Additionally, we would like to request that all We will keep this section up-to-date on any NY state requirements especially as the event date nears.Īt this time, the Wythe Hotel requires proof of vaccination for all event attendees and hotel guests. Understandably, we’re still living in a time when COVID is a prevalent concern, and we want to be respectful of everyones’ risk tolerance. Nope! Just good food, drinks, and dancing.Īs much as we love and adore your children, we want to ensure that everyone is able to take a night off for some well-deserved adults-only fun. Men: Dress shirt, short sleeve button ups, prints welcome, jackets optional. ET/PT on Sunday, August 25 from the Barclays Center.Women: Cocktail dresses, evening wear, dressy jumpsuits or rompers are great! This song - if you think of all of their work - this song really does represent the sound that they brought into the mainstream. And then Adam Dubin, he said, 'Well, if we can't have him we'll find like a monkey suit gorilla suit.' So he found it. If Kerry King came and bumped him he would probably just like kick him out of the. But it was going to cost a fortune and we just - I couldn't. And there was a chimp named at the time Zip the Chimp and he was on David Letterman and we really loved him. "Originally you know, the gag was going to be a real chimp. We're gonna shoot this video and then we can party after that.' So it was always just our friends, getting together, and supporting our friends and doing what we would normally be doing - except maybe a couple of hours earlier. It was literally like a Sunday - I think it was - and we got a call from Adam Horovitz, like: 'Come to The World, but come early. "When it was time to do the video for 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn,' it was shot at a place called The World, which was a place we went to every single night on the Lower East Side. So we decided to open the video with a joke about that. At that time there was actually - and this is 1986, 1987 - there was actually kind of a backlash against a band playing using turntables to play as opposed to using real instruments. We had one starting point, which was make it funny, and with heavy metal. "The video for 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn' came about from everybody just throwing their ideas in a hat. 'We're Gonna Shoot This Video And Then We Can Party' And you can hear like my voice so loud in that song, just screaming the 'NO SLEEP TILL!'" And I remember just being like curled up on the couch one night - waiting for Adam I'm sure - and Rick sort of pounding in the door and saying, 'We need a female voice on the chorus of "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"' and being like, 'OK.' And me and Lisa Kirk, who was Rick Rubin's girlfriend at the time, going in there and just screaming. "I remember being at Chung King Studios, which is where all the magic happened in Chinatown with Steve Ett and Rick and Russell and the Beastie Boys and all of our friends. Simone Reyes, former Def Jam receptionist: So there were all these elements that were fusing and then in years to come that was going to be the template." "Kerry King from Slayer plays the guitar solo, you know - it's a very heavy band, you know. Because it's a little bit of a - it's not a spoof, but it's sort of poking fun at heavy metal." They were doing a take on that, which is why there's so much heavy metal in the song. "It's a little bit of a take off on 'No Sleep 'til Hammersmith,' which is a classic Motörhead album. It's a lot of things could go through your mind. "It was perfect, you know, 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn.' It was a very New York song, a very hip-hop song, a very - you know, Harlem and the Bronx was the home of hip-hop and 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn,' I mean, it was a lot of things. Russell Simmons, Def Jam Recordings founder: They gave us a heartfelt and hilarious new-before-seen peek at Brooklyn's own unofficial anthem. In celebration of the jam's history - and to get pumped for the Video Music Awards' first time in Brooklyn - MTV News spoke with the people behind the song and video. The accompanying video, featuring the Beasties' friends and co-directed by Def Jam pal Ric Menello - who passed away in March - captured that same spirit. A battle cry, a debaucherous ode to BK embraced New Yorkers and non-natives alike, the song also represented a shift in music - a merging of hip-hop and rock that the guys pulled off with their trademark tongue-in-cheek swagger.
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