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Beastie Boys call for sampling lawsuit to be dismissed
The Beastie Boys have called for the dismissal of a lawsuit charging that they illegally sampled material on their first two albums. The rappers deny there is any “substantial similarity” between the tracks on Licensed to Ill and Paul’s Boutique and the songs they sampled by the go-go band Trouble…
Beastie Boys founder Adam Yauch dies at 47
Adam Yauch, a founding member of pioneering rap and rock group the Beastie Boys has died at the age of 47, according to Entertainment Weekly. The Brooklyn-born performer, who was known to fans as “MCA,” was diagnosed with cancer and treated for tumorous growths on his partoid gland and a…
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