RIP MCA

May 4, 2012, 7:17 pm

Adam Yauch rapped as MCA in the Beastie Boys. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. Adam was a ringleader. The music only became more complicated, satirical.  ~I

Beasties were loved by just about everybody, so there were lots of tributes paid to Adam over the w-end, including one from Chris Martin. Check it out below.





MCA AND THE BEASTIE BOYS

They offered many listeners in the 1980s their first exposure to hip-hop. They were vanguard white rappers who helped extend the art of sampling and gained the respect of their African-American peers.

While many hip-hop careers are brief, the Beastie Boys appealed not only to the fans they reached in the 1980s but to successive generations, making million-selling albums into the 2000s. They grew up without losing their sense of humor or their ear for a party beat.

Mr. Yauch (pronounced yowk) was a major factor in the Beastie Boys’ evolution from their early incarnation, as testosterone-driven pranksters, to their later years as sonic experimenters, as socially conscious rappers — championing the cause of freedom in Tibet — and as keepers of old-school hip-hop memories. The Beastie Boys became an institution — one that could have arisen only amid the artistic, social and accidental connections of New York City.

In the history of hip-hop, the Beastie Boys were both improbable and perhaps inevitable: appreciators, popularizers and extrapolators of a culture they weren’t born into.

More at The New York Times HERE.


MTV has more HERE.

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