Mike D recently spoke with Vulture in a lengthy piece about the state of rap and hip-hop music in present time.

“I always felt like rap would become popular, but I didn’t foresee it becoming as mainstream as it is,” Mike D told Vulture. “With current rap, there’s nothing that makes it not pop. Obviously, certain rappers are going to make poppier records and certain rappers are going to be more esoteric, but I never would’ve thought that rappers could be the Lionel Richies of their day.”

He also said he never thought Jay-Z and Migos will be in the same position “in terms of universal acceptance.”

“I did foresee that we’d get something like an OutKast — rap that could sell millions and still feel not pop. But now we’re in a stage where rap isn’t separate from pop, which is amazing,” he added.

After Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch passed away in 2012, Mike D and Ad-Rock decided they will not continue using the group’s name. In the meantime, Mike D turned to producing business, serving as a producer for American rock band Portugal. The Man and British punkers Slaves.

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“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.

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Mike D recently spoke with Vulture in a lengthy piece about the state of rap and hip-hop music in present time.

“I always felt like rap would become popular, but I didn’t foresee it becoming as mainstream as it is,” Mike D told Vulture. “With current rap, there’s nothing that makes it not pop. Obviously, certain rappers are going to make poppier records and certain rappers are going to be more esoteric, but I never would’ve thought that rappers could be the Lionel Richies of their day.”

He also said he never thought Jay-Z and Migos will be in the same position “in terms of universal acceptance.”

“I did foresee that we’d get something like an OutKast — rap that could sell millions and still feel not pop. But now we’re in a stage where rap isn’t separate from pop, which is amazing,” he added.

After Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch passed away in 2012, Mike D and Ad-Rock decided they will not continue using the group’s name. In the meantime, Mike D turned to producing business, serving as a producer for American rock band Portugal. The Man and British punkers Slaves.

The post Beastie Boys’ Mike D Talks About How Rap Has Changed appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

“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.

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