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  Billboard Music Awards 2012: Everything You Need To Know About Last Night's Ceremony

  May 21, 2012 – The Billboard Music Awards (or BBMAs), which were revived last year after a four-year hiatus, are the real People's Choice Awards — with the exception of the occasional editorial call, winners are selected based on hard data mined from Billboard's charts over a year period. In other words, you bought this music, people, and last night at Las Vegas' MGM Grand, the artists reaped the prizes. …
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  Adam 'MCA' Yauch Honored Via NY State Senate Resolution

  May 17, 2012 – U.S. elected officials have been doing a lot of political hat-tipping to the hip-hop world recently. …
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  Who Charted? Beastie Boys Sales Soar as Fans Honor MCA

  May 9, 2012 – First! Carrie Underwood's big arrival on the Billboard 200 this week makes Jack White's personally historic No. 1 last week look slightly less impressive, regardless of how much we loved that album. The American Idol superstar's latest LP Blown Away sold 267,000 copies, nearly doubling Blunderbuss's 138,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. 2 Through 10: Norah Jones' ...Little Broken Hearts arrives at No. …
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  Beastie Boys Hit With Sampling Lawsuit on Eve of MCA's Death

  May 8, 2012 – As the surviving members of the Beastie Boys grieve the loss of Adam "MCA" Yauch, they're also facing a horrendously ill-timed lawsuit involving two of their most beloved albums. …
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  Watch Everyone From ABBA to the Chili Peppers Honor the Beastie Boys This Weekend

  May 7, 2012 – You couldn't step foot in a bar, store, or baseball stadium in New York this weekend without hearing the Beastie Boys. And as members of Generation Yauch continued to reel from the news that Adam "MCA" Yauch had succumbed to cancer Friday morning, the music world stepped up its cover game, adding heartfelt renditions of the group's tracks to live sets all over the world. …
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  Generation Yauch

  May 5, 2012 – It's apt to commemorate the life and work of Adam Yauch under the auspices of SPIN. The Beastie Boys, after all, were the first rap act to grace the cover of SPIN Magazine in the 1980s. It was a controversial milestone. SPIN set the tempo for a new American generation, and was one of the first mainstream publications to give respectful ink to hip-hop acts like Run-D.M.C. …
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  MCA Remembered by Danny Brown, Action Bronson, eXquire and the New Rap Underground

  May 4, 2012 – Beat-reversing, 808-abusing, sample-stacking, pop-culture-flipping models of the alternative spirit, the Beastie Boys have influenced generation after generation of rappers. The young bucks in the New Hip-Hop Underground don't even know a time when the trio wasn't rhyming and stealing on MTV. We asked a few for their thoughts and remembrances... Danny Brown "I was super influenced by their music. …
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  No Trivia Remembers Adam Yauch

  May 4, 2012 – Singling out Adam "MCA" Yauch from the rest of the Beastie Boys because he died today is weird. Like most great rap crews, the Beasties had a way of bouncing off one another, trading bars, and interrupting each other's rhymes that made them feel like an inextricable trio. But Yauch, a Buddhist, appeared to be the guiding force in turning the group from hilarious, annoying pricks to hilarious, enlightened, annoying pricks. …
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  MCA, RIP: Hear His Beastie Boys Legacy in 15 Tracks

  May 4, 2012 – After a long battle with cancer, pioneering rapper Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys has passed away at the age of 47. …
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  How The Music World Rallied Around MCA Before His Death

  May 4, 2012 – Tributes to Beastie Boys' Adam "MCA" Yauch have been pouring out over the last few hours since news of his passing spread, from Diplo to Krist Novoselic to Big Boi. …
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