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A Brooklyn Heights playground was renamed to Adam Yauch Park today, in honor of the dearly departed Beastie Boy. [via]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/9220cc5a47a14bbeddcc2776afb54a53/tumblr_mm8drktp4v1qzs5cqo1_500.jpg)
A Brooklyn Heights playground was renamed to Adam Yauch Park today, in honor of the dearly departed Beastie Boy. [via]
"Forget about Kurt Cobain for a second: For kids like me, the Beastie Boys invented the 90s. Technology was changing fast and the world was shrinking rapidly. Between their music and label/magazine Grand Royal, the Beasties showed how to reach out and scoop up all the best parts. New York hip-hop and punk rock, Japanese pop, Jamaican dub— all of it could be gathered and re-assembled into something that reflected who you were. This sort of cultural mixing was nothing new, but the Beastie Boys brought it to the mainstream. They were ambassadors, but their hipness didn’t look down on anybody. It felt inclusive."
— Mark Richardson remembers MCA.
Beastie Boys on Yo MTV Raps in 1989.
This is maybe the most 1989 thing on the internet and it is great.
OK people, please get ready for the world premiere of the explicit epic
length video/ short film for “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win.”Though no Yeti’s were harmed in the making of this video, please remember, that there are some scenes that are a rugged and raw depiction of a world that is at times violent, and even frightening.
That being said, please heat up the butter and the popcorn, sit back and enjoy. Directed by Spike Jonze and written by Adam Yauch, we hope you have fun.
"I only made it two weeks on tour. I remember New Orleans because I got really drunk— drunker than I’d ever been in my entire life. I drank all the Beastie Boys under the table."
— Breakfast Club star— and one-time girlfriend of Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz— Molly Ringwald on her experience touring with the Beastie Boys in 1986.
(Source: New York Magazine)
Beastie Boys are live-streaming their new album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two in full from center court at Madison Square Garden right now. Click to listen.
