SuperFurryAnimal said:

This is seriously an amazing album, i got interested cause Miles Davis & Chuck D Both said it was one of there favorite albums. I was like no way! I mean i thought License To Ill was good but this was a whole next level. Plus the way they sampled on here was really creative.

I know some people HATE the fact people sample, but if they listen to that album. They can't tell me there's some real thought put into it.

Cerebus is very sad.

RIP

Just saw it on the news tonight

I didn't know he was ill...

47 years...that's YOUNG, GONE TOO SOON though many folks beat cancer,

not everybody wins the battle

[Edited 5/4/12 18:22pm]

R.I.P. Thanks for the tunes.

R.I.P. Yauch

Heavy heart for me.

The Beastie's literally influenced/changed my musical trajectory a few times.

Thanks guys. Thanks Yauch.

You've moved on.

this is so incredibly sad. He was only 47.

R.I.P.

Yauch is gone. fuck.

— Questo of The Roots (@questlove) May 4, 2012

Seeing the Beastie Boys in Mcr circa Hello Nasty is up there with my most-cherished memories, sleeping in the station for 4am train included

— Field Music (@fieldmusicmusic) May 4, 2012

RIP Adam Yauch. One of the only people in this music world worthy of hero worship.

— Damian Abraham (@leftfordamian) May 4, 2012

R.I.P. MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA MCA " />" />" /> WHAT A SAD DAY !!! #BeastieBoys

— MODESELEKTOR™ (@modeselektor) May 4, 2012

Awful. R I P Adam Yauch (MCA). End of an era. Gonna listen to a lot of paul’s boutique and check yo head today. Sad sad sad…_b

— Silversun Pickups (@SSPU) May 4, 2012

coolest celeb spotting of my life: Adam #MCA riding his skateboard around inside D’Agostino’s NYC grocery in 2004. #RIP

— Dent May (@dentmay) May 4, 2012

RIP yauch and thank u mike and adam n adam 4 all of your help, the tours, the bball games, n great times. a humanitarian a tru friend

— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) May 4, 2012

Fuck!! MCA:(

— Black Lips+cox (@TheBlackLips) May 4, 2012

RIP Adam Yauch " />

— Edward Droste (@edwarddroste) May 4, 2012

R.I.P. Adam Yauch

— Trevor Powers (@youthlagoon) May 4, 2012

RIP Adam Yauch the Beasties were a positive force. #MCA

— superchunk (@superchunk) May 4, 2012

Wow. I’m actually dizzy at hearing that Adam Yauch has died. I liked that guy. #RIP #MCA

— Theodore F. Leo (@tedleo) May 4, 2012

RIP MCA. We love you.

— Wesley Eisold (@ColdCave23) May 4, 2012

God Bless the soul of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys.RIP

— COMMON (@common) May 4, 2012

Man. I was raised on the Beastie Boys. They were (and will always be) heroes for me & my bro. Soooo sad. #RIPMCA

— A-Trak (@atrak) May 4, 2012

Free Tibet

— ✨PICTUREPLANE✌ (@pictureplane) May 4, 2012

Can’t be more bummed out, Beastie Boys were my ultimate heroes growing up. First concert I ever went to.

— Small Black (@SmallBlk) May 4, 2012

Overheard an older cousin listening to Sure Shot. Song was stuck in my head for 5 years before I figured out it was the Beastie Boys #RIPMCA

— Twin Sister (@twinsistermusic) May 4, 2012

“In times of doubt I can think on the dharma and the enlightened ones who graduated samsara” #RIPMCA

— Ezra Koenig (@arzE) May 4, 2012

RIP MCA U are a Legend and a pioneer. #BeastieBoys4life

— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) May 4, 2012

No other band has such an influence on us — not only as musicians but as people — as the Beasties. #RIPMCA

— Chromeo (@Chromeo) May 4, 2012

RIP MCA

— Real Estate, band (@realestateband) May 4, 2012

I’m very very sad to hear of adam yauch’s passing. He was a wonderful, generous, remarkable, and inspiring man and friend.

— moby (@thelittleidiot) May 4, 2012

RIP Adam Yauch. Nothing short of genius. Thank you.

— Warpaint Warpaint (@_warpaint) May 4, 2012

RIP MCA. You gave us so much joy.

