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Licensed to Ill is the debut studio album by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys.It was released on November 15, 1986, by Def Jam and Columbia Records.The album became the first rap LP to top the Billboard 200 chart, and was the second rap album to be certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Prior to forming the Beastie Boys, Michael Diamond was part of a number of bands such as the Walden Jazz Band, BAN, and the Young Aborigines. The Beastie Boys formed in July 1981 when the Young Aborigines bassist Jeremy Shatan left New York City for the summer and the remaining members Diamond, John Berry and Kate Schellenbach formed a new hardcore punk band with Adam Yauch.
Other widely sampled drum breaks came from the 1970 James Brown song "Funky Drummer"; the Think break, sampled from the 1972 Lyn Collins song "Think (About It)", written by Brown; [42] and Led Zeppelin's 1971 recording of "When the Levee Breaks", played by John Bonham and sampled by artists including the Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, Eminem and ...
Captured here in Austin, Texas, in 2022, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss perform on their Raising the Roof Tour. Plant revisits he early years with Led Zeppelin in a new doc, "Becoming Led Zeppelin."
The discography of Beastie Boys, an American hip hop group, consists of eight studio albums, four compilation albums, five video albums, seven extended plays, 40 singles and 44 music videos.
Beastie Boys performing in 2007. Left to right: Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA. The American hip hop group Beastie Boys recorded 177 songs during their career. Active between 1982 and 2012, the group primarily consisted of Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "MCA" Yauch, and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz.
"Sure Shot" is a song by American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released as the third single from their fourth album Ill Communication on June 2, 1994, two days after the album's release. The song features a looped sample of jazz flautist Jeremy Steig 's song "Howlin' for Judy" from the 1970 album Legwork .
Check Your Head is the third studio album by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released on April 21, 1992, by Grand Royal and Capitol Records.Three years elapsed between the releases of the band's previous studio album Paul's Boutique (1989) and Check Your Head, which was recorded at the G-Son Studios in Atwater Village in 1991 under the guidance of producer Mario Caldato Jr., the group ...