# RIP Beastie Boy MCA (Adam Yauch) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893 "2012-05-04T17:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/1 "2012-05-04T17:08:07Z")
[Dead at 47.](http://gawker.com/5907713/beastie-boys-founding-member-adam-mca-yauch-dead-at-47) This sucks…they were still putting out good albums!!! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/2 "2012-05-04T17:09:32Z")
Fuck, this sucks. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/3 "2012-05-04T17:10:28Z")
Fucking cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/4 "2012-05-04T17:15:16Z")
Ugh. That’s horrible. The Beastie Boys were a huuuuuuge part of my youth. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/5 "2012-05-04T17:19:55Z")
Crap. RIP Adam. You entertained my generation like few others. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/6 "2012-05-04T17:19:57Z")
Dammit!!! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/7 "2012-05-04T17:21:23Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/8 "2012-05-04T17:24:12Z")
This sucks. I had no idea he had cancer. RIP MCA, you made some awesome music that even this non rap fan loved. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/9 "2012-05-04T17:29:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/10 "2012-05-04T17:30:16Z")
Yauch, that hurts. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/11 "2012-05-04T17:34:06Z")
Holy shit. Fuck cancer. :mad: Rest in peace, man. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/12 "2012-05-04T17:35:54Z")
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! :mad: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/13 "2012-05-04T17:44:49Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > This sucks. I had no idea he had cancer. RIP MCA, you made some awesome music that even this non rap fan loved. What he said. I still have _Licensed to Ill_ on cassette. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/14 "2012-05-04T17:53:03Z")
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. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/15 "2012-05-04T17:58:31Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/16 "2012-05-04T18:02:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/17 "2012-05-04T18:15:23Z")
Hope he was listening to the in sounds on his way out. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/18 "2012-05-04T18:24:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/19 "2012-05-04T18:28:54Z")
Damn. Back when I was eleven the Beastie Boys were the Nastiest Group in the World™: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLP0dEnOGsw) 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](http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/beastie/vw.html). 'cause it stood for **V** ery **W** icked, 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. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893/20 "2012-05-04T18:47:03Z")
Thread about why the Beastie Boys were so awesome: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=549415&highlight=beastie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=549415&highlight=beastie) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-beastie-boy-mca-adam-yauch/620893.md?page=2)