Praying Mantis on the court and I can't be beat, but yo, Tip, what's up with the boots on your feet? Got Timbers on the toes and this is how it goes...(Love how Q-Tip laughs in there...) :)
I read the story of how he came up with it in an interview. He rearranged Q-Tip's freestyling (yes, he freestyled this shit high as hell), and the Beastie Boys wrote to his ideas, so that is where the interplay comes from.
listen to me now or listen to me laters.... lol this is a really good song and you gotta give props also to whoever produced that song cause that beat is addicting!
One of the best tracks from either group. Great collaboration. I still remember the day I heard this song for the first time and was like "Who's this? Beastie Boys? with Q-Tip?" How could it not be a great song?
A great combination of Rappers, Always loved The Beastie Boys and Tribe, when I first heard this I lost it cuz I was actually amazed they got together to do it for one, and the song is just plain ILL!!! TY who posted this you took me back in time for a lil while :)
@kajsa300able im sorry i like to keep in touch with reality than to take some drug that makes people delusional and oblivious to their surrondings and issues
I forgot all about song until me and a buddy heard this when were both blazed out of our minds. Made me re-discover this song and album all over again.
there is a clicking sound that doesnt sound like it's in the original... (sounds like someone snapping their fingers but they dont have a good sense of the beat)
Man, when I first heard this on TAPE, I remember think just how SICK this album was and how SICK I was! One of the BEST albums to EVER come out!! True DOPE hiphop! LOVE the beasties! LOVE SO SO SO much that ERA of HIPHOP back then! Its gone, and not coming back!
i heard a dj play this...shit was real ill..something different from dead prez and mop...the whole night was ice t, beastie boys, ll coolj, ice t etc etc....one of the best dj sets ive heard
@Armeniacolombia29 well you have some cats like The Cool Kids, Mickey Factz, U-N-I, Pac Div, Mos Def, Kid Cudi and few other cats trying to bring around another Golden Age in recent years...
give it time...the masses will tire of the bs and crave the real shit once again
@nemesis700 troll all you want...you just sound like someone who is stuck in the past and refuses for there to be a future...hip-hop has it's roots but it still needs to evolve...if artists were still rapping like back in '94 it would just be boring and would've died off like disco
so do hop off the nuts of my comment unless you have some logic to back up your negative 2 cents
that would be true, cept they actually ARE rapping like the 90s. so in fact, they really ARE boring. same vocab, same generic flows, same rhymes, different beats. now tell me playboy, which one of them actually brought something new to the game?
@nemesis700 but back in the 90's you could've said that about a lot of dudes
especially when it came to some East Coast rappers Rakim was ahead of of his time man
basically their styles are ROOTED but not exactly the same...Mickey Factz, in my opinion is one of the most underrated rappers out there...it really disappoints me that people dick ride Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne yet don't even know who he is
at least their Cudi though...that dude is bringing something else to the table
im hearing nothing ILL from the cats you mentioned. if we talking about modern hiphop than Shad, Elzhi, One Be Lo, Broken CLock, Educated Consumers, Ugly Duckling, People Under The Stairs, Kool Keith, Mf Doom, Tiye Phoenix, Invincible, Psyntific, Akrobatik, Jay Electronica, Little Brother and some others are the only ones holding it down
@nemesis700 Dude, I've been banging MF Doom since I was 14 from watching Adult Swim growing up and from a perspective of someone who grew up with a father who worked in the industry I can tell you that one problem that a lot of those artists have is that they can't move with the times
even Common kept it real and still made a club-banger...everyone doesn't want to be serious all of the time...there is a rapper by the name of Z-Ro who keeps shit real but hasn't blown up bc all of his shit is sad
@nemesis700 and that's why they don't have the hype or the recognition that dudes with not even a quarter of their talent have...
they fear losing their initial fan base if they try anything mainstream...if you're a fan then you're a fan through thick and thin
you seem like the type to give props if they're strictly underground...I was jamming ATCQ back when I was barely able to hold a conversation and I'll still jam their music all the way through Busta's Lament
well, if the first Golden Age was 86-91. than you can say that 93-97 was its rennaisance. or a '2nd Golden Age. you went from Rakin, PE, Ultramag to, Nas, Wu Tang, Mobb Deep,
I have to say that I have loved this song ever since I first listened to it! I think that this is a prime example of one of the illest collaborations! Q-Tip's lyricism is perfection. Beastie boys, classic as ever. This is what true hip hop is all about!
