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Adam Yauch Has Passed Away...
Beaks here...
Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, has passed away at the age of forty-seven. Though the cause of death has yet to be identified, he had been battling cancer since 2009.
Despite his illness, Yauch continued to write new music and tour with the Beasties. He also steadily built up Oscilloscope Laboratories, a hugely important producer and distributor of independent films. Without Oscilloscope, it's possible films like WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, BELLFLOWER and MEEK'S CUTOFF would've never made it to theaters in the U.S. And Oscilloscope didn't just distribute those movies; they championed them. They fought to bring younger viewers into the art house theaters where these films are typically consigned, and succeeded in significant ways.
I'll have more to say about Yauch in a moment. I love the Beastie Boys, and can't quite accept that MCA is gone. Since I know a lot of you feel the same way, I wanted to get this story up as soon as possible, so you can share your love and memories in talkback. These are some of the songs I'll be blasting all day in tribute.
Performing "Sabotage" on SNL (starts at 4.00).
I don't know how to write about Adam Yauch or the Beastie Boys from an objective standpoint. If you don't want to read a professional, authoritative obit, you know where to go.
When the Beastie Boys' debut LP, LICENSE TO ILL, dropped in late 1986, I was thirteen. It was the perfect soundtrack for adolescent rebellion, a raucously explicit celebration of juvenile delinquency that was as terrifying to parents of that era as Elvis Presley had been to theirs - mostly because it was mainstream. But it wasn't the Top 40 smash "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)" that scared them; that little ditty was "Volare" compared to a song like "Paul Revere", a ridiculously catchy outlaw tale that every kid in school had memorized, right down to King Ad Rock's boast of violating a sheriff's daughter with a whiffle ball bat.
At some point during my 7th grade year, the Beastie Boys dropped by the Toledo Sports Arena. Seeking an opportunity to get in with the cool kids, I marched over to Finders Records in Bowling Green, Ohio and bought a ticket - which my parents immediately forced me to give away (I'd like to say I sold that shit at a $10 markup, but I handed it over to a ninth grade girl I was trying to impress). It's probably a good thing I didn't go. Every kid I knew who snuck out to see the show - on a school night! - returned home stinking of beer (most of which was sprayed from the stage by the Beasties) and pot. It was quite the scandal. People got grounded.
At the time, the conventional wisdom was that the Beastie Boys were a fad; they were a novelty shock act who owed their popularity to MTV and the production wizardry of Rick Rubin. And when they disappeared for a couple of years - at the exact moment socially-conscious bands like U2 began to move into the mainstream, while hip-hop either got harder (NWA), more political (Public Enemy) or profoundly shitty (MC Hammer) - most people figured the Beasties had run their course. By the time the long-delayed PAUL'S BOUTIQUE hit in the summer of 1989, consumers had no use for the Beasties; their dense method of sampling was no match for the artless looping of popular acts like Tone Loc, MC Hammer or Vanilla Ice. MTV gave "Hey Ladies" a shot, but it didn't take. When the LP fell far short of sales expectations, PAUL'S BOUTIQUE was declared a failure, and the Beasties seemed done for.
To my ears, PAUL'S BOUTIQUE was a thick pop-cultural jumbo of everything I loved (or would come to love). It was my SGT. PEPPER. On "Eggman", they mashed up samples of Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly", Bernard Herrman's shower-kill cue from PSYCHO and John Williams's opening theme from JAWS (and you knew it was the opening cue because, at the end of the song, they let the sample run past the director's credit to the harmonica) over a beat cribbed from Lightnin' Rod's "Sport"; on "Sounds of Science", they fused The Beatles together with Boogie Down Productions. The whole album's like that. In terms of sampling, no one's matched PAUL'S BOUTIQUE (though De La Soul and DJ Shadow get honorable mentions for, respectively, DE LA SOUL IS DEAD and ENDTRODUCING).
It's at this point that the Beasties stopped being figures of thoughtless anarchy to me; now, they were like-minded subversives. I trusted their taste implicitly. So every time I heard a song I knew only as a sample from PAUL'S BOUTIQUE, I plunged headlong into that artist's oeuvre; this, with an assist from Prince and early Red Hot Chili Peppers, led me to The Isley Brothers, The Meters and Funkadelic. I am beyond indebted.
CHECK YOUR HEAD hit during my senior year in high school. The Beasties toured exhaustively for the next year in support of the album, and, finally, I was old enough to not only buy a ticket to see the Beasties, but also drive myself to the show. I saw the Beasties twice in 1992 - once during the summer at the legendary Agora in Cleveland (where House of Pain no-showed as the opening act), and again that fall at the University of Dayton Arena (with a very present Rollins Band kicking off the festivities). The showstopper both times was "Shadrach", an amazing track off of PAUL'S BOUTIQUE that, via a Sly Stone sample, references the Biblical tale of three brothers - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego - who were spared a fiery death due to their fierce devotion to God.
Notions of faith would creep into their music over their coming years, but the Beastie Boys largely endured because of their fierce devotion to each other. By the time they released ILL COMMUNICATION in 1994, there wasn't a hip-hop trio that could trade lyrics with such ease or generosity. They could split an AB rhyme scheme, fall into conversation for an entire stanza, or chant together in unison, and yet there was never a hint of ego. They were the best of brothers; if they fought (and I'm sure they did), they never let that contentiousness seep through to the songs. They complemented each other beautifully: Ad Rock brought the rambunctiousness, Mike D was the puckish operator (he also played the part of businessman when he formed the now-defunct Grand Royal Records), and, as the years wore on, MCA supplied the raspy-voiced political consciousness.
Adam Yauch's Buddhist conversion jumped out on ILL COMMUNICATION, and yet no one really marveled at the fact that, in eight short years, he'd gone from boasting of armed robbery to advocating for Tibetan independence. Then again, in the same time frame, I'd gone from devouring Mack Bolan books to hanging Krzysztof Kieslowski movie posters on my bedroom walls. What's cool is that we never lost each other's sound. I was on an adventure, and the Beastie Boys were there to mark the time. They were both the party and the reality check.
When Yauch launched his film production/distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2008, I was excited to see how the eldest Beastie would contribute to independent cinema. Along with Yauch's basketball documentary GUNNIN' FOR THAT #1 SPOT, Oscilliscope's initial acquisitions were inspired (particularly Kurt Kuenne's emotionally pulverizing DEAR ZACHARY). In subsequent years, they grew bolder, backing idiosyncratic works from essential filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey and Andrea Arnold (all women, by the way). As a movie lover, I feel as fortunate to have Oscilloscope in my life as I have the Beasties.
