While listening to Beach Boys' 1963 album Surfer Girl yesterday it dawned on me that The Beach Boys, those straight outta Hawthorne, CA, squeaky-clean (at least at the time) white boys, were the original gangstas, more than 15 years before the first African-American rap record hit the charts. What, you don't believe me? Here's the proof, and it's all on this one album: Evidence #1: Dissin' haters on the pro-surfing "Catch a Wave" with lyrics like "They said it wouldn't last too long/They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon" and "Everybody tries it once/Those who don't just have to put it down." Evidence #2: Gang initiation rites detailed in "Our Car Club" ! Evidence #3: Most of all, the Beach Boys launched the West Coast vs. East Coast feud by taking on those Jersey Boys themselves The Four Seasons at the end of "Surfers Rule."
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