@JUSTIN030783 i wont get that from a guy named justin... LOL
614lalito614 8 months ago
1 2 1 2 keep it on............ One song that always gets played to the end. So cool, so smooth. Cracking tune.
deltaframes 8 months ago in playlist Beastie Boys
Favourite Beasties song...
greenpeacemyass 8 months ago
this is my favorite song ever.. love the beastie boys i grew up listen to the LICENCE TO ILL all some album
timnemeth1 8 months ago
props
infamousdzine 8 months ago
props
infamousdzine 8 months ago
@swswa221 The book sucks, and this is just so obviously spam.
greenpeacemyass 8 months ago
been slumpin this for years
SleepLifeDeath 8 months ago
Praying Mantis on the court and I can't be beat, but yo, Tip, what's up with the boots on your feet? Got Timbers on the toes and this is how it goes...(Love how Q-Tip laughs in there...) :)
figureitoutmannn 8 months ago
how many other guest mc's have the boys put on thier records?
P0wergl1de 8 months ago
this track is sooooo tough!!!!!!!!!!!!
HipHopFan4Life1 8 months ago
@HipHopFan4Life1
I read the story of how he came up with it in an interview. He rearranged Q-Tip's freestyling (yes, he freestyled this shit high as hell), and the Beastie Boys wrote to his ideas, so that is where the interplay comes from.
madtiger111 8 months ago
@HipHopFan4Life1 Techincally hard as Steel
deltaframes 8 months ago
At home in Switzerland 1994: OMG, thanks for Beastie Boys! They let me forget all that Eurodance Shit!!! :D
sounds73 9 months ago 8
@sounds73 hells ya on the euro dance shit
Voodooj7778 8 months ago
listen to me now or listen to me laters.... lol this is a really good song and you gotta give props also to whoever produced that song cause that beat is addicting!
gbliss88 9 months ago
I wonder how many people today who listen to the song even know what they mean by Ma Bell.
CLCIV 9 months ago 3
@CLCIV what does it mean? ive been wanting to know for a while now...
charlesskf 9 months ago
@charlesskf Bell - like da phone!
mikegleeson909 9 months ago
got timbo's on tha toes and this is how it goes...
Denische3 9 months ago
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awkwardmaniacs 9 months ago
Best beastie boys song of all time
FDAPO 9 months ago 4
I miss this kind of Hip-Hop....Go back to this, and I might just start liking it again.
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I eat the fucking pineapple Now & Later's too.
yomreich 10 months ago
I eat the fucking pineapple Now & Later's too.
yomreich 10 months ago 4
shes the cheese and im the macaroni
blazed
PerhapsToast2 10 months ago 4
Like ma bell i got the illcommunication!
obandnkajmaj 10 months ago
Timeless
humrush1 10 months ago
I always loved this song 'cause it sounds like Q-tip is freestyling his rhymes
jazzhands79 10 months ago
@jazzhands79 I think he is. The Beastie's wrote and performed their lyrics around his freestyling.
ComicBookSyndicate 9 months ago
"Got the Timbo's on the toes" tip
oOViperrrr6Oo 10 months ago
One of the best tracks from either group. Great collaboration. I still remember the day I heard this song for the first time and was like "Who's this? Beastie Boys? with Q-Tip?" How could it not be a great song?
caseycurran 10 months ago
still hits hard like a year old dog shit!!!! on all of today hip-tard...
DZMPLZ 10 months ago
just can't fuck with that ill communication
DaveLister360 10 months ago
Dis is da shit ..... Bestie Boys was tha start of Hip Hop
sLiChEs13 10 months ago
fuckin killer!!!!!!
akispecies 10 months ago
word up! this is one of the illest hiphop joints to dance to! I will battle anyone to it. ha ha.
