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I'm too old to have been a full-on Beasties fan (I was 39 when Licensed to Ill came out), but when I hear their tracks I'm always impressed by the inventiveness. Also, it took a fair amount of chootspa to make it as a white rap group, such as.

It's sad when anyone dies young. At least, in the Jewish tradition, MCA won't be entirely gone for a long while.

Also, who gives a fuck about Wolf Blitzer's playlist?

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My man MCA had a beard like a billy goat.

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Cancer hates good music.

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Not enough good things can ever be said about <i>Paul's Boutique</i>. It was a masterpiece from back when sampling was taking bits and pieces of lots of other stuff and making something original and new, instead of just lifting an entire backing track and rapping over it like these rappers today do. And the lyrics were funny and clever, and not just guys rhyming the same 3 or 4 words over and over.

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"Make Some Noise" showed they still had it.

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is this political yet?

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