December 31, 2021 • 26 mins
The Beastie Boys never took the easy way out - always pushing the intersection of rock ‘n’ roll and hip hop closer together. Chuck D. & LL Cool J both give props to the group for their contributions to rap, and Mike D. & Ad-Rock thank NYC as well as all of their fans, while also representing on behalf of MCA aka Adam Youch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M Welcome to Induction Vault, a production of I Heart
Radio and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. M Hmmm,
(00:28):
here's a little story I've got to tell. With three
bad brothers who know so well, we're inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As Chuck de puts it,
there is no adequate measure for the impact the Best
Boys had on Wrap. The group always showed their contemporaries
such respect and support and became industry role models to
many up and coming artists. The Best Boys never took
(00:49):
the easy way out, always pushing the intersection of rock
and roll and hip hop closer together than ever before.
They fought for their right to not only party, but
also to take control, and ever compromised their artistry for themselves. Next,
Llo cool Ja takes the podium, given props to the
three punks who taught the world that rap could come
(01:09):
from any street, ad rock and miked except the honor
as well as shared gratitude on the behalf of m
C a a k A Adam Yup. They thanked New
York City for being the inspiring melting pot of music
that it is and all of the fans who have
celebrated their clever lyrics, lavish music videos, and genre mixing
(01:29):
that have made them a sure shot are What's up?
What's up? Everybody? I'm Chuck d Am, I allowed cool
J and we are hidden and dumped the Beastie boys
(01:57):
love the whole friends Chicken, he said, what's that? Noy? What? Oh,
you're just jealous. It's a big day boy. You gotta
(02:18):
fight for you all right to set show by no set.
See the line that this bad as you know, and
I'm like from little to yours by something little battle
(02:41):
come out of time. That's good time around in the
bean to watch the washout in the basket fire sown
was water of past? Why was so BLUs so to me?
To stop? Do stick up? How they can want to?
(03:02):
Why not? I want to get this be for the
supersa wands our tea sending to the party all see
said it goes to beat on these and like we
sure going called the hip green game, jagon Way game.
I didn't here there's soup ball, so it's the play.
(03:28):
Why you sat back? Number? I got this bucket? Oh
my god, saad, can we get a year for hip hop?
(04:01):
Can we get the hell? Yeah? Cleveland hip hop in
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before I turned
it over because death Jam, in the words of Bill Atlas,
the last great record label. And this man behind me
is gonna finish it off because like Chess is too
(04:24):
electric blues deaf jam us to hip hop, and this
man helped build the house. So as a resident, can
you give three and a half minutes to hip hop
and the Beastie Boys from me? Tell me out, y'all.
(04:50):
Now here's a little story I got to tell about
three bad brothers. You know so well. It started way
back in history without rock m c A at number three, Mike,
do I know? I could read from the teller, Prumpter,
(05:11):
but I wrote it down. I won't take much of
your time. There's no adequate measure for that impact that
the BC Boys had on rap music and yours truly
public enemy during our formative years artistically, just like my
(05:36):
man back here, they all our role models. They gave
us some of our richest support, and that's uncharacteristic of
many advisers in this game. They lead and lead by example.
The very first time the BBC Boys headlined the on tour,
the Lights of the l tour that hit the road
in January n they invited us to join the bill
(06:02):
in April seven, and lineup was the BC Boys, Murphy's
Law and public enemy. Watching them tearing the house up
just like nine thousand here tonight tearing the house up,
we learned so much about the importance of a great
stage show, just like from Man back here. They made
(06:25):
us rethink what we should do on stage and affirmed
for us how important our own BC boyer who calls
himself Flavor Flavor might be the our success. In that way,
the BC Boys literally helped us to get our act
together by more than living up to their name night
(06:47):
after night on the road. They were and still all,
one of the greatest live acts in music. People, how
can we not learned in from the way this group
has challenged the conventions in the music business, How they
made up their own rules about what it meant to
(07:09):
be world class hip hop cats. After License to l
the BC's left the Deaf Jam label and broke with
their producer Rick Rubin and still kept it going on.
