{"id":139635,"date":"2019-10-04T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=139635"},"modified":"2019-10-04T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:09:50","slug":"beastie-boys-ad-rock-on-rap-pioneer-jimmy-spicer-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/beastie-boys-ad-rock-on-rap-pioneer-jimmy-spicer-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Beastie Boys\u2019 Ad-Rock on Rap Pioneer Jimmy Spicer Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"139636\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/beastie-boys-ad-rock-on-rap-pioneer-jimmy-spicer-influence\/beastieboysjimmy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BeastieBoysJimmy.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BeastieBoysJimmy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BeastieBoysJimmy.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BeastieBoysJimmy.jpg?fit=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BeastieBoysJimmy.jpg?resize=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BeastieBoysJimmy.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BeastieBoysJimmy.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BeastieBoysJimmy.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Spicer<\/strong> past away last Friday of lung and brain cancer at the age of 61. His debut single, <em>The Adventures of Super Rhyme (Rap)<\/em>, came out in 1980 and proved to be an influential early hip-hop landmark. His next singles, <em>The Bubble Bunch <\/em>and <em>Money (Dollar Bill Y\u2019all)<\/em>, established him as a rap pioneer and have been sampled by <strong>Wu-Tang Clan, Busta Rhymes, Kanye West<\/strong>, and many more. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Beastie Boys<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Adam \u201cAd-Rock\u201d Horovitz<\/strong> has long credited <strong>Spicer<\/strong> as the reason he wanted to become a rapper. <strong>Horovitz <\/strong>reflected on <strong>Spicer<\/strong>\u2019s impact on him and the group in interview for <strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole interview via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/beastie-boys-adam-horovitz-ad-rock-jimmy-spicer-893209\/?fbclid=IwAR0v8voLtoBkUCnEhlHsEpx4UzbO11xb8iA_10sOROjm5WhbgG0Zq-SDF0I\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Spicer past away last Friday of lung and brain cancer at the age of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Akb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}