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Ad-Rock has said that the 'Beastie Boys still have a lot of 'music in the vault', but he also confirmed that the hip-hop group 'are done'.
The MC made the comments in an interview with GQ about his upcoming on-screen role in Noah Baumbach's latest project, the LCD-Soundsystem soundtracked While We're Young.
Officially confirming what many would have suspected after Adam "MCA" Yauch tragically died in 2012 following a long battle with cancer, Ad-Rock confirmed that the Beastie Boys were no more: “We’re done,” he said. “Adam Yauch started the band. It’s not like a thing where we could continue without him.”
Ad-Rock also spoke about how moved he was by the worldwide reaction to Yauch's death: "Well, you know, all of that stuff made me really happy, that people cared about Adam so much. And there was graffiti all over the world, and it meant a lot. He meant a lot to a lot of people. That’s really nice. That’s rare that that happens: that one of your best friends dies and, internationally, people are freaking out.”
Ad-Rock also revealed that there is still a lot of unreleased Beastie Boys "music in the vault". He said most of it is instrumental “like, hours and hours of, like, really bad jamming. Which is awful to think about, but some of it’s really funny,” and “then there’s a lot of stuff of us talking in the middle of it, which is priceless. We were just really stoned, talking about, like, where we should get food, or Cirque du Soleil or some shit.”
In other news, Beastie Boys' Licensed To Ill was recently certified diamond after 30 years, as the group's debut has now sold over 10 million copies.
