No Dives till Brooklyn

Beastie Boys vs. Dio

Early on I was very inspired by ToToM’s Bootwards album, which took rock acapellas and put them over rap and pop tracks, a complete 180 from what most everybody else was doing. Plus he did it before any of the Rock Band/Guitar Hero games (which are now commonplace mashup sources) were even released, meaning he really had to get creative. This is my tribute to that concept, although I did use Guitar Hero rips for both of these songs. Still, I’ll wager that the ratio of mashups with Beastie Boys instrumentals vs. acapellas is still about 1:100.