In my research, I stumbled across the legendary Paul's Boutique Samples Page.  Over the years, the Paul's Boutique Samples Page has grown into a very slick, robust and respectable site; but in the early days, it was merely informative and horribly flawed. It had sample cites such as  "a baseline [sic] from some ZZ Top song" (rumor, unable to be confirmed, and in this case, probably untrue) and reference cites such as "on the bass was boots" supposedly being a reference to Bootsy Collins (which is mere speculation and there is little if any evidence to support it).  This gave me the idea of publishing my work online for Beastie Boys fans.  My intent is to present the information herein with as much honesty as possible.  I do not wish to spread any false information with these annotations and any speculation, rumors, or personal opinions are clearly stated within the text as such.

Another thing to take into consideration:  No I do not know who is speaking the "dick in the mashed potatoes" line in "B-boys Makin' With the Freak Freak".  I receive at least 3 or 4 letters asking this every month.  If I knew where this sample came from, I'd... well, I could probably get laid by every female Beastie Boys fan in the world for imparting that information so I ain't tellin' you motherfuckers nothin'! Trust me, as this is the single most thing I'm asked in letters, if I knew, I would put it out there immediately.  However, since you have at least read this far on one of the most boring pages on the whole site, I will at least tell you my opinion.  I think it's the late, great comedian Robin Harris.  For those of you who don't know who this gentleman is, he is most famously known for his stand-up bit about "Bebe's kids" which was later made into a cartoon.  Anyway, the voice sounds like his and it sounds like soemthing he would say in his act, but have absolutely no proof of this.  (Ladies, you can send naked photos to the email listed on the front page.)

I consider the work here to be mine.  It's nothing that anyone else couldn't have done, but I spent the time doing it.  Any knowledge I obtained from site visitors are duly noted within the text of the annotations.  If you are interested in using the material here for your website, feel free to link to the particular album by page, or the particular song if you wish (they are all tagged individually), however, I would prefer you not remove them and incorporate them into your content.  This is in constant revision and to do so would only lead to outdated versions floating around.

Finally, you  won't find any advertising banners or corporate plugs.  I don't appreciate them on fan sites I visit and I have no intention of subjecting you to it either.  If you are attempting to drum up exposure for your urban streetwear website or fancy yourself the latest internet entreprenuer who thinks they've discovered some sort of goldmine (both have happened), don't bother e-mailing me - I won't respond.  You also will not find cumbersome graphics, backgrounds, and snappy icons inhibitng your access to the information presented here.  I'm a firm believer in substance versus style.

I did, however, make a decision to move this website to commercial web space beginning in 2004.  This eliminated the requisite banner ads that were the necessary evil of free web hosting gimmicks, however, at a personal cost to myself.  In light of this, I do accept donations.  If you find this website to be worth your while, all I ask is you drop a quarter in the coffee can to help defray some of the web hosting costs.  The DIY/punk in me wants to keep this totally free for the fans, so that you can have access to the information here without banner ads, annoying popups, etc. but at the same time, there is a negligible cost to providing this information. If you worry about how to pay this or that bill, this isn't directed at you.  But if you've got an extra dollar lying around and were entertained for an hour or two by my folly, it'd be greatly appreciated.