Everyone wondered and how many people were pessimistic about how
the hell they were gonna top their multi platinum debut
(07:31):
license to l But their second album, Paul's Blutique, broke
the mold, and with it they accomplished everything they hoped for.
They kept their band together through a challenging period when
most groups would have broken up and gone home. They
proved that they could produce themselves when too many folks
(07:53):
wrongly believed they were puppets of marketing and production, and
they insisted on much suring as a band and as
human beings when the easier thing would have been just
to come back with a formula that it might have
been Likens the l two point Oh. It was the
courage and self respect that we all learned from, and
(08:16):
so like them, we made sure never to take the
easy way out, just to repeat a hit record for
hit records sake, never to compromise our faith in ourselves
and our artistry. Besides, they were the first hip hop
group on the World Wide Web in People two More
(08:38):
Minutes for hip Hop People, one of the most Gotta
Soak it In, the third hip hop group ever Gotta
Soak it In. One of the most admirable qualities about
the BC Boys is that stayed so true to the
game over the years, no matter what was going on
with them or hip hop culture in general. As far
as I'm concerned, I quote myself, the trend towards individual
(09:02):
individualism and hip hop has become a plague. Yes, I
quote myself. It has crippled the art form. Yet through
it all, the Beastie Boys remain a team of mcs
and the style of the groups that inspired them, The
Treacherous Three, the Crash Crew, the two thousand and seven
(09:22):
inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grand
Master Flash and the Furious five MC's and the two
thousand nine in Duct Salute, Brun DMC, Jam, mr J,
and let us not forget their DJs throughout the years,
(09:43):
Andre Dr Dre Brown, my Friend, d J, Hurricane, Mixed Master,
Mike and d J Double all better known as Rick
Ruby and Rock and Roller. Bands still gotta be a band.
It's the same thing with hip hop, and the Beastie
Boys remain a model for us. All be together, play together,
stay together together forever. A couple of paragraphs, one more
(10:09):
minute for hip hop. Damn, that was a long minute.
So get in hip hop and rap music been around
thirty years, Gotta do it thirty seven really, time and
time again, and wording in practice, the Beast Boys on
a hip hops found in templates. As true musicians, they
moved beyond drum machines and repentitive samples and sometimes pick
(10:32):
up their own instruments. It's their way of paying tribute
to the musicians who preceded them, who built the foundations
of hip hop. More than many many situations out there,
the best Boys have evolved. In particular, I'm thinking about
somebody who wasn't able to join us tonight, Adam, y'all
salute m c A. I feel him here tonight. Y'all
(11:00):
feel them here tonight. And LLL got more to say
about that. He belongs here with the greatest. And it
was m c A who committed the BC Boys to
their lengthy campaign for freedom for Tibet, a campaign that
not only helped to shine a light on the best
struggle for independence, but allowed the BC Boys to move
from fighting for their right the party to party and
(11:22):
for their right to fight. Lastly, no matter what their
lyrical subjects are on stage parodies. One thing the BC
Boys never were to me was a joke. They remind
us that this is a craft. We was talking about
this on the side, this is a craft that's not
a hustle, and I couldn't be more honored to induct
(11:46):
this group along with this man behind me, because they
represent the best of the hip hop and rap music
idiom I did love and always thank them for doing
the hard work of paving though roads for musicians all
over the world and to rock, rap and roll on
(12:06):
those roads, especially before people took us seriously as artists.
Rap music is here to stay because it pays homage.
So may we all be as professional, distinctive, powerful as
this group coming up right here, and as this man,
the BC Boys, indeed three bad brothers who made history.
(12:30):
Now I give to you the man that damn they
put up the foundations of death jam and I'm always
glad to just say I know I see him on TV.
I say, I say, damn, I'm happy to know that man.
