Influence

[pshabi]

A lot of us have reflected on the different ways the bboys have influenced us in terms of culture, ideals, etc. For me personally, they have influenced me in a lot of "stupid" little ways too. Especially in my younger years.

Anybody wanna share any funny shit you did, said, wore because of bboy influence?

My example:

After I saw the Rhyme the Rhyme Well video, I went around surprise bear hugging friends from behind for like a month straight. :D

I pretty much dance like Adrock now, without even trying to do it. I just saw it so much that I subconsciously bit his dance style and that's just how I've been rolling for a long time now when it's time to put on my dancing shoes.

Discuss? haha

[Matchstikk]

Not a big gum chewer, but when I do it's Yauch all the way.

[pshabi]

Not a big gum chewer, but when I do it's Yauch all the way.

Word! Now that's what I'm talking about! :p

I remember always saying, "I'm Audi" when we left a HS get together back in the Ill Comm days. (Freak Freak ref obv).

[beasties#1fan]

my whole life is influenced by them... seriously

[MCScoobyT]

my whole life is influenced by them... seriously

welcome back pshabi!

[beasties#1fan]

welcome back pshabi!
:confused:

[Space]

does the phrase bust with a whippet apply?

[MCScoobyT]

I'm gonna go with...
rocking snow caps as fashion. I mean I live in Colorado so it is functional some times... but the Beastie's encouraged me to wear them more offend.

Oh and then there is the huge fact that they liked so many different types of music... If I heard that they liked it or sampled it, that meant it was golden and I had to check it out. I was exposed to so much great old school music, that I would have never found without them.

Lastly, working on the Grand Royal street team back in the day, showed me what modern music they thought should be getting shine, and it was so diverse... that in its self was awe inspiring!

[kll]

I was a massive bboys fan during the Check Your Head era - the only cassette I "wore out" and had to buy another one. I would take it on flights with me thinking if I died due to a plane crash, at least I would go down listening to it.

I'm sure I've posted this somewhere... When Sabotage became a hit, my girls (4 of us incl. me) had a mission: There was a house full of our guy friends who lives in an old Victorian. We took the turkey neck from the turkey we were cooking, toilet paper and tons of hot dogs - don't ask. We dressed up in all black, covered our faces in black and blared Sabotage as we drove to the house and tp'd the house, sprinkled the hot dogs in the front yard and hung the turkey neck on the front door knob. Someone spotted a shadow as we walked past the outside window. They ran out to see who it was. We ran to our car. The turkey neck fell onto the porch. They picked up the turkey neck and threw at our car as we sped off -blaring Sabotage. Then one of them thought, "hmm... what the hell was that?" They all stood in the street around the turkey neck and came up with... "... it's a cow dick... I know it's a cow dick!" The next morning, we drove by - all stray cats, dogs and birds were eating the hotdogs. The best part is they never thought the hot dogs were from us. They figgered one of them came home, tried to BBQ, but spilled the hot dogs and went to bed.

Halloween of 2002, we did a similar prank to a bf who was cheating on a co-worker. This time it was in Tahoe (lots of bears!) -we scattered the hot dogs and threw eggs - all in the front yard, including up to the porch (encouraging the bears!) and blared Egg Man instead.

[YoungRemy]

I started following the Knicks 'cause of these fools.

[DrunkenMantis]

My obsession with adidas clothes and shoes.....tshirts With various dogs on them. And yes y'all......an orange jumpsuit for jogging.

[benchillin]

you can only imagine how many were inspired to become hoarders because of them.

[Kid Presentable]

Doing whip-its, continuing to skate when I was younger (I started pre-BBoys), writing rhymes, performing said rhymes, getting through heavy shit times with a semi-positive outlook, seeing good, seeing bad and looking for good, smoking buds, quitting buds, smoking them again, appreciating friendships, liking instrumental music, finding out about Spike Jonze, beer drinking breath stinking sniffing glue, learning hip-hop history, learning hardcore history, learning the history of artists who were sampled by the band, learning the bass, learning the drums, nearly getting my head kicked in by some massive fucknut who was harrassing this chick when I told him that her wearing a short dress doesn't give him any rights over her and her personal space, being funny, being cool even though I was the single lamest kid you ever met, learning about Tibet and human rights and how to get your message across calmly, doing what the fuck I want, shaving my head, growing a beard, growing my hair, golf, golf video games, video games, goiter ball, wallabees desert boots adidas, being a newlywed, being a divorcee, travelling, t-shirts, slacks, sunglasses, headphones, politics, humanitarianism, writing, ideas ideas ideas, and way back home.

