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!
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!