What’s the time? It’s time to get ill on Caleb, Josh, Harrison and Hayden. That’s what time it is.
First of all REST IN PEACE MCA. A member of a revolutionary band of real New Yorkers that gave us some of the best beats ever made. Thank you. Now…
I can see it now – in many spots in the LES and Nieuw Breukelen - candles, memorials, gatherings, posters, t-shirts, toasts, tributes and Beastie Boy re-mixes done on parentally funded Macbooks in filthy hipsters bars for MCA all done by mother fuckers who within the last 10 years were eating Auntie M’s pretzels in some fucking mall in the MidWest and trading Pokemon cards while waiting for their mommies to pick them up in Subarus and Volvos to chauffer them back to their cul-de-sacs. But now these mouth-breathers are suddenly gritty New Yorkers with unwashed hair, sperm destroying tight jeans and moldy Converse sneakers – oh yeah, and hold a liberal arts degree.
I find nothing wrong in liking the Beastie Boys no matter what part of the country you’re from or what your age is, however, these “like yah” saying transplants will be doing these memorials less as a tribute to MCA and more of a tribute to themselves for discovering New York and being gritty urban pioneers or, as we know them, transplanted pussy hipsters. It’s just another excuse to say “yah, yah like cheers MCA, we are like making Brooklyn and all of New York better and better each day, yah.”
RIP MCA
My man Adam – Edward R Murrow represent – deep sorry – important to remember that all 3 of them came from relative privilege, and could have chosen the full hipster route of parental subsidized faux art and artisinal cheeses, but instead they took the authentic route and embedded themselves within the forto uncharted rap culture. Sure, they pulled in some favors, and yeah Rick Rubin was as instrumental as they were in the breaking of License To Ill, but what came after (which changed seemingly by the minute) was all them. And Adam, the rocker, pot head, the snow boarder, the buddhist, the activist, the cancer sufferer, Adam is now gone. How many hipsters can really say that they changed the culture and gained the respect of their peers by the time they hit 21? That, kids, is how we do it in NYC, while you midwestern fucks are sucking on a ding dong.
In 2003 I worked at a movie theatre on 68th and Broadway in Manhattan. One evening on my shift I saw MCA. I’ve liked the Beastie Boys for years, and recognized him immediately. He saw my double take and knew I recognized him, but I didn’t want to make a big deal of it at the time. As soon as I read the news that he died, my first thoughts were of that particular memory. It’s always the good musicians who die too soon.
flashback to 1996. My room at my parents house was covered in Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan, and Rage Against the Machine posters. Those were the 3 groups that were and still are my personal favorites of all time. The Beastie Boys were raw in their inception…started out as a four piece punk outfit ala Sonic Youth but quickly found themselves immersed in the hip-hop culture. Like th previous commentor said, everything after their Def Jam era was completely there own. Not only did they manage to change the game, but perhaps in a way, change the direction of street culture in the process. Mixing everthing from punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, snowboarding, and even oddball elements of pop culture in the process. Quite possibly one of the most influential groups of the 90s…alongside the other two I mentioned.
MCA…Adam…you will be missed. I grew up on the Beastie Boys. Not from New York…but I’ve always respected them as true representatives of real street culture and real New York culture. Not this fake ass homegenized bullshit that’s touted as “real” that’s sold in Urban Outfitters and Pac Sun.
RIP.
Saw the Beasties 4 times over the years. Always rocking it live and always making interesting music and videos. Like them or not, you gotta give props to MCA for evolving as a human being over the years and helping others in many ways. Whether it was music, raising awareness for Tibetan issues, making cool videos or just being a good performer, he made many smile, laugh and feel better. A positive influence. He was the real thing. I remember seeing the B-Boys in 92 and he walked by me outside the show with bright green hair like it was normal LOL…I always loved his raps and laid back style…he played a mean bass too. MCA most definitely lived life to the fullest and made the most of his time on earth. Great contributions to the world.
When I was in high school and Licensed to Ill dropped it was bananas to see and hear white kids rapping. It was a wild combo of hardcore punk, hip hop, wiseass and NYC attitude. They kept morphing the sounds and images over the years with great music and ideas. True pioneers and dedicated. RIP Adam “MCA” Yauch. Glad I got to see you tear up the stage!
Now for the newbie jerkoffs that are probably having “Beastie Boy themed rooftop BBQ’s”, writing shitty blog news reports and claiming they can relate since they’re now from Brooklyn too, get fuckin real. You know you’re really doing it for “Look At Me” points and some validation.
