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Largely responsible for taking rap mainstream, the Beastie Boys were founded in New York City in 1981 by a group of arty kids responding to Manhattan’s eclectic downtown music scene. Teaching a generation of fans what it’s like to rhyme and kick their way through Gotham, the legendary trio essentially invented rap-rock and was the first rap album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts. ‘Brass Monkey’,...