Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 47

[Tommy_Carcetti]

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.


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Second surprising celebrity death (along with Junior Seau) in the past three days. I didn't know he had cancer.

[KeepItReal]

1. Beastie's "Licensed to Ill" was one of those albums you *had* to have

Rest In Peace, MCA

"You gotta fight...for your right...to Party"

[LynneSin]

2. God takes Adam Yauch but leaves Ted Nugent behind

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]

6. God doesn't want Ted

There's a special place in hell for Ted



RIP MCA

[DainBramaged]

16. God knows great musicians...

[Hugabear]

28. More proof that there is no God

A just and caring God would not allow this travesty.

[LynneSin]

33. If there was a God do you think she would want Ted Nugent in her band?

She's a woman of good taste!

[Rob H.]

3. Damn.

I'd heard about his cancer but thought he was doing okay with treatment. RIP, MCA.

[slutticus]

4. :( :( :(

[AllyCat]

5. My brother will be happy to see you there Adam.

Happy jammin' You will be missed here.

[Justice wanted]

7. RIP. My heart goes out to his friends and family. Such a talent and gone too soon.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

8. He was their political conscience

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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]

9. Chuck D once said...

..."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]

15. one of my top 5 albums easy..

will be queuing it up for the drive home tonight. damn.

[tabasco]

10. It's great that he got involved with an effort to help people

RIP.

[stockholmer]

11. RIP, MCA

[mrs_p]

12. That sucks

RIP MCA

[frylock]

13. this is just awful..

i'm gonna be in a funk for days like when Ronnie James passed away. RIP Yauch.

[The Philosopher]

14. Dear Life: Fuck you.

[Javaman]

17. Wow. Rest in Peace.

damn.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. :(

not fair.

[chiffon]

19. damn! this is so sad (nt)

[nolabear]

20. DAMN cancer.

Damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN cancer!

[Ishoutandscream2]

21. Beastie Boys in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Seriously?

Wow! Condolences to his friends and family.

[Kolesar]

23. They were entertaining

But hardly brilliant.
I would rather listen to XTC or the Barenaked Ladies.

[Hugabear]

27. -1

They may not be your cup of tea, but they had a tremendous impact in hip-hop and rock.

[Bjorn Against]

34. I agree, they were one of the first to merge hip hop with rock

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]

22. RIP Adam

and Godspeed... much gratitude for the music

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[RZM]

24. RIP MCA n/t

[Blue_Tires]

25. now i'm officially starting to feel "old"

[Neoma]

30. Don't be ageist towards yourself. :P

[Ikonoklast]

26. I knew Adam was fighting the good fight, but I thought he was maintaining.

Adam will be missed, so young, too soon.

[HughBeaumont]

29. First heard of him via this 12". Sad loss to the music world.

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[Neoma]

31. I didn't like them as a kid.

My earbuds must have changed opinions as I got older.

Edit: R.I.P.

[tammywammy]

32. Love Beastie.

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]

35. He urged us to "Fight For Your Right" to P-A-A-A-A-R-R-T-Y

"MCA" now has the right to party forever.

Rest In Peace, Adam Yauch

[ButterflyBlood]

36. The funny thing is the Beastie Boys grew to hate that song and disowned it

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]

37. kind of like the way rednecks embraced "Okie From Muskogee" as a rightwing anthem

and never figured out Merle Haggard was making fun of them the whole time.