Ladies love Cool Jay co J. How's everybody feeling? Wow,
(13:07):
this is an amazing moment. You know, I'll never forget
what I thought the very first time that Rick Rubin
introduced me to the Beastie Boys. You know, I thought,
put a bunch of punks. Some thing's never changed. Then
a few moments later I thought to myself that I
(13:27):
probably have about thirty years to write my speech and
ducting these three punks into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, Well, can I say, people, I've just always
had funny sense about these things. But the truth is
that I've come here tonight to praise those little troublemakers,
(13:48):
not to make fun of him, because the record shows
that from their humble beginnings, Okay, well you know, maybe
not so humble beginnings, my buddies, the Beastie Boys have
made rock, rap and just plane on music history. And
that's not bad for three punks who started out their
career singing about Cookie Puss. Not long after that the
(14:15):
beast He's exploded, declaring early on you gotta fight well.
From those early death Jam days on when rap was
just finding his feet, the Beastie Boys, Mike, Adam and
Adam have fought long and hard, not just for their
(14:38):
fight right to fight and party and have fun, but
for all of our rights to party, even if that
meant no sleep till Brooklyn. All right, they've grown up
to become great men, good citizens, and one of the
most enduring and influential groups of music history. And trust me,
that would have not been a popular little bit back
(15:00):
in the day when we were all just punks from
different neighborhoods, all applying for our license. And still right
from the start, the Beasties were pretty fly for white guys,
pretty fly for white guys, and they brought a whole
new attitude to the look of wrapping the field of
(15:21):
hip hop. Remember this was before Eminem and I love him.
This is before Eminem, This is before Vanillies, dung Dung,
dung Dung. The Beasts also brought their own spirit, wit
and flavor to the music. Because before the Beasts, a
lot of rappers first and foremost selling ego and boastfulness.
(15:46):
And but the Beasties, that's funny, But the Beastis brought
something new, pure and great to the game. They brought
up noxiousness, big attitude, and fresh humor. And they proved
once and for all that rap could come from any street,
not just the few. You see, Rundy m C brought
rapped to the edge of suburbia. BC's drove it right
(16:07):
into the center of town. So, just on a side note,
let me just tell you a little something about our history. Um,
if it wasn't the reason I'm here, tonight, And the
reason this was so important to me, it's because if
(16:27):
it wasn't for the Beastie Boys, I wouldn't have my
career that I have today. Because the Best Boys actually
played my demo tape for Rick Rubin and the ny
U dormitory and got me my break. A lot of
people don't know that, so this thing is connected in
a really strange way. They were amazing, you know what
(16:49):
I'm saying. And you know, I think about us being
on tour, and you know, me and Adam y'all sipping
brass Monkey and him kicking and me and my chests
for no apparent reason, hot warming really then they then
they hit with tracks like Sabotage. The BC Boys created
a more perfect union of rapping rock than anyone ever did,
(17:09):
and they never let us down ever since. The BC
stayed together and supported our world and each other in
good times and the bad. They've been great. So God
bless the Beastie Boys. And look, let me just cut
to the chase. WHOA, let me cut to the chase.
It's my true honor to stand beside Chuck d and
(17:34):
Duped the Beastie Boys. Come on, say with me. It
took a rock and go oh good. After the break,
you'll hear from the Beasty Boys on the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame Induction boat. H. Hi everybody, Hi,
(18:10):
We're the Beastie Boys from New York City. HM. That's
mixed Master Mike right there. All right, this is fucking weird, everybody,
all right. I wrote a couple of little things down.
(18:31):
I just wanna you know, nobody does this stuff alone,
and friends and family are really important to me and
to us, and so I just want to say thanks
to a few people. I want to thank John Silva,
I want to thank j C. Want to thank Jen Hall.
I want to thank Ken Anderson. Want to thank Bill Harper.
