RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

it was like three years from this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7CH3M7cECI

RIP

rip

oh man, looking at recent pictures is just the saddest fucking thing
love to this guy and his fam

Ooh, fuckin' hell, did not expect that. Licence to Ill is going on right away.

i had no idea he was even sick. really surprised and saddened. rip

I am so bummed!!!

urgh. really thought he had beat cancer? RIP.

really want to cry a lot about this tbh

I actually just called a friend who is probably the biggest B Boys fan I know and left her a message saying I'm thinking of her which sounds so weird and lame but I know she's going to be devastated.

So so sad.

I missed the story from last month that he wouldn't be able to attend the RRHOF induction, which I guess would've at least been a strong indicator that something like this was around the corner. As it is, though, I feel like I've been slapped with a flounder.

gotta road trip this afternoon -- think it's gonna be 3 hours of Beasties now

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

i haven't listened to the b boys on the regular in many years but man they really have meant a lot of me. mca owned, then and forever imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DOMxm0o12c

Gah, too soon. RIP

Genuinely horrible, and like everyone I know on facebook/twitter is just overflowing with earnest grief. This is the most unexpected and tragic music death news in a long time. Gutted.

Cookie Puss <3

RIP.

So sad, I just read the 33 1/3 Paul's Boutique album a couple weeks ago and was reflecting on how wonderful and unique these guys are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfyMv5mG_Z8

aw shit, no way. love you man, we shared a name.

rest in peace beastie dude!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PdIMEnwXY

don't know how to express how i feel here, I can't think of ANY musician's death that hit me this way

those videos of them playing basketball as old men seem extra sad to me now :(

Wow, this just seems shocking to me. I didn't even know he was ill. RIP.

xhuxk on Facebook just now, with a link to this: "RIP MCA. i still owe you one."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=laQLHlIBUmg

(Yep, that's him.)

Me: MCA from the Beastie Boys just died!
Coworker #1: Which one was he?
Coworker #2: The white one.
RIP, MCA.

RIP

(part of) a p big formative influence on stuff I listen(ed) to... prolly more than anyone who's died for a looooooooong time tbh

Oh dag. :(

its making me smile to see my facebook and twitter light up with outpourings of love. also, four different people in my office now have beastie boys tunes playing on youtube

you know chuck put a voodoo hex on those guys years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laQLHlIBUmg

i'm not BLAMING chuck, just saying...

Kate: A co-worker heard be on the phone and came over all concerned and was like OMG I'm so sorry was that a friend of yours?!

Ned: xhuxk is the one getting pranked?!

RIP

i have to listen to other things for work but i want to be blasting 'paul's boutique' so bad right now

ENBB -- yup.

Here's xhuxk's piece:

http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/chuck-eddy-lay-it-down-clowns-the-beastie-boys-take-over-1987/

man, RIP

that prank clip is awesome, them giggling and hightailing it away, fkn priceless

cranking License to Ill, imma roll through the whole discography fuckit

seriously, blasting paul's boutique neighbors hate check your heard queued up

Massive suckage.

Just found out. Oh man... One of the most inspirational people in music for me

This is really making me depressed. I feel like we are all living in cancer's world.

this really is the worst thing.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2qsnmle.jpg

oh fuck now I'm really gonna cry

As I just muttered on FB: Sudden realization of a moment I'd almost forgotten -- I had seen the Beastie Boys once live, Lollapalooza 1994. Person I was with said I was dancing like a crazy idiot during "Sabotage" in particular. And you know what? All good with that, because MCA murdered that bassline and then some. So RIP indeed.

omg that photo!

Isn't it great?

IIRC they had released it on a 12-inch at that point. Going from memory, I think "Beastie Revolution" was the B-side of "Cookie Puss".

still pretty obscure!

Yes, totally! That story blew my mind when I read it in the Beastie Boys' book

Here's the guy who did it, telling his side of the story (Beastie Boys talk starts at 1:07)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucrj3BP6vfY

^great find!

I might be conflating this with another story from the book, but I believe Adrock says that he took some of that money to a shop intending to buy a guitar, changed his mind on the spot, and walked out with a Roland TR-808 drum machine instead. And that ended up being the drum machine he used to program the beat for "I Need a Beat" by LL Cool J, the first release on Def Jam.

Nice! Thanks peace, man, that was an amazing find. I don't want to bestow too much credit, but given the chain of events that was set off by that settlement money, that ad man really did the world a solid.

“that ad man”!

Agh, I just saw the 1:07 part and assumed he was an ad guy based on him talking about creating a commercial.

not too hard to believe that Beastie Revolution was this guy’s favourite record for a couple of months tbh

That's the Haysi Fantayzee guy? I'm shattered to see that he didn't wear that hat-thing for the rest of his life.

xp: ok, I had read the words Haysi Fantayzee before but never looked them up. I don't know what to think after watching that. I think I might have a fever.

I ended up listening to a bunch of other clips from that interview. I had never heard of Haysi Fantayzee before. He tells some good stories. Super likable guy.