RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

In 1999, Beastie Adam Horovitz wrote a letter to Time Out New York apologizing for their youthful indiscretions on that first album, saying he wanted to "formally apologize to the entire gay and lesbian community for the shitty and ignorant things we said on our first record. There are no excuses. But time has healed our stupidity. … We hope that you’ll accept this long overdue apology."

^^always thought this was a nice move by the beasties and really reflected how all of them grew as ppl over time

exactly!! hard to think of many artists willing to actually say this on the record

yeah mad respect for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuiAiC6c3E

;_;

yeah this was one of his great moments too

I want to say a little something that's long overdue
the disrespect to women has got to be through
to all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends
I want to offer my love and respect to the end

and now it's the end

DANCIN AROUND LIKE YOU THINK YOU JANET JACK SON

RIP. Fond memories from both "CookiePuss " days on through to the Tibet benefit shows

What the..?

Shit.

I slept in his bed once, and barfed in his mom's commode (he wasn't there). RIP duder.

! remy

ha just saw that beasties + elvis costello snl thing, somehow i never knew about that

Damn, way too young.

Fuck cancer. RIP dude

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3idyiGk8H1rqkji8o1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3idyiGk8H1rqkji8o1_500.jpg

damn, man.

Oh damn, break my heart a little more why don't you.

goddamnit, fuck I'm at work

http://sportsmedia.ign.com/sports/image/article/868/868378/nba-jam-a-retrospective-20080421033459570.jpg

jeez that picture made me cry a little bit in my office

horrible unintentionally funny xpost

oh jeez Edward that pic ;_;

Oh damn, break my heart a little more why don't you.

^^^

Shit shit shit. From all appearances one of the nicest guys in rock & roll, and a real booster for his favorite bands to boot. I grew up with the Beastie Boys - how come I never went to see them? Just so sad.

I know that pic is total </3 and it feels goofy to talk about a pic capturing the soul of a man but there it is

yup

not goofy

that picture is really heartbreaking. sad for him, but also for his family. his daughter's only 14? horrible.

Unbelievable. How sad.

damn this sucks.

nothing to add but RIP and hell yeah gonna crank it up when I get home from work.

I have a vivid memory of walking around the streets in the Castro (on a visit to a friend) after Ill Communication came out, listening to a tape of it over and over on my Walkman.

Oh damn, break my heart a little more why don't you.

^^^

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, May 4, 2012 11:38 AM (17 minutes ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Playing Paul's Boutique in office as quietly as possible, trying not to look at that picture again.

i'm actually surprised at how sad this is making me but now i'm trying to keep it together at my desk. dammit.

terrible, and very sad. rip.

jeez, this is bumming me out in a major way. I dropped after hello nasty but all their records up to and including that one were on seriously heavy rotation all throughout my high school years. and he seemed like a good dude too. rip.

Statement released:

http://www.beastieboys.com/

Very sad. I remember seeing them first on the bill at one of those Def Jam shows, back in '86 or so. They weren't very well known back then, and they were getting booed pretty much from the moment they hit the stage. (And this was at a very large venue.) Still, they were falling over themselves laughing, MCA most of all. I recall getting a weird sense of, I don't know, freedom, watching this. I think about it every time I have to speak in front of a large group of people. I still aspire to have that kind of "fuck all y'all" confidence. I guess it was a pretty meaningful moment for me. RIP, MCA. Way too soon.

He seems like a pretty good model for how to live a life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kdThLmS4Ig

Listening to this mix right now: http://soundcloud.com/dj-format-c-1/beastie-boys-mix-by-dj-format-c

RIP MCA. I'm gonna bump Licensed To Ill like 3 times tonight. This dude was the best and the world is a little worse without him.

good TV moment at 2:45....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-ya6gBI4w

aside from the music, I think the Beasties in general were really ground zero for a certain cool R&B/jazz/classic/punk axis collector mentality...like dudes that dug bad brains and old R&B and early hip hop and sonic youth etc...sorta the wax poetics mag aesthetic...i couldn't imagine, say, numero group existing w/o them

Kinda pisses me off that the three of 'em will never have a chance to actually do this, just walk down the street years and years on and swap stories:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_J7ROcRhsO4/Tgux7ShM-4I/AAAAAAAAAtQ/AyyqJpqerGI/s1600/MUDD07.jpg

awww

^^^yeah those getups are what I was thinking of when I ref'd the b-ball video upthread

http://gizmodo.com/5907730/deceased-beastie-boy-adam-mca-yauch-is-every-single-twitter-trending-topic-right-now

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/05/remembering-grand-royal-beastie-boys-brief-brilliant-magazine/51944/

M*tt, these were great

they were, yeah