This is Adam Yauch's legacy, and it will only grow long after his passing. When I see an audacious film like Edgar Wright's SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD - which seamlessly blends formats, genres and sensibilities all the while feeling unmistakably like the work of one artist - I'll hear the soulful sonic melange of PAUL'S BOUTIQUE. When Kelly Reichardt makes her next movie, I'll be thankful a distributor like Oscilloscope will be there to back it.
And when I throw on "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" right this instant, I'll pay Yauch his own tribute:
"MC for what I am and do/
The A is for Adam and the lyrics true."
Always.
Faithfully submitted,
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A sad day for music....
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...and Rip!
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You were one of the good ones. My sentiments to your family.
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sucks to be human sometimes
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Stay classy tb's. Fucking loser scum. Who even cares if you're first in a regular article? What does it to for you? Validation? That's some sad shit. Rip MCA
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Rest in peace MCA.
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But he made a lot of great music, so long Adam.
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Sad news. The Beasties completely changed my teenaged world.
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LICENSED TO ILL was the soundtrack to my senior year of high school, but PAUL'S BOUTIQUE was far and beyond one of the most amazing albums ever released. My personal favorite BB was CHECK YOUR HEAD, which came at a time in my life when I really needed that album. MCA snatched the gold.
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Too bad we don't get more masterpieces out of the hip hop/rap genre like Paul's Boutique. I guess it was easier when clearing samples wasn't an issue. Their last album Hot Sauce Committee was preaty solid and a big step up from the so so To the 5 Boroughs. RIP MCA
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Thanks for your contributions to some of the greatest party anthems of all time. You're loved and already missed.
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May 4, 2012, 1 p.m. CST
Like a lemon to a lime a lime to a lemon I sip the def ale with all the fine women!
by Baron Karza
RIPMCA
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Director too.
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Great rapper, musician, director. He was a trailblazer.
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What a great legacy to leave behind. They released some truely great movies, and even greater Documentaries. He will be missed.
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One of the true pioneers of music and pop culture. Beastie Boys grew as artists always pushing the boundaries while staying relevant for decades which only the greats can do. Maybe we can spend some of those billions being thrown around everywhere in the world and find a cure for this fucktwad disease.
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RIP homie. We listened to a lot of Beastie Boys in college. Check Your Head was on heavy rotation. :C
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BEASTIES were always cool. Never sold out, never got old.
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I'll never forget driving to Los Angeles from San Francisco with my parents, sitting in the back of the truck with a boombox listening to "Intergallactic" on repeat for 6 fucking hours determined to have every single lyric memorized by the time we arrived. I fucking love the Beastie Boys, and MCA, you were the fucking ring leader my man, RIP!!!!
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Fuck you cancer.
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Fuck you and die cancer. RiP MCA
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May 4, 2012, 1:10 p.m. CST
It's been a rough year for those of us who grew up in the 80's
by Patrick Pettay
We lost our first Sweathog and now we've lost our first Beastie Boy. Both way too early. Meanwhile that damn Abe Vigoda keeps chugging along.
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May 4, 2012, 1:10 p.m. CST
They can have soda and pie at the wake. I hope no bad people show up.
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
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Pretty amazing group. RIP MCA
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The Beasties provided the soundtrack to some of my happiest times growing up, thanks for three decades of groundbreaking music. RIP
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Very sad. RIP MCA.
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I don't really like their style of music, but they always seemed like such cool guys. Totally blows :/
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What a loss...Rest in Peace MCA...(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) was the anthem of my youth, even though MCA thought it sucked, probably because brain-dead fucktards who lived by that rule could not see the BBs were laughing at them, not with them.
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Brass Monkey for everyone.
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damn shame
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...Too Soon??
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It came out when I was ten years old right at the same time as Run D.M.C.'s Raising Hell. Even at ten, I wondered if the BB's were serious, they seemed so uch like caricatures. Then Paul's Boutique came out and blew me the fuck away. As I got older, I discovered better music. I still listened to some rap and still do today but it lost that element of fun that it had in the 80's and became somehing so very different. Yet, every summer it seemed, the BB's would have a song on the radio that would get me to guy buy their new album and every summer it seemed, it was great. Anyway, I guess the best compliment I can pay them is that to this day I hear a song off of License To Ill or even put on the album and I actually feel like thta 10 year old kid again, running around the neighborhood raising all kinds of hell before i even knew what raising hell was. To capture a moment in time so perfecty is really all that you can ask out of a band. To do it for 25 years? That's pretty rare.
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Blast. A sad moment indeed. I missed the first explosion of the Boys as I was being raised on crap parent music before I could break free and claim my independence and make my own choices. My thoughts to his nearest and dearest.
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It's fun to stay at the Whyyyyyyy MCA. He just barely missed seeing The Avengers. Bummer. But he was part of the Beastie Boys triumvirate that gave us Paul's Boutique, arguably the finest expression of whiteboy faux angst ever put to music. RIP my homey.
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May 4, 2012, 1:18 p.m. CST
Pauls boutique is one of the greatest albums of all time in any genre
by gooseud
And the best part is , there was absolutely nothing to suggest they were capable of it, its like Backstreet Boys putting out Abbey Road as their 2nd cd. I love the story of Chuck D saying how all the rappers, to maintain their cred, shat on Pauls Boutique when it came out, crapped on it in public.....then went home and blasted it on 11, stunned by how amazing it was. For my money, shadrach is the greatest hip hop song ever recorded.
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R.I.P., man.
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hell of a legacy. Good on you, MCA
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That is all.
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Rip McA
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The Beastie Boys were never good even for a second, but this still sucks.
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May 4, 2012, 1:25 p.m. CST
I'll pile on cause it can't be said enough...Paul's Boutique is...
by Flyswatta
The only rap album I'd call genius. And this is someone who is not really a fan of the genre.
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May 4, 2012, 1:26 p.m. CST
Remember them when they were little rich boy fuck-ups playing hardcore punk in NYC...
by mdk
...but even then, they were smarter than anyone else around. Seen the in concert countless times and loved every minute. RIP MCA. This sucks.
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May 4, 2012, 1:28 p.m. CST
Would Spike Jonze be where he is today without his work with the Beasties? Hard to say. And its easy to say why does fill-in-musical-hack-notalent live, while a genius leaves us.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
I know its been said in many an obit, but FUCK YOU CANCER!!!
