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(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)

January 01, 1970

"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" (shortened to "Fight for Your Right" on album releases) is a song by American hip hop/rap rock group the Beastie Boys, released as the fourth single from their debut album Licensed to Ill (1986). One of their best-known songs, it reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week of March 7, 1987, and was later named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was also included on their compilation albums The Sounds of Science in 1999, Solid Gold Hits in 2005 and Beastie Boys Music in 2020.

"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)"
Single by Beastie Boys
from the album Licensed to Ill
B-side"Paul Revere"
ReleasedDecember 1986[1]
Genre
Length3:29
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Rick Rubin
Beastie Boys singles chronology
"Brass Monkey"
(1986) 		"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)"
(1986) 		"No Sleep till Brooklyn"
(1986)
Music video
"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" on YouTube

History edit

The song, written by Adam Yauch and band friend Tom "Tommy Triphammer" Cushman (who appears in the video), was meant as an insignificant portrayal of "party" and "attitude"-themed songs, such as "Smokin' in the Boys Room" and "I Wanna Rock", but unintentionally became representative of their artistic style.[6] Although the group initially embraced the booze-fueled party identity, their style changed when their social habits became more marijuana-centric after touring. Though they continued playing their early hits, including "Fight for Your Right to Party", on future tours, this change had the welcome effect of alienating a significant population of their audience who preferred the previous style. Mike D commented that, "The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different. There were tons of guys singing along to 'Fight for Your Right' who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them."[7] Writing credits were given to Yauch, Ad-Rock and the Beastie Boys' producer, Rick Rubin.[8]

Music video edit

The music video for "Fight for Your Right" begins as a mother and father tell their two sons to stay out of trouble while they are away. When they leave, the two boys decide to have a party including soda and pie, hoping "no bad people show up"; this prompts the arrival of Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA at the party. The trio start all kinds of trouble within the house, such as chasing and kissing girls, starting fires, bringing more troublesome people into the house, spiking the punch, smashing things, and starting a massive pie fight. As the pie fight reaches its peak, Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA run away, the party having become too out of hand even for them. As the video ends, the remaining partygoers shout along to the final chorus of "party!" before hitting the returning mother in the face with a pie.

Directed by Ric Menello and Adam Dubin,[9] there are numerous cameos in this video, including an unknown-at-the-time Tabitha Soren, Cey Adams,[10] Ricky Powell,[11] members of the punk rock band Murphy's Law, as well as the Beastie Boys' producer, Rick Rubin, who was shown wearing an AC/DC and Slayer shirt, the latter of whom were also signed to Def Jam at the time.[12]

Soren, whose hair was dyed blonde for the shoot, got her chance to be in the video because she was a friend of Rubin's and attended nearby New York University. "I worked hard at not getting any pie goo on me," she recalls, because the whipped cream used had been scoured from supermarket trash cans since there was no money in the budget for it. As a result, it was rancid and had a foul odor. "The smell in that room, when everyone was done throwing pies, was like rotten eggs. You wanted to throw up."[13]

Fight for Your Right Revisited edit

In 2011, Adam Yauch directed and wrote a surreal comedic short film entitled Fight for Your Right Revisited to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original video's release. The short film serves as a video for the single "Make Some Noise" from Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Most of the non-sequitur dialogue between characters were a result of improvisation by the cast.

Revisited acts as a sequel to the events that took place in the original music video and features Mike D, Ad-Rock and MCA (played by Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood, and Danny McBride, respectively) as they get into more drunken antics, before being challenged to a dance battle by the future Mike D, Ad-Rock and MCA (John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell, and Jack Black, respectively), coming out of a DeLorean. Eventually, both sets of Beasties get rousted by a trio of cops (played by the actual Beastie Boys) and taken to jail.

The short features numerous cameo appearances, some appearing onscreen for only a few seconds. They include Stanley Tucci and Susan Sarandon (as the parents seen in the original video), Adam Scott, Alicia Silverstone, Amy Poehler, Chloë Sevigny, David Cross, Jason Schwartzman, Kirsten Dunst, Laura Dern, Mary Steenburgen, Martin Starr, Maya Rudolph, Orlando Bloom, Rashida Jones, Rainn Wilson, Shannyn Sossamon, Steve Buscemi, Ted Danson, and Will Arnett.

