Starpulse — Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, Lenny Kravitz, Slash and Justin Timberlake have added their heartfelt tributes to late Beastie Boys legend Adam Yauch, who lost his battle with cancer on Friday. Rap... more info
ContactMusic — A solemn hush fell over the musical community yesterday as BEASTIE BOYS Adam Yauch or Mca as he was known in the group finally fell victim to his cancer passing away peacefully on Friday May 4th He had been battling cancer since 2009 after a tumour..... more info
Detroit Free Press — Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, has died. He was 47. Yauch's representatives confirmed that the rapper died Friday morning in New York after a nearly three-year ... more info
Soul Sides —
Along with Run DMC, the Beastie Boys were the first rap artists I ever listened to obsessively. I never thought of them as a trio of individual MCs; they always sounded to me like a group package so I can’t say MCA was “my favorite” of three... more info
Time — My knees went weak when I heard MCA had died. Perhaps that’s because it wasn't simply the death of a man but of a piece of my youth -- and of a time when hip hop itself was young. more info
The Hip Hop Chronicle — The Hip Hop Chronicle is saddened at the loss of MCA of the legendary Beastie Boys. The cause of death has not been confirmed but Adam “MCA” Yauch was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer in 2009. Along with Mike D and Ad Roc, The Beastie Boys so... more info