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to his family and friends
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Fans of course
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In 1992 after the poor reception for 1989's BRILLIANT Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head having just been released, I saw the Beastie Boys at a rather small venue in Mesa, Az. House Of Pain opened up and L7 was the middle act. After the show and most people had cleared out, myself and a couple of friends walked around the back of the stage area and waited to catch a glimpse of the Beasties. After about 30 minutes or so Adam Yauch saw our small group and walked right over to chat. He signed autographs and answered questions. Ad Rock hung WAY back and didn't interact at all and Mike D stoos closer but far enough away to avoid the small group. Yauch went out of his way to take care of the fans and along with his work for Tibet I always considered him to be a thoughtful, thankful and deep individual. He will be missed. R.I.P. Adam. And thanks for the music.
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R.I.P., MCA.
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Easily their best album. Followed by License To Ill, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty
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This sucks. RIP, buddy.
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.....jesus, this is horrrible news. for my generation this is pretty much like when the news came out that john lennon was killed. very, very sad. gonna have to blast Check Your Head at full volume today and into the weekend.
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Quit pretending.
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Thanks for being the one ugly speed bump in an otherwise unusually loving talkback stream for this site. The Beastie Boys have a gigantic fan base because they have been so good for so long. You obviously missed out on them while listening to The Spin Doctors. Congrats.
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May 4, 2012, 1:46 p.m. CST
pretty much like when the news came out that john lennon-Not really
by Samuel Fulmer
Their last album was finished and going to come out fall of 2009 until Yauch was diagnosed with cancer. The albulm was postponed in order for Yauch to be treated and hopefully be well enough to perform for an album based series of concerts. It (Hot Sauce Committe pt.2) was released last Spring with no tour, and videos that did not feature the Beasties. At the time it was announced that Yauch was cancer free, but then he made a statement saying that he was still fighting it. And then last month he did not show up for the Beasties induction into the rock and roll hall of fame.
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Buddha bless you Adam
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The sheriff finally got him after what he did to his daughter!
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he fought for our right to party. everone my childhood is fucking dying lately. who's next?
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May 4, 2012, 1:50 p.m. CST
My all time favorite band... RIP and thanks for everything MCA
by beastie
fuck
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May 4, 2012, 1:51 p.m. CST
Godspeed Mr. Yauch. I don't think I ever felt old until today, and im hardly a huge B Boys fan. Pauls Boutique was indeed a masterpiece tho.
by dahveed1972
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sure shot, intergalactic, body moving are three of my fave rap songs. of all time. Raising Hell and Licence to ill were two of the first records I ever bought. as a kid in ireland. RIP MCA.
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In absolute shock over this. The Beastie Boys were the soundtrack to my adolescence, my twenties and even my thirties. There music matured and grew as I did. Adam was an integral part of their music and there style. Having lost a very good friend recently at the age of 33, Adam's death at only 47 is another body blow.
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I never got to see them live - always wanted to. That sux. And while I am a fan of claiming "first"...this is a crappy article to claim it for Macphisto and Heroine. Overall, not so cool news. Thanks MCA for so much.
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This has to be one of the hardest losses I have felt in a while. I grew up on the Beastie Boys, many of my best memories had B-Boys playing in the background! I was ecstatic when Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 came out last year since it was the best album they produced since Ill Communication. I was hopeful that Yauch would pull through and the B-Boys would continue to make music into the next decade, alas that is not meant to be. Condolences to his family friend, and the rest of the Beastie Boys community!
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It was just a bit of satire on a website known for smart-ass comments. No disrespect to the man.
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May 4, 2012, 1:56 p.m. CST
a consistent soundtrack for my life, thanks for everything MCA
by notspock2
Pauls Boutique is cranked up to 11 as I type this. RIP.
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Not the biggest fan of the Beastie Boys, but respected the hell out of their music. RIP MCA, you will be missed and F cancer.
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May 4, 2012, 1:57 p.m. CST
@mickster_island: Just because you were born in '95 don't mean we don't know who he is.
by Tikidonkeypunch
Or ever liked a Beasties album/song. Stop being a douche you fuckin underage hipster.
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will someone cure this damn stuff already?
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May 4, 2012, 2 p.m. CST
He did it like this he did it like that he did it with a wiffle ball bat
by Mark
RIP MCA, Beasties fo-evah
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I said "howdy" He said "hi."
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I'm talkin after the thrill of License to Ill had subsided and before the revelation of Paul's Boutique "which was not an overnight success BTW. If you were like me and were caught listening to LTI or Run DMC around 88' or so you would be made to feel like a total sucker and many a scorned look was directed at you especially from the uber-hip and edgy skater-punk crowd. Being the dork I was I just shrugged and accepted I was lame for continuing to get inspired but I started to realize after those same people started praising Paul's B they then also celebrated License to Ill like nothing had happened. Funny how things work. That same year I started spinning underground hip hop at a college station and never let others discourage my musical instincts. RIP Adam.. you are truly irreplaceable.
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imagine jumping in the delorean to 1986, watching them open for Madonna , spray beer all over the stage, and generally act like jackasses. At that moment, you turn to your fellow concert goer and say: " you know, these guys' next album? It's going to be generally considered the greatest albumin the history of hip hop. They are also goi g to go on to be one of the most universally beloved and respected acts amongst fans and their peers, and in addition will be considered a kind of heir to George Harrison's spiritual type of social activism. In fact, they are going to be the driving force in bringing the violent persecution of another country to the attention of the western world. Have a nice day." they woulda thrown you in the looney bin.
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A sad day...
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"FIRST! RIP!" Dicks.
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Kick it over here baby pops..
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May 4, 2012, 2:06 p.m. CST
This news is so sad I'm gonna stick my Dick in the mashed potatoes...
by A_J_Pennypacker
Such an amazing talent lost RIP MCA Sabotage is still the greatest music video ever made.
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who would be given a section of the universal lot to make a video in the new york section of the universal lot. Fight for your right revisited isnt just a music video. its a proper film with jack black, will ferrell, danny McBride, Elijah Wood, john C Reilly and Seth Rogen playing both past and future versions of The Beasties. What this group out was that they had a sense of humour and their live earth Performance was the best of the day. sabotage is one of the greatest videos ever made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA-R9OS-Vo&feature=related
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Genuinely upset,I grew up to the Beastie Boys,sound track to my misspent youth. RIP MCA
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May 4, 2012, 2:10 p.m. CST
The link that buckethead posted - that's what my joke was about
by Mickster_Island
In my office, I literally have Josh Groban fans clicking on their AOL News internet websites and acting all sad about "Adam Yow-ch, was it?"
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This is awful.
