Jay-Z Pays Homage to Ill Beastie Boy

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With Beastie Boy Adam 'MCA' Yauch sidelined with cancer in his throat, the hip hop group was forced to pull out of concert dates, which included their headlining gig at the All Points West festival in Jersey City, N.J., this weekend. Fortunately for them and the fans in attendance, Jay-Z stepped up to fill in, and also led a raucous tribute to the Beasties and Yauch.
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With his opening song, Jay-Z launched into the Beasties' 'License to Ill' classic 'No Sleep Til Brooklyn,' switching up a lyric here or there, but clearly giving a tip of the hat to Yauch and his bandmates.
Nearly two weeks ago, Yauch announced in an online video that he had "been feeling this little lump in my throat ... I actually have a form of cancer in the gland, and it's in a gland called the parotid gland, and it's in a lymph node in that area."
Ultimately, the rapper calls his cancer "a little bit of a setback, but something that's very treatable in most cases."
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