It’s “NO SLEEP TIL BROOKLYN” not “NO SLEEP TIL NEBRASKA”.
One thing’s for sure – unlike Adam or Chris Rock, Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks, Mike Tyson, Vince Lombardi, etc, nobody will ever know the names of a Caleb, Ethan or any of the malnourished under-talented xylophone-playing imports “from Brooklyn”.
Malnourished, have you see Mike D (vegan) lately? That you want to separate the Beasties from the Hipsters makes me laugh. You’d have to go back to about ’86 to make it work.
More bullshit. Just because you hipsters hopped on the bandwagon (veganism, DIY, and so on) well over a DECADE after the shit was already old news in the underground, doesn’t mean you have any stake in it. Face it, you’re trend hoppers — not trendsetters.
Peace punks and hardline Straight Edge kids (“soy milk and cookie skinheads”) in ’92 were doing the vegan (which was already “old hat” by time) thing long before any stupid hipsters (in the modern sense).
Ughh if Mike D doesn’t have a twizzler physique, I don’t know who you think does.. you dudes are some serious hypocrites.
It isn’t about “twizzler physiques” or any of the identifying marks of a hipster. The identifying marks in and of themselves do not make a hipster. It is combination of these factors, bound together by strands of superficiality and fakeness, and smother in a thick coat of “smug” and “smarm” that make a hipster.
Of course, you know this, but you are (in typical hiptard fashion) grasping at straws. Hell, at least you haven’t pulled the “you guy are just like nazis” stupidity (hipsters have done this before) out of your ass.
PUHleeze. Like if you saw this guy on the L train and he wasn’t famous you wouldn’t think he was a hipsters. You dudes are some serious spin doctors.
http://www.wksu.org/news/images/31308/beastie-boys.jpg
Sorry dumbass, but I judge people by how they act. I get along with “indie” types (who REALLY hate you hipsters) and have been doing so for a decade and a half.
The only person I would think is a hipster would be the cat in the middle and that’s due to those big ugly shades. Hipsters are hated for their behavior — not their dress (it’s easily to make fun of a person’s shitty fashion sense if you hate them). That’s common knowledge to everyone here except stupid hipsters like you who wish it were otherwise.
What’s wrong Stevie? Decided to comeback after your Meghan ran off with that Jamaican dude?
The guy in the middle is Mike D dummy.
No shit sherlock. I knew you would bite. In fact, I know what the “D” stands for since I have an actual copy of Pollywog Stew (purchased in 1988) on vinyl. Predictable in the extreme you are. You hiptards are so desperate for credibility (or the appearance of such) that you will jump at any chance to appear to be “in the know” — even if it means blurting out shit that’s common knowledge. You forget there are old punkers, hip-hoppers, skins, headbangers and even an old-school goth posting here. We have collectively forgotten more about music than you will ever know in three lifetimes. Sorry dumbass, but credibility has evaded you once again.
New York of the 80s ain’t the New York of today. If you can’t tell the difference, shanedawg, you might just be a hipster fuck.
Except that picture wasn’t taken in the 80′s. Not even close. Mike D was 40+ when that picture was taken. Like he cares about you assholes and your slide to convenience standards.
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/popcrush.com/files/2012/05/beastieboys3.jpg
There is another shot. Like you low brow shit kickers wouldn’t dismiss him as a hipster. PUHleeze. Do you know how much ink you have spilled on this diaper blog saying otherwise?
Bottom line is that Adam Yauch was a sensitive, forward thinking intellectual. You dude are reductionist, xenophobic, haters. Did you know Yauch marched with OWS? Bottom line, the Beastie Boys wouldn’t not be down with you dudes, They would consider you ugly. So please stop trying to rewrite reality and claim them as your own
s are redrebackwards, xenophobic, reductionary haters.
Get lost you raging fucktard. Everything was explained. Sorry it went over your head. You hipsters aren’t exactly known for being too bright. Hipster intelligence is much like hipster creativity and hipster talent, in that the existence of all 3 are debatable.
Oh, and Mike D has always been the flamboyant one. He was the “fashion plate” of the group. In the 90s, he was rocking a hoodie and sagging his dickies. As mentioned before its more than just clothes that make a hipster. Find a better pic. Hipsters have no monopoly on track suits (other than making them look bad — but then nothing about a hipster ever looks good). Everyone from 80s B-Boys, old school Guidos to Nazi skinheads in Spain and Italy have rocked track suits.
