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Partly because I feel this is necessary and partly because I don’t feel like writing a review everyday, I give to you, my 2 and a half loyal readers, the artist profile. On the day before I review an album (excluding those I review for the new album section), I’ll give you a brief overview of the emcee/group at hand provided that it’s the first time he/she/they’ve appeared on the site. So in lieu of the upcoming, highly anticipated (who am I kidding) Licensed to Ill review, here is the Beastie Boys in a paragraph. Or two.

The Beastie Boys consist of three emcees: Michael Diamond aka Mike D, Adam Yauch aka MCA, and Adam Horovitz aka Ad Rock (who’s stepbrother actually went to my high school while I was there). They didn’t start off as a hip hop group and actually started as a punk band called The Young Aboriginies. They later realized that this name sucked hard and changed it to the Beastie Boys. What they didn’t realize until master producer Rick “totally messed up Linkin Park’s last album” Rubin of 99 problems fame pointed it out to them was that their punk music also sucked hard. And so, with that, the Beastie Boys as we know the group, possibly the first popular white act in hip hop, was born. I can go on here and talk about the rest of the group’s history, but you’ll get to read that along with their album reviews (I can promise you that the majority of their stuffs gonna be reviewed on here because I happen to be a Beastie stan).

The Beasties are mostly known for their heavy guitar riff production and their often screamed lyrics. Now Mike D, MCA, and Ad Rock are not the most gifted lyricists in this part of town. But for some reason or another, I find myself not giving a damn. Simple lyrics or not, their music still rocks. The most frequent complaint I hear about the group is that they scream their vocals and that somehow that deters them from the song. I call bullshit on that one because the same people who complain about the Beasties are the ones who bump Lil Jon on a regular basis. All the dude does is scream and he only screams the same three words and you guys somehow like his music. So suck it up and give the Beastie Boys a fair chance.

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