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Devilboy - I agree about Paul's Boutique. It took them a long time to make that record, and all of the music was produced by the Dust Brothers in LA. When that album dropped, the casual "Fight For Your Right to Party" fans didn't know what to make of it, and initial sales were disappointing. However, I remember watching a documentary several years ago that interviewed a bunch of other rap artists at the time. Their reaction was more like "Oh Sh*t." Rap music production and beats have just gone to a new level. Our old DJ spinning James Brown samples isn't going to cut it anymore. Some of them were actually panicked that they wouldn't be able to keep up with the new style. However, when Pauls' Boutique didn't sell that well, they uncrossed their fingers, exhaled, and went back to their old, simple ways. Year later, people started to realize what a gem Paul's Boutique was, and how awesome the Dust Brothers were.

Well said Mateored.

For legal reasons it is virtually impossible to make a record similar to "Paul's Boutique". You just can't sample stuff like you used to.

I just listened to Paul's Boutique this morning. What a record. I had forgotten what an awesome album it was. To Onhwy61's point the Beastie Boys were slapped with a lawsuit regarding samples used on their albums around the time MCA had passed away. What a slap in the face.

This is from the Wikipedia entry for Paul's Boutique. Check out the last sentence of this paragraph:

Miles Davis said that he never tired of listening to Paul's Boutique.[22] Later, in a VIBE interview of all three Beastie Boys, Chuck D of Public Enemy was quoted as saying that the "dirty secret" among the black hip-hop community at the time of release was that "Paul's Boutique had the best beats."[23] During the same VIBE interview, Mike D was asked about any possible hesitation he or the band might have had regarding their overt "sampling" of several minutes of well-known Beatles background tracks, including the song "The End" on "The Sounds of Science". He claimed that the Beatles filed preliminary legal papers, and that his response was "What's cooler than getting sued by the Beatles?"[24]