— Craig Finn (@steadycraig) May 4, 2012

I remember hearing the beastie boys forthe 1st time when i was 7, from my friend’s gigantic older brother. It was terrifying and awesome!

— Nick Thorburn (@NickfromIslands) May 4, 2012

Thank you, MCA: instigator, ally, visionary. You will be missed. #RIPMCA

— Carrie Brownstein (@Carrie_Rachel) May 4, 2012

RIP MCA

— BEST COAST (@best_coast) May 4, 2012

your influence & legacy long lasting #RIPMCA

— DAN DEACON (@ebaynetflix) May 4, 2012

So smart and subversive. RIP Adam Yauch. youtube.com/watch?v=S5UaUq…

— colin meloy (@colinmeloy) May 4, 2012

RIP MCAPlay it loud and feel good to be alive today.

— !!! (@chkchkchk) May 4, 2012

R.I.P.MCAXXXXXXXXXXXX youtube.com/watch?v=4wlB1o…

— chan marshall (@CATPOWER) May 4, 2012

Sad news about Adam Yauch’s passing,a man of dignity + spiritual conviction. I always had great respect for him in times we met and talked

— Billy Corgan (@Billy) May 4, 2012

Mca Adam Yauch RIP… Im sittin in the former g son studios.. Flying the flag half mast today…. Rap/punk hero, philanthropist, legend

— dıpןo (@diplo) May 4, 2012

Adam Yauch #RIPMCA. Thank you for Sabotage bass riff and many other great grooves. Adam also worked for justice and peace consciousness.

— Krist Novoselic (@KristNovoselic) May 4, 2012

MCA — unbelievable loss. A force in Hip Hop that sounds like no other. He made so many incredible records with the boys. RIP

— Broken Social Scene (@bssmusic) May 4, 2012

We are so sorry to hear about the loss of the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (MCA) a true legend & inspirational to everyone in weezers generation

— Weezer (@Weezer) May 4, 2012

Adam Yauch was a guy who brought happiness and energy to so many. That is why the news of his passing- is so stifling. Bon Voyage Adam

— Perry Farrell (@perryfarrell) May 4, 2012

RIP YAUCH YOU WERE AN INSPIRATION IN EVERY WAY

— nick zinner (@nickzinner) May 4, 2012

#RIPMCA the First Tape I ever bought as a kid was The Beastie Boys , Stank ya for the inspiration

— Big Boi of OUTKAST (@BigBoi) May 4, 2012

Senator Chuck Schumer (D), New York

Oscilloscope Laboratories

Oscilloscope Laboratories is an independent film production and distribution company started by Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch and former THINKFilm executive David Fenkel. Fenkel will be returning to the company according to a statement made by an Oscilloscope spokeswoman on May 4th, 2012 following Yauch's death.

http://www.oscilloscope.net/

The following titles are listed in order of spine number^[3]

