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Within the Beastie Boys and elsewhere — including his film company and humanitarian efforts — Adam Yauch often worked with friends or people who became close. Here, some of them remember the man and his influence.

Even when the group was at its silliest, Adam Yauch's low, hoarse voice made him seem like the most mature member of the Beastie Boys. Over a career that went in many unexpected directions, he'd earn the title.

A famous trio has lost a founding member. Musician Adam "MCA" Yauch died Friday of cancer. Host Scott Simon has this remembrance of one of the founding members of The Beastie Boys, a band that helped make hip-hop mainstream.

The gruff-voiced rapper known as MCA was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. He died Friday in New York at the age of 47.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Laura Nyro and The Beastie Boys incorporated the multi-genre pulse of the Big Apple in different ways, but each with lasting results.

The clown princes of hip-hop talk about their eighth album and its epic companion video, which finds them poking fun at their younger selves.