#tt5b

[mcforwhatiam]

Photos by Scarlet Page, via Instagram

#beastie boys #mca #ad-rock #mike d #2004 #tt5b #she asked which show it was don't recognize off top of my head #formation #scarlet page #thinking of all the crazy tags i woulda added a few years ago #anyway nice to see some new from the archives

[itscalledgratitude]

Today, May 3rd, we’re celebrating 18 years since “Ch-Check It Out” was released as a single.

#beastie boys #adam yauch #mike diamond #adam horovitz #adrock #ad-rock #mca #mike d #michael diamond #miked #TT5B #music video #mygifs

[byrnedavid]

to the five boroughs is turning 20 this year btw if you even care

[music-for-them-asses]

Alright. I'm hopping on the Succession train. The first five minutes have Beastie Boys playing.... I'm intrigued.... 👀

#succession #lol I knew they were on the soundtrack but I forgot which song #TT5B babieeee

[mistergoddess]

i will never not be a kendall roy girly because his first scene being him being stupid and fail as shit to the funniest possible beastie boys cut fundamentally changed me as a human. oh he's just like me. he's just like me fr.

#he's a tt5b stan he can do no wrong ever #i need to edit it to be crawlspace instead of open letter to new york #you can edit it to be any b boys song and that's me every day #me when honky rink comes on shuffle #shitpost.txt

[beastieboysmessageboard]

2004 TT5B European Promo Tour

Major Tours

#really cool #beastie boys

[rhyme-the-rhyme-well]

Beastie Boys rehearsing Hello Brooklyn before their show at Madison Square Garden. This is part of the detours on the Awesome I Fuckin Shot That DVD, video here.

#beastie boys #mca #ad-rock #mike d #awesome i fuckin' shot that #aifst #bts #rehearsal #green tracksuits #2004 #tt5b #backwards cap #basketball #poking #yauch's fingers in 2nd one #gum chewing #ad's little towel #stupid face #giggle #slap #wiping #ahem #my gifs #thanks J for requesting some of these moments ;)

[kayleebye]

yauch is the epitome of cool

#adam yauch #beastie boys #they call me adam yauch but i'm mca #mca #mcaday #tt5b #cool #he's cool #love him

[styleiswild]

filming the ‘Triple Trouble’ video, 23 Jun 2004

#dunno who the photographer is I found these in my old old old folder #beastie boys #mca #adam yauch #00s #tt5b #to the 5 boroughs #2004 #shutterstock #sasquatch #nathanial hörnblowér

[adrockhorovitz]

Park City, Utah 2006

#Adam Horovitz #adrock #2006 #Beastie Boys #tt5b #solo #john shearer

[mcforwhatiam]

Beastie Boys in Snoozer magazine, 2004.

📸 Yuri Manabe

Posted by beastie freak freak on Instagram

#beastie boys #mca #ad-rock #mike d #I'd never seen inside before #snoozer #press #japan #2004 #tt5b #that one of MCA #shared to stories #do i have a tag for #maltese

[byrnedavid]

i love listening to the beasties because i get good music but i also have a laff

#they were off the shits on tt5b #beastie boys

[oishirecipe]

Real talk this is my first time actually ever listening to Fight For Your Right like I've listened to Beastie Boys for ages but I've never listened ro FFYR . Like for some reason I've just avoided it , always skipping it when it comes on never adding it to any playlists anything . Not that I felt I wouldn't like it just a feeling . But I'm cool with it now I'm actually listening lol

#The first song by them I heard was Ch Check It Out so obviously I gravitated towards TT5B so .

[rhyme-the-rhyme-well]

Beastie Boys visiting MTV's "Direct Effect"

Photos by Theo Wargo

#beastie boys #mca #ad-rock #mike d #mtv #direct effect #2004 #tt5b #white hoodie #blue jacket #the haircut #gum #yauch stare #tongue #cutie fucker #again coulda added these to old thread but can find in direct effect tags

[kayleebye]

adam let's ride bikes together ❤️

#adam horovitz #beastie boys #ad rock #the king ad rock #adrock #king adrock #ugh i love him #the king ad rock that is my name #tt5b #an open letter to nyc

[styleiswild]

Interview with Beastie Boys for Onet Muzyka, 07/20/2004

By: Monika Dąbrowska

Translation: Anna Bak ( @styleiswild )

Source (in Polish):

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Beastie Boys: Hot dogs, pizza and bagels

Q: Having heard your new album [To The 5 Boroughs], I can’t shake the feeling that you’d combined the old, New York school of rap with synthetic computer sounds. Beastie Boys rocking the new style?

