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your right, you best be fightin’ for it
You’ve probably heard that Adam “MCA” Yauch died a few days ago.
It was public knowledge that he had been battling the cancer for a few years. I wasn’t aware that the disease had progressed to this point. I was filled with the same kind of shock/surprise that I think everyone else was when the news came down.
Stephanie summed it up pretty well:
The Beastie Boys are three dudes you’d expect to live forever. You’d expect them to always be this background presence in your life, doing cool shit you can only dream of and being these weird almost super hero characters, lending their voices to causes you care about. Doing things you can’t do yourself.
I was in fifth grade when Licensed To Ill came out. I listened to it. A lot. There’s things on that album that appealed to my 10-year old sensibilities. When Paul’s Boutique came out a few years later, I listened to it. Once. Then, never again. That’s a testament to the artistic drive of the Beastie Boys. They had a hit with Ill. They could’ve stuck with the formula and followed it up with a copycat album (a perfectly acceptable thing to do at the time). But they pushed forward, broke new ground. They did that a lot in the years that followed.
Anyway, it sucks when people die. RIP, man.
May 6, 2012 Leave a comment
