August 2, 1998 –
Beastie Boys‘ fifth studio album Hello Nasty started a three week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Album Charts, on this date. This would be the band’s third U.S. No. 1 album.
Some of the pioneering hip-hop acts that emerged in the early ‘80s distorted their vocals in innovative ways, but in the ’90s, rappers usually went for a big, bold sound without any distortion. Beastie Boys bucked that trend, using a karaoke microphone to squiggle their raps on tracks from their 1992 album Check Your Head, notably So What’cha Want. By the time they recorded Intergalactic for the Hello Nasty album, they had access to a vocoder.
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