Adam "MCA" Yauch, rapper, musician, activist, filmmaker and film distributor who pioneered hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys, and indie film production company Oscilloscope Laboratories was founded on Friday died in New York after a three-year battle with cancer.
He was 47. For the first time Yauch's death was announced by Def Jam founder Russell Simmons, and was later confirmed by Oscilloscpe. Yauch announced his illness in 2009, it appears that he is a cancer partoid gland, which caused the Beastie Boys a number of scheduled performances canceled as he sought treatment. Yauch was absent from the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier last month. As a founding member of the Beastie Boys, Yauch's impact on hip-hop as both a commercially and artistically appropriate genre is hard to drive.
The group's 1986 debut, "Licensed to Ill," was the first rap album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Album Chart, and with LL Cool J, then effective sail-emerging label Def Jam. Later attempts by the Beasties were among the first to equally successful in both rap and rock radio, and the second album "Paul's Boutique" remains a landmark of the genre. The group has more than 40 million albums sold worldwide. In the group's later years, would Yauch increasing the Beasties a political conscience. A practicing Buddhist, Yauch organized the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits in the late 1990s, and was an outspoken critic of George W. Bush administration. Later in the film production venture would Yauch a number of music videos directed by Nathaniel Hornblower aka Helmed and later the full-length basketball documentary "Gunnin 'for the # 1 position." The latter was released by Yauch's Oscilloscope shingle, which would go to Kelly Reichhardt's "Wendy and Lucy" and "meek's dark," Lynne Ramsay's "We Shall talk about Kevin" and Oscar-nominated documentary "Exit Through the gift shop to release . "Yauch is survived by his wife and his daughter Dechen Tenzin Losel, and parents Frances and Noel Yauch.
He was 47. For the first time Yauch's death was announced by Def Jam founder Russell Simmons, and was later confirmed by Oscilloscpe. Yauch announced his illness in 2009, it appears that he is a cancer partoid gland, which caused the Beastie Boys a number of scheduled performances canceled as he sought treatment. Yauch was absent from the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier last month. As a founding member of the Beastie Boys, Yauch's impact on hip-hop as both a commercially and artistically appropriate genre is hard to drive.
The group's 1986 debut, "Licensed to Ill," was the first rap album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Album Chart, and with LL Cool J, then effective sail-emerging label Def Jam. Later attempts by the Beasties were among the first to equally successful in both rap and rock radio, and the second album "Paul's Boutique" remains a landmark of the genre. The group has more than 40 million albums sold worldwide. In the group's later years, would Yauch increasing the Beasties a political conscience. A practicing Buddhist, Yauch organized the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits in the late 1990s, and was an outspoken critic of George W. Bush administration. Later in the film production venture would Yauch a number of music videos directed by Nathaniel Hornblower aka Helmed and later the full-length basketball documentary "Gunnin 'for the # 1 position." The latter was released by Yauch's Oscilloscope shingle, which would go to Kelly Reichhardt's "Wendy and Lucy" and "meek's dark," Lynne Ramsay's "We Shall talk about Kevin" and Oscar-nominated documentary "Exit Through the gift shop to release . "Yauch is survived by his wife and his daughter Dechen Tenzin Losel, and parents Frances and Noel Yauch.
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