The Beastie Boys Influence American Culture

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The beastie boys influenced american culture by igniting the explosion of hip-hop. They did this by actually getting their sound into the mainstream of culture. They did this by having completely new and original content(other than the mixing of other artists beats into theirs), and had no problems with acceptance.

After hip-hop became recognized, it matured, and a lot more groups starting making hip-hop. . By 1989 Public Enemy was working with The Bomb Squad, N.W.A. released “straight outta compton”, and the beastie boys had released one of their most popular albums, Paul’s Boutique. Which sold well over 2 million copies by 1999

In the 1990’s, a whole different type of sound came out, with groups such as The Wu-Tang-Clan, Dr. Dre's The Chronic,

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