Blog: PopMatters

"B-Boy Bouillabaisse" is one of the great denouncements in the history of pop music, a 12-minute suite that gives us a definitive, multifarious view of urban life in the late 1980s. Here we arrive at the culmination of all the Beastie Boys' and the Dust Brothers' insane rhyming and production chops as featured on Paul's Boutique. "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" is one of the great denouncements in the history of pop music, a 12-minute suite in the tradition of the collection of unfinished song fragments that make up the second half of Abbey Road. This final track consists of nine movements, [...]