Blog: Stereogum

Today, we lost the great MCA , at the way-too-young age of 47. We knew he'd been fighting cancer for years, but this is still the sort of news that wrenches you around and leaves you dizzy. It's nearly impossible to capture or quantify the sort of impact that Yauch and the Beasties had on music and pop culture over the last few decades. But we decided to do something else here: Celebrating the man's career by picking 20 great, isolated moments from his professional life. There's nothing definitive about this list, and we're surely missing some big ones, [...]