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Beastie Boys

(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)

1986 · via N.W.A

Beastie Boys’ 1986 recording of “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)” is the earliest release on file. Rick Rubin, Ad‐Rock and Adam Yauch are credited as its writers. Also recorded by The Hot Rats (released 2009), Holy Moses (released 1990) and N.Y.C.C. (released 1997), among 75 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. N.W.A’s “100 Miles and Runnin’” (1990) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

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Under all that menace, "100 Miles and Runnin’" is sampling a song about skipping school and throwing parties. Go back to the Beastie Boys' original, written with Rick Rubin, and hear what N.W.A was running on.

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Credited writers: Rick Rubin, Ad‐Rock and Adam Yauch.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1986.

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N.W.A’s “100 Miles and Runnin’” (1990) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

Other recordings on file · first release year

75 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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