I really feel that we just lost one of the coolest men in the world. To honor him and the innovations he gave us, I’ve put together a few of his most groundbreaking and filmic works.

(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)

The Beasties exploded into the mainstream with their anti-partying party anthem. The video depicts a party that goes awry when “bad people” show up. This video actually owes its premise from an unlikely place… George Romero‘s Dawn of the Dead. The film features scenes of a motorcycle gang who crash into a zombie-filled mall, overturning everything, smashing televisions, and attacking zombies with pies to the face. The video budget being non-existent, the Beasties famously used rancid whipped cream they found in the garbage cans behind the supermarket.

Sabotage

The art form of music videos were brought to a new level thanks to Sabotage. Directed by frequent collaborator Spike Jonze, the video is an homage to the cop dramas of the 1970′s. Wearing wigs and fake mustaches, the band played the show characters in the fictionalized credit sequence. When the video didn’t take home the top honors at the MTV Video Music Awards, MCA bum-rushed the stage in the guise of Nathaniel Hornblower to protest the dis. It’s safe to say, MCA had great influence over Kanye’s career.

The film will be screened for the first time on Thursday at Sundance Film Festival, so expect the cat to be out of the bag about 45 seconds after the credits roll. Clearly, the Beasties have built enough cred up to enlist the A-list talent mentioned above, but will it be any good?

They’ve certainly got a pedigree in making music videos, having worked with Spike Jonze for the iconic “Sabotage” video, and their sensibility appears to be in the right place, but we should know for sure come Friday. Fingers crossed that the short ends in a pie fight.