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May 4, 2012, 2:11 p.m. CST
Well put, gooseud. They're kind of like the real-life Wyld Stallions
by bah
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in the Run DMC movie "Tougher Than Leather" playing himself. I was never a huge fan of the Beastie Boys but they had some catchy songs and if there is a rap half of fame, they should be in there if they aren't already.
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I was hoping they would be like my generation’s Rolling Stones. Never got to see them live...
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He always seemed the coolest, tending to just be quiet and chilled out during interviews while the other two talked. His rapping was also more subdued and he had a really cool, raspy voice.
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May 4, 2012, 2:15 p.m. CST
I hate white people who ONLY like the Beaties but ignore other noteworthy rap...
by MST3KPIMP
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Some old bullshit.
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May 4, 2012, 2:16 p.m. CST
Really really sad. ANd they were just inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame this past Saturday.
by moorE12
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Well said sir.
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What's wrong with you guys? FIRST TO POST! oh... and RIP. No class. Really.
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They are punk rap and don’t sound like any other group (except for License To Ill, which sounds like Run DMC). I listen to other hip hop, but the Beastie Boys are easily my favorite in that genre.
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I sometimes post on the BBs forum and can't take this news in, met him once, lost for words. RIP Nathaniel Hornblower
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May 4, 2012, 2:28 p.m. CST
Paul’s Boutique is their most impressive album but Check Your Head is my personal favorite.
by frank
It might just be that that was their new album when I first started listening to them, but I just love the grungy, fuzzy cohesiveness of Check Your Head. All the songs seem to fit together so well, and the punk and hip hop vibes are blended perfectly. Time For Living is probably my favorite Beasties track. That song rocks so hard. And MCA’s bass line on Gratitude is fucking classic.
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oh and those 2 Idiots fighting it out for 'First' on a condolence thread. Classy guys...
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May 4, 2012, 2:39 p.m. CST
THIS NEWS FLOORED ME LIKE A PINCH ON THE NECK FROM MR. SPOCK. RIP MCA AND RIP BEASTIE BOYS.
by Darth Busey
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksapf6YUug
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.....news of Lennons murder, because we knew MCA was sick. i just meant that it was similar in that a member of one of the greatest bands of my generation is no longer among us. <p> I really don't care what anyone else thinks, but i consider the Beastie Boys to be my generations Beatles. to take the execellent comparison dirkbelig made above a step further, Licence to Ill was the groups Meet the Beatles, and Pauls Boutique was their Sgt. Pepper, and Check Your Head was their White Album. the Beasties just got better and better with every album they released and always pushed the envelope by defying any kind of attempt to classify them as any one style of music.
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May 4, 2012, 2:41 p.m. CST
The song I Don’t Know off of Hello Nasty is beautiful and really shows Yauch’s versatility as a musician.
by frank
I am really bummed out about this. Really depressed. Hopefully he achieved enlightenment at the end.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1Qe2m8oOA
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May 4, 2012, 2:45 p.m. CST
I agree that there are a lot of parallels between the Beasties and the Beatles, sonny
by frank
No one can quite compare to the Beatles, but the Beastie Boys achieved something similar in their own way. Also, both bands had a great sense of humor and were actually fun to listen to in addition to being musically creative and original.
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May 4, 2012, 2:47 p.m. CST
I agree with franks. Beasties' music is a different animal than most rap
by bah
I know they're lumped in with hip hop, but personally I think that's a stretch. I'd put them closer to funk groups like Galactic than rap. The style of vocals alone doesn't define the music. I'm sure there are LOADS of Kid Rock fans who wouldn't touch a rap album.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvRBUw_Ls2o&ob=av2e
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I feel like beating a biter down with aluminum bat. RIP A.Y.
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May 4, 2012, 2:56 p.m. CST
Still never got why the Criterion Collection Beastie Boys DVDs
by Samuel Fulmer
Were censored for language!
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May 4, 2012, 3:02 p.m. CST
RIP and condolences to the beastie fam. There will mos def be no sleep in crooklyn tonight.
by Cedric Ford
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Definitely one of the most listened albums ever for me, and never gets old. Thank you MCA. We love ya. You died way too young, man.
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FUCK! I fucking loved Beastie Boys and was blasting the latest album. Fuck. This is bullshit. MCA. NO!
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May 4, 2012, 3:18 p.m. CST
I ain't interested in you anyhow. I'm just interested in the B-Boys.
by frank
So fuck you, my man!
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May 4, 2012, 3:24 p.m. CST
Fuck. So many good songs on every album. But yeah Paul's Boutique
by the artist formerly known as messi
that changed the game. Gonna blast something from every album today. Even Make Some Noise from the last album was better than most bullshit out there, rack city and lil wayne, what the fuck is that shit.
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If the Beastie Boys were the musical version of the Three Stooges, then we just lost our Moe.
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May 4, 2012, 3:35 p.m. CST
Still one of the great TV performances
by the artist formerly known as messi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i1iGa96GYM&feature=related Epic and badass. Mainstream hip hop is cheesy and these middle aged guys still came off cooler. MCA!!!
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Over/Under on when iTunes price gouges the hell out of Beastie Boys albums? Or creates an impromptu best of? I'm going to say 6 hours.
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There's been a lot of celebrity deaths recently, and all of them have obviously been sad, but this is one that hits me really hard. Great director. Great rapper. Great person, from what I could tell. This is bullshit. Also guys, I know this is the AICN talkbacks (a place known for being full of awful internet dickheads), but right now is not the time to flame each other, or troll the board, or put down others' taste in music. It's time to grieve. We lost a legend today. Show some respect.
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too young man... too young.
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were pretty much the only two albums that got me through the 1990's. otherwise it was just a haze of depressing grunge bullshit. no offence to anyone who still likes Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but man.... that shit depressed the hell out of me. the Beasties were like a ray of sunshine cutting through that murky swamp of music history. <p> I remember the first time i heard SURE SHOT i was grinning from ear to fucking ear like a mental patient. that flute loop was just kick ass. fuck man, really taking this news hard. if cancer had a face i would break it's fucking nose.
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May 4, 2012, 3:48 p.m. CST
R.I.P. Adam. Your music defined a part of my childhood, and you're bringing the right to party upstairs, I know it.
by Santiago Charboneau
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May 4, 2012, 3:48 p.m. CST
I hope this doesn’t ruin the fun of the Beastie Boys’ music for me.
by frank
I hear you sonnyhooper. I love Nirvana and a lot of other ‘complaint rock,' but the Beastie Boys were just as important to me and provided and upbeat, happy counterpoint to that kind of music. Now it just seems like it will be depressing to them. I guess it will just take some time.
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I meant.
