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How "Check Your Head" Invented the Beastie Boys
A New Day Dawning: How "Check Your Head" Invented the Beastie Boys
Here's a little story that must be told. When the Beastie Boys released Check Your Head on April 21, 1992, they weren't sure whether they still had an audience. Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz , Michael "Mike D" Diamond , and Adam "MCA" Yauch signed to Capitol after their 1986 debut, Licensed to Ill , became the first hip-hop record to gun its way to the number-one spot on the Billboard 200.
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