arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

The track sounds like a Beastie Boys song, but they seem to have listened a lot to recent r'n'b and avant-garde hip-hop. The beat is fat, but the melody consist in some really short sounds placed here and there, making the track really groovy.

The group decided to distribute this track freely on their website: http://www.beastieboys.com where they explain why they made this track:

"We felt it was important to comment on where the US appears to be heading now. A war in Iraq will not resolve our problems. It can only result in the deaths of many innocent civilians and US troops. If we are truly striving for safety, we need to build friendships, not try to bully the rest of the world."
- Adam Yauch

"Being together, writing and recording, we felt it would be irresponsible not to address what's going on in the world while the events are still current. It didn't make sense to us to wait until the entire record was finished to release this song."
- Mike D

"This song is not an anti-American or pro-Saddam Hussein statement. This is a statement against an unjustified war."
- Adam Horovitz

Like a lot of pacifists, they main problem with the war in Irak is that it will only create more deaths and misery, and will not solve any problems.

"First the ‘War On Terror' now war on Iraq
We're reaching a point where we can't turn back
Let's lose the guns and let's lose the bombs
And stop the corporate contributions that their built upon
Well I'll be sleeping on your speeches ‘til I start to snore
‘Cause I won't carry guns for an oil war
As-Salamu alaikum, wa alaikum assalam
Peace to the Middle East peace to Islam"

But they also attack the (not so) hidden reasons for this war: power and oil, and denonce the us corporations and G.W. Bush who will make this war for economical interests.

"George Bush you're looking like Zoolander
Trying to play tough for the camera
What am I on crazy pills? We've got to stop it
Get your hand out my grandma's pocket
We need health care more than going to war
You think it's democracy they're fighting for?"