“Professor Booty” by Beastie Boys

"Professor Booty" is a cut from Check Your Head, the Beastie Boys' third album, which Grand Royal and Capitol put out on April 21, 1992, three years after Paul's Boutique. They made it in 1991 at G-Son Studios in Atwater Village with Mario Caldato Jr., who produced alongside the group, engineered, and shares the writing credit with Ad-Rock, Mike D and Adam Yauch.

This was the record where the hip-hop trio leaned less on samples and played the music themselves, and the credits show it: Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) on guitar, MCA (Yauch) on bass and Mike D (Mike Diamond) on drums, with Mark Ramos-Nishita piling on organ, clavichord, Wurlitzer electric piano and more keyboards. It sounds like a rap crew that wandered into a funk rehearsal room and refused to leave.

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