Reporter: ‘Do You Still Fight for Your Right to Parrrtay?’
Beastie: ‘Do you still have to ask that question?’
Administrator
August 09, 2007
By Nick Haramis
The Beastie Boys, we think. If not, Cate Blanchett (as Bob Dylan), Moby, and the Invisible Man.
Waiting for the Beastie Boys in the dark screening room of the SoHo House—which, incidentally, is neither a house, nor in SoHo, despite the protests of a gypsy cabbie—I sip soda, fidgeting with a borrowed camera. After two nights spent rehashing their keg party classics, the band will take the stage at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on Friday to play from their latest (instrumental!) album, The Mix-Up.
Three MC’s (minus the DJ) roll in, dressed in matching suits, shiny tie clips, and bedazzled sunglasses. One’s even pulling off a fedora.
An eager journalist raises his hand to ask something about the stultifying state of contemporary hip-hop. Michael “Mike D” Diamond groans, “People are always looking for us to criticize hip-hop.” They don’t.
When asked about the lack of other white rappers, Diamond wonders how we forgot lyricists like Vanilla Ice, Snow, and “esteemed actor Marky Mark.” When another reporter tries to switch gears, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz pleads, “Sorry, but can’t we please go back to the part about us feeling like special white people?”
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