| Brass Monkey | |
| Cover: | BrassMonkeyBeastieBoys.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Beastie Boys |
| Album: | Licensed to Ill |
| Recorded: | 1986 |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Length: | 2:37 |
| Label: | Def Jam/Columbia Records |
| Producer: | Rick Rubin |
| Prev Title: | The New Style |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
"Brass Monkey" is a song by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys. It was a single released from their first album Licensed to Ill. It is also on the Beastie Boys' compilation album Solid Gold Hits.
"Brass Monkey" samples "Bring It Here" by Wild Sugar. The song features the Roland TR-808 drum machine. The song is named after the Heublein Company alcoholic drink of the same name, which is mentioned several times throughout the song. Cash Box called it a "scratchy rap send up."[1] Notably, professional wrestler "Speedball" Mike Bailey uses "Brass Monkey" as his entrance song on the worldwide independent circuit, particularly in Deadlock Pro Wrestling (DPW), Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and Game Changer Wrestling (GCW).[2] [3]
The Dave Matthews Band covered this song at Jones Beach, New York in 2013. It was strung in with "Too Much" and "Ants Marching".
Richard Cheese covered the song on his studio album Aperitif for Destruction, as well as on his live album Viva la Vodka as a medley, interpolated with lyrics from "Intergalactic", "Ch-Check It Out", "Sabotage" and "Three MC's and One DJ".