Beastie Boys
Biography
As the first white rap group of any importance, the Beastie Boys received the scorn of critics and strident hip-hop musicians, who accused them of cultural pirating, especially since they began as a hardcore punk group in 1981. But the Beasties weren't pirating -- they treated rap as part of a post-punk musical underground, where the do-it-yourself aesthetics of hip-hop and punk weren't that far apart. Of course, the exaggerated b-boy and frat-boy parodies of their unexpected hit debut album, Licensed to Ill, didn't help their cause. For much of the mid-'80s, the Beastie Boys were...Read more
Discography
- Mix-Up (2007)
- Solid Gold Hits (2005)
- To The 5 Boroughs (2004)
- Beastie Boys Anthology - The Sounds of Silence (Cd 2) (1999)
- Beastie Boys Anthology - The Sounds of Silence (Cd 1) (1999)
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Lyrics
- 3-Minute Rule
- 3 The Hard Way
- 33% God
- 5-Piece Chicken Dinner
- 59 Chrystie Street
- A Year And A Day
- Alive
- All Lifestyles
- Alright Hear This
- An Open Letter To Nyc
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