[sab0tage]

Doing whip-its, continuing to skate when I was younger (I started pre-BBoys), writing rhymes, performing said rhymes, getting through heavy shit times with a semi-positive outlook, seeing good, seeing bad and looking for good, smoking buds, quitting buds, smoking them again, appreciating friendships, liking instrumental music, finding out about Spike Jonze, beer drinking breath stinking sniffing glue, learning hip-hop history, learning hardcore history, learning the history of artists who were sampled by the band, learning the bass, learning the drums, nearly getting my head kicked in by some massive fucknut who was harrassing this chick when I told him that her wearing a short dress doesn't give him any rights over her and her personal space, being funny, being cool even though I was the single lamest kid you ever met, learning about Tibet and human rights and how to get your message across calmly, doing what the fuck I want, shaving my head, growing a beard, growing my hair, golf, golf video games, video games, goiter ball, wallabees desert boots adidas, being a newlywed, being a divorcee, travelling, t-shirts, slacks, sunglasses, headphones, politics, humanitarianism, writing, ideas ideas ideas, and way back home.

(y)

[DrunkenMantis]

What he said ^

[Laver1969]

Yeah...my entire life has been influenced and inspired by them over the past 26 years.

Going back to the LTI video, I still do the whole swish/dunk hand thingy when I play pool and make a ball on the break. They have been the soundtrack of my life.

However, the flipside is I have never had any interest in basketball at all given all of their lyrics and shoutouts to the sport. Of course, I bought Gunnin' and went to the theater showing in Chicago....but don't follow the sport on any level.

[pshabi]

welcome back pshabi!

:D:D:D

[birdfloatindown]

Well, I love me some Adrock, so when he said that everyone should go on YouTube and check out "Graffiti Rock," I did and loved it. Even though I'm a dork from the suburbs, I've gained an appreciation for that whole b-boy subculture of the '80's: grafitti, breakdancing, etc. I personally know nothing of that world, but I can respect it, from what the Beastie Boys have shown me. I also became a fan of Kathleen Hanna's work with Le Tigre. They've got some great songs. And that actually led into me looking at artists from independent labels, not just the mainstream bands and singers you hear on the radio. I've gained an appreciation for the do-it-yourself types of artists.

[pshabi]

Thought of another one:

I don't wear crocs.

But, if flip flops count as sandals, I'm guilty. What's the verdict on that?

I also went blonde one time (maybe a couple) ala Ill Comm Mike D. And there was a while where everytime I went to the mall I was hoping to find that Adrock stylee Philly Blunt shirt. No luck.

[alleyezonme6198]

Im a very shy person and care way too much of what people think of me. They have somewhat helped me be my self and not give a fuck about anyone else

[Kid Presentable]

Im a very shy person and care way too much of what people think of me. They have somewhat helped me be my self and not give a fuck about anyone else

(y)

[M|X|Y]

I remember always saying, "I'm Audi" when we left a HS get together back in the Ill Comm days. (Freak Freak ref obv).


or variation: "I'm Audi 5000" / "I'm Audi 5"

that's takin' it waaay back(y)

oh, and Kid Pres... you're a good writer

[Avalanche]

I hammered a gun we found instead of bringing it to the police. Lucky it wasn't loaded.

[pshabi]

I hammered a gun we found instead of bringing it to the police. Lucky it wasn't loaded.

haha! (y)

Also, I know I'm a BITER but I've got a facebook full of photos with me doing the whole hand gesture thing in every pic. Even Christmas photos with the fam and shit.....photos with moms.....grandma.....everything.

