Fight For Your Right by Beastie Boys

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"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" was the first single released from the Beastie Boys' breakthrough album, Licensed to Ill (1986). It is one of their best-known songs. It reached #7 on the Billboard 100, and was later named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The Beastie Boys also included the track on their hits album, The Sounds of Science, in 1999.

Ironically, the song was intended as a parody of party and attitude songs, such as "Smokin' In The Boys' Room" and "I Wanna Rock." But the irony was lost on most listeners. Mike D commented that, "The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different. There were tons of guys singing along to Fight For Your Right who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them."[1]

Despite probably being the group's most famous song, the Beastie Boys have expressed distaste for it. In, The Sounds of Science' liner notes, MCA jokingly says the song "sucks," though they didn't feel the album would be complete without it. The group hasn't performed the song live since 1987.
from the album Licensed To Ill

Released 1987
Recorded Spring 1986
Genre Hip-hop
Length 3:29
Label Def Jam/Columbia Records
Producer(s) Rick Rubin

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