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i'm actually in a band and we do a open blues/jam version of Paul Revere, and i have no idea how we will ever get through than song ever again. gonna be very hard for a while.
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May 4, 2012, 4 p.m. CST
I'm so proud and happy I was able to see them all in concert while I had a chance
by Nerd Rage
Chicago, 2007. and no evil cancer can take that experience away from me.
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License to Ill was THE first Rock Band (Next to The Clash) that crossed over to urban audiences. Rest in Peace MCA, The Beastie Boys was a huge part of my growing up during the fantastic 80's. Godspeed and Shalom.
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This fuckin sucks. Yeah, Fuck you Cancer.
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My brother saw them twice and said they put on an awesome show. Once was a black tie ‘gala event’ instrumental set in Vegas.
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R.I.P. MCA. You will be missed.
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MCA was singlehandedly keeping global warming in check.
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May 4, 2012, 4:34 p.m. CST
Paul's Boutique is possibly one of the 20 greatest albums of all time
by I_Snake_Plissken
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May 4, 2012, 4:37 p.m. CST
the members of A Tribe Called Quest should take this to heart...
by sonnyhooper
..... and don't let that shit that went down on the 2010 Rock the Bells tour be the end of ATCQ. Phife Dog and Q-tip need to squash that shit...... like, right now. <P> Life is too fucking short guys. Lifes too fucking short, just ask MCA. <p> you know ATCQ has another Low End Theory in them just waiting to be recorded. just squash that shit and get back in the studio guys. again....lifes too fucking short.
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May 4, 2012, 4:44 p.m. CST
Right On Messi! I've rewatched that a dozen times over the years!
by MST3KPIMP
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Are you fucking kidding me? In a genre where any kind of music or rhythm can be sampled into a beat, you don't think whether or not the person is *rapping* defines it as rap? So what, A Tribe Called Quest were jazz? Just because The Beasties had instrumental tracks or punk songs doesn't change the fact that they were primarily a hip hop act who made rap music. Just like it doesn't change what The Roots do, or pigeonhole them. Try telling the Beastie Boys they weren't hip hop, or the rappers they influenced that they weren't making rap music. You can absolutely have instrumental hip hop, but that doesn't mean the Beastie Boys were an enigma.
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This guy is like a legend or should be - all the work he did for the people of Tibet is astounding. He's like Geldoff on steroids in this context. Plus, Beastie single-handedly helped many of my pure metalhead friends cross-over to the great world of old school house/rap (hip hop's forefathers) along with PE and RunDMC. Ever head their early hardcore, pre-rap stuff? Rumor has it the rap thing was done for a laugh but people loved it so they evolved into Beastie. Well deserved induction into the R&RhOF (but still criminal that those hall of fame assholes haven't put Rush, or Kiss, or Yes in the hall yet as well) Shadrach is still one of the greatest music videos of all time, in my view. With "Sabotage" likely being number 2! These guys just hit everything out of the park (the License to Ill stuff isn't as good as their later stuff but is certainly lots of fun). Sad day and a loss for even those who never heard of him. Rest in Peace MCA.
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why in the world did I think Ad-rock was the one with cancer? Not being funny. I truly thought he was the one who was sick...so this was a shocker.
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Once I saw them in Atlanta at Lakewood Amphitheater and once in the Center Stage theater which holds about 2000 people. Both shows were amazing. The show at Lakewood was the night after a Pearl Jam show and Eddie Vedder was in the crowd wearing a multi-colored circus wig.
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Best VMA moment ever?
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Including Pink Floyd, BB King, Robert Plant, and a bunch of others but Beasties @ lollapalooza 1994 was among the best shows I've seen. They performed the show on live instruments and went nuts. High energy, great time. RIP MCA. The end of an era with the Beasties gone.
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May 4, 2012, 5:41 p.m. CST
Impressive. They're laying down mad rhymes with an 80% success rate...
by Billyeveryteen
I believe that qualifies as ill, at least from a technical standpoint.
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I'm one of the many on here that grew up in the 80's and the Beastie Boys were a big part of growing up in that era. I remember really liking LTI, and playing it over and over, but then they sort of got forgotten a bit. Then when Paul's Boutique came out, nobody was buying it. But I did. I even spent the extra cash to get the seven page gate-fold lp. From the second that needle hit that vinyl till today, it is one of my favorite albums ever made. It is nice to see the respect for that album grow and grow over the years. It's like the musical equivalent of Blade Runner. Today's news hit me pretty hard. It does start to make you feel old when someone you grew up with is gone, especially at such a young age. It is doubly sad when you realize what talent has been taken away and we won't ever get to hear more of it and see it develop even further. This news is indeed not cool. Saw the Beastie Boys at a small venue in New Orleans on the Check Your Head tour and it remains one of the best shows I've ever been too. RIP Adam.
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I remember seeing the live with D.M.C. in or around 1986. They wee still touring Ill and D.M.C. were still touring Raising Hell. I was really young and out of place at the show, but it left a lasting memory. Two things I would like to say. First of all, i left a long post when this link first came up, it's way up there probably in the first 30 or 40 posts or so talking about how i really, really liked them and I talked a little bit about their mar in music history. That being said and my enjoyment of this band already having gone on record, I would just like to say that the same two things happen on AICN whenever someone big dies. First, people have to come on here and be assholes. This guy's only gonna die once, and some of us like to come on here, pay our respects, and read others doing the same. Theguy just died, can't you people give him one day? Just one single day without feeling the need to go onto a page dedicated to someone you dont like or care about, actually read all the postys regarding this subject you don't care about, and take the time to leave a postwith some childish comments slaming the guy. Not even critiques, just stupid shit put up here for the sole purpose of getting yourselves a little attention. It's tasteless and pointless. Fine you don't like him or the group. Whatever, music, like all art, is subjective. People are going to hate things that you like, and people are going to like the things that you hate. Do you really need to go onto a site the day the guy dies and post stupid shit just because you didn't like his music? Now, and this is on the other side of the coin. The Beastie Boys were at times good, really good, bad, pretty bad, and once....just once...really really fucking inspired. I'm not going to throw around the word genius lightly, but Paul's Botique was really, really fucking geni.....inspired, ha ha. That being said, the comparisons of the Beastie Boys to the Beatles? The Rolling Fucking Stones? Lennon? Come on, people. They were a good band that not only stood the test of time but evolved and adapted to and with it. They are not the Beatles. They were good and at some times really great, but they are not up there on that level with those bands. The hyperbole is just as unnecessary as the shitty comments. I'm sure the thre of them are happy with their place in music history, no need for us to begin to elevate it just because he died. I just wana share one more thing, the cocncert I saw with the opening for D.M.C., well, it was back before they started taking themselves so seriously. It was the tour that they came on stage riding a huge inflatable dick. Hlarious. From that to Free Tibet. It's a wild world.
