The Beastie Boys is one of the greatest rap groups in the world -- and they've been around for more than 30 years. The second album I ever bought was License to Ill, and they followed it up with other great albums like Check Your Head and Hello Nasty, spawning classic songs like "What'cha Want?" and "Sabotage". One of their founding members, Adam Yauch, died a few years ago but the other two members, Ad-Roc and Mike D, are still alive, well, and making music.
If you're a Beastie fan, you MUST listen to this interview on Marc Maron's WTF. Sons of NYC, they talk a lot about their music and childhoods in NYC. My favorite moment is when talks about going to buy back to school clothes at Morris Brothers, the late great department store on the Upper West Side that all Westside youngsters, yours truly included, shopped at as kids. If you want to know what it was like to grow up in this town back in the day, you won't do better than this.
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