The hip hop world has lost Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch at the young age of 47.
Adam Yauch, whose stage name is MCA, passed away on May 4.
It was no secret that Adam had undertook a fight against cancer, he was originally diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and had undergone surgery and radiation therapy to treat a cancerous parotid gland and lymph node.
Apparently reports are in that Adam’s passing was a result of his health issues.
Adam was on third of the famous rap group the Beastie Boys, who helped make leaps and bounds in their era of hip hop. The Beastie Boys came to be in 1979 with Michael ‘Mike D’ Diamond, Adam ‘Ad-Rock’ Horovitz and Michael ‘Mix Master Mike’ Schwartz.