Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 47
Source: Rolling Stone
Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47, Rolling Stone has learned. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 after discovering a tumor in his salivary gland.
Yauch sat out the Beastie Boys' induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, and his treatments delayed the release of the group's most recent album, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2. The Beastie Boys had not performed live since the summer of 2009, and Yauch's illness prevented the group from appearing in music videos for Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2.
Yauch co-founded the Beastie Boys with Mike "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz in 1979. The band started off as a hardcore punk group, but soon began experimenting with hip-hop. The band broke big with their first proper album, Licensed to Ill, in 1986, and further albums Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head and Ill Communication cemented the band as a true superstar act.
In addition to his career with the Beastie Boys, Yauch was heavily involved in the movement to free Tibet and co-organized the Tibetan Freedom Concerts of the late Nineties. In 2002, he launched the film production company Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beastie-boys-co-founder-adam-yauch-dead-at-48-20120504
Second surprising celebrity death (along with Junior Seau) in the past three days. I didn't know he had cancer.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Rest In Peace, MCA
"You gotta fight...for your right...to Party"
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Go figure - she must have one hell of a band up there, she takes the great ones.
This just breaks my heart - Beastie Boys was one of the bands I was hoping to see on tour. I suspect that the remaining members will retire the band before replacing Yauch - they were all very close-knit.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)There's a special place in hell for Ted
RIP MCA
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)Hugabear
(10,340 posts)A just and caring God would not allow this travesty.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)She's a woman of good taste!
Rob H.
(5,354 posts)I'd heard about his cancer but thought he was doing okay with treatment. RIP, MCA.
slutticus
(3,428 posts)AllyCat
(16,252 posts)Happy jammin' You will be missed here.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Last edited Fri May 4, 2012, 02:15 PM - Edit history (1)
He got the group involved in the Free Tibet movement and organized the Tibetan Freedom Concerts.
I saw him speak at a Nader 2000 rally in D.C. once.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)..."the dirty secret among black hip hop artists at the time was that we all owned copies of Paul's Boutique, and listened to it."
frylock
(34,825 posts)will be queuing it up for the drive home tonight. damn.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)RIP.
stockholmer
(3,751 posts)mrs_p
(3,014 posts)RIP MCA
frylock
(34,825 posts)i'm gonna be in a funk for days like when Ronnie James passed away. RIP Yauch.
The Philosopher
(895 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)damn.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)not fair.
chiffon
(569 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)Damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN cancer!
Ishoutandscream2
(6,664 posts)Wow! Condolences to his friends and family.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)But hardly brilliant.
I would rather listen to XTC or the Barenaked Ladies.
They may not be your cup of tea, but they had a tremendous impact in hip-hop and rock.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)There may have been other artists who did it better than them, but their originality inspired many of those artists. There have also been rock bands far more talented than the Beatles, but none of those rock bands would even exist if the Beatles had not inspired them with their originality. While I am not saying the Beastie Boys inspired on the same level that the Beatles did, they did have a major impact on their genre and it did inspire many other hip hop and rock artists that emerged later. They certainly deserve a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
guitar man
(15,996 posts)and Godspeed... much gratitude for the music
RZM
(8,556 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Neoma
(10,039 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Adam will be missed, so young, too soon.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Neoma
(10,039 posts)My earbuds must have changed opinions as I got older.
Edit: R.I.P.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)RIP MCA.
Saw them in concert back during the Intergalactic tour. Was going to see them again 2 years later, but that was the year Mike D broke his collar bone and the concert was canceled.
DinahMoeHum
(21,825 posts)"MCA" now has the right to party forever.
Rest In Peace, Adam Yauch
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)Especially since it was intended as a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek mocking of the type of people who are so common to today play it at keg parties as some type of party anthem. Not the first time that's ever happened of course, or the last.
RIP
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)and never figured out Merle Haggard was making fun of them the whole time.