(18:51):
I want to thank Jerome. I want to thank Steve,
Steve Martin. I want to thank of Bad Brains. I
want to thank run DMC and jam Mr J for
putting us on. And it's just it's an honor to
(19:13):
be associated with the Bad Brains and run Dy m
C in any way, shape or form. I want to
thank my mom and dad for bringing us up in
New York City. New York City taught me everything. New
York City is everything. I want to say R. I
(19:33):
p to Dave Skilkin. I want to say R I
P to the Captain. I want to say R I
P to Jerry Williams. I want to thank my mom
and the car Lotti family for giving me my first
guitar when I was a little kid. I want to
thank my dad for giving me my first LP when
(19:53):
I was a little kid. I want to say what's
up to my little brother hen, my little brother Oliver,
my little sister Hannah. I want to say hi to
my best friends, saying Nadia, thank you for sticking with
me even through the eighties. I want to say hi
to the beautiful genius Kathleen Hannah, thank you for sharing
(20:15):
your life with me. And I want to thank my
brother Matthew and my sister Rachel because when I was
a little kid, they played me the Clash. They they
played me Jonathan Richmond and Grandmaster Flash and taught me
(20:35):
about music and that's why I'm here. Thank you. Whoo wow.
What to add to that? I guess I just really
want to with great gratitude, just really want to thank
my family. Um, of course, my family is with me
(20:58):
here tonight, Tammy d d Money, Davis, Scott Diddy. Um,
of course, my mom because without my mom, this wouldn't
be possible for us on or myself on on a
bunch of different levels. That's maybe an inside joke, but
of course David, Karen, Rachel, everybody who came here, all
(21:19):
all that, and really everybody that's played with us along
the way, Mike Hurricane, Dr Dre, d J, Double R,
who else, Mark Money, Mark Fredo, everybody. Um, and like
what Adam said, honestly, New York City, thank you, because
you know, we grew up in New York City at
(21:40):
a time where we that's what informed what we did.
It was hip hop. You ride through the train, you'd
hear Zulu Beat Show, you'd hear Mr. Magic, you'd hear
b A You Okay, so polk rock, new wave, salsa,
So it was all there. And thank you New York
(22:01):
City for for basically raising us and giving us all
that music that we love and grew up on. And
now Adam would like to to read a note that
are our fellow band member who we could not have
ever possibly done all of this stuff, and we could
not have been the family that that we became. Um.
(22:21):
Adam y m c A wrote this speech and it
was in his his house Nolan Francis, its houses, parents
house in Brooklyn, Brooklyn where in Brooklyn where I remember
I would go every day after school. We listen. We
put on the Clash Records, the Grandmaster Flash Records, the
(22:42):
Spooney G Records, the Treacherous Three Records, the Architects run DMC,
and we would just listening to those things, and we
make a damn god awful racket. And I can't believe
they let us do it. So thank you very much,
all right, everybody, So Adam y'all wrote this, and he
(23:03):
wanted wanted me to read it, wanted us to read it.
It's from Adam ut. I'd like to dedicate this awards
my brothers Adam and Mike, who have walked the globe
with me, to anyone who has been touched by our band. Well,
our our music has meant something to This induction is
as much ours as it is yours. To Kay Shellenbach,
(23:26):
to John Berry, to John Berry's loft on a hundred
Street and Broadway, where John's dad would come busting in
during our first practices, screaming when you turn that fucking
ship off? Already to the young and the useless, the
Dave Parsons, Scott Jarvis, Jerry Williams, to one seven to
(23:47):
A seven, to the Rack Cage to fifty nine, Christie Street,
the DJ Hurricane, Marioak Seed, Mark Nasheeda, Mixed Master, Mike
Alfredo Ortiz, Juanito, Eric Bobo Wall, John Silva, Russell Simmons,
Rick Ruman, and to all of work with us over
the decades, to my loving and supportive parents, Noel and
(24:08):
Francis Yalco, And to our home in Brooklyn where we
used to practice on the hot Brooklyn summer days after school,
windows wide open, to disturb the neighborhood with some good
old fashioned New York hardcore, to hopping on the mic
and the DJ booth at the disco Fever Dezza Go
(24:28):
Go and dance Interia. But most of all, I'd like
to thank and dedicate this honor to my smart, beautiful,
loving wife Tetchen and are sweet, talented, loving daughter lo Se.
Never as a man felt more blessed than I to
be able to spend my time with my two soul mates.