1. Gunnin’ For that #1 Spot – Dir. Adam Yauch (USA)
2. FLOW: For Love of Water – Dir. Irena Salina (FRANCE)
3. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father – Dir. Kurt Kuenne (USA)
4. Wendy and Lucy – Dir. Kelly Reichardt (USA)
5. Frontrunners – Dir. Caroline Suh (USA)
6. Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie – Dir. Jay Delaney (USA)
7. Treeless Mountain – Dir. So Yong Kim (KOREA)
8. Scott Walker: 30 Century Man – Dir. Stephen Kijak (USA)
9. Kisses – Dir. Lance Daly (IRELAND)
10. The Garden – Dir. Scott Hamilton Kennedy (USA)
11. The Law (La Loi) – Dir. Jules Dassin (USA)
12. Burma VJ – Dir. Anders Østergaard (DENMARK)
13. Unmistaken Child – Dir. Nati Baratz (ISRAEL)
14. The Paranoids – Dir. Gabriel Medina (ARGENTINA)
15. No Impact Man – Dir. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein (USA)
16. The Thorn in the Heart (L’Epine dans le Coeur) – Dir. Michel Gondry (FRANCE)
17. Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig) – Dir. Henrik Ruben Genz (DENMARK)
18. The Messenger – Dir. Oren Moverman (USA)
19. Beautiful Losers – Dir. Aaron Rose (USA)
20. Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love – Dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
21. The Maid (La Nana) – Sebastián Silva (CHILE)
22. Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak – Dir. Lance Bangs & Spike Jonze (USA)
23. The Exploding Girl – Dir. Bradley Rust Gray (USA)
24. Bananas!* – Dir. Fredrik Gertten (SWEDEN)
25. A Film Unfinished – Dir. Yael Hersonski (ISRAEL)
26. Howl – Dir. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman (USA)
27. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within – Dir. Yony Leyser (USA)
28. I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale – Dir. Richard Shepard (USA)
29. Monogamy – Dir. Dana Adam Shapiro (USA)
30. The Unloved – Dir. Samantha Morton (UK)
31. Meek's Cutoff – Dir. Kelly Reichardt (USA)
32. Exit Through the Gift Shop – Dir. Banksy (USA)
33. Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour – Dir. Kerthy Fix (USA)
34. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale – Dir. Jalmari Helander (FINLAND)
35. Dark Days – Dir. Marc Singer (USA)
36. Compassion in Emptiness (USA)
37. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front – Dir. Marshall Curry (USA)
38. We Can't Go Home Again – Dir. Nicholas Ray (USA)
39. Bellflower – Dir. Evan Glodell (USA)
40. Rebirth – Dir. Jim Whitaker (USA)
41. The Other F Word – Dir. Andrea Blaugrund Nevins (USA)
42. We Need To Talk About Kevin – Dir. Lynne Ramsay (UK)
43. Happy Few – Released as Four Lovers – Dir. Antony Cordier (FRANCE)
44. Shut Up and Play the Hits – Dir. Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern (US)
45. Hello I Must Be Going – Dir. Todd Louiso (US)
46. Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best – Dir. Ryan O'Nan
47. 28 Hotel Rooms – Dir. Matt Ross
48. Chasing Ice – Dir. Jeff Orlowski
49. Wuthering Heights – Dir. Andrea Arnold

Man, FUCK Cancer!

MCA, died of Cancer at 47. The same age my Dad did.

Milarepa Fund

The Milarepa Fund is an American non-profit organization that raises money for and promotes awareness of the Tibetan independence movement.^[1]

History

The Milarepa Fund was founded in May 1994,^[2] by musician Adam Yauch and activist Erin Potts.^[1] The fund was named after the 11th century Tibetan singer-yogi Milarepa, and was originally intended to distribute royalties from Yauch's Beastie Boys' 1994 songs "Shambala" and "Bodhisattva Vow", which had sampled the chanting of Tibetan monks, to support Tibetan independence.^[3] The first action for the fund was during the 1994 Lollapalooza tour. Because the Beastie Boys were co-headlining the tour, the Milarepa Fund set up information tents to pass out pro-Tibetan independence pamphlets throughout the tour. Some fans were receptive to the pamphlets, but others were hostile, and later blamed Yauch's interest in the Milarepa Fund for the late release of the Beastie Boys' fifth album, Hello Nasty.^[2]

Expanding upon that idea, the Milarepa Fund put on a two-day concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park called the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1996,^[2] which raised over $800,000 for Tibetan exile organizations.^[3] The success of the concert spawned a Free Tibet Tour that summer in conjunction with Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) and the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).^[2] Other two-day concerts similar to the 1996 Tibetan Freedom Concert followed in 1997, 1998, and 1999.^[2] In 1998, the Milerapa Fund, SFT, and ICT organized a protest for Tibetan independence on Capitol Lawn, claiming an attendance of 15,000.^[4]

