MTV Raps brought black rap to a white audience. Chuck D. Cool J is holding his crown and Kool Moe Dee is showing his age. Not what Moe Dee had in mind, of course. The Beasties are still bad — they get laid, they do drugs, they break laws, they laze around.
But this time they know the difference between bad and evil. Why not? Not if they can help it without trying too hard. Cool J, and its catholicity is very much in-your-face — as is its unspoken avowal that the music of a nascent Afrocentrism can still be stretched mocked?
It impolitely demonstrates that privileged wise guys can repossess the media options Moe Dee was battling for back when they were still punks in prep school. After all, this deliberately difficult piece of product will outsell Knowledge Is King. High and tight, their spiel spoke of the maturation of immaturity, of the years it took to go from sacking helium out of balloons at bar mitzvahs to sucking nitrous outside of whippets at dorm parties.
There was something like confidence in all that talk, but it was too eager, too unearned to be a real thing. Not, What are you rebelling against? What have you got? Even at the beginning, though, there was more than beer spray and gun smoke, metal riffs and hip hop beats. There was love too — the love of risk and difference, a vital attraction that drew them like a magnet away from the comforts of Brooklyn Heights, Greenwich Village, and the Upper West Side to the Lower East Side, where like every generation of bohemians before them they set about reinventing themselves.
It was just great music. So it was more a case of cool music versus uncool music. Gone were the spraying Budweiser tallboys and dusted provocations that had pervaded their first two albums, and taking their place was a more reasoned approach. It was almost, we thought listening to it at the time, grown-up.
And it was. It really was. While they thankfully never became The Beastie Men -- their sense of fun remained ever intact, doing live shows dressed as pharmacists or astronauts -- they did continue to grow. Yauch's nascent interest in Buddhism became a full-fledged spiritual journey, and his vocal advocacy for Tibetan rights predated your favorite rapper's favorite cause by many years.
He became a surprisingly talented video and documentary director. After finding out about the synch, the group got paid, which meant they had extra cash to invest in themselves. After inking with Def Jam, which led to signing with a marketing and distribution deal with Columbia Records, the trio were flown to England in to some meet-and-greets with the label. Sounds issues caused the trio to end the show earlier. Yauch happened to have one with him and was thrusted on stage to play the part… however, it was after a day of drinking.
Do the math. Instead, what happened was some sort of hilarity where Yauch was chasing Perry across the stage to do the move. As for the song itself, Yauch nailed it, totally drunk and all. The hydraulic penis from their tour is still in a box at a New Jersey storage facility.
They kept the hydraulic penis in storage for over 30 years, with no use for it… unless, of course, you count the storage facility, whose open the box every year for their holiday party. It led to an acrimonious split between the friends who, essentially, brought hip-hop to a wide audience. Some very few made it work and others Well, here's a list of 15 that should've stuck to their day jobs.
The "Mean Girls" star debuted her first album "Speak" in and it actually did pretty well commercially. She wasn't horrible , but she just wasn't pop star good. Believe it or not, Eddie Murphy had a low-key music career.
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