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Shake Your Rump Lyrics
Now Randy listen I rock a house party at the drop of a hat
I beat a biter down with an aluminum bat
a lot of people they be Jonesin' just to hear me rock the mic
In the right car at the right price in mint condition
they'll be staring at the radio staying up all night
so like a pimp I'm pimpin'
I got a boat to eat shrimp in
Nothing wrong with my leg just B-boy limpin'
Got arrested at the Mardi Gras for jumping on a float
My man MCA's got a beard like a billy goat
oowah oowah is my disco call
MCA hu-huh I'm gettin' rope y'all
Routines I bust rhymes I write
And I'll be busting routines and rhymes all night
Like eating burgers or chicken or you'll be picking your nose
I'm on time and that's how it goes
You heard my style I think you missed the point
that's the joint
Mike D with your bad self running things
What's up with your bad breath onion rings
I'm Nike D and I'm back from the dead
Chillin' with Pig Pen down at Club Med
Make another record 'cause the people they want more of this
Suckers they be saying they can take out Adam Horovitz
Hurricane you got clout
Other DJ's he'll take your head out
A puppet on a string I'm paid to sing or rhyme
Or do my thing I'm
In a lava lamp inside the brain hotel
I might be peakin' or freakin' I'm known to rock well
The Patty Duke the wrench and then I bust the tango
Got more rhymes than Jamaica got Mango Kangols
I got the peg leg at the end of my stump
Shake your rump
Never been dumped 'cause I'm the most mackinest
Never been jumped 'cause I'm known the most packinest
Yeah we've got beef chief
We're knocking out teeth chief
And if you don't believe us you should question your belief Keith
Like Sam the butcher bringing Alice the meat
Like Fred Flintstone driving around with bald feet
Should I have another sip no skip it
In the back of the ride and bust with the whippet
Rope a dope dookies all around the neck
*Whoo ha yo garcon the cheque*
Running from the law the press and the parents
*Is your name Michael Diamond?*
No mine's Clarence
From downtown Manhattan the village
My style is wild and you know that it still is
Disco bag schlepping and you're doing the bump
Shake your rump
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shut On Dec 05, 2001
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Paul's Boutique is my favorite album. Shake Your Rump is one of the best songs on it. It was a failed single because in 1989 the Beasties went one way & the pop music industry went another. At that time, it was just too advanced for the novice Hip Hop fan. I'd say "ahead of it's time" but it's time never really came. I was 14 & didn't care for the album much. I liked Shake Your Rump & a couple other tracks but I felt that the Beasties were through. Something about it just kept me coming back. Back then, I listened to it via Sony Walkman. Little by little Paul's Boutique grew on me- track by track, line by line. By the time Grunge had gotten popular, I was in love with Paul's Boutique & every track on it. I owned it on cassette. I bought it on CD three times because it kept getting stolen. After losing it a third time on CD, I bought it from iTunes. Then, in 2009 it was re-released on the Beasties' website in Apple Lossless... so I bought that, too. Over the years, I got into a lot of different types of music, but I never stopped listening to the Beasties. 23 years later, I occasionally still hear things I never noticed before when I listen to songs like Shake Your Rump. Great album to hear in headphones. You can really hear the layering of the samples. Sampling is practically illegal today. It is believed by many that sampling is not an art form. I think those people just haven't heard it done right. It's cheaper, faster, & easier to play it yourself. It was a painstaking process to sample in 1989, so it should've been taken as the highest of compliments. But instead it was met with lawsuit after lawsuit. This album should be thought of as a collage of familiar artwork by various artists put together in brilliant, psychedelic, Hip Hop form. This is sampling the way it should be done. If you can't appreciate Paul's Boutique- you must be from the hypocritical Baby Boomer Generation. Their parents didn't like Elvis or The Beatles because it was "black" music. Then they grew up to say the same things to us about the Beasties. Shame on them!
This song is so tight, especailly with that bong hit expolding.
Overlooked in their genius.
Overlooked in their genius.
i can't believe anyone has commented on this song yet. it's one of my favorite beastie boys songs, but then again, i only have like 9.
then get all their songs man! this song is the SHIT!
i know it says it in the pauls boutique lyrics, but where is the "randy" at the beginning? i just think it says "now i rock a house party."
such an overrated steaming pile of a 'song'
this whole album goes to show how much they stole from Prince Paul and 3 Feet High and Rising ---- yet failed in equalling AT ALL
abysmal
@exobscura You know, I actually love De La Soul... but, they have almost nothing in common with the Beasties or this track. If there's any track on this album that approaches De La's style, maybe it's "Sounds of Science" coming close to "Plug Tunin'." Were you touched inappropriately at a Beastie Boys concert or something? You seem to have a real grudge against them.
@exobscura You know, I actually love De La Soul... but, they have almost nothing in common with the Beasties or this track. If there's any track on this album that approaches De La's style, maybe it's "Sounds of Science" coming close to "Plug Tunin'." Were you touched inappropriately at a Beastie Boys concert or something? You seem to have a real grudge against them.