90s Rock Vault 🤘 on Instagram: "The Rap-Rock Blueprint Was Written by The Beastie Boys @beastieboys “Sabotage” – Beastie Boys (1994, Late Show with David Letterman, NYC) 📺 Live from the Ed Sullivan Theater Before nu-metal was a term, before rap-rock was a marketable genre, Beastie Boys were out here doing it for real. This 1994 performance of “Sabotage” hit national TV before the song had even dropped—and it still landed like a cannonball. Loud, messy, tight, and fully in control of the chaos.