Cause you can’t, you won’t, and you don’t stop.

The Beastie Boys’ iconic hip-hop album “Paul’s Boutique” was released 30 years ago Thursday — and one Brooklyn man is battling to have this legendary part of the Big Apple’s music history honored at the site where the album’s cover photo was shot.

LeRoy McCarthy, 51, has been calling for six years for the Lower East Side intersection of Ludlow and Rivington streets be renamed “Beastie Boys Square.”

“Hip-hop is a New York City indigenous art form. It started in The Bronx but they are not representing and honoring hip-hop as their own,” LeRoy McCarthy, 51, told The Post.

It’s a long shot, but the former Bad Boy Records rep has done it before.

McCarthy is behind campaigns which in recent months have seen two hip-hop icons honored in their home boroughs — the late rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, in Brooklyn and Staten Island rap group the Wu-Tang Clan.

As first reported by Bowery Boogie, McCarthy wants hip-hop recognized in all five boroughs — including the Manhattan corner where a fake sign reading “Paul’s Boutique” was hung outside a real store called Lee’s Sportswear for the photo shoot for the 1989 album.

But not everyone is on board this one-man hip-hop commemoration crusade.

Before a Community Board considers co-naming a street in honor of an individual or organization, several guidelines need to be met.

Honorees need to have a minimum of 10 years community involvement and should have demonstrated consistent voluntary commitment to the area.

In 2014, Community Board 3 overwhelmingly rejected McCarthy’s proposal.

“CB3 voted it down because it did not meet guideline criteria,” Susan Stetzer, district manager at Community Board 3, told The Post via email on Thursday.

But McCarthy is used to a fight. After a six-year campaign, an area in Staten Island was renamed “Wu-Tang Clan District” in May after the legendary rap group.

The film location scout was also behind the successful campaign to have a Brooklyn street co-named Christopher Wallace Way after Notorious B.I.G.

McCarthy is still pounding the pavement for the Beastie Boys, gathering signatures from local businesses whom he says are supportive of the idea.

Right now, a street art mural of the trio is all that marks the site — now a counter-service wrap joint called Wolfnights.

A small park in Brooklyn Heights is already named after the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, but McCarthy says New York could do a lot more to celebrate its hip-hop heritage.

“You go to New Orleans and they have plenty of recognition for jazz music,” McCarthy said. “You got to Nashville and you cannot mistake that this is the home of country music.”

“In New York where hip-hop was formed it should have received a lot more respect and celebration than it has over the last four decades it has been alive,” he said.

“All these things I’m working on are to empower the culture,” he said.