The 52-year-old musician died in Massachusetts on Thursday due to complications of frontal lobe dementia.
Bill Stephney, an advisor to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has previously led the music companies Def Jam Recordings, SOUL Records and Stepsun Music. Stephney has produced artists ranging from Public Enemy and Vanessa Williams, to the social satirist Paul Mooney. He has supervised music and produced soundtracks for films such as “Boomerang,” “Be Be’s […]
Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys has died of cancer, the Urban Daily reports. He was 47. SEE ALSO: Unemployment Falls To 8.1 Percent The Beastie Boys were induced into the Hall of Fame in April, but Yauch was not in attendance. The Hip-Hop legend has been ill for a while and his […]
Mike D of the Beastie Boys came to set the record straight on the proper usage of the word “illin'” during a recent appearance on The Colbert Report. SEE ALSO: FBI Claims ODB Had Shady Dealings Host Stephen Colbert invited the veteran rapper on the program to settle a recent linguistic beef that freelance writer […]
