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It's almost impossible for anyone from a lightweight boy band to transition to serious,

respected artists. Now it can't be done. We can look at Justin Timberlake and, well,

well, we can look at Justin Timberlake. And as tough as that is, it's even more difficult to move from being pigeonholed as a novelty act

to one that carries gravitas and serious artistic merit.

Yet that's what the Beastie Boys managed to do.

No one took them seriously for the first eight years of their career.

They were spoiled

snotty frat boys writing goofy songs and making funny videos licensed to ill was a

parody of hip-hop was a good one but it was still a parody and let's not forget

that Rolling Stone described the album as three idiots make a masterpiece but

then something changed.

The Beastie Boys grew up.

They grew as artists.

They grew as businessman.

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