RIP Adam Yauch. Beastie Boys Founding Member MCA Has Died
Adam Yauch – better known as “MCA” – died this morning, losing his battle to cancer. Yach, 47, was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. In 30+ years with the Beastie Boys, Yauch, along with Mike D and Ad-Rock, sold over 40 million albums and released countless classic songs. The Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame last month. Yauch did not preform because of his illness.
The Beasties were a group that almost everyone reading this grew up with. While mainly considered a hip-hop group, they defied any single genre.
The Beasties on Soul Train.
Yauch also had plenty of ties to the sports world. Growing up in Brooklyn, Yauch was a Knicks fan and appeared in NBA Jam as an unlockable character in NBA Street Volume 3 as well as both the original NBA Jam and the 2010 version. Yauch also produced and directed Gunnin For That #1 Spot, a documentary about some of the top basketball players in the country. The movie features Kevin Love, Michael Beasley, Jerryd Bayless, Tyreke Evans, Brandon Jennings and Kyle Singler.
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May 4th, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Junior Seau, Adam Yauch are two really strange celebrity deaths. I think the 3rd will be in the TV\Movie genre — keeping with the strange\kind of young theme I am going to go with Ted Mcginley.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:14 PM
/pours one out.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Beiber
May 4th, 2012 at 2:15 PM
/
buys a carton of eggs
May 4th, 2012 at 2:16 PM
High Plains Drifter deserves more love. That song is the shit.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:16 PM
He was only 48. Incredible.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:16 PM
I’m thinking politician or comedian is next…
May 4th, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Check yo head is one of my favorite albums
Goodness gracious
May 4th, 2012 at 2:16 PM
One of my all time favorites. I think Hello Nasty was one of the first CD’s I ever bought.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Ive got Scott Bakula
May 4th, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Oh boy
May 4th, 2012 at 2:18 PM
He was 47, not 48
/doesnt really matter
May 4th, 2012 at 2:19 PM
this
May 4th, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:20 PM
I still have my License to Ill tour shirt… I thought that the death of Kevin Dubrow was crushing to white kids who had their formative years in the 80′s, but this sucks so much harder.
/pours one out
May 4th, 2012 at 2:20 PM
So.. Waynes Fontes Safari, who you got?
May 4th, 2012 at 2:20 PM
I don’t think I was ever disappointed more than when I bought that album. got it at midnight when it was released.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Tabitha Soren is in the Fight for Your Right video.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Shadrach is such an underrated song. It kind of gets lost since it was on Paul’s Boutique and that whole album was sick, but that song is in my top 5 Beasties songs. Good pull CRM.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Sportsgal has it right:
May 4th, 2012 at 2:21 PM
“I think Hello Nasty was one of the first CD’s I ever bought.”
Goddamn I feel old reading that. I bought that CD the summer I was studying for the bar exam.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:21 PM
wonder if herbie hancock or philip glass will receive this much fanfare when they pass…
/rhetorical
May 4th, 2012 at 2:22 PM
RIP MCA. Time to reach in the Miller cooler and grabb a cool Bud
May 4th, 2012 at 2:22 PM
Holly’s back!!!
/silver lining
May 4th, 2012 at 2:22 PM
A week or so ago I commented on Facebook that I couldn’t believe my License to Ill cassette tape was 27 years old. My LL Cool J’s “I’m Bad” is 25…
May 4th, 2012 at 2:23 PM
/leans in close with pencil and paper for death pool.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
RIP, just awful news.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Eggman deserves more love.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
No sleep till Heaven, MCA.
Damn NYC has been getting it in the shins the last couple days.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
1. Get it Together
2. High Plains Drifter
3. B-Boy Bouillabaisse (just because it used to be on a jukebox my college bar. $0.50 for a 14 minute song)
May 4th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
John Edwards.
//Crosses fingers
May 4th, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Yeah, not my favorite either, but it was tough to beat the four that precedeed Hello Nasty. Paul’s Boutique still gets heavy play at my house. My 9 and 6 year old sons are also big fans now.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:26 PM
The entire album of Paul’s Boutique deserves more love in this country.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Word to your mother
That’s me…i’m his mother
word to me
/not sure which bb that was
May 4th, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Amanda Bynes
May 4th, 2012 at 2:27 PM
That’s how Spencer is with “Crazy Game of Poker”.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:28 PM
A lot of kids who had their formative years in the 90′s are also devastated. I listened to the Beasties all the time. You couldn’t go to a party without hearing Hey Ladies, Brass Monkey and Girls at least 5 times each when I was in college.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Go LiLo!