Much love to the east coast from Inland Empire CA.
magnificentruffians 10 months ago
listen to the ladies come on and let me spawn...all yo eggs then ya go up tha rivah, listen to the abstract that freeeekey niggah!!
alexdelgiudice1 10 months ago
"...cuz she's the cheese & I'm the macaroni."
Dsize420 11 months ago
like my belle. huhh
axdexter23 11 months ago
A great combination of Rappers, Always loved The Beastie Boys and Tribe, when I first heard this I lost it cuz I was actually amazed they got together to do it for one, and the song is just plain ILL!!! TY who posted this you took me back in time for a lil while :)
Mikey5275 11 months ago
I got the ill communication
08Intergalactic 11 months ago
this song is amazing especially when yur high
kajsa300able 11 months ago
@kajsa300able if you have to listen to music high then you suck at life
TheDp321 10 months ago
@TheDp321 we dont have to its just a fact that it enhances the feeling that good music produces in your brain.
alexdelgiudice1 10 months ago
@TheDp321 yu probly never got high so u wouldn't know
kajsa300able 8 months ago
@kajsa300able im sorry i like to keep in touch with reality than to take some drug that makes people delusional and oblivious to their surrondings and issues
TheDp321 8 months ago
I ate fucking pineaplles now and laters XD
HomeDamnHome 11 months ago
this is what hip hop is all about. black and white, muslim and jew, sick beat and sick rap.
i love this song.
StevenConcrete 1 year ago 3
from LDN to NY: this album and dr octagon ecologist has......... well nuff said
otumoetaipat 1 year ago
I thought it was "The rhymes that we bust are Metallica-lush".
VNVNation2006 1 year ago
aight it's good
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alizanorrellfht 1 year ago
I forgot all about song until me and a buddy heard this when were both blazed out of our minds. Made me re-discover this song and album all over again.
bennybagofdonuts 1 year ago
Ma Bell, I got the Ill-Communication
JBrewer4386 1 year ago
Such a tune! Brings back many a fond memory from my youth
gbung 1 year ago
@gbung Yeah tons of good memories tied up with this tune. Ahh the power of music. Good times.
firestarterri 1 year ago
this song is beastie!
WinterWolf94 1 year ago
Phone is ringing, oh my god.
Best line ever.
TheDrFunkenstein 1 year ago 106
@TheDrFunkenstein ya that part is my ringtone lol
branbran622 1 year ago
@TheDrFunkenstein i think that every time a phone rings!!!!
mortallybluer 9 months ago
Q-tip literally says abstract 3 times for every song
pooplifez 1 year ago
@pooplifez i think ever rapper does that. Pac always rhymed 'Hennessy' with 'enemies' in every song too lol
djayee 1 year ago
5 people are ant-semitic.
napalmko 1 year ago
Never ever, ever smokin' crack
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AdrielnaQuianala 1 year ago
5 people don't have it together.
zomgmwah 1 year ago 2
@zomgmwah
Suckers, Qtip is genius
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shit is crack!! dope dope dope!! dopest dope ever!!!
polygrafic 1 year ago
shit is crack!! dope dope dope!! dopest dope ever!!!
polygrafic 1 year ago
They should have made a video for this - like John Holmes the x-rated n*gga!
vurshon 1 year ago
Like Ma Bell... Got the ill communication...
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this track is dope evan doper on dope and doper than dope dopest dope ever
chronicPothead83 1 year ago
this track is dope evan doper on dope and doper than dope dpest dope ever
chronicPothead83 1 year ago
this track is dope evan doper on dope and doper than dope
chronicPothead83 1 year ago
5 people got it all over the place
quote55 1 year ago
Why doesn't this song last forever?
jakec360 1 year ago
Jammed way to many times to this song while high as shit.
Fuckin love it.
sk8rkid25 1 year ago 4
i first heard this song and it was like crack i was hooked!!!!!!
Drezyful 1 year ago
2:30 to 2:39 is just sick, flow is tight as hell !
