Get Lyrical: Beastie Boys' "Make Some Noise"
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We totally fan-girled out when Beastie Boys released the teaser video Fight For Your Right Revisited earlier this month, partly due to Will Ferrell, Seth Rogan and the rest of the star-studded cast, and partly due to that delicious new beat playing in the background. That track is Make Some Noise, the first single from the group’s upcoming album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, and it’s vintage Beastie Boys, with Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D trading razor-sharp lines over a brilliant, spiky rhythm.
If you’ve been anxiously anticipating the new album, there’s a good chance you might get chills when you hear Ad-Rock’s opening couplet: Yes, here we go again give you more nothing lesser/Back on the mic is the anti-depresser. The song does work like an instant Zoloft; toe-tapping and head-bobbing are inevitable as the trio delivers lines like, “Leggo my Eggo while I flex my ego/Step off my Seco, dressed up tuxedo.” By the time you get to chorus, “We got a party on the left/A party on the right/We gotta party for the motherf**king right to fight,” you’ll be wondering how you made it through the last four years without a new Beastie Boys album.
There are plenty of clever references sprinkles throughout the track, from Charlie and the Chocolate 
Factory (You must have drank a fizzy-lifting drink and you got lifted) to the B-Boy stance (The forbidden dance, here’s my chance/To make romance in my B-boy stance). Other unexpected lyrical pairings to look forward to: eagle is rhymed with beagle, nada is paired with lambada and Ted Danson is rhymed with financing. Yeah. Now you have to listen to the track, if only to figure out how on earth they make those lines work.
Because MCA is telling the truth when he spits, I burn the competition like a flamethrower/My rhymes age like wine as I get older. Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D have sacrificed none of their clever, cutting lyrics as they’ve aged; Make Some Noise is an old-school party jam that begs to be played at high volumes. So if your mom busts in and says What’s that noise? just tell her you’re getting pumped for the upcoming release of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
Check out the video for “Make Some Noise” below!