200 ways the Beasties influenced pop culture....

[betaband]

1) VW emblem chain

2) made everyone like Biz Markie again

3) lollapalooza 1994

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[Yetra Flam]

made use of the word "mullet" more popular

[Kid Presentable]

5:Put a quiet intro on a record to make you turn it up, and by the time you realised it's actually gotten loud, it's too late...

6:Took two iconic acts in Sly and the Family Stone and Lee Perry and proved anything mixes with hardcore (Time for Livin)

7:Sampled Back in Black

8:Bought Wildstyle back to everybody's attention

9:Proved you're never, ever, ever too old for hip-hop.

10:Made doing what the fuck you please look like a good idea.

I think I give pop culture a little too much credit. But it depends on who you're asking, right?

[betaband]

11) brought mixmaster mike to the masses (which inadvertantly made him do a track with lil kim, fred durst and tommy lee.... ewww)

12) put the jew fro on the map

13) helped bring spike jonze to the spotlight

14) re-invented the music video with sabotage (see above)

15) the idea of a hip hop band influenced everyone from the roots crew to kid rock.

[silence7]

16) Made it OK for white kids to listen to rap (Come on, someone had to say it)

17) Gave the remixers something to mix, Pellas

18) Milarepa Fund

[Kid Presentable]

15) the idea of a hip hop band influenced everyone from the roots crew to kid rock.

Stetsasonic probably had more to do with that.

19:Showed us people change

20:Made it fashionable to be fashionable in 1994-95

21:Bought Ice-Cream cake to the fore

22:Played basketball and skateboarded....um and snowboarded... but I don't know how that influenced anybody....

23:Exposed the beauty of New Zealand before Peter Jackson (Gratitude).

[TAFKASB]

24) made wearing a suit seem cool!

25) Mixed rap and instruments together with great sucess

26) proving to up and coming bands you don't have to be a sheep and follow other styles to have cred

[acamus]

made use of the word "mullet" more popular

Even better, are credited with coining the use of the word "mullet" as applies to the hairstyle according to the Oxford English Dictionary (There is none higher).

[Drederick Tatum]

27) Mike D's hair.

28) His pants! Mike D's pants!

[cypressphil]

29) First white rappers (having the balls to move into a musical genre previously the territory only of a different ethnic/cultural group) - and doing it successfully!
30) First gold selling rap album
31) brought hardcore to people who wouldnt have liked or heard it previously in CYH & IC
32) Fighting for the right to party
33) the UK press - wanted them kicked out of UK!
34) 70's Cop fancy dress!

[chromium05]

35) MAde retro trainers cool again. (I refer to the cover of CYH and Mike's donning of the Adidas. At this point in time, everyone was wearing big chunky basketball boots - Jordans, Fila's, PAtrick Ewings, Champion etc and after the release of CYH, suddenly simple retro styles were cool again - Gazelles and campus, puma clyde and baskets, Nike cortez etc - And this continues today)

36) Grand Royal magazine spawned a million imitators of the cool mag with cool pics and cool editorials / articles.

37) along with De La Soul, the beazlies (with Pauls Boutique) made it cool to move away from the JAmes Brown/ funk / P-funk samples and begin to sample sounds from, at the time, quite bizarre and previously shyed away from sources.

[Kid Presentable]

38: So they put The Roots on tour with them, and The Roots proceed to become legends.

39: They are down with Letterman

40: Relationship of Command is one of my favourite albums. They put that out.

41: Games. Games, games, games. Ping-Pong, Dominoes, PGA on Genesis, Boggle, MCA's X-Box Live exploits, Frogger videos onstage, Mahjong in the back of the bus. Appearing in that new Basketball game (and NBA Jam), MCA in THPG (should have been skate.).

42:Were Futurama's first good guests. Illustrated that it is indeed a quality show.

[Kid Presentable]

*can only really think of 200 cool things they did in spite of of pop culture*

43: DIY music videos

44: Speaking out against Limp Bizkit-type meatheads

45: Pretty much on the money about racism towards people of Middle-Eastern descent and what could happen.

46: Bought credibility to the Vocoder.

[betaband]

48. made it kosher for artists to mix up their styles (beck anyone).

49. Made Japan cool for the hip-hop universe before pharrell and kanye.

50. Made Bathing Ape cool back in like '96.

51. Won a case in the supreme court on the sampling of the opening flute note to 'pass the mic'.

52. Beasties fought the law and they won (def jam).

53. Re-invented the live concert documentary with AIFST.

[violentsoba]

54. Helped usher in a new era of protest songs, by giving theirs away for free online.

[abcdefz]

I'd say the legitimate ways they influenced culture which have been mentioned are "white boys in rap"/having rap's first mainstream success.

I think they sort of get credited for the whole rap/metal thing, even though that was probably as much Rick Rubin as anyone. Sort of how Orson gets credited for deep focus photography even though it had been around for decades.


Probably the other thing, for better or for worse, was that Paul's Boutique was sort of the watershed moment for sampling. Now, the way clearances and permissions and everything are, you probably could never make that album again.

[Mr. Smacktackle]

56) made a full hip hop album with lyrics on every song and no instruments and for a NEXT album made a full instrumental album with no lyrics recorded live played by them

57) made Paul Revere

[JohnnyChavello]

51. Won a case in the supreme court on the sampling of the opening flute note to 'pass the mic'.

The case was decided in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It wasn't reviewed by the Supreme Court.

[betaband]

my mistake. knew it got high enough in the courts. the supreme court does seem kinda lofty.