MAXL323 1 year ago
there is a clicking sound that doesnt sound like it's in the original... (sounds like someone snapping their fingers but they dont have a good sense of the beat)
HOWYOUDOIN884 1 year ago
By Far My Favourite Beastie Boys Track. Q-tip Rips
onemanarmyasonrip210 1 year ago
thanks to my dad.. i love the beastie boys
theyre awesome
TheeAwesomeeAussiee3 1 year ago
♫ Well i'm M to the C to the A and it's a must ♫
Horaciow14 1 year ago
Ryeez ;)
almostgood23 1 year ago
Cause he's the cheese and I'm the macaroni!
LeeVaiM 1 year ago
phone's ringing - oh my god.
xD
8caulfield 1 year ago
beasties forever!!!
MsFlash39 1 year ago
frekan great song!
lleneferse 1 year ago
new "hip-hop" stinks, they over-produce everything and forget the basics which make hip-hop great. It is not an art form anymore, it's trash.
ragingbull888 1 year ago
one two OH MY GOD
Drusyc 1 year ago
Man, when I first heard this on TAPE, I remember think just how SICK this album was and how SICK I was! One of the BEST albums to EVER come out!! True DOPE hiphop! LOVE the beasties! LOVE SO SO SO much that ERA of HIPHOP back then! Its gone, and not coming back!
"Wordem-up word wordem up!"
mulluka1 1 year ago
this is the coolest song almost forever
5hawnK3lly 1 year ago
this is crackin out at the old peoples home music
mattg239 1 year ago
Ke rekuerdos me traen estos temas... ¡¡ Grande Beastie Boys !!
livingstonectm 1 year ago
OH MY GOD!!!Q-TIP!!!CLASSSSSSSSSIIICCCC!!!!
vitasnellatesmed 1 year ago
i love when hes like " the phone is ringing, omg haha
groar92skatrdinasour 1 year ago
I need to find more tracks with similar beats, sound tracks to walking the streets late at night on a mission, help me out!
Zoootex 1 year ago
@Zoootex
listen to : the rebirth of cool vol 3 1995 (its a trip hop compilation)
you can find the details on web
teonirei 1 year ago
again the beastie boys are legends in hip hop! if you have seen them live on stage you know!!!!! mixmaster mike!!!
MrMeesterzuiper 1 year ago
real hip hop fuck lil wayne lol
rickroller99 1 year ago
@rickroller99 yeah fuck little weener hahahaha beastie boys rule still!!!! good collab with q tip!!! she s the cheese and im the macaroni!!
MrMeesterzuiper 1 year ago
This song is amazing. And their sample source blew me away xD
JonBlizzle2 1 year ago
This song is just so amazing...i cant get over it.
When i was eight i was like "whoa, the beastieboys are cussing alot....and whos the negro singing?" 0_0 but, now, its just pure amazingness/
usedbandage9 1 year ago
@usedbandage9 ur mom sings with negroes and yes she cusses a lot
ahmey17 1 year ago
@usedbandage9
ahmey17 1 year ago
Ma Bell, got the ill communication...got the ill communication. this damn thing got stolen from me.
Conduit13C 1 year ago
OLD SKOOL!!!!!
MrRgp 1 year ago
Ad-Rock's down with the Ione
Listen to this shit cuz both of them is bony
Gotta do it like this, like Chachi and Joanie
Cuz she's the cheese and I'm the macaroni
<3
cheesecake134 1 year ago
Damn, this my 1st time hearin this. dis the shit rite here
TheIcecoldkidd 1 year ago
old school rap is way better!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
tylang6 1 year ago
MCA kills it (+)
Horaciow14 1 year ago
めっちゃカッコ良いなぁ
nisedjmasaya 1 year ago
hmm, listen to fantastic 3 by slum village. same sample
Timmytoga 1 year ago
this1 is SO TRIBE CALLED QUEST!!!!!!1111
joekuta 1 year ago
"Phone is ringing oh my god" quality!!!
