I grew up listening to the Beastie boys, do you like them?
Yes, they were a hip hop group from New York City, started in 1981.
I didn't realize they were that old. Do you know much else about them?
(drums). They appeared on the compilation cassette "New York Thrash", contributing two songs from their first EP, "Polly Wog Stew", in 1982. Berry left shortly thereafter and was replaced by Horovitz. After achieving local success with the 1983 experimental hip hop single "Cooky Puss", the Beastie Boys made a full transition to hip hop, and Schellenbach left the group soon after. They toured with Madonna in 1985 and a year later released their debut album "Licensed to Ill". It was
Away the Pain" you see him trying to get gangsta with it."
On the group's decision to handle most of the production, Havoc later commented, "We started producing because other producers was giving us shit that we didn't like, or they was just charging too much. I didn't know nothing about producing music at the time, but I learned by watching others." The style of production on "The Infamous" was part of a change in New York City hip-hop from upbeat