Beastie Boys
American hip hop group
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| 2024 | Music video for 'Futterman's Rule' from the Ill Communication album was released, directed by Spike Jonze |
| September 9 2023 | The official renaming ceremony of 'Beastie Boys Square' took place, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of hip hop. |
| July 14 2022 | The New York City Council voted to rename the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington streets as 'Beastie Boys Square'. |
| 2020 | Spin magazine ranked the Beastie Boys as the 12th-most influential artist of the previous 35 years. |
| 2020 | Mike D collaborated with Public Enemy and Run-DMC on the track 'Public Enemy Number Won' from the album 'What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?' |
| October 23 2020 | Released compilation album 'Beastie Boys Music' through UMe Records, available in CD, digital, and LP formats. The album reached #64 in the US charts. |
| April 2020 | A documentary called 'Beastie Boys Story', directed by Spike Jonze, premiered on Apple TV+, adapting their memoir. |
| October 2018 | Mike D and Ad-Rock released their memoir, 'Beastie Boys Book', chronicling the group's history. |
| 2016 | Mike D collaborated with Cassius on the track 'Love Parade' and 'Action' from the album Ibifornia |
| 2016 | Mike D produced the entire album 'Take Control' by The Slaves, featuring the track 'Consume or Be Consumed' |
| May 19 2016 | John Berry, the founding Beastie Boys guitarist, died at age 52 from frontotemporal dementia. |
| 2014 | The initial proposal to rename the intersection was voted down by the New York City Council. |
| June 2014 | Beastie Boys won a lawsuit against Monster Energy for unauthorized use of their music, being awarded $1.7 million in damages and $668,000 for legal fees. |
| June 2014 | Mike D confirmed that he and Ad-Rock would not continue making music under the Beastie Boys name. |
| 2013 | Historian LeRoy McCarthy initiated a grassroots campaign to rename an intersection in Manhattan's Lower East Side as 'Beastie Boys Square'. |
| May 4 2012 | Adam Yauch (MCA) died from cancer at the age of 47, which ultimately led to the disbandment of the Beastie Boys. |
| 2011 | The band created 'Fight for Your Right Revisited', a short film. |
| 2011 | Beastie Boys released two singles from their album 'Hot Sauce Committee Part Two': 'Make Some Noise' and 'Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win' (featuring Santigold). |
| 2011 | Beastie Boys collaborated with Nas on the music video for 'Too Many Rappers' |
| December 2011 | The Beastie Boys were announced as official inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2012. |
| May 3 2011 | Released 'Hot Sauce Committee Part Two', their eighth studio album on Capitol Records, which reached #2 in the US and sold 128,000 copies. |
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