It should also be added that the Beasties had STYLE. It came naturally to them — whether it was during the their punk/skinhead days or throughout their rap career. Hipsters wouldn’t know style if it took the form of a 200lb bullqueer and ass raped them.
Sorry hipster, but trying to co-opt the Beasties won’t work. As it has been said before, Adam was the REAL THING (something a hipster can never be
Exactly. There’s a marked difference between making something new and cribbing off of someone else.
Hilarious. DH rants elndlessy about culture vultures but is a fan of the Beastie Boys.
Not to mention Adam Yauch was for lots of things you are against.
He was also known to wear knit hats with T-shirts.
You guys are so turned around you don’t know which was if forward and which was is backwards anymore.
beat it Shanedawg, your missing the fucking point.
The point is you guys don’t have a point. You grasping at straws and rearranging reality to support your delusions. RIP Yauch: artist, Bard student, one time LA transplant, social and political progressive.
Beastie Boys would hate you dudes.
Shizzy the Dawg……….I guess if you split the hairs with a laserbeam you can say that, but MCA was native Brooklyn and doing his thing MANY years prior to the Y2K and beyond hipster “look at me” plague. Furthermore, he made his own money and excelled without his PARENTS LOOT in many fields of creativity worldwide…not just on Bedford Ave and at the Montrose stop.
I’m sure he never had a pillow fight in the street on Sunday or rode the subway with a blog group with no pants on in his 30′s either.
MCA = trendsetter pioneer HIPSTERS = late with it clones
Thanks Angryeel. I was gonna say something similar. You saved me the trouble. This was Sugar Shane Posely’s desperate chance at negating everything ever said on this site.
…doing these memorials less as a tribute to MCA and more of a tribute to themselves…
um this is EXACTLY what you have done. EXACTLY. Yauch would not have dug you, your website or your agenda.
No, grasping at straws is you trying to equate Adam with hipsters. Come to think of it, “grasping at straws” is all hipsters do. You do it to build strawmen (albeit poorly).
Adam was a million miles away from being a hipster. Adam was the “real thing” in terms of being an artist and progressive. He had talent and was actually creative. Hipsters are imposters, posers and bastardizers. Their artistic output is as vapid as they are. Adam and the rest of the Beasties came from a punk background (Beastie Boys initials = “BB” = inspired by the Bad Brains). This means they grew up HATING posers. Hipsters = ultimate posers.
HEAR, HEAR!
That’s the fact Jack!
Posers? You can’t be serious. Yauch was a white rapper Jewish Buddhist.
Being a white Buddhist of Jewish descent who raps doesn’t make one a poser. You obviously don’t know what a “poser/poseur” is. A poser is someone who pretends to be something he or shit isn’t. Adam was serious about his rap and serious about his Buddhism. The only thing a hipster is serious about is the “pose”. Insincerity is one of a hipster’s defining traits. A hipster will claim to be a Buddhist because it either makes him/her look cool OR use it as a calculated part of their image as an artist or musician (this is due to their artistic output lacking so much in terms of talent and skill, that their image must take up the slack).
Once again spot on my bro……to add to your reprimand it must be noted that all hipsters/posers heavily rely on being SEEN and NOTICED. Hence the packed bars of fashion victims socializing and social events based on ironic beer, ironic fashion and empty babble about ones ironic activities.
Never thought I’d get on the G train and feel like I was at a hipster transplant singles bar fashion contest either.
Life goes on…
I’m well over 1000 miles away and over here in Minneapolis (Hipster breeding/spawning/cloning/hatching center) their behavior makes it so easy to spot them. You are spot on about the being SEEN and NOTICED part. It’s definitely some emotional/mental disorder on their part.
Spot on! ^^
Wow… Powerful.
Christ…..YES he was both those things and more….BUT, my little arguing maniac, he was SINCERE and in it for the long haul since the actual 80′s. Not the regurgitated 80′s we see in the 2000′s.
Try and understand……when one has a sincere love and passion for something… even something already done before…they do it FULL HEARTEDLY and push it to new heights and forms. They don’t do it for pats on the back, to fit in to the current trends, for fashion purposes and for validity in a new city.
They do it because they believe in the cause and the medium. They radiate original thoughts to mix with the traditional established mediums. That’s what creativity is. Not being a fuckin MIMIC or CLONE.
Examples…….
EVERYDAY HUMAN: “hey 99% dude whats the cause here? what do you stand for?”