MCA: We still make music in the same, old style. You know, old school is a part of us, because we grew up on it. But it’s not like we don’t care about new school.

Mike D: Besides, we got to work with the newest technologies on the album. Maybe that’s why you got that kind of impression.

Q: You’re one of the groups that helped shape and define hip hop culture. Is it difficult for you to fit in in 2004, when the scene seems to be flooded with shallow hip hop tracks about guns, bitches, champagne and drugs?

MCA: There’s always been lots of stupid, easy and uncomplicated content like that in music. Over the last 30 years at least. Just take a look at the charts and what’s topping them. Smooth pop songs that talk about nothing in particular. I wouldn’t make a drama out of it, though. Like, you know, that commercial music and albums recorded solely for money have got hold of the hip hop scene or whatever. What’s interesting, though, is this massive popularity of the genre. How it’s gone mainstream. We’re done with the underground, definitely.

Q: 6 years of silence seems like quite a long time. What have you been doing?

MCA: For the last few years we’ve been just... you know, living a regular life, I guess. Waking up in the morning, making breakfast. Taking my daughter to school every day, stuff like that.

Mike D: People think that our life... a musician’s life, that it’s unique or scandalous, or shit. Gotta disappoint you a bit, though. Most of the time, our life is rather boring (laughs).

MCA: Oh come on, that’s not true. Making music, working in the studio isn’t boring.

Mike D: Okay, that’s not boring. But it’s not as crazy or fun as everyone probably thinks it is.

Q: And when exactly did you start making the new album?

MCA: We began working on it about 2 years ago. That was also when we came up with the idea of our own studio. You know, where you can do everything and anything you want, for as many hours as you want, and you’re not concerned with time or money you’d have to pay for renting a studio. All of that influences the quality of your work, your material. With your own studio, you can drop by or get back anytime, if you want to redo a song or a fragment of a song, or change a verse. You can leave the equipment turned on, you don’t have to worry about other session musicians fucking it all up. That’s a comfortable situation.

Q: On your new album there’s a song titled “An Open Letter To NYC”, which is like a love letter, a tribute to your hometown. You also mention 9/11. Can you recall that day?

Mike D: We were in Lower Manhattan, as usual. That day, the tragedy... those are probably the most absurd memories in our lives. You look out the window every day, see the Twin Towers. And suddenly that symbol’s burning, gone, turned to dust. The towers are burning, you can’t believe that the two planes crashed into them, so many people died.

Q: And how did that affect New Yorkers?

MCA: It’s all getting back to normal now, but when it happened, we were all in fear, obviously. Everybody wondered what could happen next... People were looking for their loved ones. But when it all died down a little, people began to comfort and support each other. Paying attention to the other person. They’d show more love, warmth. You could see that on the street.

Q: For you, the essence of New York City is...

Ad-Rock: Hot dogs, pizza, bagels...

MCA: ...mixed culture, architecture, friendly people, music...

Ad-Rock: ...and food! (laughs)

Q: Last year in March you posted an anti-war protest song titled “In a World Gone Mad” on your website. Are you still against George W. Bush’s pro-war politics and the American invasion of Iraq?

Mike D: That’s how Bush and his administration tried to explain the situation: weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein’s repressive dictatorship. America was supposed to free Iraqi people of the repressions, to try and stop Hussein from using nuclear or biological weapons. To this day we don’t know if they indeed have the weapons. And the U.S. army does nothing but torture and abuse the Iraqi prisoners.

MCA: Besides, the same country that fights for global security and preaches civil liberties has been the only country to ever use nuclear weapons. You know, bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. George W. Bush’s politics is getting nowhere.

Q: Do you freestyle sometimes, or do you just write your texts?

Ad-Rock: Our lines are so insane that we can’t really freestyle anymore (laughs).

Mike D: We’ve got too many important things to say to people to simply improvise on records, or gigs. We’ve got important messages to share...

#beastie boys #mca #mike d #ad rock #2004 #00s #tt5b #to the 5 boroughs #to the 5 boroughs era #beastie boys interview #music interview #Adam Yauch #Adam Horovitz #michael diamond #my posts #interview #tt5b era