Bodhisattva Vow

As I Develop The Awakening Mind I Praise The Buddha As They Shine
I Bow Before You As I Travel My Path To Join Your Ranks,
I Make My Full Time Task
For The Sake Of All Beings I Seek
The Enlighted Mind That I Know I'll Reap
Respect To Shantideva And All The Others
Who Brought Down The Darma For Sisters And Brothers
I Give Thanks For This World As A Place To Learn
And For This Human Body That I'm Glad To Have Earned
And My Deepest Thanks To All Sentient Beings
For Without Them There Would Be No Place To Learn What I'm Seeing
There's Nothing Here That's Not Been Said Before
But I Put It Down Now So I'll Be Sure
To Solidify My Own Views And I'll Be Glad If It Helps
Anyone Else Out Too
If Others Disrespect Me Or Give Me Flack
I'll Stop And Think Before I React
Knowing That They're Going Through Insecure Stages
I'll Take The Opportunity To Exercise Patience
I'll See It As A Chance To Help The Other Person
Nip It In The Bud Before It Can Worsen
A Change For Me To Be Strong And Sure
As I Think On The Buddhas Who Have Come Before
As I Praise And Respect The Good They've Done
Knowing Only Love Can Conquer In Every Situation
We Need Other People In Order To Create
The Circumstances For The Learning That We're Here To Generate
Situations That Bring Up Our Deepest Fears
So We Can Work To Release Them Until They're Cleared
Therefore, It Only Makes Sense
To Thank Our Enemies Despite Their Intent
The Bodhisattva Path Is One Of Power And Strength
A Strength From Within To Go The Length
Seeing Others Are As Important As Myself
I Strive For A Happiness Of Mental Wealth
With The Interconnectedness That We Share As One
Every Action That We Take Affects Everyone
So In Deciding For What A Situation Calls
There Is A Path For The Good For All
I Try To Make My Every Action For That Highest Good
With The Altruistic Wish To Achive Buddhahood
So I Pledge Here Before Everyone Who's Listening
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
And In Times Of Doubt I Can Think On The Dharma
And The Enlightened Ones Who've Graduated Samsara

Okay, dammit! These passing on threads recently have just got to end! They're getting younger and younger! I was never into the Beastie Boys but RIP to Adam who died MUCH too young.

Never been much of a Beastie Boys fan but you don't have to be a fan to realize or respect the impact they had. This is very sad news. I didn't even know he was sick. I'm very sorry to hear of his passing. Terrible. 47 is no age to die. Damn. I hate cancer.

Cinnamon234 said:

Never been much of a Beastie Boys fan but you don't have to be a fan to realize or respect the impact they had. This is very sad news. I didn't even know he was sick. I'm very sorry to hear of his passing. Terrible. 47 is no age to die. Damn. I hate cancer.

Especially when they are younger than you.

I'm not shocked or stunned. I read he was suffering for a while. Cancer and death don't have an age limit. Sad to say but it's true.

Paris9748430 said:

Man, FUCK Cancer!

MCA, died of Cancer at 47. The same age my Dad did.

It's just not right.

Rip dear Adam Yauch. Words can't express the sadness and loss. Ur humor, talent & gentle soul are just irreplacable. Be at peace brother.

— Tom Morello (@tmorello) May 4, 2012

#restinpeaceMCA 1 of my favorite hiphop groups...hiphop raised a lot of us & now we have to wake up because are hero's are dying too younge

— will.i.am (@iamwill) May 4, 2012

Crushed to hear the news of Adam Yauch's passing. A true pioneer of art. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones. #RIPMCA

— Justin Timberlake(@jtimberlake) May 4, 2012

Adam Yauch Rest In Peace. I'll miss you very very much.

— Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) May 4, 2012

R I P Adam... I'm devastated.Praying for Adam Yauch's family from the legendary Beastie Boys. Youll be missed!

— Rev Run (@RevRunWisdom) May 4, 2012

Eminem, via a statement:
"Adam Yauch brought a lot of positivity into the world and I think it's obvious to anyone how big of an influence the Beastie Boys were on me and so many others. They are trailblazers and pioneers and Adam will be sorely missed. My thoughts and prayers are with his family, Mike D., and Ad-Rock."

Nas, via a statement:
"One of my greatest moments in music was when I worked with the Beastie Boys...Now today I'm hearing our brother is gone. I prayed this would not happen .. MCA was so cool, man. We had great talks about what it was like for them in the beginning, getting into the rap game. I'll never forget that experience for the rest of my life. MCA is true legend who influenced me. God bless his soul and his loved ones."

Chuck D, via a statement:
"Last night, I took a 14 hour flight to Sydney, Australia from LA, embarking on PE's 80th tour in 25 years. I just landed to 65 texts with the news. Adam and the Boys put us on our first tour 25 years and 79 tours ago. They were essential to our beginning, middle and today. Adam especially was unbelievable in our support from then 'til now, even allowing me to induct them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I consider myself a strong man and my father says be prepared to lose many in your post-50 path of life. Still, I'm a bit teary-eyed leaving this plane."

