Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill Tops Billboard – Today in Hip-Hop
[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:March 7, 1987: On this day in 1987, three former punk rockers reach a rap milestone.Starting out in New York City as members of a rock band before transitioning to rap, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Michael "Mike D" Diamond and the late Adam "MCA" Yauch formed The Beastie Boys. As they started to take rap more seriously, they sought out a DJ for their live shows: enter Rick Rubin, long before he became a living legend of the music business. Rubin went from DJing for them, to producing, to signing them to his new upstart label, Def Jam Recordings, which he cofounded with Russell...