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With brand new tracks from Mike D<\/a>, a run of small-venue shows, and the exciting news of an upcoming album, a lot of attention has been put on the fact that he\u2019s the first Beastie Boy to go solo after the 2012 death of Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch. But, as he admitted in a June 2026 interview with NME<\/a><\/em>, that wasn\u2019t even a milestone he was aware of.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be honest, there was no race to the finish line on that one!\u201d he said when asked if he felt any pressure. \u201cI\u2019m still thankfully good friends with Ad-Rock and he\u2019s not racing me on this one. It wasn\u2019t until I had to sit down and do the first interview that I realized that was a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Mike D publicly revealed his solo endeavor around May, after making a surprise appearance on stage with his two sons. Davis and Skyler Diamond make up the lo-fi\/indie\/hip-hop duo Very Nice Person, and their father often collaborates. But there hadn\u2019t been a Beastie Boy on any track since 2012. <\/p>\n That changed once Mike D released two singles in May, \u201cSwitch Up\u201d and \u201cWhat We Got\u201d. After that, he played two shows in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, then announced his first solo U.K. tour. He spoke of booking small, independent, and often surprising venues across the pond as a way to support the diminished grassroots music scene in the U.K.<\/p>\n After the Beastie Boys disbanded following the loss of MCA, Mike D busied himself with some producing for other artists. But mostly, he said, being a parent was his main focus. Later, working on The Beastie Boys Book<\/em> with Adam \u201cAd-Rock\u201d Horovitz took priority for a bit.<\/p>\n \u201cWe so much loved all three of us being in a band with each other for Beastie Boys,\u201d said Mike D of Yauch and Horovitz. \u201cWhen Yauch died, it was an extremely sad time for me so making music was just not on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n It was a long time before he got back to making his own music. But there\u2019s nothing like a home studio and two sons in a band to get the creative juices flowing again.<\/p>\n \u201cI took a minute where I was watching my kids make music for a bit, which was an interesting thing as I was also working on producing records for other artists. That was fun and everything,\u201d he admitted, \u201cbut for myself I got to a place where I was feeling the most about what I was producing when bands were more executing my ideas. I was like, \u2018What the f\u2014k am I doing? Bands shouldn\u2019t be doing my ideas, they should be making their own ideas and I should be making my own ideas\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n So Mike D got back into making his own ideas. But the new singles aren\u2019t the last we\u2019ll hear of those ideas, and he revealed that there\u2019s a new album on the way. His sons apparently helped a lot, he explained, calling them \u201cmy best editors.\u201d He alluded to their frankness coming from the fact that he\u2019s just Dad, and not Former Beastie Boy Mike D.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way I describe the record is that musically it\u2019s still pretty immature, and lyrically it\u2019s a little bit more mature,\u201d he said of the forthcoming album. \u201cI just feel like there\u2019s more of the things I had to tap into. I had to learn how to feel all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vice.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With brand new tracks from Mike D, a run of small-venue shows, and the exciting news of an upcoming album, a lot of attention has been put on the fact that he\u2019s the first Beastie Boy to go solo after the 2012 death of Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch. 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