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 | | In 1983, the new and improved Beastie Boys released the spoof 12-inch single "Cookie Puss," a probationary attempt at rap that incorporated samples of a crank phone call the band members had perpetrated. |
 | | Rap aficionados appreciated the fact that the Beastie Boys carried bona fide rap credentials, that they were managed and produced by seminal figures from the New York rap scene, and that they stayed true to the form and aesthetic of the genre. |
 | | The Beastie Boys' most recent studio album, 1994's Ill Communication, debuted atop the Billboard album chart (an EP of old and unreleased tracks, Some Old Bullshit, was released the same year on the trio's own Capitol-distributed label imprint, Grand Royal). |
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