Although "Fight for Your Right" is not performed, its outro can be heard at the beginning of the short.

Accolades edit

Year Publisher Country Accolade Rank
1986 The Village Voice United States "Singles of the Year" (25)[14] 12
1987 NME United Kingdom "Singles of the Year" (60)[15] 14
1987 Record Mirror United Kingdom "Singles of the Year" (20)[16] 20
1994 Dave Marsh & James Bernard United States "Greatest Eighties Protest Songs"[17] *
1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame United States "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll"[18] *
1998 Triple J Hottest 100 Australia "Hottest 100 of All Time"[19] 38
1999 MTV United States "100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made"[20] 66
2001 Uncut United Kingdom "The 100 Greatest Singles of the Post-Punk Era"[21] 50
2001 VH1 United States "100 Greatest Videos"[22] 100
2003 PopMatters United States "The 100 Best Songs Since Johnny Rotten Roared"[23] 99
2003 Q United Kingdom "The 1001 Best Songs Ever"[24] 121
2003 VH1 United States "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years"[25] 96
2004 Q United Kingdom "150 Greatest Rock Lists" (30 Best Hip Hop Songs)[26] 20
2005 Q United Kingdom "Ultimate Music Collection" (Rap Tracks)[27] *
2006 Q United Kingdom "100 Greatest Songs of All Time"[28] 51
2006 VH1 United States "100 Greatest Songs of the 80's"[29] 49
2007 Mojo United Kingdom "80 from the 80's"[30] *
2009 The Guardian United Kingdom "1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear" (Party Songs)[31] *
2010 XFM United Kingdom "Top 1000 Songs of All Time"[32] 191
2014 NME United Kingdom "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"[33] 166

(*) indicates the list is unordered.

Charts edit

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[50] Silver 200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Cover versions edit

N.Y.C.C. version edit

"Fight for Your Right (To Party)"
 
Standard artwork
Single by N.Y.C.C.
from the album Greatest Hits
B-side
ReleasedJanuary 28, 1998[51]
StudioBoogie Park (Hamburg, Germany)
GenreHip house[52]
Length3:20
Label
  • Control (Europe and Australia)
  • Attic (Canada)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Dee Jay Sören

In 1998, the song was covered by German hip hop act N.Y.C.C. as "Fight for Your Right (To Party)". It reached the top 20 in nine countries across Europe and in Australia and New Zealand. In the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 14, it was the first song by a German hip hop group to reach the top 25.[53]

Track listings edit

European CD single[54]

  1. "Fight for Your Right" (single version) – 3:20
  2. "Fight for Your Right" (extended version) – 5:55
  3. "Fight for Your Right" (Disco Selection Mix) – 5:52
  4. "Fight for Your Right" (long instrumental version) – 4:21

UK and European 12-inch single[55]

A1. "Fight for Your Right" (extended version)
A2. "Fight for Your Right" (long instrumental version)
B1. "Fight for Your Right" (Disco Selection Mix)
B2. "Paaarty" (Deep Star version)

Australian maxi-CD single[51]

  1. "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" (single version) – 3:20
  2. "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" (extended version) – 5:55
  3. "Paaarty" (Deep Star version) – 10:14

Credits and personnel edit

Credits are lifted from the European CD single liner notes.[54]

Studio

  • Recorded and mixed at Boogie Park Studio (Hamburg, Germany)

Personnel

  • Rick Rubin, Beastie Boys – writing
  • Dee Jay Sören – production, recording, mixing
  • Lacarone – executive production
  • CASK – "N.Y.C.C." tag

Charts edit

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[74] Gold 35,000^
Sweden (GLF)[75] Gold 15,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Other notable covers and cultural usage edit

The song was heavily sampled in 1988 for Public Enemy's "Party for Your Right to Fight".

