This sucks…they were still putting out good albums!!!
Fuck, this sucks.
Fucking cancer.
Ugh. That’s horrible.
The Beastie Boys were a huuuuuuge part of my youth.
Crap.
RIP Adam. You entertained my generation like few others.
Dammit!!!
Fuck. Beastie Boys were the soundtrack to my summers.
True story: My mom is so Ned Flanderishly religious that she doesn’t like the word “funky.” It’s just unseemly to her, so for this reason, she had beef with the song “Brass Monkey.”
This sucks. I had no idea he had cancer. RIP MCA, you made some awesome music that even this non rap fan loved.
FUCK this sucks. I’m a huge fan. Have all their albums, all their DVDs. Have all their early recordings. Have clips from Noise The Show (WYNU radio) featuring them. DDAMN this sucks.
RIP Yauch. You totally fucking rocked.
Yauch, that hurts. 
Holy shit. Fuck cancer. :mad: Rest in peace, man.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
:mad:
What he said. I still have Licensed to Ill on cassette.
Man, the last couple albums they put out were amazing. I’m still wearing out the tracks on Hot Sauce Committee Pt. II and The Mix Up.
RIP MCA. You will be missed. Another sad day for rock.
Sucks. Beastie Boys will always have historical significance.
Unfortunately his death means that Fight for Your Right to Party, Brass Monkey and No Sleep Till Brooklyn are going to enter heavy rotation on all the rock stations around the country and, after years of hearing those tired tunes over and over, I can’t stand the sound any more.
Hope he was listening to the in sounds on his way out.
MCA was real hip hop. Now, to play my old Beastie music.
ETA: I loved the way he aged. I saw him on…Bill Mayher? I don’t know…an interview a couple years ago with the others, and I loved how he looked like your tax man but had more hip hop in him than many a gangsta thug I might see swaggering by. Heh.
Damn. Back when I was eleven the Beastie Boys were the Nastiest Group in the World™:
They did a tour of the UK and the tabloids were bored and decided to big them up as a huge threat to the nation’s Volkswagens. 'cause it stood for Very Wicked, or something.
“Apparently they daubed the walls of their hotel with human excrement, wrecked one bar, and in another ended up throwing beer at other customers.” And they were awesome.
But it sort of ruined them in the UK - they came across as a flash in the pan, except that people kept saying that Paul’s Boutique was really good, and then they were back with “Intergalactic” and they were grown-ups. And now Adam Yauch is dead, 47, which is no age.
He’s the one setting fire to Popular Science. In the video he’s the first through the door.
Thread about why the Beastie Boys were so awesome:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=549415&highlight=beastie