American hip-hop group (1981–2012)

Claude says:Three Jewish kids from New York who turned punk energy and sampling into hip hop architecture—Beastie Boys built something that sounds like nothing else, caught between recklessness and musicianship. You keep coming back to Sabotage like a reflex, but Ill Communication is where you actually live, the album where they proved they weren't a novelty and could make something genuinely weird and layered.