My favourite band is the Beastie Boys - they were a hip hop group formed in 1981
Yes I loved the beastie boys in the 90's especially check yo head great album
My favourite member of the group was Adam Horovitz. Who was yours?
Wasn't he Ad-Rock?
Yes, he was. He replaced John Berry from the original band - the Young Aborigines. 
yeah I would agree he is probably my favorite as well
I also really liked Mike D - who played drums.
its crazy to think that they started off as a punk band I consider them more rap now of course
(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
Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys were an American hip hop group from New York City formed in 1981. The group comprised Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass) and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (vocals, guitar).
The Beastie Boys were formed as a four-piece hardcore punk band, the Young Aborigines, in 1979 by Mike D (vocals), MCA (bass), John Berry (guitar) and Kate Schellenbach