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Saturday, October 16, 2004
Beastie Boys play Gwinnett
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Beastie Boys were brats in the ’80s, found enlightenment in the ’90s and enhanced their lefty activism in the ’00s —- all true. What’s easy to forget is that the New York trio has made consistently fresh hip-hop at every step along the way.
The Beasties’ show at the Gwinnett Arena offered a kind of career retrospective. They wore matching tracksuits. They chanted rhymes in their oddly endearing three-part hip-hop harmony. They mocked President Bush. They even did minisets on a ministage, playing funky groove on their own instruments, seemingly just as a reminder that they could.
Much of the night, though, was a traditional hip-hop show —- three emcees and one DJ dropping old-school sensibilities. Among the memorable songs the boys reeled off: “Root Down,” “Shake Your Rump,”“Intergalactic,” “Brass Monkey” and “Paul Revere.”
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