This week we are breaking down Ill Communication as part of our miniseries entitled 3 Bad Brothers A Beastie Boys Breakdown. DBRP hosts Nate LeBlanc, David Ma and Demone Carter are joined by one of the very best producers in hip-hop, Kenny Segal, who knows a thing or two about blending disparate elements into a cohesive whole, as the Beasties did on one of their most successful records. In the popular imagination, the Beasties' anthemic rock song Sabotage and its iconic video are probably the highlights from this record, but for us rap nerds, it also contains some of their very best alternative hip-hop songs. We get into some specifics about Sure Shot, Flute Loop and of course Get It Together, the mostly-freestyled jam they recorded with Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest. At the end of the episode we rank the album on our 5-point rubric, talking about the best beats, rhymes and magic moments, as well as the album's lasting cultural impact and replay-ability. We'd love to hear from all of you, what do you think of this album? Leave a comment with any thoughts. Please make sure to listen to the very end to hear a snippet of Kenny's one and only Beasties remix, which may in an alternative timeline have been released on Grand Royal and changed the course of his life.3 Bad Brothers A Beastie Boys Breakdown is a production of Dad Bod Rap PodHosted By Demone Carter, David Ma, and Nate LeBlancExecutive Produced by Nate LeBlancProduced by Demone Carter and Paolo “Cutso” Bello Edited by Demone Carter and Nate LeBlanc Engineering and Post-Production by Paolo “Cutso” BelloArtwork by Rory SimmsPhotography by Stephanie Barajas Youtube version produced by Paolo “Cutso” BelloTheme song written and recorded by Defcee and Produced by CutsoDad Bod Rap Pod is distributed by Open Mike Eagle’s Stony Island Audio
The legendary Heartbreakers guitar player talks meeting most of his heroes, the “it’s just the normal noises” intro to the Heartbreakers classic “Even the Losers,” and gratitude.
