![]() MIKE D: After that we realized, all right, the Puma suits went away. And we get on stage and then right as we do our little song they turn all the house lights on which were fluorescent supermarket lights. ![]() We're trying to get through the crowd with all these dudes were calling us Menudo. I'm blaming that on Rick Rubin.ĪD ROCK: Because you know big timers drive in limos and we get out and there's like a hundred kids out front and they'd already ripped the gates off the place or some crazy guy had. I really don't because if I were in the audience I would have killed us.ĪD ROCK: We were in the limo in matching Puma suits would do rags! I don't understand how we did not get killed that night. ![]() We were so excited we all were in Puma suits and f**ing 'do rags and we go and people at Encore are looking at us like. The first time that we went up we played a show and at the Encore opening up for Kurtis Blow, the Encore in Queens. I mean, really I'm doing myself a disservice by even mentioning it. I think when we started to make rap music, when we made our first record with Rick, which was not very good, Rock Hard. MIKE D: I think it was weird, but it just didn't cross our minds that it was weird. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. On How They Broke Into Hip-Hop As Teenagers:ĪD ROCK: Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. Now, several years after his death, Ad-Rock and Mike D are releasing Beastie Boys Book, a sprawling, 600-page love letter to Adam Yauch full of personal stories, unseen photos and memories written by Ad-Rock, Mike D and contributors like Colson Whitehead Amy Poehler, Spike Jonze and more.Īd-Rock and Mike D stopped by the Stretch and Bobbito studio for a conversation about the making of Beastie Boys Book, about their early years in New York City, how they found their way as white kids in hip-hop and how they keep the memory of Adam Yauch alive today. Sadly, the Beastie Boys as a group effectively ended on when Adam Yauch died of salivary parotid gland cancer at the age of 47. Throughout the group's 30 years in music they've released a total of eight studio albums, the last being the 2011 release Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Beastie Boys were one of the label's first releases.īeastie Boys' first mainstream success was with their 1986 Def Jam release L icense To Ill, which topped the Billboard charts and by 2015 was certified diamond, marking the sale of 10 million units. With that money Ad-Rock bought an 808 drum machine and the Beasties fully committed to their new identity as a rap group.Īround the same time they befriended a young DJ named Rick Rubin, then a student at NYU, who together with classmate Russell Simmons founded Def-Jam Recordings.
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