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Adam Yauch, one-third of the beat hip-hop accumulation the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47, Rolling Stone has learned. Yauch, aswell accepted as MCA, had been in analysis for blight back 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 afterwards advertent a bump in his salivary gland.

"It is with abundant anguish that we affirm that musician, rapper, activist and administrator Adam 'MCA' Yauch, founding affiliate of Beastie Boys and aswell of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and blur assembly and administration aggregation Oscilloscope Laboratories, anesthetized abroad in his built-in New York City this morning afterwards a near-three-year action with cancer," reads an official account from the Beastie Boys. "He was 47 years old."

Yauch sat out the Beastie Boys' consecration to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, and his treatments delayed the absolution of the group's a lot of contempo album, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2. The Beastie Boys had not performed reside back the summer of 2009, and Yauch's affliction prevented the accumulation from actualization in music videos for Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2.

Yauch co-founded the Beastie Boys with Mike "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz in 1979. The bandage started off as a hardcore jailbait group, but anon began experimenting with hip-hop. The bandage bankrupt huge with their aboriginal able album, Licensed to Ill, in 1986; it was the biggest-selling rap anthology of the decade and the aboriginal to ability Number One on the Billboard chart. Further albums Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head and Ill Communication anchored the Beasties as a accurate superstar act.

In accession to his career with the Beastie Boys, Yauch was heavily complex in the movement to chargeless Tibet. A architect of the Milarepa Fund, Yauch was active in the aboriginal Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park 1996, which drew 100,000 humans – the better U.S. account concert back 1985's Reside Aid. Afterwards 9/11, Yauch and the Beastie Boys organized New Yorkers Against Violence, a concert account for some of the victims atomic acceptable to accept advice from elsewhere.

Yauch aswell directed abounding of the Beastie Boys' music videos beneath the pseudonym Nathaniel Hornblower. In 2002, he launched the blur assembly aggregation Oscilloscope Laboratories. As a filmmaker, he directed the 2006 Beastie Boys concert blur Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! and the 2008 basketball documentary Gunnin' for That #1 Spot, and his assembly aggregation appear the acclaimed Banksy cine Exit Through the Gift Shop.