It makes me happy. :)

[Laver1969]

Often when the house phone rings...I'll say " the phone is ringin'....oh my god"

[Sir SkratchaLot]

They had a lot to do with my interest in hip hop, DJing and record digging. The record digging was especially influential because it exposed me to so much music. I cringe at all the wannabe Beastie stuff these days. Back in the Check Your Head and Ill Comm days I was a lot younger and I used to wear the x-Large and all that back in the day. I even bleached my hair blond Mike D style, but I eventually broke out of that "trying to play the role" thing, and they had something to do with that. I came to realize they were doing their OWN thing and they would make it work. So, I stopped mimicking and started doing my own thing.

[Swooziemoonshoe]

Often when the house phone rings...I'll say " the phone is ringin'....oh my god"

Me too, and same with the "I'm Audi..." I was SO into them on Ill Communication!

[carvelcake]

I've posted this before but I will again. I'll only buy Adidas workout gear....sneakers, clothes, socks, sports bras. All of it is Adidas. I will never drive anything other than VWs. I've had 4 already. My husband will only eat Carvel ice cream cakes for his birthday, hence my screen name.

(P.S. I like it here. Thanks for being so kind to a noobie. I wasn't planning on sticking around. I just wanted to say my piece to help the healing. I think I'll stay if that's cool.)

[MIKEtotheD]

Not a big gum chewer, but when I do it's Yauch all the way.

^ Yes!

I never rock FILAs.

[cj hood]

everytime i hear a dog say 'i love you' i think of the beastie boys...

[YoungRemy]

I don't think I ever proudly wore a suit before '07. now I look for skinny ties and tie clips. i rocked suits from ebay to shows during the Gala Event phase. I even learned to tie a double windsor knot.
what?

[Kid Presentable]

I don't think I ever proudly wore a suit before '07. now I look for skinny ties and tie clips. i rocked suits from ebay to shows during the Gala Event phase. I even learned to tie a double windsor knot.
what?

Haha so good. (y)

[pshabi]

I don't think I ever proudly wore a suit before '07. now I look for skinny ties and tie clips. i rocked suits from ebay to shows during the Gala Event phase. I even learned to tie a double windsor knot.
what?

I buzzed my kids head this past summer and cut a part on the side like Adrocks. haha.....wife not pleased.

I also grew my hair out right after the Root Down TFC video dropped back in college.

[cj hood]

I buzzed my kids head this past summer and cut a part on the side like Adrocks. haha.....wife not pleased.

i rocked the split in '94. my barber was like wtf?

[JoLovesMCA]

Often when the house phone rings...I'll say " the phone is ringin'....oh my god"

(y) ha ha that made me smile.

Usually I take Mike D's quotes and incorporate them into my daily life. He has this one line in an interview where he goes I'm Sayin NO. I say it all the time. And there is one line from Horovitz that he says a lot but mind just went blank.... can't think of it, but I use it too.

[alleyezonme6198]

The other day I was standing in line at Walmart, some granny dropped a few coupons in front of me. I felt compelled to get her digits. :eek:

[benchillin]

when i rap i move the mic left to right before my mouth even if my head is going right to left.

[The Ron]

I talk a lot like the Beasties...or maybe I should say I quote from there songs a lot...one of my favorite things to say or text people is "Oh Word!"

I'm not sure of the exact year (around 2001)...me and two of my buddies dressed up as the Beasties from the Sabotage video for Halloween.

This is kinda lame but I've been planing on getting another tattoo and I want it on my forearm because Adrock's looks so tight there...

[M.C. Guevera]

I've done the shaved head with the part in the middle more than once.

Basically, every haircut and facial hair style I've had in the past 7 years has been because of the Beastie Boys. I'll look at videos and pics and be like, "Oh shit! I wanna do that!"

One time I grew long ass side burns just because I saw Adrock sport them for like a minute back in '94. That period in my life is forever immortalized in my driver's license photo.

I'm thinking of bleaching my hair carrot red or grass green like Yauch did during the Check Your Head era.

