Eighteen months after getting diagnosed with cancer, Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch has been given a clean bill of health — and the hip-hop icons are forging ahead with their comeback album
Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2, due out this Spring.
"[It's] a good thing," the Beasties' Mike D told the
BBC of Yauch overcoming his health battle. "We're really happy about it." Despite the news, the group is still mulling over plans to tour: "We're still going to have to see how [Yauch] is doing."
Before the group drops their new album, they will finish making a music video — which D says will be more of mini-movie. "It's not a even a video, it's a film-eo," he said. "A cinematic, short film."
Expect the "film-eo" to be a remake of the group's 1986 classic "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)," which Yauch is slated to premiere at Sundance this month. The short film — titled
Fight For Your Right Revisited — features an all-star cast of actors, including Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Jack Black. According to the
Sundance website, the movie is subtitled: "After the boys leave the party…"
As
SPIN previously reported, Beastie Boys announced plans to shelve
Hot Sauce Committee, Part 1 and release
Part 2 instead — although the only real difference is the title.
Part 2 will feature the tracklisting that was originally slated for
Part 1. As Yauch explained, "Strange but true, the final sequence for
Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2 works best with all its songs replaced by the 16 tracks we originally had lined up in pretty much the same order we had them in for
Hot Sauce Committee, Part 1. So we've come full circle."
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