LL Cool J, via a statement:
"My condolences to Adams family, The Beastie Boys, their team, and their
millions of fans. It's deeply painful to lose someone we grew up with. It seems like just yesterday they helped me break into the business. It hurts man. We must preserve his legacy by continuing to represent the culture he loved so much. May GOD bless your soul MCA. PS. Thank You"

Namaste and Gratitude to Adam Yauch

Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/namaste-and-gratitude-to-adam-yauch-20120504

Namaste to Adam Yauch, the guy who taught me and so many other fans the word. It wasn't just this Beastie Boy's wild-style humor and gruff voice that made him one of the music world's most beloved souls. It was the way he never stopped asking the tough questions, never stopped calling himself on his own bullshit in public, never stopped pushing on to the next new style of musical/spiritual/political awareness, never stopped aiming his harshest challenges at himself and trying to live up to the answers he found. His head was in permanent check mode. And that's why he will check our heads forever.

If any moment sums him up, it's his era-defining verse in the Beasties' 1994 classic "Sure Shot." MCA was the Beastie who boasted "I got more rhymes than I got grey hairs," but he was also the one who put his ass on the line with his feminist shout-out, declaring "I wanna say a little something that's long overdue / Disrespecting women has got to be through," and sending his love and respect out to "the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends." He really could have gotten away without coming right out and saying it. But that wouldn't have been his style.

The Beasties were easily the most important and influential band-qua-band of the past few decades, taking hip-hop and punk rock and stoner-fuzak jazz and raver electro-disco and Brazilian bossa nova and Japanese new wave and stir-frying it all in their wok. And MCA was the one who was most lyrically and vocally overt about the band's transformations, in terms of feminism, Buddhism, Tibet, etc. But more importantly, he epitomized the idea that loving music puts you in a frame of mind to embrace the whole world with passionate curiosity. He made all his discoveries, from snowboarding to marriage to fatherhood to political activism, sound like they were all part of the same lifelong musical adventure. And it was an adventure where any listener could join him and his brother Beasties, just by shaking rump to "Root Down" or "Unite" or "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" or "Car Thief."

You can hear Yauch loudest on 1998's Hello Nasty and 1994's Ill Communication. He always expressed himself with grace and humor, whether he was rocking a beard like a billy goat, expressing admiration for groupies crafty enough to steal his skateboard, or asking, "Will someone on the Knicks please drive the lane?" And when he changed his mind about something along the way, he wasn't scared to say so. As he rapped all over the radio in the summer-'98 smash "Intergalactic," "On tough-guy style I'm not too keen / To change the world I will plot and scheme."

His illest solo showcase might be "A Year and a Day," from Paul's Boutique, where he mixes the Bass Ale with the Guinness Stout, rasping mystic visions on the subway over a scratched-up loop of the Isley Brothers' "That Lady." But he left so many unforgettable moments, live and on record, or even in the Beasties' fanzine Grand Royal. (Remember his essay about driving around in L.A., late at night, and helping Seventies songwriter Paul Williams push his car out of a ditch? Knowledge is king.)

I will never forget him leading "Hello Brooklyn" at the Beasties' one and only Brooklyn gig, in August 2007, everyone bouncing along and losing their collective shit to sing along with the Johnny Cash line, or doing the wop at the New Yorkers Against Violence benefit concerts the Beasties organized in October 2001, where fellow musicians from Yoko to Bono to the Roots to the B-52's showed up for a intergalactic anti-war jam. And he was still king of the castle on the Beasties' final album, 2011's Hot Sauce Committee, rhyming and stealing in "Funky Donkey" and "Super Disco Powerpack."

But the MCA song I keep playing today is "I Don't Know," from Hello Nasty, an acoustic samba duet with Cibo Matto's Miho Hatori. He sings, for once, about reaching for the light: "I'm walking through time / Deluded as the next guy / Pretending and hoping to find / That distant peace of mind." He never claimed he found any final answers, but he never stopped moving. As he said, "There is no other worthy quest," and he showed the way for all who cared to follow, which is why party people across the world are mourning him today, from Miami to Xenon to 14th Street to Brooklyn and beyond.

And she said, ‘Dark is not the opposite of light. It's the absence of light.' And I thought to myself, she knows what she's talking about. And for a moment, I knew what it was all about. Namaste and gratitude, brother.

R.I.P. MCA. Sad to hear of your passing away. The Beasties music for me was one of no boundaries. One of my fave groups. Loved your music since 1987. One of the several artists who made a shitty adolsecence life bearable. Saw them live a few times and always brilliant. You will be missed, keep rockin' SureShot.