“What We Got” is the second May release, arriving with rare live performances in Brooklyn. The track delivers hardcore, saturated hip-hop with guitar, bass, and boom-bap rhythms pushed to the limit, while Mike D rhymes with brash swagger through slap-back echo. The song then swerves into an emotional and dreamy coda. The single follows “Switch Up,” released May 8, which ended a 15-year new music drought from Beastie Boys members. “What We Got” was created through experimental sessions involving Mike D, his sons Davis and Skyler Diamond, and members of Very Nice Person, plus several collaborating musicians. Production was handled by Carter Lang and Tyran Donaldson, with mixing by Derek “MixedByAli” Ali. The release coincides with sold-out shows at Xanadu Roller Arts, with a second sold-out date as well.
"With “What We Got,” what we get is hardcore and saturated hip-hop that has the guitar, bass and boom-bap meters in the red while Mike D rhymes with his brash swagger through some slap-back echo. The song swerves into an emotional and dreamy coda."
"“What We Got” was produced by Lang and Donaldson and mixed at NoName Studios by Derek “MixedByAli” Ali, who has worked with Kendrick Lamar, Nipsey Hussle, and Childish Gambino. The new song's release comes the same day as a sold out show in Brooklyn at Xanadu Roller Arts, according to a press release. A second show at the same location is also sold out."
"The 60-year-old rapper, born Michael Diamond, hasn't toured as a Beastie Boy since the death of his bandmate Adam “MCA” Yauch in 2012. Mike D and fellow Beastie Boy, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, retired the group after Yauch's death. Mike D has been more outgoing as of late. He performed two shows in California in early May and a string of unexpected performances, such as ones at Malibu's Brothers Marshall Surf Shop and The Ojai Valley Women's Club."
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