rhymes to me is like popeye to spinach
I'm bad ass move your fat ass 'cause you're wack son
Dancin' around like you think you're Janet Jackson
Thought you could walk on me to get some ground to walk on
I'll pull the rug out from under your ass as I talk on
I'll take you out like a sniper on a roof
Like an M.C. at the fever in the D.J. booth

i mean, it's probably about 3rd bass because who else would it be about?

its funny i heard those lines a million times but never once thought about who it might be about, or that it was about a specific guy at all

Vanilla Ice? MC Hammer? anyone? rappers routinely attack anonymous targets.

xp

a lot of classic dis tracks drop really specific clues even if they don't name the target outright - referencing particular lines of the target's or stylistic tropes or whatever. the closest thing that Professor Booty has to any of those is maybe the fat ass/dancing line but even that's pretty vague. imho.

like, that's hardly No Vaseline or Takeover or even the Real Roxanne

Vanilla Ice? MC Hammer? anyone? rappers routinely attack anonymous targets.

More like Heavy D? Chunky A? The Fat Boys? or MC Serch?

shakey, who else ever really dissed the beastie boys that publically?

1) Hammer and Vanilla Ice dance but are not remotely "fat asses"

2) Serch is pleasantly plump but i like my white rappers w/some junk in the trunk

3) "Thought you could walk on me to get some ground to walk on" > who else used dissing the beasties to gain rep like 3rd Bass...also the "started something you couldn't finish"

4) Dissing is so out of character for the Beasties, they really occupied their own little world, it would HAVE to be for some reason, someone calling them out, i.e. 3rd Bass

5) Sure, it's vague compared to No Vaseline but I've heard way more vague stuff in disses before, so it's not like this is some unsolveable mystery

tbh by the time CHY came out I had completely forgotten 3rd Bass had dissed the Beasties at all (they had moved on to the GasFace and Pop Goes the Weasel - kinda funny how this band's best tracks are all dis tracks lol)

I'm not saying you guys are wrong - the contextual clues are there - just that they completely went past me with their relatively generic nature.

who else ever really dissed the beastie boys that publically?

there's dis lines on LTI iirc. Granted they're also vague and pretty joke-y but they're there.

I was a schoolboy on the other side of the planet but I still took "someone who'd dissed the Beasties on record to aggrandise himself, who has a fat ass, and dances like Janet Jackson" to be Serch (and was amused/pleased that Pimp Minister Pete Nice got let off)

also The Gas Face came out before Sons Of 3rd Bass afaik

Has any rapper ever dissed the Beastie Boys, besides 3rd Bass?

have any other rappers ever dissed 3rd bass?

lol

okay, i'm wondering if that's the same DMX. it really can't be right? DMX doesn't beatbox.

he goes
WHAT
HAH
WHAT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_DMX ?

sounds right

Pete Nice article is interesting, but shows a complete lack of understanding of the Beasties as a punk band -- which is no sin, but leads to not getting the Beasties at all.

http://networkawesome.com/2012-5-11/beastie-boys-infomercial-for-hello-nasty

i thought it was common knowledge that that DMX started out as a beatboxer in the '80s and that that was how he got his name. apparently Just-Ice worked with a guy called Human DMX, who was neither that DMX nor Davy DMX, though.

maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberheim_DMX

maybe Pete Nice talked a drum machine in that anecdote?

talked TO a drum machine

Wasn't DMX the DJ in Material, among other Laswell projects? Like Herbie Hancock's "Rockit?"

that was D.S.T.

i feel like i'm in a room full of tuomases

Not to worry, I'm sure knowledge of this sort of thing will become more widespread and valuable in the future, so everything should even out.

if only there were some sort of computerized information store we could access

maybe connected via a series of tubes

I just think it's dumb that 3 different guys named themselves DMX.

i feel like i'm in a room full of tuomases

― some dude, Friday, May 11, 2012 9:45 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know, i can't even

I just think it's dumb that 3 different guys named themselves DMX.

― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Friday, May 11, 2012 10:07 AM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there it is, the dumbest post

"Eddie "Guitar" Burns, Guitar Slim, Johnny Guitar Watson... blues musicians sure are dumb assholes."

Fair enough.

But now name me some other rappers named after specific drum machines.

these guys all are (or started out) as human beatboxes, not rappers. that's why they're named after the most common drum machine of the era in which beatboxing flourished.

gr8080 started out as a beatboxer

But now name me some other rappers named after specific drum machines.

― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Friday, May 11, 2012 10:20 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

D-Nice called himself "the TR-808" a lot, Ready Rock C was the "Human Linn Drum" etc etc

And let us not forget Def Jam main man Russell Simmons.

i lolled

^

D-Nice called himself "the TR-808" a lot
Tbf he did say you could just call him d nice

so Pete Nice was named after a guy named after a drum machine, IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

wait, there a d-nice and a pete nice? so confusedd

Also I knew davy dmx but not human dmx

Though I think it's kinda weird for pete nice to drop it in there and have ppl not assume he's talking about DMX....dude had been around for awhile before he blew up, with that born loser stuff, but it's not out of the possibility that a really young dmx and just could have performed together

Edward III, it's ready to get them confused, just remember pete nice was the prime minister of canada at the the time and also rapped in the ny scene, camron and company did a concept album about his life called ”diplomatic immunity”