Believe it or not, there was a time when not everyone loved the Beastie Boys. It was back in the late '80s, before "Sure Shot," "Sabotage" and "Intergalactic" cemented their status as both rap and alt-rock elder statesmen. Despite the monster sales of the group's 1986 debut, License to Ill, the first hip-hop album to top the Billboard 200, many critics dismissed punks-turned-rhymers Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA as loutish frat-boys fixated on sex and booze. A segment of their fan base loved them for those very reasons, and while the Beasties were, on some level, playing characters, it was a blurry line between what was irony and...
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