I love you, guys more than you know. I wish
(24:52):
I could name everyone who serves naming, but of course
there's too many names to name, you know you are,
and I send my love out all of you. Your
friend Adam Yach, Thank you everybody. Thanks for joining us
(25:22):
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M Welcome to Induction Vault, a production of I Heart
Radio and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. M Hmmm,
(00:28):
here's a little story I've got to tell. With three
bad brothers who know so well, we're inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As Chuck de puts it,
there is no adequate measure for the impact the Best
Boys had on Wrap. The group always showed their contemporaries
such respect and support and became industry role models to
many up and coming artists. The Best Boys never took
(00:49):
the easy way out, always pushing the intersection of rock
and roll and hip hop closer together than ever before.
They fought for their right to not only party, but
also to take control, and ever compromised their artistry for themselves. Next,
Llo cool Ja takes the podium, given props to the
three punks who taught the world that rap could come
(01:09):
from any street, ad rock and miked except the honor
as well as shared gratitude on the behalf of m
C a a k A Adam Yup. They thanked New
York City for being the inspiring melting pot of music
that it is and all of the fans who have
celebrated their clever lyrics, lavish music videos, and genre mixing
(01:29):
that have made them a sure shot are What's up?
What's up? Everybody? I'm Chuck d Am, I allowed cool
J and we are hidden and dumped the Beastie boys
(01:57):
love the whole friends Chicken, he said, what's that? Noy? What? Oh,
you're just jealous. It's a big day boy. You gotta
(02:18):
fight for you all right to set show by no set.
See the line that this bad as you know, and
I'm like from little to yours by something little battle
(02:41):
come out of time. That's good time around in the
bean to watch the washout in the basket fire sown
was water of past? Why was so BLUs so to me?
To stop? Do stick up? How they can want to?
(03:02):
Why not? I want to get this be for the
supersa wands our tea sending to the party all see
said it goes to beat on these and like we
sure going called the hip green game, jagon Way game.
I didn't here there's soup ball, so it's the play.
(03:28):
Why you sat back? Number? I got this bucket? Oh
my god, saad, can we get a year for hip hop?
(04:01):
Can we get the hell? Yeah? Cleveland hip hop in
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before I turned
it over because death Jam, in the words of Bill Atlas,
the last great record label. And this man behind me
is gonna finish it off because like Chess is too
(04:24):
electric blues deaf jam us to hip hop, and this
man helped build the house. So as a resident, can
you give three and a half minutes to hip hop
and the Beastie Boys from me? Tell me out, y'all.
(04:50):
Now here's a little story I got to tell about
three bad brothers. You know so well. It started way
back in history without rock m c A at number three, Mike,
do I know? I could read from the teller, Prumpter,
(05:11):
but I wrote it down. I won't take much of
your time. There's no adequate measure for that impact that
the BC Boys had on rap music and yours truly
public enemy during our formative years artistically, just like my
(05:36):
man back here, they all our role models. They gave
us some of our richest support, and that's uncharacteristic of
many advisers in this game. They lead and lead by example.
The very first time the BBC Boys headlined the on tour,
the Lights of the l tour that hit the road
in January n they invited us to join the bill
(06:02):
in April seven, and lineup was the BC Boys, Murphy's
Law and public enemy. Watching them tearing the house up
just like nine thousand here tonight tearing the house up,
we learned so much about the importance of a great
stage show, just like from Man back here. They made
(06:25):
us rethink what we should do on stage and affirmed
for us how important our own BC boyer who calls
himself Flavor Flavor might be the our success. In that way,
the BC Boys literally helped us to get our act
together by more than living up to their name night
(06:47):
after night on the road. They were and still all,
one of the greatest live acts in music. People, how
can we not learned in from the way this group
has challenged the conventions in the music business, How they
made up their own rules about what it meant to
(07:09):
be world class hip hop cats. After License to l
the BC's left the Deaf Jam label and broke with
their producer Rick Rubin and still kept it going on.
Everyone wondered and how many people were pessimistic about how
the hell they were gonna top their multi platinum debut
(07:31):
license to l But their second album, Paul's Blutique, broke
the mold, and with it they accomplished everything they hoped for.
