Beastie Boys

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(03-27-2018, 03:27 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: They were very diverse.  You could cherry-pick an album together and label them hard rock or metal.

It's interesting how quickly rap went hard/gangsta - it's not like the pioneers [who didn't do that] of the genre sucked.

Well, to be fair, Ice-T's "Rhyme Pays" was released in 1987, and was a pioneer in his own right.  He had actually been involved in the underworld, and released music warning of the pitfalls.  To me, there is him, and a buncha copy cats.