Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs

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Album Review

Release date: 15 June 2004

Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs

Beastie Boys : To The 5 Boroughs

Will these bastards ever release a bad record?...

Geography is hip-hop's proudest fetish. Forget riches, bitches and snitches, it's districts that get all the love in real hip-hop. While a million artists have repped their set in the 31 years since Kool Herc began cutting together breakbeats in the Bronx, few - make that none - have been monomaniacal enough to do it over a whole album. Enter the Beastie Boys , whose enduring love for...

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Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs Lyrics

Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out Lyrics

All you Trekkies and TV addicts
Don't mean to diss, don't mean to bring static
All you Klingons in the fuckin' house
Grab your backstreet friend and get loud

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Beastie Boys - Right Right Now Now Lyrics

Now get busy

Now once upon a time up on this mic
MC's be really workin' on what they write

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Beastie Boys - 3 The Hard Way Lyrics

Fresh dressed 'cause I shop at Models
Deep in Brooklyn I rode the L's
Used to ride the D to beat the morning bell
At Edward R. Morrow out on Avenue L

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Beastie Boys - Rhyme The Rhyme Well Lyrics

And now my name is Adrock, I've got a story to tell
And when I rock the crowd, with the crowd, we all yell
And when I get the feeling, I feel the feel swell
And when I start to rhyme, well, I rhyme the rhyme well

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Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble Lyrics

Kickin' lyrics right to your brain
When you hear this sayin'
You'll be right as rain

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Beastie Boys - Oh Word? Lyrics

Oh what the schnitzel? We're back
Shit's getting duller and duller and that's a fact
I don't care what you heard or care what you seen
I swear it wasn't me in Bear magazine

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Beastie Boys - That's It That's All Lyrics

Back on a scene for the people's delight
You want peace for the people then ya you say alright
Because George W got nothing on me
We got to take the power from he

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Beastie Boys - All Lifestyles Lyrics

Ideas spark my hand grabs a pen
Sweeten up the sound let me get the right blend
Coming down the wire to the Neve mic pre
Nice up the sound for the A to D

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Beastie Boys - Shazam! Lyrics

Everybody get down, huh
Everybody get down, huh
Everybody get down, huh
Huh huh huh huh, Shazam

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Beastie Boys - An Open Letter To NYC Lyrics

[Chorus]
Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten
From the Battery to the top of Manhattan
Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin

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Beastie Boys - Crawlspace Lyrics

There's a party going on in here for real
I got more product than Ron Popeil
So deal with that troop were troopers
The only air time you get is on bloopers

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Beastie Boys - The Brouhaha Lyrics

Now what the blood clot, I rap a lot
What you gonna do when the beat goes drop?
Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis? Who the illest?
You know my name's Adam, stop callin' me Phyllis

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Beastie Boys - We Got The Lyrics

Now who got the chance to make things right?
Why the politicians always want to fight?
The christian coalition and the right wing
Let me tell you what you can do

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