i liked the cactus album at the time, but haven't heard it in forever
"we are looking for the brooklyn-queens"
^ i thought this was a gay joke
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
MCA's "dancin' around like you think you're Janet Jackson" line on Professor Booty was pretty clearly aimed at Serch.
I've always heard that, but there were plenty of dancing rappers at the time. Cube had lyrics dissing dancing rappers too, were those all aimed at Serch?
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
3rd bass invented the gas face so theyre cool as hell forever for that
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
love pop goes the weasel tbh
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
rap beef magic eye
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
pete nice always had nice suits
― The Reverend, Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
ade is otm tho
― The Reverend, Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
So many wack M.C.'s you get the T.V. bozackAin't even gonna call out your names 'cause you're so wackBut one big oaf whose faker than plasticA dictionary definition of the word spasticYou should have never started something that you couldn't finish'Cause writin' rhymes to me is like popeye to spinachI'm bad ass move your fat ass 'cause you're wack sonDancin' around like you think you're Janet JacksonThought you could walk on me to get some ground to walk onI'll pull the rug out from under your ass as I talk onI'll take you out like a sniper on a roofLike an M.C. at the fever in the D.J. booth
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, it's probably about 3rd bass because who else would it be about?
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
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
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
Vanilla Ice? MC Hammer? anyone? rappers routinely attack anonymous targets.
xp
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
like, that's hardly No Vaseline or Takeover or even the Real Roxanne
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
More like Heavy D? Chunky A? The Fat Boys? or MC Serch?
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 11 May 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
Has any rapper ever dissed the Beastie Boys, besides 3rd Bass?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 May 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
have any other rappers ever dissed 3rd bass?
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 11 May 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
okay, i'm wondering if that's the same DMX. it really can't be right? DMX doesn't beatbox.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 May 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
he goes WHATHAH WHAT
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 May 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_DMX ?
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 11 May 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
sounds right
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 May 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 11 May 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://networkawesome.com/2012-5-11/beastie-boys-infomercial-for-hello-nasty
― Three Word Username, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberheim_DMX
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Friday, 11 May 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
maybe Pete Nice talked a drum machine in that anecdote?
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
talked TO a drum machine
Wasn't DMX the DJ in Material, among other Laswell projects? Like Herbie Hancock's "Rockit?"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
that was D.S.T.
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
if only there were some sort of computerized information store we could access
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
maybe connected via a series of tubes
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
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, 11 May 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
― some dude, Friday, May 11, 2012 9:45 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i know, i can't even
― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
― 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."
― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
Fair enough.
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
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, 11 May 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
gr8080 started out as a beatboxer
― max, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
And let us not forget Def Jam main man Russell Simmons.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
i lolled
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
^
― crüt, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
D-Nice called himself "the TR-808" a lot Tbf he did say you could just call him d nice
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
so Pete Nice was named after a guy named after a drum machine, IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link