MrConman2459 1 year ago
Qtip murder thisssss. anybody got the instrumentals to this song ?
mikeluu 1 year ago
i said it before listen up don't blink
goodbeermike 1 year ago
never ever EVER fucking wack
mrmELS 1 year ago
and u have to learn how to enjoy all kinds of music even the new shit. ya some haters!! wassup lil homies!!! WEST WESTTT!!!!!!
classlessNcareless 1 year ago
shit im living the renaissance idk about u foos. represent kush town LA big luer homie!growin up in the hood droppin bombs smokin blunts!!!
classlessNcareless 1 year ago
1, 2,1, 2 keep it on
SecretJardinRIU 1 year ago
"phone is ringing.. Oh my god"
bellcapn 1 year ago
i tick an an i tock
regsamboli 1 year ago
wat do they chant in the end like marbell or something. im not a new yorker so.....
tuberklops 2 years ago
I'm like Ma Bell....I've got the ill communication
cjwoot 2 years ago
I'm from f*cking holland and i can hear what they say...
Keasscheaf 1 year ago
@Keasscheaf boeieeeeeeee
thatunit995 1 year ago
q tip kills this btw
nemesis700 2 years ago
@nemesis700 WERD, YO!
certainshadeofgreen1 2 years ago
i heard a dj play this...shit was real ill..something different from dead prez and mop...the whole night was ice t, beastie boys, ll coolj, ice t etc etc....one of the best dj sets ive heard
nemesis700 2 years ago 2
I love Q-Tip!!
tidaldive 2 years ago
Man, this band has always been great (I listened to them back in high school...I'm 39yrs). "It's the Perfect Part Of Any Nutritious Breakfast"
BillieSamWatkinsJr 2 years ago
This is the best battle eva. If you really listen to this song closely it starts of fresh then gets heated what a battle awesome battle. Classic
IveGotTheNuts 1 year ago
phone is ringin...omygod
comptonsboi33 2 years ago 2
0:50
Noobtms 2 years ago
Got a grandma Hazel and a grandma Tilly!!!!
alexmortland 2 years ago
one of the best albums ive ever heard
shinjiikarir 2 years ago
this should have a million views
nohopeinemeralds 2 years ago 33
@nohopeinemeralds more like 10 bill
Chubachus 1 year ago
Almost 50,000 views
Armeniacolombia29 2 years ago 2
ma bell uh hu nu hu nu hu nu
JohnnySpaceLace 2 years ago
early Hip-hop de la soul ATCQ
but you gotta dig man DIG
Backpack shit too lol
NYhope07 2 years ago
@NYhope07
not really early hiphop more like renaissance.
chepe371 2 years ago
@chepe371 Golden Age of Hip hop....there hasn't been a renaissance yet.
Armeniacolombia29 2 years ago
@Armeniacolombia29
2nd Golden Age, lol, compromise...
chepe371 2 years ago
@chepe371
I wish man lol It's been in decline since late 90's
Armeniacolombia29 2 years ago 3
@Armeniacolombia29 well you have some cats like The Cool Kids, Mickey Factz, U-N-I, Pac Div, Mos Def, Kid Cudi and few other cats trying to bring around another Golden Age in recent years...
give it time...the masses will tire of the bs and crave the real shit once again
BiGKiDXavieR 1 year ago
The Cool Kids, Mickey Factz, UNi Pac Div, Kid Cudi are all WHACK
nemesis700 1 year ago
@nemesis700 troll all you want...you just sound like someone who is stuck in the past and refuses for there to be a future...hip-hop has it's roots but it still needs to evolve...if artists were still rapping like back in '94 it would just be boring and would've died off like disco
so do hop off the nuts of my comment unless you have some logic to back up your negative 2 cents
BiGKiDXavieR 1 year ago
that would be true, cept they actually ARE rapping like the 90s. so in fact, they really ARE boring. same vocab, same generic flows, same rhymes, different beats. now tell me playboy, which one of them actually brought something new to the game?
