to ill. that s a stupid name for an album. wake up late for school, man, you don t want to go you ask your mom please but she still says no hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. you got to fight for your right to party then when we started listening to their music they really were funky and they could really get busy. so we were like, okay, all right. i love brass monkey but i won t give d. it we got the bottle you got the cup come on, everybody, let s get beastie boys come out with what people thought would be a pop hip-hop group. it was straight hip-hop. beastie boys was dope, if you know what i mean. brass monkey junkie that funky monkey licensed to ill really spread like wildfire and
immense shock and grief to the first rock n roll assassination. it was like in one moment the 60s and the 70s got murdered. in his life he s given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove that love is not dead, even though john is. you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you don t really know where you re going to go from that point, you know, culturally or musically. for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. announcing the latest achievement in home entertainment. the power of sight. video. the power of sound. stereo. mtv. music television. we all are so excited about this new concept in tv. we ll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. at the time the world was saying, we don t think anybody is going to watch videos over and over. but we knew we had something special.
of it. it got to the point where the videos were more important than the songs. it did feel like, i can t steer the ship anymore. where is it going, you know? where are we headed? i think heavy metal is the true rock n roll of the 80s. rock n roll is basically music made by people who were thinking with their crotches. [ bleep ] like a beast heavy metal, it is not something new in physics. it is something new in rock and roll. loud, rude, it glorifies sex and violence, it hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. this is it, this is the hot stuff. alan, turn it off for a second so we can talk. shot in the dark one step away from you shot in the dark you turn on your television set and you see this weird,
i ll say that the music of the 80s is more effective than what came to us in the 60s simply because all of us were included this time. no decade was more effective in dance music, in politics, in different genres than the 80s. there will never, ever be another decade like it, ever. everybody wants to rule the world there s a room where the light won t find you holding hands while the walls come tumbling down when they do i ll be right behind you so glad we ve almost made it so sad they have to fade it everybody wants to rule the world
and that provided a political opportunity to push back against it. we can say they re senators wives, ooh, and they re messing around in washington. but they obviously have some real concerns. there s a lot that they do that i applaud because they are taking responsibility as citizens. i brought along two videos which i believe are representative of the kind of presentation which have caused the furor. got it bad, got it bad, got it bad i m hot for teacher i ve got it bad, so bad who s going to decide what s a sexual content of a lyric? who s going to decide what is obscene and like that? the same housewives who are spearheading the movement? in all candor, i would tell you it s outrageous filth and that if i could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, i would. fans felt i m capable of