Beastie Gal: The Inspiration You Never Knew Existed

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The Beastie Boys’ music isn’t about race, though one cannot deny that hip-hop emerges from Africa-American culture. Nonetheless, the tension between the origins of. The Beastie Boys — three friends from New York who became one of the biggest rap acts of all time — never took themselves too seriously. For three decades, they brought. When the Beastie Boys released Check Your Head on April 21, 1992, they weren’t sure whether they still had an audience. Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, Michael “Mike D” Diamond,. Like a graffiti-tagged subway car hurtling through the underground of hip hop history, the Beastie Boys’ ‘Car Thief’ from their 1989 opus ‘Paul’s Boutique’ is a mural of.