Operation Beatbox

Alternative Press gave the album high praises, awarding it five out of five stars and saying "there's no doubt that when it comes to rewriting rap's classic moments, industrial/goth bands say more for the cultural links between the two black sheep of modern musical culture than one might have dreamed." Aiding & Abetting gave it a more mixed review, saying the material ranges "from the sublime (SMP thrashing out "Prophets of Rage") to the utterly silly (as any cover of "Gangsta's Paradise" was bound to be)."{{cite journal|first=Jon |last=Worley |url=http://www.aidabet.com/archives/archV.html#OPERATION |title=Operation Beatbox |journal=Aiding & Abetting |date=October 7, 1996 |issue=120 |accessdate=October 27, 2016}} Sonic Boom found the compilation's absurdity to be part of its charm, saying "don't be surprised if you find the majority of these tracks more than amusing as there is something fundamentally wrong with a gang of privileged white kids trying to sound like a band of inner city black youths."{{cite journal|first=Chris |last=Christian |url=http://www.sonic-boom.com/review/operation.beatbox.html |title=Various Artists: Operation Beatbox |journal=Sonic Boom |date=August 1996 |volume=4 |issue=7 |accessdate=October 27, 2016}}

{{tracklist

| extra_column = Artist

| title1 = Natural Born Killaz

| note1 = Dr. Dre & Ice Cube cover

| writer1 = James Anderson, O'Shea Jackson, Andre Young

| extra1 = Christ Analogue

| length1 = 4:09

| title2 = I Ain't Goin' Out Like That

| note2 = Cypress Hill cover

| writer2 = Louis Freese, Lawrence Muggerud, Richard Todd Ray

| extra2 = 16Volt

| length2 = 4:15

| title3 = Jump Around

| note3 = House of Pain cover

| extra3 = The Clay People

| writer3 = Everlast

| length3 = 3:34

| title4 = Colors

| note4 = Ice-T cover

| writer4 = Ice-T, Afrika Islam

| extra4 = Society Burning

| length4 = 4:56

| title5 = Night of the Living Baseheads

| note5 = Public Enemy cover

| writer5 = Carlton "Chuck D" Ridenhour, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Hank Shocklee

| extra5 = Terminal 46

| length5 = 4:11

| title6 = The Devil Made Me Do It

| note6 = Paris cover

| writer6 = Oscar Jackson, Jr.

| extra6 = Apparatus

| length6 = 4:00

| title7 = Gangsta's Paradise

| note7 = Coolio & L.V. cover

| writer7 = Stevie Wonder, Coolio, Doug Rasheed, Larry Sanders

| extra7 = Battery

| length7 = 4:52

| title8 = Push It

| note8 = Salt-n-Pepa cover

| writer8 = Hurby Azor, Ray Davies

| extra8 = Numb

| length8 = 4:40

| title9 = Fight the Power

| note9 = Public Enemy cover

| writer9 = Hank Boxley, Keith Boxley, Carlton Ridenhour, Eric Sadler

| extra9 = D.C.K.

| length9 = 4:20

| title10 = Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

| note10 = Beastie Boys cover

| writer10 = Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz, John King, Michael Simpson, Adam Yauch

| extra10 = Tinfed & Killing Floor

| length10 = 3:55

| title11 = Prophets of Rage

| note11 = Public Enemy cover

| writer11 = William Drayton, Carlton Ridenhour, Eric Sadler, Hank Shocklee

| extra11 = SMP

| length11 = 3:21

| title12 = Wicked

| note12 = Ice Cube cover

| writer12 = O'Shea Jackson

| extra12 = Colla Destra

| length12 = 4:47

| title13 = Typical American

| note13 = The Goats cover

| writer13 = James D'Angelo, Swayzack, Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams

| extra13 = Slave Unit

| length13 = 3:14

| title14 = King of Rock

| note14 = Run–D.M.C. cover

| writer14 = Darryl McDaniels, Jay Mizel, Joseph Simmons, Larry Smith, Russell Simmons

| extra14 = Institute of Technology

| length14 = 4:56

| title15 = Mama Said Knock You Out

| note15 = LL Cool J cover

| writer15 = James Todd Smith

| extra15 = Apolitiq

| length15 = 5:17

| title16 = Can You Rock It Like This

| note16 = Run–D.M.C. cover

| writer16 = J.T. Smith, Larry Smith, Rick Rubin

| extra16 = Insight 23

| length16 = 4:37

| title17 = Two Three Break

| note17 = Beastie Boys cover

| writer17 = Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Rick Rubin, Adam Yauch

| extra17 = Abstinence

| length17 = 4:57

}}

Adapted from the Operation Beatbox liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Operation Beatbox |others=Various artists |year=1996 |type=booklet |publisher=Re-Constriction Records |location=San Diego, California}}

• Chase – compiling
• Scan, Boy! – cover art
• Steven Seibold – mastering

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