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God Bless The Beastie Boys. I Always Treasured My Beastie Boys RUN DMC Together Forever 1987 Tour T-Shirt & Wore It Till It Fell Apart & My Mum Used It For Dusters :>. In 1989 when fickle youth had moved on & Paul's Boutique was released it fitted right in with acid house and the trends of the time in my world but few others and stands immortal as good times in life. Their following albums & videos still stand supreme to me and always will. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XflfiylNNXY&ob=av3e .Some nice posts today, hope everybody is good, big up the AICN foundation talkbackers.................
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Beastie Boys, as said by many others, was a huge part of the soundtrack to my youth. MCA will be missed. Tonight the arena will be filled with your music in tribute to the gift you shared with us all.
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Motherfucking _Krush Groove_! Not the greatest movie ever. It is worth a watch. As for MCA, what can I say? Solid. Righteous. It is a drag that it was =his time= The thing about a brother like him is he left a legacy. Nobody's gonna let anyone forget him either. That is positive.
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May 4, 2012, 7:53 p.m. CST
Paul's Boutique blew my mind the first time I heard it
by murray_hamilton
Still does. MCA, you were too young...
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don't forget whitney houston
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A cure for cancer. Dark day for music. Thanks Adam for introducing me to hip-hop, and making me appreciate hip-hop. Beastie Boys were one of the foundations of my music nerdom.
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I can listen to it for hours.
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great fucking album. so many great songs
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Because our generation is the one that is signified by the panopoly of media in the world. We grew up with the emergence of computers, cable, video games, MTV , and Internet. One band encompasses all these revolutions and that band is the Beasties. One art form ran parallel with these inovations and that art form is appropriation. With media saturation, how can we not use the stimuli around us as color for our canvas. How dare any company that shoves it's products in our faces sue us for using it in our collective pallet? Fuck them! Beasties, taking the miasma we are surrounded with, whether we like it or not, and processing it into something funky and hilarious, are a revolution. Why couldn't someone like Mick Jagger or Elton John die and, in there highly profitable demise, pay off the devil in allowing Yauch to return? That would be justice!
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May 4, 2012, 8:42 p.m. CST
dancetothebeatofthelivingdead, you are a voice of reason and civility
by P
What the hell are you doing here? Joking. Well said.
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May 4, 2012, 8:49 p.m. CST
@illegal alien vs sexual predator - that, and he was in fact involved in movies
by bah
Plus, as someone said, the Beasties introduced us to Spike Jonez.
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This one hurt. I remember getting Paul's on cassette after Licensed to Ill. It was different that's for sure. Now--one of pioneering albums of the genre and the 80s. There literally will never be another record like it. Yauch also financed An Unfinished Film, currently streaming
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Ha ha thanks brother.
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Beaks: Sounds like we grew up in Toledo around the same time. Small world. When I was watching No Sleep to Brooklyn I was thinking about that "legendary" concert and was wondering how much of what I heard was true and how much was urban legend. I had heard they had "naked ladies" dancing in cages and were throwing condoms on the stage as well as spraying beer on the audience. I was in 5th/6th grade when License to Ill dropped. Good times.
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Like a Nexus Six Coming home to roost Handheld fifty eight When it’s time to get loose
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May 4, 2012, 10:47 p.m. CST
It's sad he never got to see a free Tibet, but he lived life to the full
by Hardboiled Wonderland
I met Adam years ago through Tibet campaigning -- he was a director for the International Campaign For Tibet for over 10 years. I was never into the music of the Beastie Boys, but I immediately liked Adam. Awesome guy, complete opposite of the rockstar image, down to earth, kind, energetic. He will be missed.
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May 4, 2012, 11:02 p.m. CST
It was ignorant of me, but for 4 years I listened to nothing else but the Beastie Boys. Devastated, childhood and onwards hero of mine. Thanks for everything x
by dacanesta
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was that shortly before they put out their greatest hits, they allowed fans to customize the 2 disc set exactly how they wanted it, with the exception of License To Ill. They even allowed fans to customize the name of the 2 disc set as well. Needless to say, I have been bumping Alasondro Alegre's B Boy Bouillabaisse all day. RIP MCA I hope in Heaven the first thing they said to you was "I think you know what time it is. It's time to get ill!"
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All the good people keep dying, and the scum keep thriving. :-(
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I remeber them doing that!!! I never bothered but I remember hearing about it sand thinking that was the future of Greatest Hit collections. However, nobody else ever took the ball and ran with it, but what forward thinking on their parts, allowing the fans to have such a personal interactive experience with creating a legitimate album, albeit a greatest hits compilation. The funny thing is, if memory serves, this was like right around the time that bands like Metallica were shitting all over their fans. Like I said a few times before on here, I'm not a big Beastie "Fan." I like theri music, have most of their albums, and respect the longetivity and evolution of their career, but I'm more of a Beastie "appreciator" than "fan." I wish the bands out there that I really love take notes from these three self-proclaimed idiots from New Yaawk. For the image they had crafted back in the mid-80's, they ended up surprising a lot of people through the years more than once.
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I guess you're saying black people are the only judges of hip-hop or something and therefore the Beastie Boys aren't relevant coz they don't care?!?! Their fan base is without a doubt white people, though black people wishing to rebel against their status in a white-dominated country are hardly gonna find solace and a voice that speaks for them from 3 white guys, are they? Thats not a criticism from them. I know for a fact that if you pop and old Beastie Boys song on that 40+ year old black Americans prick their ears up and sing along, coz i've seen it. Beastie Boys cover different issues to black rappers, issues that are familiar to them due to their upbringing and the skin they were born in. They have no idea about black issues and therefore say nothing about them and therefore, sir, black people have no need to listen to them. That has no consequence on the quality of their music. So fuck off.
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First of all - not the time or the place. Ya know? <p> Second, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
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Was that necessary? Why did you have to bring in race to this? And I happen to be a black man who loves music. And music is what the Beastie Boys were all about. Fuck off you bastard.
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I wasn't going to go there, I was going to do the classy thing and just call you a fucking moron. But in not going to let it go at that. I'm gonna tell you that this "white boy" MCA meant more to rap and was 1000 times the talent than two dead pieces of shit named tupac and biggie. And beloved me when I say, I'm still showing restraint at this point.