Singer/songwriter Cara Quici sampled the song and added new lyrics for her 2013 song "Fight"[76] personally approved by Rick Rubin and licensed by Sony ATV and Universal Music Group. The "Fight" video by Cara Quici features a cameo by Dennis Rodman.[77]

On August 2, 2009, Coldplay performed an acoustic piano-based version of this song during their concert on the final night of the All Points West concert series as a tribute to the Beastie Boys, who were unable to perform on opening night following Adam Yauch's announcement that he had cancer.[78] The band performed this version again on May 4, 2012, at their concert at the Hollywood Bowl as a tribute to Yauch, who had died earlier that day.[79]

After winning the 2019 AFC Championship Game, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce chanted "You gotta fight for your right to party!" in his postgame interview.[80] After the Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl LIV, Kelce again used the chant from the song at the victory parade in Kansas City. The song's main chorus has since become a cultural reference among Chiefs fans, and in the 2020 season became the song played at Chiefs home games to celebrate after each touchdown scored by the team.[81] Kelce continued the tradition through his second Super Bowl win with the Chiefs, even performing the song with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on The Tonight Show.[82]

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You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party shortened to Fight for Your Right on album releases is a song by American hip hop rap rock group the Beastie Boys released as the fourth single from their debut album Licensed to Ill 1986 One of their best known songs it reached No 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week of March 7 1987 and was later named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll The song was also included on their compilation albums The Sounds of Science in 1999 Solid Gold Hits in 2005 and Beastie Boys Music in 2020 You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party Single by Beastie Boysfrom the album Licensed to IllB side Paul Revere ReleasedDecember 1986 1 GenreRap rock 2 3 hard rock 4 5 Length3 29LabelDef JamColumbiaSongwriter s Adam YauchRick RubinAdam HorovitzProducer s Rick RubinBeastie Boys singles chronology Brass Monkey 1986 You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party 1986 No Sleep till Brooklyn 1986 Music video You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party on YouTube Contents 1 History 2 Music video 3 Fight for Your Right Revisited 4 Accolades 5 Charts 5 1 Weekly charts 5 2 Year end charts 6 Certifications 7 Cover versions 7 1 N Y C C version 7 1 1 Track listings 7 1 2 Credits and personnel 7 1 3 Charts 7 1 3 1 Weekly charts 7 1 3 2 Year end charts 7 1 4 Certifications 7 2 Other notable covers and cultural usage 8 References 9 External linksHistory editThe song written by Adam Yauch and band friend Tom Tommy Triphammer Cushman who appears in the video was meant as an insignificant portrayal of party and attitude themed songs such as Smokin in the Boys Room and I Wanna Rock but unintentionally became representative of their artistic style 6 Although the group initially embraced the booze fueled party identity their style changed when their social habits became more marijuana centric after touring Though they continued playing their early hits including Fight for Your Right to Party on future tours this change had the welcome effect of alienating a significant population of their audience who preferred the previous style Mike D commented that The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different There were tons of guys singing along to Fight for Your Right who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them 7 Writing credits were given to Yauch Ad Rock and the Beastie Boys producer Rick Rubin 8 Music video editThe music video for Fight for Your Right begins as a mother and father tell their two sons to stay out of trouble while they are away When they leave the two boys decide to have a party including soda and pie hoping no bad people show up this prompts the arrival of Ad Rock Mike D and MCA at the party The trio start all kinds of trouble within the house such as chasing and kissing girls starting fires bringing more troublesome people into the house spiking the punch smashing things and starting a massive pie fight As the pie fight reaches its peak Ad Rock Mike D and MCA run away the party having become too out of hand even for them As the video ends the remaining partygoers shout along to the final chorus of party before hitting the returning mother in the face with a pie Directed by Ric Menello and Adam Dubin 9 there are numerous cameos in this video including an unknown at the time Tabitha Soren Cey Adams 10 Ricky Powell 11 members of the punk rock band Murphy s Law as well as the Beastie Boys