The Beastie Boys memoir, which should reveal lots of interesting and previously unknown things about the legendary group, is finally close to being finished. According to Mike D, we should expect the memoir in the fall of 2018.
“We’re actually going to finish it, and it’s going to come out finally,” Mike D told Beats 1’s Matt Wilkinson. “Like many things we embark on, there are many false starts and, honestly, directions we went in that we realized were not the directions we should be going in, but it’s gonna be coming out in the fall of this year.”
Mike D and Ad-Rock signed a publishing deal with Spiegel & Grau in 2012 and had plans to release the Beastie Boys memoir in 2015. Despite their best intentions, the writing proved to be challenging task then they thought.
“To tell our story, we have to give the cultural history of where we came from. So New York City in the ’80s, you had all these incredible, exciting music, art, film, all that sort of has to converge to be able to explain. We just had the good fortune of being around all of it so I think that’s No. 1,” Mike D explained the process of writing. “And the other thing is, I think a lot of times when I read a band book or I watch a music documentary, maybe I’m just kind of A.D.D., I get a little bored, but actually I don’t think they do the subject matter justice because it’s kinda surreal what happens in bands’ lives so you kind of have to use all dimensions to kind of tell the story more accurately.”
Beastie Boys are considered as one of the most iconic hip-hop acts in the history of music. They had seven platinum albums in their career and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, becoming only the third rap group to get that honor.
