Beastie Boys — To the 5 Boroughs

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For three mostly diehard New Yorkers who played an ambassadorial role in the dissemination of the city’s hip-hop and punk culture during the ’80s and ’90s, the fall of the Twin Towers—which, incidentally, were only a few blocks from the band’s studio—didn’t just upend the Beastie Boys’ lives, it forced a reckoning about their legacy and purpose. Fun, yes—and camaraderie, and joint discovery. But <i>To the 5 Boroughs</i> was also an effort of stewardship, of reasserting the culture they came from in the face of changing times.<br /> So you get the Double Trouble/Treacherous Three homage of “Triple Trouble”, the rainbow-flag electro of “All Lifestyles” and the personal geographies of “An Open Letter to NYC”, probably the most earnest, emotionally up-front track the band had ever recorded. But because this is a Beastie Boys album (and because they were always too smart to betray the lightness of their collective heart), you also get “Hey F**k You”, a Partridge Family loop (“Right Right Now Now”) and MCA standing outside your favourite rapper’s house like a creep and offering them a shawl (“Crawlspace”), because—what? They looked cold. And to their elder-statesman status, Mike D offered this: “Ready to throw a craze/Make your granny shake her head and say ‘those were the days.’” It’s not nostalgia if you’re still having fun with it.

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Beastie Boys

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  1. Ch-Check It Out 3:12
  2. Right Right Now Now 2:46
  3. 3 The Hard Way 2:48
  4. Time to Build 3:11
  5. Rhyme the Rhyme Well 2:47
  6. Triple Trouble 2:43
  7. Hey F*?# You 2:21
  8. Oh Word? 2:59
  9. That's It That's All 2:28
  10. All Lifestyles 2:33
  11. Shazam! 2:26
  12. An Open Letter to NYC 4:18
  13. Crawlspace 2:53
  14. The Brouhaha 2:13
  15. We Got The 2:27