They kept their band together through a challenging period when
most groups would have broken up and gone home. They
proved that they could produce themselves when too many folks
(07:53):
wrongly believed they were puppets of marketing and production, and
they insisted on much suring as a band and as
human beings when the easier thing would have been just
to come back with a formula that it might have
been Likens the l two point Oh. It was the
courage and self respect that we all learned from, and
(08:16):
so like them, we made sure never to take the
easy way out, just to repeat a hit record for
hit records sake, never to compromise our faith in ourselves
and our artistry. Besides, they were the first hip hop
group on the World Wide Web in People two More
(08:38):
Minutes for hip Hop People, one of the most Gotta
Soak it In, the third hip hop group ever Gotta
Soak it In. One of the most admirable qualities about
the BC Boys is that stayed so true to the
game over the years, no matter what was going on
with them or hip hop culture in general. As far
as I'm concerned, I quote myself, the trend towards individual
(09:02):
individualism and hip hop has become a plague. Yes, I
quote myself. It has crippled the art form. Yet through
it all, the Beastie Boys remain a team of mcs
and the style of the groups that inspired them, The
Treacherous Three, the Crash Crew, the two thousand and seven
(09:22):
inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grand
Master Flash and the Furious five MC's and the two
thousand nine in Duct Salute, Brun DMC, Jam, mr J,
and let us not forget their DJs throughout the years,
(09:43):
Andre Dr Dre Brown, my Friend, d J, Hurricane, Mixed Master,
Mike and d J Double all better known as Rick
Ruby and Rock and Roller. Bands still gotta be a band.
It's the same thing with hip hop, and the Beastie
Boys remain a model for us. All be together, play together,
stay together together forever. A couple of paragraphs, one more
(10:09):
minute for hip hop. Damn, that was a long minute.
So get in hip hop and rap music been around
thirty years, Gotta do it thirty seven really, time and
time again, and wording in practice, the Beast Boys on
a hip hops found in templates. As true musicians, they
moved beyond drum machines and repentitive samples and sometimes pick
(10:32):
up their own instruments. It's their way of paying tribute
to the musicians who preceded them, who built the foundations
of hip hop. More than many many situations out there,
the best Boys have evolved. In particular, I'm thinking about
somebody who wasn't able to join us tonight, Adam, y'all
salute m c A. I feel him here tonight. Y'all
(11:00):
feel them here tonight. And LLL got more to say
about that. He belongs here with the greatest. And it
was m c A who committed the BC Boys to
their lengthy campaign for freedom for Tibet, a campaign that
not only helped to shine a light on the best
struggle for independence, but allowed the BC Boys to move
from fighting for their right the party to party and
(11:22):
for their right to fight. Lastly, no matter what their
lyrical subjects are on stage parodies. One thing the BC
Boys never were to me was a joke. They remind
us that this is a craft. We was talking about
this on the side, this is a craft that's not
a hustle, and I couldn't be more honored to induct
(11:46):
this group along with this man behind me, because they
represent the best of the hip hop and rap music
idiom I did love and always thank them for doing
the hard work of paving though roads for musicians all
over the world and to rock, rap and roll on
(12:06):
those roads, especially before people took us seriously as artists.
Rap music is here to stay because it pays homage.
So may we all be as professional, distinctive, powerful as
this group coming up right here, and as this man,
the BC Boys, indeed three bad brothers who made history.
(12:30):
Now I give to you the man that damn they
put up the foundations of death jam and I'm always
glad to just say I know I see him on TV.
I say, I say, damn, I'm happy to know that man.
