{"id":2478,"date":"2011-07-26T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2011-07-26T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:45:37","slug":"beastie-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/beastie-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"BEASTIE BOYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2479\" title=\"Beastie-Boys-Hot-Sauce-Committee-Part-Two-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beastie-Boys-Hot-Sauce-Committee-Part-Two-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beastie-Boys-Hot-Sauce-Committee-Part-Two-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beastie-Boys-Hot-Sauce-Committee-Part-Two-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>EASTIE BOYS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Hot Sauce Committee<br \/>\nPart Two<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Capitol]<\/p>\n<p>The long-awaited eighth Beastie Boys album begins on a familiar note. Over a funky, distorted organ riff and clanging, old-school beat, rappers Michael \u201cMike D\u201d Diamond, Adam \u201cAd-Rock\u201d Horovitz and Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch respectively bark, shriek and croak their lines, complementing one another as they have since the early \u201980s when the trio busted out of New York City nearly fully formed. \u201cMake some noise if you\u2019re with me,\u201d they holler together on the chorus, anticipating a welcome-back roar.<\/p>\n<p>Originally due in 2009 but shelved following the news that Yauch had been diagnosed with throat cancer, <em>Hot Sauce Committee Part Two <\/em>is a reminder of why just about everyone\u2014hip-hop heads, punk rockers, metal dudes and plain-old pop fans\u2014is down with the Beasties. Clever as ever, with their juvenile sense of humor very much intact, the Boys pepper <em>Hot Sauce<\/em> with the usual goofy non sequiturs and pop-cultural references, dazzling even when they say very little. On the inane banger \u201cFunky Donkey,\u201d they quote Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cSubterranean Homesick Blues\u201d in one line and explain the difference between pad thai and pad see ew (the latter dish is \u201cdarker\u201d) in another.<\/p>\n<p>The album is, as always, heavy with boasts, but the Nas-assisted single \u201cToo Many Rappers\u201d in particular smacks of more than mere throwaway braggadocio. The Beasties are middle-aged white guys in a genre historically dominated by young African-Americans, and even if they\u2019re beloved elder statesmen whose place in history is secure, they\u2019re not above reaffirming their greatness. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEASTIE BOYS Hot Sauce Committee Part Two [Capitol] The long-awaited eighth Beastie Boys album begins on a familiar note. Over a funky, distorted organ riff and clanging, old-school beat, rappers Michael \u201cMike D\u201d Diamond, Adam \u201cAd-Rock\u201d Horovitz and Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch respectively bark, shriek and croak their lines, complementing one another as they have since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1959,514,1960,1634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}