Rhymin' & Stealin' (track)
by Beastie Boys

Rhymin' & Stealin' by Beastie Boys
Year: 1986
From the album Licensed To Ill (track #1)
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From 02/07/2022 12:13
What an opener, omg.
#280905 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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From 05/10/2014 15:42
With the Led Zeppelin´s When The Levee Breaks drums and Black Sabbath´s Sweet Leaf riff it´s just an incredible hard rock rap masterpiece
#111447 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
From 12/01/2013 02:15
Good song!
#95699 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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From 07/16/2013 21:43
Sure Beastie Boys must have been a huge influence on Rage Against the Machine. The crescendo of the "Ali Baba and the forty thieves" part sounds a lot like the one found in "Killing in the Name" (or is it another RAtM song that I'm thinking of?).
#81638 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
From 02/02/2013 00:06
Do the Beastie Boys have any "best of" albums? If this song is on NONE of them, I'm gonna flip.
I love how it plays the drums of Led Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks throughout the whole thing, a debut track experience I did NOT expect at all.
#63638 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

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