Ladies love Cool Jay co J. How's everybody feeling? Wow,
(13:07):
this is an amazing moment. You know, I'll never forget
what I thought the very first time that Rick Rubin
introduced me to the Beastie Boys. You know, I thought,
put a bunch of punks. Some thing's never changed. Then
a few moments later I thought to myself that I
(13:27):
probably have about thirty years to write my speech and
ducting these three punks into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, Well, can I say, people, I've just always
had funny sense about these things. But the truth is
that I've come here tonight to praise those little troublemakers,
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not to make fun of him, because the record shows
that from their humble beginnings, Okay, well you know, maybe
not so humble beginnings, my buddies, the Beastie Boys have
made rock, rap and just plane on music history. And
that's not bad for three punks who started out their
career singing about Cookie Puss. Not long after that the
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beast He's exploded, declaring early on you gotta fight well.
From those early death Jam days on when rap was
just finding his feet, the Beastie Boys, Mike, Adam and
Adam have fought long and hard, not just for their
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fight right to fight and party and have fun, but
for all of our rights to party, even if that
meant no sleep till Brooklyn. All right, they've grown up
to become great men, good citizens, and one of the
most enduring and influential groups of music history. And trust me,
that would have not been a popular little bit back
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in the day when we were all just punks from
different neighborhoods, all applying for our license. And still right
from the start, the Beasties were pretty fly for white guys,
pretty fly for white guys, and they brought a whole
new attitude to the look of wrapping the field of
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hip hop. Remember this was before Eminem and I love him.
This is before Eminem, This is before Vanillies, dung Dung,
dung Dung. The Beasts also brought their own spirit, wit
and flavor to the music. Because before the Beasts, a
lot of rappers first and foremost selling ego and boastfulness.
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And but the Beasties, that's funny, But the Beastis brought
something new, pure and great to the game. They brought
up noxiousness, big attitude, and fresh humor. And they proved
once and for all that rap could come from any street,
not just the few. You see, Rundy m C brought
rapped to the edge of suburbia. BC's drove it right
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into the center of town. So, just on a side note,
let me just tell you a little something about our history. Um,
if it wasn't the reason I'm here, tonight, And the
reason this was so important to me, it's because if
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it wasn't for the Beastie Boys, I wouldn't have my
career that I have today. Because the Best Boys actually
played my demo tape for Rick Rubin and the ny
U dormitory and got me my break. A lot of
people don't know that, so this thing is connected in
a really strange way. They were amazing, you know what
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I'm saying. And you know, I think about us being
on tour, and you know, me and Adam y'all sipping
brass Monkey and him kicking and me and my chests
for no apparent reason, hot warming really then they then
they hit with tracks like Sabotage. The BC Boys created
a more perfect union of rapping rock than anyone ever did,
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and they never let us down ever since. The BC
stayed together and supported our world and each other in
good times and the bad. They've been great. So God
bless the Beastie Boys. And look, let me just cut
to the chase. WHOA, let me cut to the chase.
It's my true honor to stand beside Chuck d and
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Duped the Beastie Boys. Come on, say with me. It
took a rock and go oh good. After the break,
you'll hear from the Beasty Boys on the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame Induction boat. H. Hi everybody, Hi,
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We're the Beastie Boys from New York City. HM. That's
mixed Master Mike right there. All right, this is fucking weird, everybody,
all right. I wrote a couple of little things down.
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I just wanna you know, nobody does this stuff alone,
and friends and family are really important to me and
to us, and so I just want to say thanks
to a few people. I want to thank John Silva,
I want to thank j C. Want to thank Jen Hall.
I want to thank Ken Anderson. Want to thank Bill Harper.
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I want to thank Jerome. I want to thank Steve,
Steve Martin. I want to thank of Bad Brains. I
want to thank run DMC and jam Mr J for
putting us on. And it's just it's an honor to
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be associated with the Bad Brains and run Dy m
C in any way, shape or form. I want to
thank my mom and dad for bringing us up in
New York City. New York City taught me everything. New
York City is everything. I want to say R. I
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p to Dave Skilkin. I want to say R I
P to the Captain. I want to say R I
P to Jerry Williams. I want to thank my mom
and the car Lotti family for giving me my first
guitar when I was a little kid. I want to
thank my dad for giving me my first LP when
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I was a little kid. I want to say what's
up to my little brother hen, my little brother Oliver,
my little sister Hannah. I want to say hi to
my best friends, saying Nadia, thank you for sticking with
me even through the eighties. I want to say hi
to the beautiful genius Kathleen Hannah, thank you for sharing
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your life with me. And I want to thank my
brother Matthew and my sister Rachel because when I was
a little kid, they played me the Clash. They they
played me Jonathan Richmond and Grandmaster Flash and taught me
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about music and that's why I'm here. Thank you. Whoo wow.
