[fatlip]

I don't know if it has ever been said, or if other people have proposed this theory but ever since I read the liner notes when HSC pt2 came out and I tried looking up the sample sources I just came to nothing but dead ends. Then it got me thinking that the boys pulled a Madlib and they created all of the "bands" that they sampled themselves. Just looking at some of the band names seems like names they would come up with, "the love boat crew" lol. Musically it makes sense because they had already been playing again as a band mixing up a ton of styles and influences with the mix up so they had a lot of their own material to sample. The music industry and especially hip hop changed and more and more sampleing is just economical unfeasable (unfortunately). Even looking at the record label credits for some of the sampled songs all of the labels are either made up or owned by Capital or Univeral Music. The best part is that the songs are mixed and processed and layered in the classic B Boy fashion that it sounds like it could be Samples, and in the few interviews that they did they even said it was a mix of sampling live instruments and "obscure" samples. I miss their sarcastic humor in interviews almost as much as the music now.

This was such a great record in their catalogue, a Beastie Boys record through and through reperesenting their entire career and catalogue is sound, fun, and aesthetic. Favorite group of all time.