The New Style (song)

"The New Style"
Single by Beastie Boys
from the album Licensed to Ill
Released November 6, 1986
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1986
Genre Hip hop, rap rock
Length 4:36
Label Def Jam
Writer(s) Beastie Boys, Rick Rubin
Producer(s) Rick Rubin
Beastie Boys singles chronology
"Paul Revere"
(1986)
"The New Style"
(1986)
"Brass Monkey"
(1987)

"The New Style" (also known as "It's the New Style") is a song by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys, released as the third single from their debut album Licensed to Ill.

The famous "mmm...drop" line from the song was later sampled in other hip hop songs, including The Pharcyde's "Drop" (1995), OutKast's "Benz or a Beamer", and by the Beastie Boys themselves on their song "Johnny Ryall" (1989) and on their single "Intergalactic" (1998). Furthermore, the opening line was sampled on the tracks "Workinonit" and "The New" by J Dilla, and the original mix of "Check Yo Self" by Ice Cube using the phrase "check it" in the chorus. LFO used the line "I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike" in their 1999 hit "Summer Girls". Hip hop group Odd Future also used the instrumental from Big Tuck's "Not A Stain On Me" -- which samples "The New Style" -- on the song "Swag Me Out," off their mixtape Radical.

Samples

Charts

Chart (1986) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[1] 20
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[1] 41
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[2] 22

References

  1. 1 2 "Beastie Boys chart history". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  2. "Beastie Boys Album & Song Chart History". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
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