producer Rick Rubin who was shown wearing an AC DC and Slayer shirt the latter of whom were also signed to Def Jam at the time 12 Soren whose hair was dyed blonde for the shoot got her chance to be in the video because she was a friend of Rubin s and attended nearby New York University I worked hard at not getting any pie goo on me she recalls because the whipped cream used had been scoured from supermarket trash cans since there was no money in the budget for it As a result it was rancid and had a foul odor The smell in that room when everyone was done throwing pies was like rotten eggs You wanted to throw up 13 Fight for Your Right Revisited editIn 2011 Adam Yauch directed and wrote a surreal comedic short film entitled Fight for Your Right Revisited to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original video s release The short film serves as a video for the single Make Some Noise from Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Most of the non sequitur dialogue between characters were a result of improvisation by the cast Revisited acts as a sequel to the events that took place in the original music video and features Mike D Ad Rock and MCA played by Seth Rogen Elijah Wood and Danny McBride respectively as they get into more drunken antics before being challenged to a dance battle by the future Mike D Ad Rock and MCA John C Reilly Will Ferrell and Jack Black respectively coming out of a DeLorean Eventually both sets of Beasties get rousted by a trio of cops played by the actual Beastie Boys and taken to jail The short features numerous cameo appearances some appearing onscreen for only a few seconds They include Stanley Tucci and Susan Sarandon as the parents seen in the original video Adam Scott Alicia Silverstone Amy Poehler Chloe Sevigny David Cross Jason Schwartzman Kirsten Dunst Laura Dern Mary Steenburgen Martin Starr Maya Rudolph Orlando Bloom Rashida Jones Rainn Wilson Shannyn Sossamon Steve Buscemi Ted Danson and Will Arnett Although Fight for Your Right is not performed its outro can be heard at the beginning of the short Accolades editYear Publisher Country Accolade Rank 1986 The Village Voice United States Singles of the Year 25 14 12 1987 NME United Kingdom Singles of the Year 60 15 14 1987 Record Mirror United Kingdom Singles of the Year 20 16 20 1994 Dave Marsh amp James Bernard United States Greatest Eighties Protest Songs 17 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame United States 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll 18 1998 Triple J Hottest 100 Australia Hottest 100 of All Time 19 38 1999 MTV United States 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made 20 66 2001 Uncut United Kingdom The 100 Greatest Singles of the Post Punk Era 21 50 2001 VH1 United States 100 Greatest Videos 22 100 2003 PopMatters United States The 100 Best Songs Since Johnny Rotten Roared 23 99 2003 Q United Kingdom The 1001 Best Songs Ever 24 121 2003 VH1 United States 100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years 25 96 2004 Q United Kingdom 150 Greatest Rock Lists 30 Best Hip Hop Songs 26 20 2005 Q United Kingdom Ultimate Music Collection Rap Tracks 27 2006 Q United Kingdom 100 Greatest Songs of All Time 28 51 2006 VH1 United States 100 Greatest Songs of the 80 s 29 49 2007 Mojo United Kingdom 80 from the 80 s 30 2009 The Guardian United Kingdom 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear Party Songs 31 2010 XFM United Kingdom Top 1000 Songs of All Time 32 191 2014 NME United Kingdom 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 33 166 indicates the list is unordered Charts editWeekly charts edit Chart 1987 Peakposition Australia Kent Music Report 34 37 Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 35 16 Canada Top Singles RPM 36 7 Ireland IRMA 37 16 Netherlands Dutch Top 40 38 10 Netherlands Single Top 100 39 10 New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 40 17 UK Singles OCC 41 11 US Billboard Hot 100 42 7 US Cash Box 43 3 West Germany Official German Charts 44 25 Chart 2012 Peakposition Belgium Back Catalogue Singles Flanders 45 35 Japan Hot 100 Singles 42 74 Year end charts edit Chart 1987 Rank Canada Top Singles RPM 46 71 Netherlands Single Top 100 47 66 US Billboard Hot 100 48 98 US Cash Box 49 49Certifications editRegion Certification Certified units sales United Kingdom BPI 50 Silver 200 000 Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Cover versions editN Y C C version edit Fight for Your Right To Party nbsp Standard artworkSingle by N Y C C from the album Greatest HitsB side Paaarty Highway to Hell We Are N Y C C ReleasedJanuary 28 1998 51 StudioBoogie Park Hamburg Germany GenreHip house 52 Length3 20LabelControl Europe and Australia Attic Canada Songwriter s Beastie BoysRick RubinProducer s Dee Jay Soren In 1998 the song was covered by German hip hop act N Y C C as Fight for Your Right To Party It reached the top 20 in nine countries across Europe and in