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In today's video we take a look at the time The Beastie Boys sampled several Led Zeppelin songs for the album License to Ill and it surprisingly didn't end up in a lawsuit since the samples weren't authorized. Find out by Led Zeppelin including Jimmy Page never filed suit against the band and Led Zeppelin's reaction to the band

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The beastie boys made history in 1986 with their landmark record Licensed to Ill which became the first rap record to top the billboard album charts. Not only that, but the band also caught the attention of the former members of Led Zeppelin and Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose? What happened? Stay tuned to find out.
The beastie boys started out as a hardcore punk band when members Adam ‘Ad-Rock” horovitz, Adam “MCA” Yauch (yeahowk) and Michael “Mike D” Diamond were still teenagers. Soon enough the trio took a bigger interest in hip hop and started rapping at their live shows.
Several years prior to them releasing their debut record License to Ill, the trio met a New York University student named Rick Rubin while trying to find a DJ to help out with their live sets. Rubin wasn’t very skilled in mixing different records together so instead he would play an eclectic mix of records back to back. For example he’d play a Led Zeppelin track followed by a Kurtis Blow one. According to Mike D who would reveal in the Beat Documentary
“Rick definitely came from a whole AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Long Island, like, rock background,” “He, pretty much … introduced it to us. Because we kinda came from punk rock’
Soon enough Rubin formed Def Jam Recordings with Russell Simmons and wanted to bring the Baestie boys on board and produce them. His vision for the band was to take the group’s rhymes and mash them up with a sampling or classic rock songs. The group’s first single released through Def Jam was a song called Rock Hard that sampled AC/DC’s single Back in Black. Unfortunately AC/DC didnt give permission for their song to be used and the single had to be shelved.
That rejection didn’t stop the trio from moving forward as their entire full length record is full of samples with one track containing multiple samples running the gamut from Steve Miller Band, The Clash, Black Sabbath and Joan Jett to many more.
One of Rubin’s favourite bands that he samples not once, not twice, but three times on the record was Led Zeppelin. Diamond would remember
“We got real into it, and into the idea of Led Zeppelin having beats,”
Released in November of 1986, License to Ill launched the careers of the Beastie Boys. the members of Led Zeppelin were unaware of their work appearing on the album.
The opening track Rhymin and Stealin features a scratched up version of Zeppelin drummer John Bonham’s memorable drum part from “When The Levee Breaks”.
On the song ‘She’s Crafty” samples Jimmy Page’s guitar riff from the song “The Ocean’, while “Time To Get Ill” sampled the Zeppelin song Custard Pie. The Beastie Boys musical style caught the ears of both white and black kids and they soon gained acceptance by a wide audience with Diamond remembering their early shows
“We were having concerts where there were black groups and white groups performing onstage,” “You had black kids and white kids coming together in a way that they probably never would have for any other group at the time.”
There would be one famous rock n roll frontman who counted himself a fan, but also gave the trio a piece of advice. Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose met Horoviz at a house party in Los Angeles in 1988 and told him to stop ripping off Led Zeppelin.
They did earn the scorn of one famous fan. When Axl Rose bumped into Horovitz at a Los Angeles house party in 1988, he told the Beastie to stop ripping off Led Zeppelin.
Eventually word made it’s way to the The surviving members of Led Zeppelin’ that the Beastie Boys used their music, but strangely enough the band didn’t sue. In fact the members of the Beastie boys claimed they never heard from Led zeppelin’s lawyers.
During a 2014 interview guitarist Jimmy Page would say “I guess I felt it was a compliment.” Well, I guess I felt it was a compliment. Without being specific. I know the Beastie Boys used quite a bit of our stuff, really, didn't they? I can tell you one thing, to go back to "Whole Lotta Love.

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