"Get It Together" is a song by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, released as a single from their fourth studio album, Ill Communication. The album version of the song features rapper Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest.
"Get It Together" is a hip-hop song containing elements of funk, boom bap and soul-jazz. The song contains vocal samples from the song "Headless Heroes" by Eugene McDaniels, and heavily samples a loop from "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by the Moog Machine, from the album Switched-On Rock. "Get It Together" also appears on the group's compilation albums The Sounds of Science and Beastie Boys Music.
Track listing CD single "Get It Together" (LP version) – 4:07 "Sabotage" (LP version) – 3:00 "Dope Little Song" – 1:48
US 12" single Side A - 01 – "Get It Together" (LP Version) Side A - 02 – "Get It Together" (Buck-Wild Remix) Side A - 03 – "Resolution Time" Side A - 04 – "Get It Together" (Buck-Wild Instrument) Side B - 01 – "Get It Together" (A.B.A. Remix) Side B - 02 – "Sabotage" (LP Version) Side B - 03 – "Dope Little Song" Side B - 04 – "Get It Together" (A.B.A. Instrumental)
UK CD single "Get It Together" "Sabotage" "Get It Together" (Beastie Boys Remix) "Resolution Time"
Charts Chart (1994)PeakpositionAustralia (ARIA)94Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade)2Netherlands (Single Top 100)35UK Singles (OCC)19UK Dance (OCC)21UK Dance (Music Week)21US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)1US Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)13US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales (Billboard)5US Hot Rap Tracks (Billboard)43
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