/ You gotta fight for your right to sparty
May 4th, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Similar to the past year, my money is on Lindsay Lohan.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:31 PM
you rat bastard!
still a good song to see live. Overall, not a band worth seeing or listening to anymore but they had a stretch run of a few good years before mainstream radio culture got to them.
anyways, back to the Beastie Boys. “To The 5 Boroughs” is one of my favorite songs. Paul’s Boutique is definitely my favorite album overall by the Beastie Boys
May 4th, 2012 at 2:32 PM
That’s a bad bet. The obvious ones never go.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:32 PM
/cranks up ZZ Top’s “Legs”
May 4th, 2012 at 2:33 PM
Mel Gibson
May 4th, 2012 at 2:33 PM
Jefferson Darcy will outlive us all. He’s like the Ringo of TV actors.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:33 PM
Except when their name is “dirt” and the the place they go from is this site.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:33 PM
PHILLIP GLASS DIED?
May 4th, 2012 at 2:33 PM
RIP Sir Stewart Wallace.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:34 PM
RIP Nathan Wind as Cochese
May 4th, 2012 at 2:34 PM
True, I’ll email Sarah Phillips to get her thoughts, she owes me money for that website that was gonna earn $500 mil a year.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:35 PM
no…just using him as an example.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:35 PM
Wow, you gotta be a young ‘un. Are you even in college yet?
May 4th, 2012 at 2:35 PM
Courtney Love has been taking people’s Death Pool money for the last 2 decades.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:35 PM
“No Sleep Til Brooklyn”
/Fucking Nets killed MCA!
May 4th, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Just saw the alex zanardi story on hbo sports this morning …theres a still shit of the impact with his legmeat flying thru the air. I knew about his legs but thought they were amputated later
May 4th, 2012 at 2:36 PM
I had no idea that was Tabitha Soren in that video. That oral history article someone posted was pretty good.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:37 PM
How the fuck is Keith Richards still alive?!?!
May 4th, 2012 at 2:37 PM
If he did, the requiem would no doubt consist of three notes just repeated over and over for eternity.
/ Koyaanisqatsi‘d
May 4th, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Shot…still shot
May 4th, 2012 at 2:37 PM
BB List
1.) Girls —-> if its not numero uno your a fuckin fruit
2.)Pass The Mic
3.)Paul Revere
4.)No Sleep Till Bklyn
5.)You could put every other god damn song from them here
May 4th, 2012 at 2:37 PM
The preservative powers of chemicals.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:38 PM
Wait is it against the rules to bet on someone I’m planning on killing? Do not want to Bill Simmons this.
/Bookie sir please withdraw my Patricia Heaton wager
May 4th, 2012 at 2:38 PM
24. I think that album came out before 6th grade. Now THAT makes me feel old.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:38 PM
girls is a good song but its not their best or my favorite. Pretty sure that may be the case for the majority of their songs. They had much better songs after that.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:39 PM
soren or altschul or wehr…who ya got?
May 4th, 2012 at 2:40 PM
Her daughter just wrested away control over Cobain’s image and music from Crazy Courtney.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:40 PM
ooo…i like where this is headed.
frank zappa’s requiem was a varese symphony played by a kazoo, vibraphone and doo-wop backing vocal section.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:41 PM
girls is a good song but its not their best or my favorite.
Diamond DDmcd1974 tells me I am supposed to call you a fruit. Fruit.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Given it’s the Beastie Boys shouldn’t it be “faggot” instead of “fruit”?
May 4th, 2012 at 2:41 PM
All the best songs are on cyh
May 4th, 2012 at 2:42 PM
frank zappa’s requiem was a varese symphony played by a kazoo, vibraphone and doo-wop backing vocal section.
Spencer’s been reading too much 2009 era Ty Duffy.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Herbie Hancock deserves all the fanfare he can get. His influence on hip-hop as well as modern jazz cannot be underestimated.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Paul McCartney’s requiem will be the sound of me furiously masturbating in celebration of outliving that worthless sack of shit.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Leave it to Spencer to ruin an MCA tribute thread by talking about Frank Zappa and his kazoo symphony.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:43 PM
soren or altschul or wehr…who ya got?
Serena Althschul. But BEFORE she shaved her head in her MTV years.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:44 PM
Just sayin’.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:44 PM
Herbs got a big shout out in Tommy Boy.
