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The Beastie Boys — three friends from New York who became one of the biggest rap acts of all time — never took themselves too seriously, and the group’s story remains. In 1984, the Beastie Boys made a pivotal shift from punk rock to hip-hop. Their love for the genre, especially the growing popularity of rap and DJ culture in New York,. Twenty years ago it was The Beatles getting blamed for everything. If it wasn’t the Beastie Boys it would be someone else." Mike D himself detected that there was perhaps. When the world first heard about the Beastie Boys, they were a joke , literally . Their first release to hit the popular airways became a frat house anthem to party. In this excerpt, a piece of musical history is found sitting undisturbed on a shelf in a Los Angeles storage facility. The reel sat in storage for nearly 25 years. It has also been, to this point, an album shrouded in mystery. However, Dan LeRoy finally reveals the untold , often unbelievable story in a brand-new, painstakingly. The Beastie Boys , consisting of Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “MCA” Yauch, and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, burst onto the scene in the early 1980s as a punk rock band.