[DJ_Skrilla]

In 1987 my friend won a tickets to see the Beastie Boys and RUN DMC in concert from a radio station. Because he is white and due to all the bad press surrounding them, he wasnt allowed to go. Anyways he gave me a tape of the full Licensed to ILL album with Slippery when Wet on the back. I wore that tape out..... I wish I could find it now.

[Kid Presentable]

They had a lot to do with my interest in hip hop, DJing and record digging. The record digging was especially influential because it exposed me to so much music. I cringe at all the wannabe Beastie stuff these days. Back in the Check Your Head and Ill Comm days I was a lot younger and I used to wear the x-Large and all that back in the day. I even bleached my hair blond Mike D style, but I eventually broke out of that "trying to play the role" thing, and they had something to do with that. I came to realize they were doing their OWN thing and they would make it work. So, I stopped mimicking and started doing my own thing.

Hey good for you, man. I'm sorry if I came off like I was biting, or not doing my own thing, or trying to play the role. It was just easy for me to point to aspects of my life where I felt their influence, or could link it back to their idealogy.

Naturally I do my own thing, too. I'm sure all of these people do.

[DandyFop]

For years I was obsessed with the concept of going to White Castle...and getting thrown out.

I finally made it to one a few years ago, but I was alone and too much of a wuss to do anything. But I think I'm gonna make that happen before I die :cool:

[Billy Corbitt]

(!) Back in the day - I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but for some reason I thought it would be cool to plow over a mailbox, so I could have a mailbox on my bumper.

[YoungRemy]

my all time favorite artists after Beastie Boys are Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, and Bob Dylan (Happy 71st Birthday, Bob). it is of no surprise that they are all tied together through samples and references in the beastie boys early career.

in around '88, my teenage brother would sit me down and say "listen to this. its a sample"

my 10 year old self would say "what's a sample?"

"it's when a rapper takes a section of a song and loops it and raps over it"

"what are they sampling?"

"this is Led Zeppelin"

"who is Led Zeppelin?"

on and on is how that conversation would go

[Sir SkratchaLot]

Hey good for you, man. I'm sorry if I came off like I was biting, or not doing my own thing, or trying to play the role. It was just easy for me to point to aspects of my life where I felt their influence, or could link it back to their idealogy.

Naturally I do my own thing, too. I'm sure all of these people do.

No no, I totally understand where you're coming from and I was just saying that they even influenced me to eventually move past doing stuff just because they did it, and that was one of the best lessons! Like, by the time they were rocking newcaster hair I was like "I'm not rocking newscaster hair, but if they can get away with that, then I can get away with doing what I do." I felt like, as they moved forward in life, they were much more comfortable just being themselves and not trying to fall into the expectations of hip hop, or rock stars, or punk rockers. To me that influence was way more important than what I was wearing or something. I wasn't trying to say don't rock the split or wear adidas campus though. I've had my share of campuses, even paired with a Kung Fu suit!

[Kid Presentable]

No no, I totally understand where you're coming from and I was just saying that they even influenced me to eventually move past doing stuff just because they did it, and that was one of the best lessons! Like, by the time they were rocking newcaster hair I was like "I'm not rocking newscaster hair, but if they can get away with that, then I can get away with doing what I do." I felt like, as they moved forward in life, they were much more comfortable just being themselves and not trying to fall into the expectations of hip hop, or rock stars, or punk rockers. To me that influence was way more important than what I was wearing or something. I wasn't trying to say don't rock the split or wear adidas campus though. I've had my share of campuses, even paired with a Kung Fu suit!

