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I Need a Beat

 
Lyrics: I Need a Beat
 

Performed by: LL Cool J
Written by: Adam Keefe Horovitz; Rick Rubin; James Todd Smith

Credits: Horovitz, Adam Keefe (Songwriter); Rubin, Rick (Songwriter); Smith, James Todd (Songwriter); AMERICAN DEF TUNES, INC (Publisher); LL COOL J MUSIC (Publisher); UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP. (Publisher)

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"I Need a Beat"
Single by LL Cool J
B-side I Need a Beat
Released 1983/1984
Format Vinyl Single
Recorded 1983
Genre Hip hop
Length 5:07
Label Def Jam Recordings
Writer(s) James Todd Smith, Adam Horovitz, Rick Rubin
Producer Rick Rubin,
LL Cool J singles chronology
I Need a Beat
(1983/1984)
I Can't Live Without My Radio
(1985)
Radio track listing
"Rock the Bells"
(7)
"I Need a Beat"
(8)
"That's a lie"
(9)
All World: Greatest Hits track listing
"Back Seat"
(12)
"I Need a Beat
(13)
"Doin' It"
(14)

I Need a Beat is the debut single released by rapper, LL Cool J, and one of the first two releases of Def Jam Recordings to have the logo and the catalogue number, along with Beastie Boys' "Rock Hard". It was released in 1984 for Def Jam Recordings, produced by Rick Rubin and written by Rubin, LL Cool J and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys. The song was later remixed and put on his first album, Radio.

Track listing

A-Side

  1. "I Need a Beat"- 5:07

B-Side

  1. "I Need a Beat" (Zootie Mix)- 5:03
  2. "I Need a Beat" (Instrumental)- 5:09

 
 

 

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