rip mca, beastie boys rapper


mca from the beastie boys has died, rest in peace
kedoades
I just listened to Paul's Boutique this morning. What a record. I had forgotten what an awesome album it was. To Onhwy61's point the Beastie Boys were slapped with a lawsuit regarding samples used on their albums around the time MCA had passed away. What a slap in the face.
This is from the Wikipedia entry for Paul's Boutique. Check out the last sentence of this paragraph:

Miles Davis said that he never tired of listening to Paul's Boutique.[22] Later, in a VIBE interview of all three Beastie Boys, Chuck D of Public Enemy was quoted as saying that the "dirty secret" among the black hip-hop community at the time of release was that "Paul's Boutique had the best beats."[23] During the same VIBE interview, Mike D was asked about any possible hesitation he or the band might have had regarding their overt "sampling" of several minutes of well-known Beatles background tracks, including the song "The End" on "The Sounds of Science". He claimed that the Beatles filed preliminary legal papers, and that his response was "What's cooler than getting sued by the Beatles?"[24]