Gotcha. Me too. :)(y)

[Irie7]

The B-Boys have influenced me so much. Their style was something I emulated and appreciate so much. They are the epitome of cool to me- smart and cultured. Trips to X-Large in Berkeley were frequent and the store in NYC and X-Girl were like a pilgrimage to me. They're the reason I've been to Lee Scratch Perry, Tribe and Cibo Matto shows. My yearbook quote (from 17 years ago:eek:) is from Shadrach...my 3 year old's favorite song, she requests it by name. Makes me proud.

from March

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZXE2FpgZU

[Billy Corbitt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZXE2FpgZU
sweeeeet

[pshabi]

The B-Boys have influenced me so much. Their style was something I emulated and appreciate so much. They are the epitome of cool to me- smart and cultured. Trips to X-Large in Berkeley were frequent and the store in NYC and X-Girl were like a pilgrimage to me. They're the reason I've been to Lee Scratch Perry, Tribe and Cibo Matto shows. My yearbook quote (from 17 years ago:eek:) is from Shadrach...my 3 year old's favorite song, she requests it by name. Makes me proud.

from March

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZXE2FpgZU

Much respect!!!! The summer of '98 my 4 year old son had a Fischer price cassette recorder. You know, the tan one.

I recorded him rapping, "flame on....I'm gone....I'm so sweet like a nice bon bon.....mom said rock it til the breaka dawn!!!l

He is 16 now!!!!!!!!

[FlechaRojo]

I started greying in my teens. A lot of times, even now, when I look in the mirror at my ridiculously greying mane I think, "I've got more rhymes than I got grey hairs and that's a lot because I got my share." ;)

Mind you I can't rhyme worth nothing. But I'm proud of my greys, lol.

[Irie7]

Much respect!!!! The summer of '98 my 4 year old son had a Fischer price cassette recorder. You know, the tan one.

I recorded him rapping, "flame on....I'm gone....I'm so sweet like a nice bon bon.....mom said rock it til the breaka dawn!!!l

He is 16 now!!!!!!!!

Wow!!! I love it! Do they even make that cassette recorder now? I loved that friggin toy. I am actually watching the "Body Movin'" video rright right now now! I found an On Demand Beastie Boys channel on Comcast with lots of vids. They're making me happy and sad...I have been feeling more and more sad every day. Way to Debbie Downer this positive thread

[destructo]

Back in the day, I along with a few friends use to skate to the Beastie Boys. That expanded into biking and snowboarding as well. Great times. When we were totally bored, the Beastie Boys were in the car stereo while we ran over mail boxes, trash cans, giant leaf piles or trying to jump massive snow piles. Yes, in the car. We grew up in Wisconsin. This was the Check Your Head, Ill Communications and Some Old Bullshit era. I won't say the Beasties influenced us, but they were our soundtrack.

Now I promote peace whenever possible.

[DJ_Skrilla]

(!) Back in the day - I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but for some reason I thought it would be cool to plow over a mailbox, so I could have a mailbox on my bumper.

That is ridiculously awesome. I think I might plow a mailbox and go boom a granny in honor of the bboys!

[silence7]

I stopped shaving on the 4th. I've never grown a full beard, but I've warned my boss and Family that I'm going to grow a "beard like a billy goat" for at least the next 6 months. So far I feel I look hideous, but I got a text from a girl I know and she said I looked handsome with my haircut and my new facial pubes.

[destructo]

A friend of mine use to keep a CPR dummy in his car trunk just so we could throw if off buildings and occasionally run it over with the car.. Sabotage style. We got into a lot of trouble.

[FlechaRojo]

Thought of another one - we (being my two closest friends and myself) would "re-do" music videos with the most ridiculous props that any teenager could find. The Beastie Boys were one of our many muses especially because of their slapstick humor. I still have our videos on VHS (yes, before the advent of DVDs). No, they will never be unearth, lol! Mind you, we were three teenage girls...

Lots of things were destroyed, including our noggins. :D

[DJ_Skrilla]

A friend of mine use to keep a CPR dummy in his car trunk just so we could throw if off buildings and occasionally run it over with the car.. Sabotage style. We got into a lot of trouble.

fuck i wish I would have had that idea. We used to do a lot of dumb shit while influenced by Lucy in the Sky.... But damn whered u steal the dummy?

[destructo]

fuck i wish I would have had that idea. We used to do a lot of dumb shit while influenced by Lucy in the Sky.... But damn whered u steal the dummy?

His brother stole it from the high school swimming pool storage closet a few years earlier. I guess he was going to use it to scare someone, but never did and stashed in his basement closet. He was an "impulse" kind of guy.