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Andy Price

“I decided it would be funny to write a song about how he was holding us all down, how he was trying to mess it all up, sabotaging our great works of art”: The story of the Beastie Boys' incendiary Sabotage

Beastie Boys.

The exhilarating Sabotage was one of the Beastie Boys’ most thrilling left-turns. Ironically, it became the genre-juggling trio’s most well-known cut. Driven by its propulsive, distorted bass riff, hammering beat and Ad-Rock's energetic vocal performance, Sabotage revitalised the rap trailblazers for a new decade.

Emerging during the organic sessions for the group’s beloved 1994 fourth studio album, Ill Communication, Sabotage was quite the rockiest track the Beasties’ had written in a long time.

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