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1986 \u2013 Slayer<\/a><\/strong> is recording their thrash masterpiece Reign In Blood<\/em> and Beastie Boys<\/strong> were recording their landmark rap rock album Licensed To Ill<\/em>. Both albums were recorded by producer Rick Rubin<\/strong>, who had the idea to get King<\/strong> in on a guest spot for Beastie Boys<\/strong>‘ track “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”. King<\/strong> played the spot, got a few hundred bucks, eventually appeared in the glam metal music video for the song, and that was that.<\/p>\n Now in a new interview with Border City Rock Talk<\/em>, King<\/strong> jokes that his life would probably be way easier if he took royalties on the song instead of the flat rate. But King <\/strong>was broke at the time and money was money, and we all know how that goes.<\/p>\n “The simplicity of it is what’s funny about it,” said King<\/strong>. “We were doing what became the Reign In Blood<\/em> album and the Beastie Boys<\/strong> were doing Licensed To Ill<\/em> in the same studio \u2013 like down the hall from each other.<\/p>\n “And Rick Rubin<\/strong> was doing both projects. So they needed a lead on that particular song, ‘No Sleep Till Brooklyn’. So I thought about it, and I went, ‘Yeah, why not? I can use a couple hundred bucks.’ I certainly wasn’t well to do back then. So, that’s what I did. I went in there and I did it. And in hindsight, I wish I didn’t get paid. I wish I took a quarter point or something, because now I would be a rich man!”<\/p>\n Licensed To Ill<\/em> has since gone on to sell 10 million copies in the United States alone, so yeah \u2013 King<\/strong> probably would’ve done pretty well for himself when it comes to royalties. But King<\/strong> also bought a house in Las Vegas a few years back<\/a> for close to $4 million, so it’s probably safe to assume that he’s not doing poorly either. The guy was in one of the biggest metal bands of all time, y’know?<\/p>\n \n