TRACKLISTING

01.Rhymin & Stealin
02.The New Style
03. She’s Crafty
04.Posse In Effect
05.Slow Ride
06.Girls
07.Fight For Your Right
08.No Sleep Till Brooklyn
09.Paul Revere
10.Hold It Now, Hit It
11.Brass Monkey
12.Slow And Low
13.Time To Get Ill

Licensed to Ill is the debut album by the Beastie Boys, released in 1986. Kerry King of Slayer made an appearance on the album playing lead guitar on “Fight For Your Right” and “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”, and appeared in the music video for the latter, which is a parody of glam metal. The name of the song itself is a spoof on Motörhead’s No Sleep ’til Hammersmith album. King’s appearance on the track came about because Rick Rubin was producing both bands simultaneously (Slayer’s Reign in Blood was originally released on Def Jam). The full album cover, front to back, features a Boeing 727 — with “Beastie Boys” emblazoned on the tail — crashing head-on into the side of a mountain. The tail of the plane has the Def Jam logo and the legend ‘3MTA3’ which spells ‘EATME’ when viewed in a mirror. The original title for this album was Don’t Be a Faggot but Columbia Records flatly refused to release the album with this title and pressured Russell Simmons (their manager and label Def Jam head) into having the Beastie Boys to come up with another name. Adam Horovitz has since apologized for the band’s earlier title.

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