(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)

"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)"
"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)"
Single by Beastie Boys
from the album Licensed to Ill
B-side	"Paul Revere"
Released	December 1986
Genre	Rap rock; hard rock;
Length	3:29
Label	Def Jam; Columbia;
Songwriter(s)	Adam Yauch; Rick Rubin; Adam Horovitz;
Producer(s)	Rick Rubin
Beastie Boys singles chronology
Music video
	"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" on YouTube

"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" (shortened to "Fight for Your Right" on album releases) is a song by American hip hop/rap rock group Beastie Boys, released as the fourth single from their debut album Licensed to Ill (1986). One of their best-known songs, it reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week of March 7, 1987, and was later named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was also included on their compilation albums The Sounds of Science in 1999, Solid Gold Hits in 2005 and Beastie Boys Music in 2020.

^ Billboard December 20, 1986
^ Matsumoto, Jon (May 2, 2012). "The Beastie Boys Provide a License to Party". Grammy Award. The Recording Academy. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
^ Smith, Chris (2009). 101 Albums that Changed Popular Music. Oxford University Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-1953-7371-4. the hit single (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party) was a tongue-in-cheek rap/rock hybrid that largely satirized the white frat-boy audience that made the album such a big hit.
^ Mitchell, Kevin M. (2003). Hip-hop Rhyming Dictionary: For Rappers, DJs and MCs. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-7390-3333-3. The party anthem "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" by the Beastie Boys blended hard rock and rap.
^ Stratton, Jon (2009). Jews, Race and Popular Music. Ashgate Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7546-6804-6. The Beastie Boys' success came from their acceptance by African-American audiences while making rap understandable to white audiences by combining it with hard rock — the most important example of this being '(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)'.