| "Get It Together" | ||||
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| Single by Beastie Boys | ||||
| from the album Ill Communication | ||||
| Released | May 31, 1994 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 4:05 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, Kamaal Fareed | |||
| Producer(s) | Beastie Boys, Mario Caldato Jr. | |||
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"Get It Together" is a song by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, released as the second single from their fourth studio album, Ill Communication. The album version of the song features rapper Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, but not the single version.
"Get It Together" is a hip-hop song containing elements of funk, boom bap, soul-jazz.[1] The song contains vocal samples from the song "Headless Heroes" by Eugene McDaniels, and heavily samples a loop from "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by the Moog Machine, from the album Switched-On Rock. "Get It Together" also appears on two group's compilation albums The Sounds of Science and Beastie Boys Music.[2]
- ^ Diamond, Michael; Horovitz, Adam (2018). Beastie Boys Book. Random House. p. 359. ISBN 978-0812995541.
The finished track, 'Get It Together,' managed to mirror, in subtle ways, some of Tribe's stripped-down hip hop, with plenty of low-end and touches of funk, boom-bap, and out-there something.
- ^ Shill, Gene (September 13, 2017). "My favourite album: The Beastie Boys' Ill Communication". The Conversation. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
'Get It Together' samples 'Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In' by the Moog Machine, 'Headless Heroes' by Eugene McDaniels, 'Escape-ism' by James Brown, 'Four Play' by Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns and 'A One Two' by Biz Markie to create a distinct, misty blend of soul-jazz and funk-infused hip-hop that can be now considered quintessentially Beastie Boys.