/Checks IMDB … came out in 1995, whew, not that old.
//Does math again, crap, that was 17 years ago.
/// R.I.P Chris Farley, you were the Biggie to David Spade’s Puff.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:44 PM
Spence is going to murder this Nada guy.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:45 PM
Kari Wuhrer was the top of the MTV babe chain in the ’90s.
/ Remote Control’d
May 4th, 2012 at 2:45 PM
agreed…my point exactly.
/stopping here
May 4th, 2012 at 2:45 PM
My first CD was Don’t Be Cruel. Bobby Brown at his best.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Kari Wuhrer was the top of the MTV babe chain in the ’90s.
/ Remote Control’d
You deny Jenny McCarthy during her Singled Out years when she was at the height of her powers?
May 4th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Serena in a walk. 41 and She can still get it.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
seconded.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:47 PM
that’s dumb…that’s, literally, 0.1% of zappa’s music.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:47 PM
nada, i hear you were actually a Kennedy fan…
May 4th, 2012 at 2:47 PM
Mole i think nada knows what he started. Let’s enjoy
May 4th, 2012 at 2:47 PM
faggot would have been better. fruit sounds so fuckin gay..sorry for my fucking gay ass fudgepacking grammer…
May 4th, 2012 at 2:47 PM
On the basis that that show served as a launching point for the Nerdist tool, yes.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:48 PM
yes.
/team hair color other than blonde
May 4th, 2012 at 2:48 PM
faggot would have been better. fruit sounds so fuckin gay..sorry for my fucking gay ass fudgepacking grammer…
The fact that I don’t have any idea what this is in reference to makes it even more amusing than it probably otherwise would be.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:49 PM
Ap…kennedy was nerd hot like the jewish chick with glasses
May 4th, 2012 at 2:49 PM
On the basis that that show served as a launching point for the Nerdist tool, yes.
Touché.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:49 PM
Ap…kennedy was nerd hot like the jewish chick with glasses
No. No she really wasn’t.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Nah, Spencer and I are kindred souls in the Church of Golf. We can kid each other.
But seriously, fuck Zappa. Outside of Apostrophe and showing up Tipper Gore and the PMRC as a bunch of douchecanoes, he accomplished nothing. While Beefheart, who was so much further ahead in the avante-garde realm (and sheer songwreiting ability), got bupkis in terms of sales and recognition in comparison.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:50 PM
We’ll just have to ask HtownHacker the proper terms to use regarding “faggot”. I assume he’s the only gay commenter here…
/aside from that one coop moment
May 4th, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Lisa loeb
May 4th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
oh you can go fuck yourself right now.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Hot jewish chicks with glasses are offended by that…
May 4th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Link.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Lisa loeb
Yes she is a much better example of nerd hot.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
She was not nerd hot. At all. I don’t want to think about how many coked-up musicians wore her out her pocket into a windsock over the years of her working at MTV.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
/aside from that one coop moment that we know of
Made correcter.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:52 PM
go play with your new shaft spencer..it’ll be okay.
/team Nada
May 4th, 2012 at 2:52 PM
agreed…my point exactly.
/stopping here Spencer
+ 146 sampled beats
The fact that I don’t have any idea what this is in reference to makes it even more amusing than it probably otherwise would be. ms
Oh, that guy is entertaining. I wish he would post more.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:52 PM
Spence and nada…how does velvet underground and yoko ono figure into the influential crowd?
May 4th, 2012 at 2:52 PM
Even worse, back in the day I was hoping to be stuffin’ Martha’s muffin. That’s how old-school I am.
And spence, I mean no offense. Just wasn’t a Zappa fan.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:53 PM
He was responding to me and I’m still completely lost.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:53 PM
velvet underground def…yoko is only influential in terms of being an example of the damage wives can cause musicians.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:53 PM
Sorry…no clue.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Damange? She ruined The Beatles, the woman is a Saint. With a sideways vagina.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Ok maybe i got kennedy confused with ursula andress. My bad
May 4th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Even worse, back in the day I was hoping to be stuffin’ Martha’s muffin. That’s how old-school I am.
She’s certainly aged better than Nina Blackwood. She’s aged worse than the Old Man of the Mountain.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Damange? DAMANGE!
May 4th, 2012 at 2:55 PM
you go to hell!
