Beastie Boys 1986 Fight For Your Right, shhmusic

Directors: Rick Menello Adam Dubin (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party ) (sometimes shortened to Fight for Your Right ) is a song by American rap group the Beastie Boys, released as the fourth single released from their debut album Licensed to Ill (1986). Many elements of the music video for Fight for Your Right appear to be influenced by George A. Romero s zombie horror movie Dawn of the Dead. In Dawn of the Dead a biker gang infiltrates a shopping mall and attacks the zombies with (amongst other things) piesintheface. At one point a biker smashes a television set with a sledgehammer, just like MCA in this video. There are also numerous cameos in this video, including an unknown at the time Tabitha Soren, Def Jam label mate LL Cool J, members of the punk band Murphy s Law, as well as the Beastie Boys producer, Rick Rubin, who was shown wearing a AC, DC Slayer shirt, who were also signed to Def Jam at the time. Soren, whose hair was dyed blonde for the shoot, got her chance to be in th