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SD50 – Stimulated Dummies, a trio of hip-hop producers, including: Dante Ross, Geeby Dajani, and John Gamble.
Yauch spent an evening hanging with me and my partner John Gamble in our crusty old studio, SD50. We must have left at like 4:30 in the morning just smoking weed, chopping up breaks talking shit all night. Just vibing out, catching up—we hadn’t hung in a while.
He was also the guy who sat with me at my studio one night with his bass and laid a bunch of stuff down for me just to do it. He was that kind of guy. Warm, interested, compassionate and selfless. –Dante Ross
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Dante Ross, New York rap producer and longtime Beastie associate, shares some stories–venga por aquí. And here’s the deal on this lyric:
My friend Nadia told me MCA had put my name in a song after Ill Communication was out. Ironically enough, at a Beastie show at the Garden when I saw her there. I was oblivious to it at the time. Though I didn’t know until she told me, I was always really honored that he mentioned me in a song.
Yauch never said anything about it to me, which is so MCA. If you knew him it totally makes sense. He was so cool, I almost never talked music biz with him—it was always just snaps, b-ball, and life stuff, which in retrospect is even cooler today than ever.
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Drinking wine (made from grapes) with dinner may lead to smoking a little purple herb named for the cartoon character, Grape Ape – a mammoth, purple gorilla from Hanna-Barbera’s The Great Grape Ape Show in the 1970’s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsj53H4x3nI&feature=player_embedded
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'Cause I get ill when I'm on the pause button
And I get my fill, and now you can't say nothing Beastie Boys – Flute Loop
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Al Goldstein published the pornographic magazine, Screw, and hosted the sex-themed public-access show, Midnight Blue. It ran on New York’s Channel J from 1974 until 2004, when Goldstein declared bankruptcy.
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Edward Koch was mayor of New York from 1978-1989, known for his slogan “How’m I doing?”
By the time of Paul’s Boutique, his run as mayor was just about over. Johnny Ryall, who is almost dead (“livin' on borrowed time”), was more “over” than Koch.
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