{"id":486538,"date":"2019-05-31T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=842684"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:29:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T21:29:47","slug":"n-w-a-used-to-perform-a-dirty-version-of-beastie-boys-paul-revere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/n-w-a-used-to-perform-a-dirty-version-of-beastie-boys-paul-revere\/","title":{"rendered":"N.W.A Used to Perform a \u2018Dirty\u2019 Version of Beastie Boys\u2019 \u2018Paul Revere\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Although the Beastie Boys<\/a>\u2019 influence on N.W.A<\/a> should be obvious \u2014 their first track on N.W.A. and the Posse<\/em>, \u201c8-Ball,\u201d starts with a callout to \u201cBrass Monkey\u201d \u2014 Ice Cube<\/a> recently recalled how much the New York trio meant to him early on in an interview with Mike D<\/a> on Beats 1 on Apple Music. His fandom was solidified with the Licensed to Ill<\/em> track \u201cPaul Revere,\u201d and he liked that song so much that he and the rest of N.W.A used to perform it with different lyrics early on.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Paul Revere\u2019 just changed our life,\u201d he said in the interview, which will air on Mike D\u2019s Echo Chamber<\/a><\/em> show at 6 p.m. ET on Sunday. \u201cThis is how we knew our style would work. We did a version of \u2018Paul Revere\u2019 at a show and the crowd went crazy. We changed the words, made it dirty, made it ours, and the crowd went crazy, and we knew, OK, this was our style. \u2026 Salt \u2018N Pepa was on the show. They had a hit song called \u2018I\u2019ll Take Your Man\u2019, but we wrecked the show that night and we did better than Salt \u2018N Pepa doing a rendition of \u2018Paul Revere.\u2019 Perfectly produced, perfectly written, perfectly rapped record, \u2018Paul Revere.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Cube went deeper on his Beasties\u2019 fandom \u2014 and the trio\u2019s influence on him \u2014 elsewhere in the interview. At one point, he references a song he recorded with his pre-N.W.A group C.I.A. (which, fun fact, also featured Cube\u2019s Death Certificate<\/em> co-producer Sir Jinx) called \u201cMy Posse.\u201d<\/a> \u201cYou had a big influence on us, especially our early records,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you heard a record called \u2018My Posse.\u2019 Oh, my God. You\u2019d be like, \u2018Those kids are biting us. They\u2019re biting the Beastie Boys.’\u201d<\/p>\n

And he discussed how Dr. Dre was inspired by the beats the Beasties made with Rick Rubin on Licensed to Ill<\/em>, especially \u201cHold It Now, Hit It.\u201d The vibe on that song, the rapper said, helped give N.W.A the confidence they needed to take on the world. \u201cThat \u2018Hold It Now\u2019 808 [drum machine] was, it was wrecked out here,\u201d Cube said. \u201cStraight up. Like you put that on, it\u2019s wrecking the party. Dre was a DJ, so any of these records that moved the crowd like that were influential on what we were doing and what we were putting together, because I mean all that is opening us up to saying we ain\u2019t got to conform to shit. Let\u2019s just talk about what\u2019s going on around here. And if we just locals, we going to be locals that\u2019s known<\/em> around here. And that\u2019s good enough. And once we made that decision, we became superstars.\u201d<\/p>\n

The episode also features a guest appearance by A Tribe Called Quest\u2019s Q-Tip, who discusses the 25th anniversary of the Beastie Boys\u2019 Ill Communication<\/em> with Mike D and how he wound up on \u201cGet It Together.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although the Beastie Boys\u2019 influence on N.W.A should be obvious \u2014 their first track on N.W.A. and the Posse, \u201c8-Ball,\u201d starts with a callout to \u201cBrass Monkey\u201d \u2014 Ice Cube recently recalled how much the New York trio meant to him early on in an interview with Mike D on Beats 1 on Apple Music. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 08:41:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}