Australia and New Zealand In the United Kingdom where it peaked at number 14 it was the first song by a German hip hop group to reach the top 25 53 Track listings edit European CD single 54 Fight for Your Right single version 3 20 Fight for Your Right extended version 5 55 Fight for Your Right Disco Selection Mix 5 52 Fight for Your Right long instrumental version 4 21 UK and European 12 inch single 55 A1 Fight for Your Right extended version A2 Fight for Your Right long instrumental version B1 Fight for Your Right Disco Selection Mix B2 Paaarty Deep Star version Australian maxi CD single 51 Fight for Your Right To Party single version 3 20 Fight for Your Right To Party extended version 5 55 Paaarty Deep Star version 10 14 Credits and personnel edit Credits are lifted from the European CD single liner notes 54 Studio Recorded and mixed at Boogie Park Studio Hamburg Germany Personnel Rick Rubin Beastie Boys writing Dee Jay Soren production recording mixing Lacarone executive production CASK N Y C C tag Charts edit Weekly charts edit Chart 1998 Peakposition Australia ARIA 51 12 Austria O3 Austria Top 40 56 13 Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 57 16 Europe Eurochart Hot 100 58 22 Finland Suomen virallinen lista 59 14 Germany Official German Charts 60 11 Ireland IRMA 61 11 New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 62 13 Norway VG lista 63 2 Scotland OCC 64 2 Sweden Sverigetopplistan 65 3 Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 66 19 UK Singles OCC 67 14 UK Dance OCC 68 23 UK Indie OCC 69 2 Year end charts edit Chart 1998 Rank Australia ARIA 70 51 Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 71 91 Germany Official German Charts 72 68 Sweden Sverigetopplistan 73 31 Certifications edit Region Certification Certified units sales Australia ARIA 74 Gold 35 000 Sweden GLF 75 Gold 15 000 Shipments figures based on certification alone Other notable covers and cultural usage edit The song was heavily sampled in 1988 for Public Enemy s Party for Your Right to Fight Singer songwriter Cara Quici sampled the song and added new lyrics for her 2013 song Fight 76 personally approved by Rick Rubin and licensed by Sony ATV and Universal Music Group The Fight video by Cara Quici features a cameo by Dennis Rodman 77 On August 2 2009 Coldplay performed an acoustic piano based version of this song during their concert on the final night of the All Points West concert series as a tribute to the Beastie Boys who were unable to perform on opening night following Adam Yauch s announcement that he had cancer 78 The band performed this version again on May 4 2012 at their concert at the Hollywood Bowl as a tribute to Yauch who had died earlier that day 79 After winning the 2019 AFC Championship Game Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce chanted You gotta fight for your right to party in his postgame interview 80 After the Chiefs victory in Super Bowl LIV Kelce again used the chant from the song at the victory parade in Kansas City The song s main chorus has since become a cultural reference among Chiefs fans and in the 2020 season became the song played at Chiefs home games to celebrate after each touchdown scored by the team 81 Kelce continued the tradition through his second Super Bowl win with the Chiefs even performing the song with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on The Tonight Show 82 References edit Billboard December 20 1986 Matsumoto Jon May 2 2012 The Beastie Boys Provide a License to Party Grammy Award The Recording Academy Retrieved February 20 2014 Smith Chris 2009 101 Albums that Changed Popular Music Oxford University Press p 189 ISBN 978 0 1953 7371 4 the hit single You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party was a tongue in cheek rap rock hybrid that largely satirized the white frat boy audience that made the album such a big hit Mitchell Kevin M 2003 Hip hop Rhyming Dictionary For Rappers DJs and MCs Alfred Music Publishing p 12 ISBN 978 0 7390 3333 3 The party anthem You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party by the Beastie Boys blended hard rock and rap Stratton Jon 2009 Jews Race and Popular Music Ashgate Publishing p 10 ISBN 978 0 7546 6804 6 The Beastie Boys success came from their acceptance by African American audiences while making rap understandable to white audiences by combining it with hard rock the most important example of this being You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party The Beastie Boys The Fresh Air Interview NPR Music May 6 2011 Retrieved February 20 2014 Taysom Joe The reason why The Beastie Boys hated one of their biggest tracks Far Out Retrieved July 5 2021 ACE Repertory Fight for Your Right to Party ASCAP Retrieved 28 October 2021 Kaufman Gil March 4 2013 Beastie Boys Video Director Ric Menello Dead at 60 MTV Retrieved March 17 2013 Cey Adams interview about his iconic Hip Hop art 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