"Remote Control" and "Three MCs and One DJ" are songs by American hip-hop group
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys were an American rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1978. The group was composed of Mike D, Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam Yauch, Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass), and Ad-Rock, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (voca ...
, from their fifth studio album, ''
Hello Nasty''. The two were released as a double A-side single, serving as ''Hello Nasty''
's fourth single.
"Three MCs and One DJ" features scratching by
Mix Master Mike, and marks his debut song with the group. The single peaked at #21 on the
UK Singles Chart.
"Remote Control" was used in a commercial for
ESPN's
Winter X Games XV featuring two talking deer.
Music video
The video for "Three MC's and One DJ" opens with
Mike D,
Ad-Rock and
MCA
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* Mars-crossing asteroid, an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars
Aviation
* Minimum crossing altitude, a minimum obstacle crossing altitude for fixes on published airways
* Medium Combat Aircraft, a 5th gene ...
posing in formation in the basement room of an apartment waiting for their DJ,
Mix Master Mike. After a short while, he appears at the apartment's entrance door in a
Ghostbuster
''Ghostbusters'' is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, t ...
costume. He rings the bell but the three do not move, so he has to wait for someone to exit the apartment to sneak in. Mike arrives at the room, gets behind the deck and the four start to perform. After the performance, the three go back to the same position as they were before the performance started and Mix Master Mike leaves.
The video was shot in the basement of 262 Mott Street in the
Little Italy neighborhood of
Manhattan,
New York City. That was also where the Beastie Boys recorded ''
Hello Nasty''.
The alternate version of the song featured in the video is present on the Beastie Boys compilation album ''
Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science''.
Charts
References
1998 songs
1999 singles
Beastie Boys songs
Song recordings produced by Mario Caldato Jr.
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