Adam "MCA" Yauch, a founding member of the pioneering rap band the Beastie Boys, has died after a nearly three-year battle with cancer, the band's publicist said Friday. He was 47.

Yauch revealed in July 2009 that he had surgery for cancer in a salivary gland and a lymph node.

What is salivary gland cancer?

Yauch's death comes less than a month after the Beastie Boys were inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Because of his fight with cancer, Yauch did not attend, Rolling Stone magazine reported.

The Beastie Boys – Yauch, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond – did not perform that night. But Horovitz read a letter from Yauch to the audience.

"I'd like to dedicate this to my brothers Adam and Mike," Yauch wrote, according to Rolling Stone. "They walked the globe with me. It's also for anyone who has ever been touched by our band. This induction is as much ours as it is yours."

Yauch's cancer delayed the release of the band's most recent album, "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two," for two years. It was supposed to come out in 2009 but instead was released in spring 2011.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/04/report-beastie-boys-rapper-mca-dies/?on.cnn=1

R.I.P homie, your legacy lives on

rip

Many people are just dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha!

Well, I don't even know him or Beastie boys. May His soul find rest beyond.

Rip what a legend, your song still lives on.

Dextra: Well, I don't even know him or Beastie boys. May His soul find rest beyond.

♏έ too

people just dey die,S/E/W/N.ogini?rip sir!all na vanity mehn!Lord have mercy on us

Rip man loved u guys

rip, man. Beastie boys have bn togeda 4 a very long time. Its amazing they are still togeda. Still blasting their joint wit nas.

The Beastie Boys are undoubtedly one of the greatests Rap gropus.
Though their voices sometimes sounded like a poor imitation of black hood.
RIP Yauch 'MCA'.

May his soul rest in peace.

Rip

Nna eh,the death rate these days are just alarming.

RIP to him.

Beastie boys are a group of white boys ,they are legendary they were very strong about the hiphop movement ,despite they are whiteboyz, r.i.p to you

No one knows Beastie boys.

hey chipmunk *
what d hell do u mean nobody knows chipmunk,
just say u dont cuz u are new to music and no depth of oldees

RIP

Dextra: Many people are just dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha!

don't u want space for new children to be born. Lets Just amend our ways. It cld be my turn 2moro.

RIP Bro!