10 Pop Songs That Artists Want You To Forget

2. Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys

If you were around back in the '80s, you would have figured that the Beastie Boys would have been a thing of the past these days, only being reserved for I Love the '80s compilations on MTV. Ever since Licensed to Ill though, the Beasties have carved a whole different musical lane for themselves, going for psychedelic rap on Paul's Boutique and even getting a lot more aggro on something like Check Your Head. Back in the day though, this was the kind of frat boy rap that was more obnoxious than it was catchy.

Playing up their Bowery Boy New Yorker schitck, most of this song just seems like it's ripped directly out of a Beavis and Butthead sketch, as the boys talk about the ins and outs of making one of the best ragers that you can think of, with metal guitar riffs leading the way behind them. As it turns out, we were all the ones who really missed the point behind this song.

After it got played into the ground, Ad Rock was upfront in saying that this song was supposed to be a parody of the kind of macho posturing that frat boys get into, only for it to be adopted as their unofficial anthem until the end of time. In that respect, you can't really blame them for switching so drastically a few years later. You need something a lot stronger to wash the taste of bro out of everyone's mouths.