I'm in your crawl space Beastie Boys (Ft. Mix Master Mike) – Crawlspace
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Listen up, dog!
But I won't sell my songs for no TV ad Beastie Boys (Ft. Mix Master Mike) – Putting Shame in Your Game
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An expression used to imply that a person is looking rough, haggard, disheveled, and weather-beaten. Cats are known for carrying the carcasses of birds & mice/rats/other vermin into their owner’s homes…
We're mathematically puttin' it down Kool & the Gang – Heaven at Once
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To try to make my every action for the good of all beings
For the rest of my lifetimes and even beyond
I vow to do my best, to do no harm Beastie Boys – Bodhisattva Vow
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Yauch continues to make good on this prophecy–even from the afterlife… David Browne’s piece for Rolling Stone (9.20.2012) reports how MCA was asked to contribute to the Tony Hawk Foundation. Yauch skated since he was a kid and found release on the skate ramps in their G-Son Studio. Less than two months before his death, Adam inscribed three separate decks with the lyrics to Ill Communication’s “Bodhisattva Vow.” He signed and dated each one: “Adam Yauch–March 15, 2012.”
When the Hawk Foundation contacted Adam about the project, they were unaware that Yauch was in the final stages of his fight with cancer…
When Ben [Harper] approached Adam about participating, he had no idea what condition Adam was in. If he did, he wouldn’t have asked. Understanding that Adam had been in treatment, he was careful to invite him to participate with no expectation that he would. But Adam responded immediately, and enthusiastically.–Miki Vuckovich, Executive Director, Tony Hawk Foundation
On November 29th, 2012, the decks were auctioned online to raise money for a skatepark in a low-income community in MCA’s hometown, NYC…
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David Michael Rodigan (b. 6.24.1951) is a British radio DJ, renowned for for his selections of reggae and dancehall music. In 2006, Rodigan was added to the Radio Academy Hall of Fame, and in 2012, appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to broadcasting. And he served as the DJ for RamJam FM in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.
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The all time high
My man told me long hellos and
Short goodbyes
But you are something else, I love you
Please don't die Beastie Boys – Live Wire
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As noted by our brothers and sisters over at Beastiemania, in the liner notes for 1999’s The Sounds of Science, Adam Horovitz wrote:
“I wrote this song for two people. One was this kid I only met a couple times, but he seemed so cool, the other was for my best friend Dave Scilken and other friends past, present and future. It’s hard to know what to do when you love someone who’s drug problem is out of control…”
That’s Scilken with the mohawk, as hardcore as they come, in the Young and the Useless days. In his youth, Dave’s graffiti tag was “Shadi,“ and he put out Blister fanzine, himself.
Not long after completing a drug rehabilitation program, Scilcken died of a drug overdose in 1991. Beastie Boys honored his memory by dedicating CYH to Dave Scilken…
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Generations of emcees would give respect to Gee’s metropolitical influence–for example, Mike D of the Beastie Boys–rocking like Spoonie here:
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As in Billy Ray Cyrus, whose signature song, “Achy Breaky Heart” was like a call to arms for the mullet crowd circa 1992.
