Artist	Song
Run-DMC	Sucker M.C.'s (Krush-Groove 1)
from Run-DMC (2005)
Bad Brains	Pay to Cum
from Bad Brains (1996)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	The Message
from The Message (2005)
The Misfits	Attitude (1995 Remaster)
from The Misfits - Collection 2 (1995)
Led Zeppelin	When the Levee Breaks
from Led Zeppelin IV (Remastered) (1971)
James Brown	Funky President (People It's Bad)
from 70's Funk Classics (2007)
T-L.A. Rock & Jazzy Jay	It's Yours
from Def Jam 25, Vol. 2: DJ Bring That Back (1996-1984) (2009)
Dennis Coffey	Scorpio
from Absolutely the Best of Dennis Coffey (2011)
The Clash	The Magnificent Seven
from Sandinista! (1999)
Willie Bobo	Fried Neck Bones and Some Homefries
from Willie Bobo's Finest Hour (2003)
Black Flag	Six Pack
from Six Pack - EP (2006)
Kurtis Blow	The Breaks
from Kurtis Blow (1998)
Mantronix	Fresh Is the Word
from Fresh Is the Word - EP (1999)
The Sugarhill Gang	Rapper's Delight
from The Essentials: The Sugarhill Gang (2005)
Lee "Scratch" Perry	Soul Fire
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Lee "Scratch" Perry (2004)
Busy Bee	Making Cash Money
from The Sugar Hill Records Story (2009)
Schoolly D	P.S.K. What Does It Mean?
from Best of Schoolly D (1990)
Kool & the Gang	Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
from Live at the Sex Machine (1996)
Ultramagnetic MC's	Ego Trippin' (Original 12 Version)
from Critical Beatdown (2007)
The Slits	Typical Girls
from Cut (Deluxe Edition) (2009)
Funkadelic	Can You Get to That
from Maggot Brain (2005)
Lee Dorsey	Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky (From Now On)
from The New Lee Dorsey (2008)
Minor Threat	In My Eyes
from First 2 7"s (1984)
The Meters	Cissy Strut
from The Meters (2005)

Comment:

The Beastie Boys came up smack-dab in the middle of an explosion — '70s New York City, a 14-mile stretch encompassing the births of hip-hop, disco, and punk, not to mention an art scene that was the very definition of cutting-edge cool. But they strayed way outside the five boroughs to gather their colossal crateful of roots. Consider John Bonham's skins-slamming intro to Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks," which lays down a Brit-bred backbeat for Licensed to Ill's "Rhymin' and Stealin'". When the Beasties throw down the lyric "Just strutting like the Meters with the look-ka py py" on "Root Down," they're tipping their caps to the Crescent City's funk-soul brothers, who were never funkier, or more soulful, than on "Cissy Strut." And maybe nothing gets to the birth of the Boys like their hardcore roots, and nothing we can think of is more hardcore than Bad Brains (and few people are more hardcore in their Bad Brains fandom than MCA, who produced the group's 2007 comeback album, Build a Nation.) From The Clash to Grandmaster Flash, the Big Apple's favorite sons raided across oceans and eras to craft a sound as revolutionary as the scenes that spawned them.

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