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If someone was to tell you in the early 80′s when rap was still in its infancy, that three Jewish white kids from the boroughs of New York City would go on to become the most successful hip-hop group in history, you would think they were crazy. However, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “McA” Yauch and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz would go on to defy racial barriers and captivate a world wide audience.
In a career that spanned three decades, the Beastie Boys went through quite the evolution, growing from a hardcore punk band, to party boy rappers on “Licensed to Ill”, to mature, sampling extraordinaires on “Paul’s Boutique”, to bringing fuzzed out funk jams on “Check Your Head” and “Ill Communication”, to the exotically weird yet captivating “Hello Nasty”, to the futuristic beats of “To the 5 Boroughs” and finally to the familiar but fresh ”Hot Sauce Committee Part...
If someone was to tell you in the early 80′s when rap was still in its infancy, that three Jewish white kids from the boroughs of New York City would go on to become the most successful hip-hop group in history, you would think they were crazy. However, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “McA” Yauch and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz would go on to defy racial barriers and captivate a world wide audience.
In a career that spanned three decades, the Beastie Boys went through quite the evolution, growing from a hardcore punk band, to party boy rappers on “Licensed to Ill”, to mature, sampling extraordinaires on “Paul’s Boutique”, to bringing fuzzed out funk jams on “Check Your Head” and “Ill Communication”, to the exotically weird yet captivating “Hello Nasty”, to the futuristic beats of “To the 5 Boroughs” and finally to the familiar but fresh ”Hot Sauce Committee Part...
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