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Surviving Members Of The Beastie Boys To Release Memoir

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: MOBILE

(AllHipHop News)  Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz of the legendary New York Hip-Hop group the Beastie Boys have announced they will be creating a memoir focused on the band’s career. According to The New York Times, the book will be a “multidimensional experience” that features prominent pictures, snarky pop culture references, and contributions from other writers. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees had apparently been in talks about doing a book deal for several years, but the group was focused on the declining health of third member Adam “MCA” Yauch. Yauch died from cancer in May of 2012 at the age of 47. The currently untitled memoir will be edited by Sacha Jenkins, co-founder of the 1990’s Hip-Hop magazine Ego trip and a creative consultant on The Boondocks television show. Jenkins has also written for Vibe, Rolling Stone, and Spin magazines. The Beastie book will be published by Random House’s Spiegel & Grau imprint. Spiegel worked with Jay-Z (Decoded), Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Beautiful Struggle), M.K. Asante (Buck), and Wes Moore (The Other Wes Moore) to publish their autobiographies. Spiegal & Grau plan for the Beastie Boys’ memoir to be an unconventional approach to telling the story of their lives. “There is a kaleidoscopic frame of reference, and it asks a reader to keep up,” Julie Grau, publisher of Spiegal & Grau, told The Times. The Beastie Boys’ book is expected to hit bookstores and tablets in the fall of 2015.

Questlove of The Roots Planning To Release Memoir This Summer

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: MOBILE

(AllHipHop News) The Roots drummer and music producer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is about to join other Hip-Hop legends-turned-authors like LL Cool J, Eminem, and Common when he releases his memoir Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove on June 18th by Grand Central Publishing. The book, co-written with New Yorker editor Ben Greenman, will be a mixture of autobiographical stories and Thompson’s take on Hip-Hop, pop culture, and music in general. [ALSO READ: Philly Loves J Dilla: Questlove Spins J Dilla Classics and Reworked Beats] Mo’ Meta Blues is “a punch-drunk memoir in which everyone’s favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes and the true originals of the music world,” according to a press a release. The man behind the production of songs by D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and Bilal has been busy in other areas besides authoring a book. Questlove is teaching a classic albums course at New York University, and he has also been working with his Roots crew to produce a joint project with British rock icon Elvis Costello before the band drops their next album tentatively titled & Then You Shoot Your Cousin. The Roots are currently the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Their last studio LP, 2011’s concept album Undun, was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 55th annual Grammy Awards. The Roots will also be a part of the stellar line-up for the Prince tribute at Carnegie Hall on March 7. [ALSO READ: Over 20 Artists to Pay Tribute to Prince at Carnegie Hall] Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove is available for pre-order at amazon.com