nemesis700 1 year ago
@nemesis700 but back in the 90's you could've said that about a lot of dudes
especially when it came to some East Coast rappers Rakim was ahead of of his time man
basically their styles are ROOTED but not exactly the same...Mickey Factz, in my opinion is one of the most underrated rappers out there...it really disappoints me that people dick ride Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne yet don't even know who he is
at least their Cudi though...that dude is bringing something else to the table
BiGKiDXavieR 1 year ago
im hearing nothing ILL from the cats you mentioned. if we talking about modern hiphop than Shad, Elzhi, One Be Lo, Broken CLock, Educated Consumers, Ugly Duckling, People Under The Stairs, Kool Keith, Mf Doom, Tiye Phoenix, Invincible, Psyntific, Akrobatik, Jay Electronica, Little Brother and some others are the only ones holding it down
nemesis700 1 year ago
@nemesis700 Dude, I've been banging MF Doom since I was 14 from watching Adult Swim growing up and from a perspective of someone who grew up with a father who worked in the industry I can tell you that one problem that a lot of those artists have is that they can't move with the times
even Common kept it real and still made a club-banger...everyone doesn't want to be serious all of the time...there is a rapper by the name of Z-Ro who keeps shit real but hasn't blown up bc all of his shit is sad
BiGKiDXavieR 1 year ago
hahaha the artists i mentioned dont move wit the times? you want them to make a club banga? hahaha son, i cant take you seriously.
nemesis700 1 year ago
@nemesis700 and that's why they don't have the hype or the recognition that dudes with not even a quarter of their talent have...
they fear losing their initial fan base if they try anything mainstream...if you're a fan then you're a fan through thick and thin
you seem like the type to give props if they're strictly underground...I was jamming ATCQ back when I was barely able to hold a conversation and I'll still jam their music all the way through Busta's Lament
then again, wtf do you know?
BiGKiDXavieR 1 year ago
well, if the first Golden Age was 86-91. than you can say that 93-97 was its rennaisance. or a '2nd Golden Age. you went from Rakin, PE, Ultramag to, Nas, Wu Tang, Mobb Deep,
nemesis700 1 year ago
yeah I didn't really give a time frame either but yeah golden age is the best to describe
NYhope07 2 years ago
@NYhope07
haha ya i just bein a dick :p
casszoe2 2 years ago
this song is fuckin awesome!
HomeyHansPeter 2 years ago 7
shes the cheese and i'm the maccoronii!!!
ryflo 2 years ago 4
oh my gawd ' 1 ,2 OH MY GAWD ''
wickstarr 2 years ago
Well, I'm long gone word is bond
kneburone 2 years ago
Ma Bell got the ill communication.. Free Tibet!
Therealrizzle 2 years ago 2
phone is ringing... OMG!
zakiechan 2 years ago 12
Good vibaaaaaaa
guigomesmo 2 years ago
Agreed with TheSoundOfSuccess: Eargasm.
Skaark244 2 years ago
i started listening to tribe because of this song, i thought qtip's flow was so nice, i was like i gotta check this guy out ;o
g00ntrooper 2 years ago
ooooh eeeeeee uhhhhhh
BevoBill31 2 years ago
Wow.. 10 Points.. Just Luv it.
reficul66 2 years ago
this beat is sick as hell
caslnewbee 2 years ago 4
shida la rolitaa sbs
bunersoe13 2 years ago
Q-Tip wit besties can't get any better like chaci and joanie
lsu420champs 2 years ago
this song is dope as sht...
phone is ringin...oh my god
Anu2g 2 years ago 5
this is tha song to get high too
out4revenge 2 years ago 6
@out4revenge Seshed to this at least 100 times easy haha.
Tyepaz 1 year ago
shes the cheese and im the mac dude i crack this shit everyday
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ChuckD7200 2 years ago
Where are the Grand Funk Railroad samples? I can't hear them. Anyone know?
BlueNoteJazz3 2 years ago 2
I have to say that I have loved this song ever since I first listened to it! I think that this is a prime example of one of the illest collaborations! Q-Tip's lyricism is perfection. Beastie boys, classic as ever. This is what true hip hop is all about!
misscstarr1988 2 years ago 29
Change the lyrics dude. It's "Nigga" not "Nigger". There's a difference.
DeanStretch 2 years ago 6