Speedies

Uh, he's the author of another excellent book, Going Off! The History of the Juice Crew and the Cold Chillin' Records Label.

Uh, Ben is also part of an excellent punk band, Future Confusion.

Look 'em up.

Uh, he's based in Los Angeles, and when I come to town, Ben is generally down for hitting up a record shop, taco spots, and going to different shows.

And, and I see that you have already written a book, and it got good reviews on Amazon." So this guy read this article I wrote that was maybe two pages worth of t- of text, and then saw that I had written a book, and said, "Do you wanna write this book for us? If you don't, we'll find someone else to do it." So I just had to say yes, because I grew up listening to Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill, even before it came out.

My brother had an advanced cassette of it, which is in the book, of i- images of the advanced cassette.

Um, and, um, also, the story of Beastie Boys is, or at least the early years, is a hardcore punk band transitioning into becoming a full-fledged rap group, which- To the extent that they did it has only ever happened once in history before.

You have punk bands, you know, kind of sort of, uh, dipping their toes into rap.