To The 5 Boroughs (Reissue) (2CD)
To The 5 Boroughs saw the Beasties follow the sprawling and eclectic Hello Nasty (1998) with the most hip-hop focused album of their career. Taking inspiration from the stark rhythms and breaks of early NYC hip-hop, the album served as a love letter to the city that formed them and the music which inspired them as hardcore-obsessed teenagers. In keeping with their excellent 1999 single ‘Alive’ (one of the ‘new’ tracks on the hits and curios anthology The Sounds Of Science), To The 5 Boroughs was the group’s most socially conscious and political album, taking shots at the George W Bush administration, the ‘war on terror’ and the US’ involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Being the Beasties, this was balanced by obscure samples galore as well as a plethora of deliciously goofy lines (who else would boast, “I’ve got more rhymes than Carl Sagan’s got turtlenecks”?).
Tracklist
- Ch-Check It Out
- Right Right Now Now
- 3 The Hard Way
- It Takes Time To Build
- Rhyme The Rhyme Well
- Triple Trouble
- Hey Fuck You
- Oh Word?
- That's It That's All
- All Lifestyles
- Shazam!
- An Open Letter To NYC
- Crawlspace
- The Brouhaha
- We Got The
- Brrrr Stick Em
- And Then I
- Now Get Busy
- Ch-Check It Out (Just Blaze Remix)
- Triple Trouble (Brainpower Remix)
- Triple Trouble (J. Wizzle Remix)
- Triple Trouble (Dexter's Triple Decollte Situation)
- Triple Trouble (Graham Coxon Remix)
- Rizzle Rizzle Nizzle Nizzle
- MTL Reppin' For The 514
- RRNN: Straight Outta Shibuya
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