They made it possible for Eminem, Vanilla Ice and all these other white rappers that came up to have a place to be. Even greater than that, they were a great rock and roll band. You could call them the Ramones of hip-hop. Their Effect on Hip-Hop: "The Beastie Boys are one of the greatest groups, and I'm not just talking hip-hop - the Beastie Boys are one of the greatest groups in history. It's really them: energetic, exciting, spontaneous and very creative too." At times you thought you were in a movie, but it wasn't like they were just doing it to just to do it. It wasn't white rappers trying to be black - they were themselves, and we respected that. You know what was good about them? It wasn't an act. We lived together, we toured the world together, we played together, we got drunk together, we laughed together, we cried together. The personality was expressed from the same heart, with the same heart and feeling. Their sneakers could be dirty and muddy and they could've had them since fifth grade, and our sneakers had to be clean, but we both rocked the music, the presentation. The thing that worked with us was it was the same feeling but different expression. We wore gold chains and Cadillac emblems, and they took the emblems right off Volkswagens and put them on their necks. Right away, they drank Budweiser and we drank 40 ounces of Olde English. My tribute to them is just to tell them that I love them and what they did for hip-hop culture is legendary."ĭeveloping a Bond: "It was instant. Recent Memories: "A couple years ago, me and a couple of people that were working on filming 'Run's House' on MTV went to their show in Brooklyn, and I came out on onstage and waved to the audience right before 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn.' I did so much with them over the years that I just want to keep the love alive. The press loved Run-DMC, but it was a different type of thing that they thought the Beastie Boys were gonna bring to town with them." All of that stuff was just really shocking to me. It was a phenomenon when I got overseas, to hear what the press was thinking about what the Beastie Boys might do. I remember getting to London and the press was so scared of what might happen, because the Beastie Boys were there. Remembering Adam Yauch with Beastie Boys' Essential Hitsįondest Memory: "Them taking the Mercedes-Benz emblems or hearing that kids were taking the Mercedes-Benz emblems off of cars.
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It was intriguing to see white guys rapping like that, being so cool, plus sticking to their roots, so they were true to themselves." He had a really incredible style of rhyme, and I was like, 'This dude is amazing.' Just like everybody else that ended up falling in love with them, that's what was happening to me - I was like, 'Wow, these white kids could rap.' And Adam Yauch has this special type of rasp in his voice that made him incredible to me, so he stood out as a real vintage type of incredible MC. So they had Dre DJing, and in my mind, they were just so dope on the mic - especially Adam Yauch. Dre as a DJ for a while, which was really cool. I ended up actually writing songs with them, like 'Paul Revere.' And then they took one of our songs 'Slow and Low' - we left a tape in the studio and they did it over - so I was really kinda involved with them in a little bit of production, along with Rick Rubin. I was out on tour right before I met them, and when they came along, it was just amazing.
Their Effect on Hip-Hop: "I think they were blowing people's minds. It was the funnest thing in the word, if 'funnest' is a word." I'd never tried anything like that before, so it was kinda crazy, but I wanted to be with them, so I was like, 'Y'all got an extra bunk?' I left my bus and I went and hung on their bus. One time, on tour, I actually abandoned my bus because I was so intrigued and was so friendly with them that I went and hung on their bus for a night, so that was really cool. Their rhymes were funny and they were funny, so out of everything I can think of, everything with them was fun and humorous, and that was what attracted me to them. They were not only friendly, but they were just so funny, it was amazing. Adam Yauch, one-third of the Beasties, died Friday (May 4) after a three-year battle with cancer, and both Rev Run and DMC reached out to MTV News to share their personal memories of Yauch and the Beastie Boys from the days they spent together, early in their respective careers.ĭeveloping a Bond: "When I first met, they came to the office and they were really good rappers, but more than that, they were funny. In 1986, the Beastie Boys set out on the Raising Hell Tour with LL Cool J, Whodini and Run-DMC, and the chemistry between the groups was instantaneous.
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