May 4th, 2012 at 2:55 PM
Ok maybe i got kennedy confused with ursula andress. My bad
Yeah I can really see how a person would do that.
/No I can’t.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:56 PM
Nina Blackwood died in 2003 and has been Robert Evans in drag ever since.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:56 PM
I prefer Kurt Loder
/coop’d
May 4th, 2012 at 2:57 PM
VU: hugely influential. Yoko: biggest influence was breaking up the Beatles.
Although honestly, Yoko gets a lot of credit in the art and art-rock worlds. But she also deserves blame for birthing Sean and unleashing Cibo Matto on the public consciousness.
/ Team Shonen Knife
May 4th, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Can i not have any unfunny fun with you around ms?
May 4th, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Can i not have any unfunny fun with you around ms?
No.
Speaking of which, remember the MTV show Buzzkill? It was kind of stupid.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Or, as we used to refer to her in the early days of MTV, “Nina Airhead.”
May 4th, 2012 at 3:01 PM
only thing i was offended by was you saying beefheart was a better songwriter…im not sure if you meant just rock songs and all that, but, in my eyes, zappa is the greatest composer post 1920 of any music, let alone classical or jazz realms.
zappa’s my fucking hero man…it’s all subjective and all that, and i know you weren’t being a dick, i just…damn man…shit.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Anyhoo, I still think Spencer deserves his own weeky golf post on TBL.
Just leave the kazoos in Joe’s Garage.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:04 PM
His music was interesting. In fact, I once wrote a high school essay on jazz-rock and how much of an influence Varese had on Zappa. But I just didn’t like his lyrics or singing.
And I always felt Beefheart got the short end of the stick in their partnership.
Ah, to each his own. Have fun cranking your new clubs this weekend!
May 4th, 2012 at 3:06 PM
nerd hot.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:06 PM
Ill Communication was one of the first CD’s back in my ‘stealing from Columbia House/BMG’ days. RIP.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:07 PM
oh yea…me neither, and he didn’t either (…in the classic albums for apostraphe and overnight sensation, he even says that…he just wrote lyrics so idiots – his words – could have a human voice to relate to). most of his lyrics were total bullshit…some were even invoices for shipping shit. he just didn’t care about music with lyrics in there and the more ridiculous and offensive he could be, the better.
that’s part of why i loved his music so much, that juxtaposition between outrageously complex, intelligent, challenging music and the utter nonsense of the vocals.
OH HYELL YEA. you know this isn’t an issue.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Also, Downtown Julie Brown >>> Kennedy.
For that matter, comedian Julie Brown >>> Downtown Julie Brown >>> Kennedy.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Saw them with Run DMC and LL Cool J, prob 86 or 87. Awesome show, many fights in the stands too.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:09 PM
I’ve never heard the original but the Galaxie 500 cover of Yoko’s Listen the Snow is Falling is one of my favorite songs.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Just stopping by this thread to say “Looking down the barrel of a gun, son of a gun, son of a bitch, getting paid, getting rich.”
That is all.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:10 PM
I have both of those on vinyl. Nothing to play them on of course…
May 4th, 2012 at 3:13 PM
this is the one i got…got it used, wasn’t too expensive. the preamp and speakers are the tough parts.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Buzzkill was fucking awesome. When the infiltrated the MTV Movie Awards impersonating Isaac Mizrahi it was hilarious.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:13 PM
That’s very Dylanesque, as Mr. Zimmerman has said he’s done the same just to fuck with people who try to read to much into his lyrics. (And dig through his garbage.)
May 4th, 2012 at 3:14 PM
I was supposed to see Rage Against the Machine/Beastie Boys when they where gonna tour together. I think it was billed as the “Rhyme and Reason” tour. Then Mike D fell off his bike and broke his leg. Fucking jackass.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:15 PM
That’s very Dylanesque, as Mr. Zimmerman has said he’s done the same just to fuck with people who try to read to much into his lyrics
The Weather Underground, for example?
May 4th, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Oh you mean the show that Punk’d stole their whole premise from?
May 4th, 2012 at 3:16 PM
Oh you mean the show that Punk’d stole their whole premise from?
That’d be the one.
May 4th, 2012 at 11:07 PM
Hipster 6 & 9 year olds listening to Beasties what am I reading comments on Gawker?
Kennedy was never and will never be hot.
She is the ugly sorority chick making sure no one has a good time.
Kari was the hot one. She was dirty. Those other nerd girls wouldn’t use their mouths.