PROTEST HUMAN: “dude like the fuckin banks suck man!! Wall St is evil like yeah”.
TRANSLATION: Finally I can mimic the 60′s radical types and sleep outside with my drum. My credit card has no limit on it and mom and dad will sign for a condo if we need one.
I agree that Yauch was sincere, but how do you know if a person is sincere or not if you don’t know them? When the dope who runs this site is taking camera phone shots on the subway like a little sneak thief, what does he know about the people he is taking pictures of other than their appearance? What do you know about their motives or their level of commitment or sincerity? What do you know about their finances or situation? All you dudes do is extrapolate into some nameless faceless ‘they’. Well reality is there is no ‘they’. And the ‘they’ you think you are seeing could very well be composed of guys like Adam, Adam & Mike.
FaceTheFacts, angryeel, Bang on Dudes, thanks for laying that all down for Mr Shanedawg.
Hey Shanedawg,, if you dislike DH so much A) why are you spending so much time replying to these comments B) What were you doing on the page in the first place?
Back to the real point of the tribute, MCA was an amazing human and he will be greatly missed. HIs music will live on forever.
Shandawg go get on your 6′ tall bike and go for a long ride on a short pier.
“A) why are you spending so much time replying to these comments B) What were you doing on the page in the first place? ”
I’m Jewish. I’m not real receptive to the kind of bullshit that goes on here. History tells me not to keep my mouth shut.
Basically fuck you dudes.
Do you know how you know a person is sincere?
The Beastie Boys were white jewish boys who loved hiphop AND FUCKING ACTED LIKE IT. They did not pretend to be black or “hard” or ghetto, they were themselves, made shit that they liked and revolunised the genre.
Middle class white kids who PRETEND to be poor/gritty/urban and move to fashionable neighbourhoods when they could’ve practiced their art ANYWHERE are posers.
Clear enough? I even capitalised it like i was writing notes to my five year old brother.
Sincere comes from the latin sin-cere “with out wax”… meaning pure. Smelters used to dump wax into metal lke copper and lead as an impurity to make heavier posing as something pure. MCA was pure style, pure Brooklyn. There is nothing sincere in a Hipster they are posers… posing as the real thing!
Hey ShaneDUNG, what the fuck is this shite:
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“I’m Jewish. I’m not real receptive to the kind of bullshit that goes on here. History tells me not to keep my mouth shut.
Basically fuck you dudes.”
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You’re a lying sack of -80 IQ hillbilly shit. You ain’t Jewish. No Jew would ever cheapen the struggle of his people by comparing the actual persecution his ancestors to ONLINE hipster bashing. I repeat, you are NOT Jewish. You hipsters are lower than snakeshit. You claimed Jewish heritage to passive aggressively play the “You guys are like the Nazis” card. Godwin’s law has been invoked.
Basically, go fuck yourself in the ass with a rusty pipe that’s been soaking in medical waste and raw sewage.
Thank you!
I’m really curious as to what the fuck being jewish has to do with what that idiot said/believes.
A Brooklynite died and people use it as an excuse to spread their hate, god help your souls for exploiting the dead, both hipsters, and the people who hate them.
Hey Shane, I mean Stevie,
When a certain Chinese she-male in Toronto gets run over by a bus, we’ll all sing HARERRUIA!
I don’t know what that means, god have mercy on your soul.
Too bad you didn’t die. One need not have an excuse to hate hipsters. It’s as natural as breathing.
That’s a wonderful thing to say to a stranger, wishing death upon others without knowing them, you must be a great person. God have mercy on your soul.
Of course I’m a great person. I’m not a hipster. Now go OD on some uncut coca.
Why would I ever do that?
Because you’d be doing something useful (ensuring there’s one less hipster breathing my air) for once in your life.
You seem very angry and confused, are you happy with your life?
Wow, look who’s running out of material. Dumbfuck hipster has resorted to the “Dr. Phil” shit. My worst is still infinitely greater than your absolute best.
Actually, scratch that question friend, I know you will just keep trying to hurt me with silly comments and assumptions. Have wonderful life, and find happiness.
Thanks for confirming the truth of my last statement. There is no “try” in hurting a hipster. One only needs point in a hipster’s general direction and snicker to accomplish such a thing. Hipsters = FAIL personified.
-If any of the regular posters here randomly saw MCA on the street and didn’t know he was a Beastie Boy, they would dismis him as a hipster instead of sucking on his nuts posthumously.
