Beastie Gal: The Inspiration You Didn't Know You Were Missing

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In an interview with Charlie Rose in 2007, MCA said that it was former member, John Berry, who suggested the name “ Beastie Boys.” The trio at some point in their careers began to say that. In 1998 I decided to embark on a project for my own amusement: to document the references and samples with which I was familiar from Beastie Boys’ music and to research what I didn ’ t know . The Beastie Boys were routinely booed when they were the support act on Madonna’s Virgin Tour in 1985. One year later, they opened for Run-D.M.C. On the “Raising Hell” Tour, with LL Cool J and. 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, inspired them to explore hip-hop music. These are just a few tidbits you never knew about the Beastie Boys. Punks Roots (Source: chartattack.com) When the Boys first started recording music, it wasn’t all hip-hop and big mustaches. In fact, it wasn’t just boys. It wasn’t even a trio. They’re earliest performances were punk shows. It was the classic recipe for flash-in- the -pan pop outrage, yet Beastie Boys were that rare band of fighters with the talent to turn such an infamous introduction into the foundation of one of.