If you have followed my Twitter I have left up the tweet for Adam Yauch aka MCA aka Nathanial Hörnblowér aka Sir Stewart Wallace to RIP since the day of his far to early passing.

I have struggled on how to honor this one soul that did more than change the face of Hip-Hop, filmmaking, stereotypes and generations. Until now I wasn’t sure on how to pay respect to the great Adam Yauch “MCA” the artist and the great man. He leaves behind a wife and daughter, which I extend my heartfelt thoughts to.

Even though he is most known for his music and style as a Beastie Boy, his talent could not be contained to just one discipline. Through Oscilloscope Laboratories he not only directed many of your favorite Beastie Boys’ videos, most recently last year’s Fight For Your Right Revisited, an extended video for “Make Some Noise” from Beastie Boys’ Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, starring Elijah Wood, Danny McBride and Seth Rogen as the 1986 Beastie Boys, making their way through a half hour of cameo-studded misadventures before squaring off against Jack Black, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as Beastie Boys of the future. Yauch also produced many independent films and became a hub as a distributor for Indies, including one of my favorites, Exit Through the Gift Shop.

I was able to see him as a partying young man, 70’s styled cop, robot fighter/safety patrol and an old man through the creativity of their work. A true innovator from changing styles from a garage band to whole new style that fights for your right. Yauch’s forward thinking about worldly issues and how we all need to look to his and the Buddhist thought he spread, no matter what your religious background, that suffering needs to end. Truly think about the time frame and words that are spoken on a platform meant for him and the rest of the Beastie Boys as a celebration of their work and how he chooses to use it.



The King Ad-Rock put it best: “I’m glad to know that all the love that Yauch has put out into the world is coming right back at him.” Adam Yauch stood for integrity as an artist and a more significantly a humanitarian. Yauch was a founder of the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness and activism regarding the injustices perpetrated on native Tibetans by Chinese occupational government and military forces.

There is nothing that will fill the emptiness that I feel for what you brought and brought it “Full Steam.” I am glad that you were a role model for me and can only try to live up to Whatcha Want this world to be and I strive everyday to continue what you started.

“Want to offer my love and respect to the end.”

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