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"Beastie Boys&amp;apos; legendary debut album Licensed to Ill has reached diamond status, nearly 30 years after its release. The RIAA&amp;apos;s database notes that as of March 4th, the LP has earned the certification, bestowed upon albums that sell 10 million copies.\r\n\r\nDef Jam released Licensed to Ill&amp;#xA0;on November 15th, 1986. Produced by the label&amp;apos;s co-founder Rick Rubin, the hip-hop trio&amp;apos;s debut is stocked with some of the group&amp;apos;s biggest and most memorable hits, including &amp;quot;Fight For Your Right,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No Sleep Till Brooklyn&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Paul Revere.&amp;quot; It was certified platinum in February 1987.\r\nIll&amp;#xA0;became&amp;#xA0;one of the first successful hip-hop&amp;#xA0;albums, and the Beastie Boys found continued success through the early millennium, selling over 40 million copies of their LPs. the group released their&amp;#xA0;final release, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two,&amp;#xA0;in 2011.&amp;#xA0;\r\nFollowing the death of Adam &amp;quot;MCA&amp;quot; Yauch in 2012, surviving members Michael &amp;quot;Mike D&amp;quot; Diamond and Adam &amp;quot;Ad-Rock&amp;quot; Horovitz made clear that they would not continue&amp;#xA0;with the group. Ad-Rock recently spoke with Rolling Stone&amp;#xA0;about life following the loss of Yauch and disbandment of his group. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s a big challenge. It&amp;apos;s like, &amp;apos;What do you do with your life when your former life is no more?&amp;apos; I have to figure it out. I don&amp;apos;t know if I ever will.&amp;quot;\r\nHorovitz also revealed to RS that he and Diamond have no plans to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;Twenty-five should&amp;apos;ve been a bigger deal, but I didn&amp;apos;t even notice,&amp;quot; he noted. &amp;quot;Thirty is a bland anniversary. Maybe the 50th.&amp;quot;\r\nThe surviving members have been working on a memoir, originally slated to be released in 2015. &amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s not way it&amp;apos;s going to happen [before 2017],&amp;quot; he admitted. &amp;quot;I might get sued by saying this, but I&amp;apos;m just being realistic.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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