Beastie Boys - lyrics

Top Beastie Boys albums

Top Beastie Boys lyrics

A.W.O.L.
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232

A Year and a Day
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269

59 Chrystie Street
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244

286

33% God
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267

Beastie Boys biography

As the first white rap group of any importance, the Beastie Boys received the scorn of critics and strident hip-hop musicians, who accused them of cultural pirating, especially since they began as a hardcore punk group in 1981. But the Beasties weren't pirating -- they treated rap as part of a post-punk musical underground, where the do-it-yourself aesthetics of hip-hop and punk weren't that far apart. Of course, the exaggerated b-boy and frat-boy parodies of their unexpected hit ... Show more