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“A massive slab of John Bonham’s drumming is suffixed with grunting guitar riffs and sly, piss-taking raps. The track goes onto to play jocular homage to the Three Musketeers, The Clash, the Sex Pistols and The Arabian Nights. This time the Beastie Boys critique hip-hop’s sonic pilfering of musical source material and base their imagery around pirates. It’s a rich metaphor for them to explore, as it allows them to merge their cartoon violence with a veritable treasure chest of easily assimilable references their audience can latch on to” - excerpted from Rhyming & Stealing: A History of the Beastie Boys by Angus Batey, 1998”

— BeastieMania.com