"Kick it!" The Beasties - Adam Horovitz (King Ad-Rock), Adam Yauch (MCA) and Michael Diamond (Mike D) - crash a party full of geeks and nerds that devolves into a climactic pie fight straight out of a Fatty Arbuckle movie. The joint gets totally trashed, a television gets smashed with a sledgehammer, beer flows freely and the Beasties end up escaping with all the hot-looking chicks.

For the perfect mixture of humorous, innovative and downright kick-ass lyrics, is there any band out there that could match the Beasties? The party scene in "Fight for Your Right" (a top-10 single from the hit album Licensed to Ill) was modeled after the party scene in Breakfast at Tiffanys, according to www.beastiemania.com. The two-day video shoot cost just $20,000 and the cast consisted of friends of the band. One critic called "Fight for Your Right" the Beasties' version of the Beatles' A Hard Days Night. The video definitely put the Beasties on the map to rap stardom, not bad for a couple of punks from Brooklyn. Bottom line: "Fight for Your Right" is simply one of the greatest party videos of all time. What else is there to say?

Licensed to Ill, the brainchild of Run D.M.C. producer Rick Rubin, sold more than 8 million copies in the United States alone, becoming the first rap album to hit No. 1 on the pop charts. The Beasties "shouted beer-stoked rhymes with the zest of drive-by Dead End Kids," according to The Rolling Stone Album Guide. "Fight for Your Right" placed 66th on MTV's 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made and was No. 100 of VH1's 100 Greatest Videos ... "Your mom busted in and said, 'What's that noise?' Aw, mom you're just jealous-IT'S THE BEASTIE BOYS!"

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