'It just hit me as a kid.' Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock tells us about the influence that rap pioneer Jimmy Spicer, who died last week, had on himself and the group
” Horovitz, though, the phrase “This is it” applied to Spicer himself. “He was really important, and those songs were important to me,” Horovitz says. The Beastie Boy has long credited Spicer as the reason he wanted to become a rapper. Horovitz reflected on Spicer’s impact on him and the group. “Music in general and rap music specifically doesn’t look back very often,” Horovitz says. “It’s nice to look back.
I was probably 12 or 13, and rap was so new to me. I was into punk and New Wave and songs that were two-and-a-half–minutes long, and now I’ve got this thing that’s two sides of someone rapping 20 minutes. It was pretty amazing. But he was also rapping about Superman and he was telling stories in the song, and it just hit me as a kid. If it was playing right now, I could probably rap along with the whole song, however long the first side is, 12 minutes. There’s all these stories in there, and they’re all weird.
He came out in an era when you had nothing to go on about an artist. You only just had the songs. I didn’t know what he looked like. I didn’t know where he was from. I didn’t know anything about him other than he sounded cool. You had to make up your own identity for the people you’re hearing. The only thing I knew about Jimmy Spicer was just the few singles that I have of his: “Super Rhymes,” “Bubble Bunch,” and “Dollar Bill.” “Dollar Bill” was like theI didn’t know him at all.
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