(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)

Released in December 1986 as the album's fourth single, with Paul Revere on the B-side, it was meant as a light parody of party songs such as Smokin' in the Boys Room and I Wanna Rock. Mike D said many fans were oblivious that it was a total goof on them. It reached number 7 on the Hot 100 in the week of 7 March 1987, their only US top ten, and number 11 in Britain. Sources disagree on who wrote it: one account credits Yauch and Tom Cushman of the side project Brooklyn, another Yauch, Ad-Rock and Rubin.

Ric Menello and Adam Dubin directed the video, a party crash that ends in a pie fight, with cameos from Tabitha Soren, Cey Adams, Ricky Powell, Murphy's Law and Rubin. Yauch wrote and directed a sequel, Fight for Your Right Revisited, in 2011 as the video for Make Some Noise. On the first headlining tour a 20-foot inflatable penis was used during the song, according to Songfacts.

Live and covers

Coldplay played a piano version at All Points West on 2 August 2009, and again at the Hollywood Bowl on 4 May 2012, the day Yauch died. N.Y.C.C. took a hip-house version to number 14 in Britain in 1998, and Motley Crue covered it on their 2024 EP Cancelled.