Documents the rise of rap stars, The Beastie Boys, from their beginnings as a band in Greenwich Village New York. It features interviews with other hip hop stars such as Run DMC and producer Rick Rubin, details their outrageous lifestyle, and provides insights into the recording of their albums.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The historical-fiction account of the Beasties sounds right,
By A Customer
This review is from: Rhyming & Stealing: A History of the Beastie Boys (Paperback)
This book, though apparently well researched and full of first hand accounts is nothing of the sort. As a B-Boys fan since the early 80s in NYC, I was surprised that this book so generalized the era and relied almost solely on interviews from the early and mid-90s. Though a fan, I find it very hard after seeing them that the opinions expressed on L to Ill were a joke and meant to be completely taken as such. This book is ill researched propaganda for the now regretful band to cover up their old ways. The author, who is British, had a pretty poor grasp on the impacts and feelings on this side of the Atlantic.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Get a someone u don't like to bye it and borrow it from them,
By allen@surfnetusa.com (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rhyming & Stealing: A History of the Beastie Boys (Paperback)
The author, who is from England, makes brood assumptions about the Punk Rock and Hip Hop scene in New York City in the early 1980's. He uses these assumptions to vaguely context the era that brought us the Beastie Boys from their roots in Punk Rock to inovations in Hip-Hop. He wasn't there or even in America during this time. I believe he has no idea what the youth of that time were feeling or up to. His sources are b-boy song lyrics(?), and other peoples interviews. The interviews he sites take place mostly in the mid 1990's. This takes away from my validity in what he has to say. He follows this method through the rest of the book. I don't think he has ever met the band, definitely never interviewed them on a profesional level. The book is in large print and thick paper so it looks bigger then it really is(180 pages). P.S. to give away the ending the butler did it>
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
dissapointment,
By A Customer
This review is from: Rhyming & Stealing: A History of the Beastie Boys (Paperback)
this book doesn't really deal with the beastie just about what influenced them and what not, nothing new or fascinating.
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