Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys switch up their style.

What’s a dope way to pay homage to the decorated Beastie Boy member, Adam Yauch? How about by having a group of monks breakdancing in his remembrance in the middle of Union Square? This past Saturday served as the third annual "MCA Day "in New York City. In h...

The legal tussle between toy company GoldieBlox and the Beastie Boys has come to a close. The issue was over the use of the Beastie Boys' 1987 song "Girls" for an ad by GoldieBlox that went viral. When GoldieBlox took Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D to court in Nov. 201...

Manhattan Community Board 3 has rejected a proposal that would have renamed a Lower East Side intersection Beastie Boys Square. The plan would have honored the same downtown Ludlow and Rivington cross-street location the trio used for their iconic Paul's Boutique album cover...

Last month, LeRoy McCarthy issued a petition to have the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington Streets in Manhattan, where the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique album cover was shot, co-named "Beastie Boys Square." Well it appears that the new year has already brought on some good fortune for McCarthy, as Community Board 3 officially lists "Beastie Boys Square" to its Jan... Read M

When Rick Rubin first came on the scene, things were a lot different in hip-hop especially in terms of racial barriers. As Rick assisted in taking the genre to new levels alongside Russell Simmons and other hip-hop heavy weights, the renowned producer recently spoke on his earlier days telling that at first his skin color caught many by surprise...

You don't have to listen to a rapper expound on their life's philosophy for very long to hear that many consider hip-hop to be a "competitive sport." If we consider that particular chestnut of conventional wisdom to be true then one of the ways you can measure who is winning "the game" is by going to the statistics...

In Adam Yauch's will, the now-gone rap icon prohibited the use of Beastie Boys songs in advertisements and the group's two remaining members, Ad-Rock and Mike D, are doing their best to uphold Yauch's wishes. Now that a toy company GoldieBlox has used their material in a video advertisement promoting its toys, the boys are not too happy and have taken action...

A commercial for a new line of toys aimed at girls who want more than just dolls to play with uses a classic Beastie Boys song as its soundtrack. The song, "Girls," is off the group's 1986 debut, Licensed To Ill. Its original message was pretty straightforward: The Beastie Boys liked girls, and they wanted to date them, among other things. In ...

Today marks the 53rd birthday of new York rapper Mike D!

Something really awesome happened recently. The legendary Jimmy Page, from rock outfit Led Zeppelin, mashed his own Led Zep track “Ramble On” with the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize.” You don’t always see that type of inter-mingling happening between the world of rock and rap, but it's usually special. For a while, Led Zeppelin has b...

Turns out, the word "Dope!" is not legally binding terminology. That's what Monster Energy found out this week, when a lawsuit against DJ Z-Trip regarding a mashup of Beastie Boys songs was tossed out and referred to as "reckless" and "risible" by a U...