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Three other local politicians spoke: Assembly member Grace Lee and City Council members Carlina Rivera and Christopher Marte, the last of whom Levine credited with making Beastie Boys Square happen.
It didn’t work out, but I still have hope.”Īs it happens, the Beasties have a few Jewish lyrics in their stable, including biblical references, a shoutout to Ellis Island, and Ad-Rock’s line “ Well I’m a funky-ass Jew and I’m on my way/ And yes I got to say f- the KKK ” on “Right Right Now Now” from the 2004 album “To the 5 Boroughs.” “Yes you were! Personally, that was the first moment I realized there was maybe a faint hope that I could be cool. “Were you a Jewish kid in America back in the 80s and 90s?” Levine shouted to the crowd, and many - including this reporter - cheered back. “Now, I know these guys didn’t advertise it, but trust me: Every Jewish kid in America, we knew they were Diamond and Yauch and Horowitz.” “I was 16 when ‘Licensed to Ill’ came out - it was like a thunderbolt came down and struck me,” he said.
Kicking off the speeches with a “mic check” or two was Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, who put the Beasties’ Jewishness front and center. So, on Saturday, anticipation crept up alongside the mercury in the thermometer as the crowd waited to catch a glimpse of the remaining Beasties.īut first, local politicians had things to say. In 2004, the group gave a very Jewish interview with Heeb magazine, in which Yauch disclosed he was trying to get his Uncle Freddy to teach him some Yiddish “so I could work some Yiddish lyrics on an album.” Diamond said he was raised by “a Barney Greengrass family,” referring to the famous Upper West Side appetizing shop.įollowing Yauch’s death from cancer, the group disbanded. Yauch hailed from Brooklyn Heights, the only child of Frances, a Jewish social worker, and a non-Jewish architect. Diamond, 57, grew up on the Upper West Side his father, Harold, was an art dealer and his mother, Hester, was a famous decorator and art collector.
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Though they started as a teenage punk band, they eventually pivoted to hip-hop - and after their first rap album - 1986’s “Licensed to Ill,” produced by fellow Jewish hip-hop fan Rick Rubin - produced a series of hits, the Beastie Boys became household names.Ī post shared by Beastie Boys Square 🗽 three Beastie Boys have Jewish backgrounds: Horovitz, 56, grew up on Park Avenue, the son of playwright Israel Horovitz and a Roman Catholic mother. Horowitz, Diamond and Adam “MCA” Yauch, who died in 2012 at 47, formed their highly influential band in New York City in 1981.
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Though some kvetched about the humidity and the unexplained 80-minute delay, the Gen X-heavy crowd - plus a smattering of their offspring - was a respectful one, singing along to years’ worth of Beastie Boys songs played on loudspeakers as they waited for the ceremony to begin, and for the appearance of the two people everyone had come to see: Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond. Hundreds of New Yorkers packed the downtown intersection Saturday afternoon for the official unveiling of Beastie Boys Square. The co-naming of this Lower East Side street corner - where the shop featured on the Jewish rappers’ second album, “Paul’s Boutique,” once stood - was the result of a 10-year effort spearheaded by Leroy McCarthy, an activist who has successfully lobbied for other New York City streets named in honor of rappers, including Notorious B.I.G. ( New York Jewish Week ) - The corner of Ludlow and Rivington streets in New York City is now officially known as Beastie Boys Square.
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