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Most blacks I know don't praise the Beastie Boys but don't speak ill of them either. It's like they don't want to admit that the beats and raps are good so they remain silent. So, not saying anything bad is a way of giving props — silent props.
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May 5, 2012, 12:17 a.m. CST
If you use this thread to determine what percentage of humans are smart, cool, or just plain polite, then we can see that about 96% are, which is better than I expected so things are still looking up!
by dacanesta
And no, that doesnt mean you have to like the Beastie Boys music, but you can still respect them or have a viable reason for criticising them. I dont like Bob Marley BUT! I KNOW he's great, talented, changed the game etc.....its just not for me. So like them or not, at least respect what theyve done. I find it hard to believe though that anyone who listens to all of their (very, very unique) work would not like them. So ive changed my mind in fact. If you dont like Sabotage, Whatcha Want, Futtermans Rule (unsung hero), Skills to Pay the Bills, Root Down, Hey Ladies, The Negotiation Limerick File, Paul Revere, Sure Shot, Transitions, Namaste, Live at PJs, Jimmy James, Lee Majors Come Back, Mullet Head, Gratitude and Pass the Mic, then you are an idiot. YES!
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It is easy for some to dismiss them because they were three white rappers, but all three of these dudes are fucking genuises. Whenever I need to get pumped, I put on Intergalactic. Fuck... I'm going to go listen to that track right now. RIP Adam.
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What can I say that hasn't already been said? I grew up on the Beasties. The soundtrack of my life starting from Junior high in 87 till now. MCA was the quirky odd one of the group, but in a good way. His awkward skits and just the way he behaved. It was this cool laid back, but i'm a smartass type of thing. He also had a unique voice for rapping. You can't compare the sound of his voice and his style of rapping with any other rapper. It was in a class of it's own. Beastie Boys left us with some great albums and video memories. RUN DMC and now the Beastie Boys are short one member. So sad. We love ya Adam! RIP MCA!
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The greatest Beastie song to me. RIP Adam
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I know it's out of anger but the ignorance in your statement is so infuriating. It's not all you, it's the fact that I've read the same statement probably 5,000 times on these TB's and I've just had. "If you don't like this song/movie/comic/ anything, then you are an idiot." Not liking something has nothing to do with csomeone's intelligence, but for aome fucking crazy reason a shitload of people on AICN TB's seems to think it does. Your post seems more of a fuck you to an ignorant person than something you would say if you actually thought it out. So, I'm not picking on you, this is for everyone else who has ever written that fucking statement on this or any other message board/site. STOP SAYING THAT SHIT!!!!!!! All that statement does is jab people with a stick in an attempt to provoke them from behind your veil of anonymity. It's music! It's subjective! Just because you like it doesn't mean that intelligence or any other mental or physical attribute is required to like it. Especially intelligence. If anything, all a statement like that does is, instead of magnifying someone else's lack of brain power, it holds a mirror up to your own ignorance.
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Thank you for doing what you did. I'm still numb. The Beasties were my soundtrack in high-school (I graduated in 2000)
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ha ha, like 3rd base and their cactus?
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May 5, 2012, 1:54 a.m. CST
if you think they are white, go and have a chat with some kkk or neonazis
by dancetothebeatofthelivingdead
No thanks, I'd rather not get a history lsson from either of those organizations. I would love for the skinheads and KKK get into a public debate based on their systems of belief. That would be hilarious to watch, and hopefully it would start a war and they'd all kill each off
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others did through his concert for tibet...
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May 5, 2012, 2:51 a.m. CST
I was working for a big, corporate music retail chain when The Beastie Boys first
by gotilk
got people's attention nationwide. I was completely turned off by them at first. It seemed like almost EVERYONE who came in to buy the cassette (mostly, yep) was a douche. So I didn't really give them a chance. My head was still in a very post-punk place and I was re-discovering pretentious avant garde and some less avant garde modern composers. (Glass, John Cage, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Adams, etc etc etc) This music was SO BELOW me. (I was an ass) One day my car was broken down and I needed a ride home from a co-worker. He was a huge Beasties fan, and on the way home he played me some of their new album, which hadn't come out yet. He got an advance copy, which we often did back then. It was Paul's Boutique. And I was an INSTANT fan. I could not believe what I was hearing. This seemingly juvenile, goofy, almost novelty act had pulled the carpet out from under my expectations and I felt like a real shithead for a while. Not only for dismissing them, but for dismissing Rap itself as a musical art form. I was the juvenile goof. Not them. They were a step ahead of me. I wasn't going to just let that stand. I had to open up my musical horizons. So, really, I guess I was kind of the cliche. White dude discovers rap through white rappers. Whatever. But that's the way I found them. I've been a fan of their music since, all the way up to Hot Sauce Committee . That one introduced me to Santigold, who I also love now. I know I've run the risk of trying to make this post about me, but I felt like I needed to put in my 2.3 cents. I love these guys and this is SUCH horrible, sad news. He was way too young to be taken from us, his family and friends. And himself. WAY too soon. My genuine love and condolences go out to everyone who knew him and everyone who appreciated his music. He WILL be missed.
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Saw the BB live in 1986, the crow boo'd them off the stage. They had phat beats, great production but the voices were horrible. Their vocal never improved, to this day I can't tolerate listening to their childish lyrics and annoying voices... but.... their legacy in Hip Hop is unquestioned. Each album brings raw, massive, innovation in beats, scratches, and arrangements. MCA was a big part of that, he'll be missed by all of us in the hip hop world. peace.
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May 5, 2012, 5:28 a.m. CST
god this news makes me sick to my stomach. r.i.p. mca
by HASBEER_WILLCHEET
this is not cool news :(
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I'll watch his great short film/music video Fight for your right revisited in respect.
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May 5, 2012, 7:01 a.m. CST
R.I.P, "Too sweet to be sour, to nice to be mean" music just got a whole lot less fun
by steve lee
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The band hated what happened with Fight For Your Right (it becoming popular with jocks) and refused to ever play it again after 1987.
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May 5, 2012, 7:37 a.m. CST
Mca will be missed, but konkbob, the beasties couldn't hold Pac's jock
by ShakaLaka Lambo
Look I've been down with the boys since day one, and as a professional musician I will tell you theres no doubt the positive contribution the beasties made and hopefully will continue to make. And yes harryknowlessoldout is a moron for bringing race into this since 80s% of rap is bought by white kids. But don't show yourself to be a moron by claiming the boys were, are, better than Pac, thats just dumb. I can name off several artists just off the top of my head that the beasties can't fuck with, lyrically and beats wise, (8 ball & Mjg, Scarface, Ice Cube , and T for that matter) Son lets pay our respects guys but leave the greatest out of this . RIP MCA RIP PAC RIP EAZY-E ALL TAKEN TOO SOON
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May 5, 2012, 7:41 a.m. CST
Dacanasta how in God's name can you not like Bob Marley?
by ShakaLaka Lambo
Thats like people who say they don't masturbate, I believe em I just think they're missing out one something really great!