-The BEastie Boys support many of the things that the regfular posters here detest as hipsterism: freedom of expression, deviation from the norm, forward thinking, communities based on shared ideology, open-minded lifestyles, etc.
-I’d bet a thousand bucks that if any of the remaining Beastie Boys come across this site they would be DISGUSTED by the zenophobic nature of the regular posters, and by their attempts to appropriate their friend’s memory.
Hey shaneDUNG/Stevie Lam(e), [insert sockpuppet here] changing your nick and spouting the same shit doesn’t it make it any less “SHIT” than it was the first time you posted it. Oh, and the word is “xenophobic”. At least none of us pretended to be Jewish and cheapened their struggle by comparing REAL PERSECUTION to some dumbfuck hipster getting his pussified feelings hurt.
Freedom of expression, deviation from the norm, forward thinking, communities based on shared ideology, open-minded lifestyles, etc. are all things hipsters PRETEND . . . let me spell that out for you, P-R-E-T-E-N-D to embrace. Hiptards = fake as can be.
As I said before, the remaining Beasties most likely have no love for posers and hiptards are the ultimate posers.
Funny you’re bitching about being fake, when you’re pretending to not be a fag.
Sorry, but “fag jokes” don’t fly on DH. No one cares (too bad, because I know you strained that substandard brain of yours to come up with such a gem). Gays are better than hipsters. I’d sooner be the biggest, flaming homosexual on planet earth, than to ever even CONSIDER being a hipster. Last I checked, the Beasties weren’t big on anti-gay attitudes either. Of course, this is no surprise. A hipster always shows his true colors when upset or facing adversity.
ps: You’re still not Jewish. Why are you running away from that one? I called you out for being a liar. You remain silent. That tells me you were literally clutching at BITS and PIECES of straws when pulled the “I’m jewish/you guys remind me of Nazis” out of your ass. Die.
How should I prove to you that I’m Jewish? You seem obsessed with my religion.
Hipsters are known liars. When you posted as ShaneDUNG, you claimed Jewish heritage. Yes, I’m 100% certain you are him. Hipsters are literally interchangeable.
YOu’re the one who brought it up, DUMBASS! AND you changed your screen name to pretend you’re someone else. THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A POSER!
guys playing croquet dressed pretty much exactly like Adam Yauch dressed….
So glad you posted this DH, and cracking up at the coincidence, in light of the shit I saw Saturday.
I had the fucking worst experience on Saturday with these flyover wool hat stick fucks and how they are attempting to consume the death of MCA. Had a meeting Saturday afternoon in Chinatown, and afterwards I’m walking to get some food with one of the guys who promised me a good spot to get good pigs feet and noodles – he is Chinatown born and raised; so we are walking down Chrystie Street, and there is a mob of people – every single one of them with the beard, wool hat, parentally purchased camera. We get closer, and sure enough, they are converged around the front of a building where the Beastie Boys used to live when they were starting out.
It was the absolute perfect contrast – on one hand: the Beastie Boys, real New Yorkers, who lived on LES/Chinatown when it wasn’t hip or fashionable, in order to get cheap rent, and be close to the downtown scene where they needed to perform-. On the other hand: Caleb, Hunter, and Bryce from Ohio, who were in cul-de-sac basements sipping Sunny D when Paul’s Boutique came out, snapping photos for their gentrification blogs and acting like they were in mourning. Yes, the exact same people that are responsible for the rent raising that would prevent the next Beasties from being able to live there today are ‘sad’.
Like I said, I’m really happy to see you made this posting, because that incident really fucking pissed me off.Somehow my hatred of hipsters is finding new levels.
RIP MCA
One of the best things I’ve read about Yauch passing – http://www.thenation.com/blog/167736/adam-mca-yauch-our-ambassador-atlantis – it does speak about his participation in OWS, and I have to say, I understand a lot of people’s ambivalence about the movement, but I really like how this article puts MCA and OWS in the context of the change in NYC from a place for everyone to a place for the 1%. I’ve seen it happen, having lived here for 37 years.
RIP MCA.
What a horrible weekend. I can’t believe he’s gone.
Rest in peace, MCA. My world feels a little emptier because you’re no longer in it, but the world itself is a better and richer place because, for a brief time, you lived in it. z”l
Hipsters: Still here, already forgotten.
Adam Yauch: No longer (physically) here… but never forgotten.
The key distinction between the Beastie Boys and hipster wannabes? TALENT.