Beastie Boys
"E.Z. Mike [Mike Simpson] does all the scratching on this song." - Adam Horovitz on Paul's Boutique-20th Anniversary Edition audio commentary, 2009
Press
"...builds from a casual, smartass schoolboy singsong to a breakneck chant" - Rolling Stone, 1989
"Adrock reinforces a little-voiced but street popular ghetto conspiracy theory: 'Well I figured out who makes the crack, suckers with the badges and the blue jackets.'" - paraphrased from Rhyming & Stealing: A History of the Beastie Boys by Angus Batey, 1998
"Mike D was playing the tracks for me. They started with a drum that was obviously from the intro to 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.' And I said, 'I don't know if you can do that.' And right as I said that, a guitar line from Abbey Road came in, and you realized that there were two Beatles samples. Mike said, 'Well, hopefully they'll be able to work it out.' And I said, 'Mike, come on, man, it's the Beatles.' He goes, 'Yeah. I know. But what could be cooler than being sued by the Beatles?'" - Tim Carr (former A&R executive/Capitol Records), excerpted from The Skills to Pay the Bills by Alan Light, 2005
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