Rhymin' & Stealin' (track)
by Beastie Boys
Year: 1986
From the album Licensed To Ill (track #1)
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Rhymin' & Stealin' appears on the following album(s) by Beastie Boys:
- Licensed To Ill (track #1) (this album) (1986)
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| ! | 07/17/2026 12:17 | Spartakist | 2,236 | 80/100 |
| ! | 06/22/2026 18:50 | Siromynian | 18,266 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/19/2026 13:48 | Mafedere | 10,746 | 74/100 |
| ! | 04/09/2026 01:24 |  Brandon8 | 4,717 | 88/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2026 22:42 | wizardalien | 9,995 | 60/100 |
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Jboy56 02/07/2022 12:13 | #280905
What an opener, omg.
GandalfORiley345 05/10/2014 15:42 | #111447
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
Good song!
Mother Nature's Son 07/16/2013 21:43 | #81638
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?).
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.
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