What to add to that? I guess I just really
want to with great gratitude, just really want to thank
my family. Um, of course, my family is with me
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here tonight, Tammy d d Money, Davis, Scott Diddy. Um,
of course, my mom because without my mom, this wouldn't
be possible for us on or myself on on a
bunch of different levels. That's maybe an inside joke, but
of course David, Karen, Rachel, everybody who came here, all
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all that, and really everybody that's played with us along
the way, Mike Hurricane, Dr Dre, d J, Double R,
who else, Mark Money, Mark Fredo, everybody. Um, and like
what Adam said, honestly, New York City, thank you, because
you know, we grew up in New York City at
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a time where we that's what informed what we did.
It was hip hop. You ride through the train, you'd
hear Zulu Beat Show, you'd hear Mr. Magic, you'd hear
b A You Okay, so polk rock, new wave, salsa,
So it was all there. And thank you New York
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City for for basically raising us and giving us all
that music that we love and grew up on. And
now Adam would like to to read a note that
are our fellow band member who we could not have
ever possibly done all of this stuff, and we could
not have been the family that that we became. Um.
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Adam y m c A wrote this speech and it
was in his his house Nolan Francis, its houses, parents
house in Brooklyn, Brooklyn where in Brooklyn where I remember
I would go every day after school. We listen. We
put on the Clash Records, the Grandmaster Flash Records, the
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Spooney G Records, the Treacherous Three Records, the Architects run DMC,
and we would just listening to those things, and we
make a damn god awful racket. And I can't believe
they let us do it. So thank you very much,
all right, everybody, So Adam y'all wrote this, and he
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wanted wanted me to read it, wanted us to read it.
It's from Adam ut. I'd like to dedicate this awards
my brothers Adam and Mike, who have walked the globe
with me, to anyone who has been touched by our band. Well,
our our music has meant something to This induction is
as much ours as it is yours. To Kay Shellenbach,
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to John Berry, to John Berry's loft on a hundred
Street and Broadway, where John's dad would come busting in
during our first practices, screaming when you turn that fucking
ship off? Already to the young and the useless, the
Dave Parsons, Scott Jarvis, Jerry Williams, to one seven to
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A seven, to the Rack Cage to fifty nine, Christie Street,
the DJ Hurricane, Marioak Seed, Mark Nasheeda, Mixed Master, Mike
Alfredo Ortiz, Juanito, Eric Bobo Wall, John Silva, Russell Simmons,
Rick Ruman, and to all of work with us over
the decades, to my loving and supportive parents, Noel and
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Francis Yalco, And to our home in Brooklyn where we
used to practice on the hot Brooklyn summer days after school,
windows wide open, to disturb the neighborhood with some good
old fashioned New York hardcore, to hopping on the mic
and the DJ booth at the disco Fever Dezza Go
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Go and dance Interia. But most of all, I'd like
to thank and dedicate this honor to my smart, beautiful,
loving wife Tetchen and are sweet, talented, loving daughter lo Se.
Never as a man felt more blessed than I to
be able to spend my time with my two soul mates.
I love you, guys more than you know. I wish
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I could name everyone who serves naming, but of course
there's too many names to name, you know you are,
and I send my love out all of you. Your
friend Adam Yach, Thank you everybody. Thanks for joining us
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on this week's episode of Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Induction Vault. For more on your favorite inductees, to
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com plus Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Special
on demand on HBO Max. Our executive producers are Shelby Morrison,
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Esa Gurkey, and Taylor Shakogne. Produced by Evan Tire Research
in archival assistance from Isabelle Keeper and Shannon Herb. Thanks
again for joining us on this week's episode of Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Vault. Induction Ball is
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