Adam Yauch Of Beastie Boys Dead

[LongHairBri]

Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys dead

May 4, 2012, 4:14 PM EST

RollingStone.com

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.

Bing music: Beastie Boys

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 the album.

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.

[trix]

CRAZYYYYNESSSSS!!!

 

That was some of my jams on the playlist back in the day... I'll have to let my brother know, he is a music conesurour.

 

Sad day for Bestie Boy's fans..=/

 

Trix

[MightyMightyMezz]

That sucks. Whenever I hear of people dying of cancer now I wonder if oil would have saved them.

Edited May 4, 2012 by MightyMightyMezz

[abe supercro]

Also remembered as maturing from being a "fight for your right to party" party-guy to becoming a Buddhist and Activist fighting for Tibetan Independence.

[HelpfulHubby]

Aw, goddamnit.

 

MCA was my favorite Beastie...so bummed.

[cheesewreck]

time for a beastie bowl for mca please join

[abe supercro]

S a b o t a g e

 

 

I can't stand it I know you planned it

I'm gonna set it straight, this watergate

I can't stand rocking when I'm in here

Because your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear

So while you sit back and wonder why

I got this making whoopee thorn in my side

Oh my, it's a mirage

I'm tellin' y'all it's sabotage

 

So listen up 'cause you can't say nothin'

You'll shut me down with a push of your button?

But yo I'm out and I'm gone

I'll tell you now I keep it on and on

 

'cause what you see you might not get

And we can bet so don't you get souped yet

You're scheming on a thing that's a mirage

I'm trying to tell you now it's sabotage

 

Why; our backs are now against the wall

Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage

Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage

Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage

Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage

 

I can't stand it, I know you planned it

But I'm gonna set it straight this watergate

But I can't stand rockin' when I'm in this place

Because I feel disgrace because you're all in my face

But make no mistakes and switch up my channel

I'm buddy rich when I fly off the handle

What could it be, it's a mirage

You're scheming on a thing - that's sabotage

 

[Frank R]

Shame to hear that.

 

I wonder if MCA was using RS Oil for his saliva gland cancer?