The music video for "Fight for Your Right" begins as a mother and father tell their two sons to stay out of trouble while they are away. When they leave, the two boys decide to have a party including soda and pie, hoping "no bad people show up"; this prompts the arrival of the Beastie Boys (Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA) at the party. The trio start all kinds of trouble within the house, such as chasing and kissing girls, starting fires, bringing more troublesome people into the house, spiking the punch, smashing things, and starting a massive
pie fight. As the pie fight reaches its peak, the Beastie Boys run away, the party having become too out of hand even for them. As the video ends, the remaining partygoers shout along to the final chorus of "party!" before hitting the returning mother in the face with a pie. Directed by
Ric Menello and
Adam Dubin, there are numerous cameos in this video, including an unknown-at-the-time
Tabitha Soren,
Cey Adams,
Ricky Powell, members of the
punk rock band
Murphy's Law, as well as the Beastie Boys' producer,
Rick Rubin, who was shown wearing an
AC/DC and
Slayer shirt, the latter of whom were also signed to
Def Jam at the time. Soren, whose hair was dyed blonde for the shoot, got her chance to be in the video because she was a friend of Rubin's and attended nearby
New York University. "I worked hard at not getting any pie goo on me," she recalls, because the
whipped cream used had been scoured from supermarket trash cans since there was no money in the budget for it. As a result, it was rancid and had a foul odor. "The smell in that room, when everyone was done throwing pies, was like rotten eggs. You wanted to throw up." ==
Fight for Your Right Revisited==