The Weight.

Words.

"...the brilliance of the Beastie Boys is that there was no such thing as too loud. Like no other group of their generation, they had down what it was like to be a teenager. Their sound was all id and outrage, absurdity and eye-rolling. They knew what it was like to be a total shithead, pissed off at the world and ready for retribution through acts overt and subtle. They made you want to buy liquor you weren’t nearly old enough to legally acquire, steal your parents cigarettes, buy a can of Krylon and spray paint the wall in the alley behind your apartment. So I did and I was so much the better for it. My parents might have disagreed, but parents never mattered in their world. Dad was a hypocrite who smoked two packs a day. Mom was just jealous. IT’S THE BEASTIE BOYS."

PASSION OF THE WEISS: RIP MCA, Adam Yauch, Nathaniel Hornblower (1964-2012)