Show Notes
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From Pollywog Stew to Hot Sauce Part 2, we have officially covered the Beastie Boys' legendary career. We are wrapping up our miniseries this week with a special episode where DBRP hosts Nate LeBlanc, David Ma and Demone Carter draft their top 5 Beastie Boys songs. In between segments we have exclusive voicemails from friends, listeners, artists and indie hip-hop podcast royalty breaking down their favorite tracks as well. Though we had some pretty tough criticisms over the last few weeks, today's episode is a celebration of everything we love about the Beasties, an iconic American band that spanned genres, eras, and mediums in a unique and inspiring way.
As we close out this series, we want to thank everyone who helped us along the way, especially guest commentators Dante Ross, Sean Kantrowitz, Kenny Segal, and Open Mike Eagle. Huge thanks to Rory Simms for the art, Stephanie Barajas for the photos, Defcee for writing and recording our theme song, we appreciate your talents.
But most of all, we have to thank Cutso aka Producer Cutso aka P Monetary for joining us on this journey. Cutty is an amazing DJ, a great producer in the creative and technical senses of the word, and a great friend. Please give him a follow and listen to his music and mixes and consider getting DJ lessons from his new venture, First Wav Preservation Society.
We are going to take a quick break and then be back with our regularly scheduled programming of banter, puns, jokes, interviews with hip-hop creators and legends, and more very soon. Sincere thanks to everyone who tuned in, reached out, and participated in this project in any way. We give thanks to the Beastie Boys for all of their great music and for giving us so much to talk about. RIP MCA, an inspiring person.
3 Bad Brothers, A Beastie Boys Breakdown is a production of Dad Bod Rap Pod
Hosted By Demone Carter, David Ma, and Nate LeBlanc
Executive Produced by Nate LeBlanc
Produced by Demone Carter and Paolo “Cutso” Bello
Edited by Demone Carter and Nate LeBlanc
Engineering and Post-Production by Paolo “Cutso” Bello
Artwork by Rory Simms
Photography by Stephanie Barajas
Youtube version produced by Paolo “Cutso” Bello
Theme song written and recorded by Defcee and Produced by Cutso
Dad Bod Rap Pod is distributed by Open Mike Eagle’s Stony Island Audio
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