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May 5, 2012, 8:27 a.m. CST
Hey Bender / gonna make some noise / with your hard drive scratched / BY THE BEASTIE BOYS!
by Nasty In The Pasty
That's whatcha/whatcha/whatcha get ON LEVEL FIVE!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=9PLfjhQG97I&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=NpsvBvwRuf0&NR=1
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May 5, 2012, 8:58 a.m. CST
P.Diddy tribute to the Beastie Boys at the vh1 hip hop honors
by MooseMalloy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBeoIUPuCxg&feature=related
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RIP MCA
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The first concert I have ever saw was The Beastie Boys opening up for Madonna. And yes - I am a better person for it. And though the genres weren't even in the same ballpark, a year where we lose MCA and Davy Jones is not a good one. RIP MCA.
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May 5, 2012, 11:46 a.m. CST
I just want to thank him for helping open my eyes to international issues
by ClaireRedfield
His work in Tibet getting international attention really was eye opening. I learned things I never would have have learned otherwise, and started to take an interest in other cultures. This has helped make me who I am today. I'm not saying he was the end all be all of my cultural education, but Adam Yauch definitely influenced me positively in my youth. For that alone, I thank him.
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In High School, we all loved Fight for your Right to Party, but outside of that song in a nostalgic sense, there's really not much that interested me. Sorry for this guy and his family and friends. Tragic.
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Whats he gonna do? Rap over one of the beasties songs with some of his own hack rhymes? Let me guess, it will start like this "uh, uh, yeah, yeah"
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May 5, 2012, 1:38 p.m. CST
Born and bred in Brooklyn, USA they call me Adam Yauch, but I'm MCA...
by MrEkoLetMeLive
I still can't believe we're down a Beastie. Damn.
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It's okay. That's enough.
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MCA was the soul and intelligence behind the BB's, a great director and generally top guy.... I missed the Beastie's last UK tour, couldnt get tickets and was waiting ever since for the chance to see them live.... i'm truely gutted i'll never get to see them........ RIP MCA
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and the damn thing is 100 years old by now. Obviously, it's an amazing song too.
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Problem with threads is we dont know each other, so dancetothe.....it really was kind of a joke. I know its nice to put people in their place but calm down. The second half was obviously tongue in cheek. Dont be ignorant to that. shakalaka.....i used to be mad into reggae when I was 16 and loved Bob Marley, obviously.....but to answer your question honestly, it's coz I had a wee travel around South America and that, and all you would hear was Bob Marley and me and a couple of others joked about how we were sick of him, though I have taken it one further and am not joking any more.....i'm sick of him! BUT!!!! I honestly used to love him and know he is a genius and amazing and all the rest, I honestly do....but yeah, I got sick of him and to a certain extent the people who liked him. Not ALL people! Im sure you are lovely, but in South America it was like some moment of clarity where I understood that many people say they like him coz they know its COOL to like him and its like a lazy way of pretending you're into music. Does that make sense? If someone says a bunch of people they love in the music world and he is one of them, no problem.....but you have those that say they love him and know bog all else and its basically to get women into bed with them or something. Please dont make me elaborate on that. Bob Marley is ace and I WILL see that new documentary about him with great interest.....just please not near any Argentinian hippies who keep me up all night listening to his music in cheap motels....
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So you are anointing 'pac the greatest? You admitted yourself the BBoys made great contributions. What did pac bring to the genre that hadn't already been done? And did he really do it so well as to be "the greatest?" please. Look im im sure pac "spoke to you" with his tales of hard live on the streets, but your "qualified musicians opinion" doesn't make him the greatest.
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This is really a kick in the nads. I'm probably a little older than most. LTI came out during my Sr. year in high school. I had already been listening to Run-DMC, Whodini, Egyptian Lover, The Fat Boys and others. When I heard the BB for the first time, my eyes lit up. From then on I was a die hard fan. Each album correlates to a time in my life. R.I.P. Adam!! P.S. I went and checked out the link to Adam apologizing for getting cancer. The guy had so much class. He was worried about the fans who had made plans to see the band, when he had just been diagnosed. He was so calm about it. I would have been freaking out. Shows what a classy, strong man he was. Take care Adam!!
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May 5, 2012, 3:28 p.m. CST
Why do the good ones always die? This fucking sucks. Cancer is an evil disease. May he rest in peace.
by Mr. Pricklepants
What's gonna happen to the Beastie Boys?
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Pointless douchebag.
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Explain your gripe.
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You can't stop the funky bunch, Marky-Mark ain't putting up with any of that!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NOakdZolYQ
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L-sYTonOoY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgLMslbDuY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f24umYrenM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Watch this.....if you dont like rap, fairs enough! But this is a wee example of what some people are talking about above, that they covered many genres. 'Tis 'Futterman's Rule' using the outtakes from the infamous 'Sabotage' video so all y'all should watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWVqYKWRVTE
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I can understand not liking Licensed to Ill. It was Loud and Obnoxious and Offensive. Cartoonish and Parodic and Over the Top. Sort of a Hair Metal Hip Hop Album. But not liking Paul's Boutique? Check Your Head? Ill Communication? If you don't like those albums, you don't like Music. For some things you have to draw a line in the sand. If you don't like the Beastie Boys: You're WRONG. I won't question your intelligence. Just your taste. There are people out there who don't like The Beatles. Anything by The Beatles. Those people are WRONG too.
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Hope his family is well.
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Adam Yauch was the man. He was just too amazing. Everything this man touched turned to gold. A modern day King Midas. RIP Adam. If I never get another chance to say this, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for everything you gave this world. Your music, your movies. Most important, you.
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Why are you talking about rap in this thread? Beastie Boys have nothing to do with rap. It's this kind of stupidity that ruins artists. Like when Eminem called out Moby for Techno. What the hell? Moby hasn't done a Techno album since early 90's if that. Beastie Boys is and always was about Hip Hop. Get it right.
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Beasties > 2Pac, and that is a scientific fact.
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Agreed, although I would definitely question someone's intelligence if they didn't like either Beastie Boys or The Beatles.
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Rap and Hip Hop is the same? Let me guess, Chinese and Japanese are the same to right? Man it's a good thing you don't like this group. They're too good for you.
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