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Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz and Michael 'Mike D' Diamond came out to New York City's Lower East Side for the official renaming of the corner of Ludlow and Rivington on Saturday. Hundreds of fans were there to celebrate the revealing of Beastie Boys Square, the street corner made famous on the iconic cover of their 1989 album Paul's Boutique . The event also coincided with the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - I have the honor to introduce
00:15 the two coolest cats ever,
00:17 Elf, Ralph, and Mike.
00:21 (crowd cheering)
00:27 - I'll be remiss, I just gotta really thank Adam Yauk,
00:32 MCA.
00:33 (crowd cheering)
00:35 - MCA, MCA, MCA, MCA, MCA, MCA.
00:39 - He was our brother on this journey that we all,
00:47 this amazing journey we all got to go through.
00:51 Anyway, just thank you everybody so much.
00:54 Just a lot of love.
00:55 I wanna say thank you to everybody for all the love
00:58 that you've just given and put out there for Adam Yauk.
01:02 It really, it's for MCA day and for just all the love
01:06 you've shown for Adam Yauk is really,
01:09 it means a lot to us, so thank you.
01:12 - Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
01:14 five, four, three, two, one.
01:18 (crowd cheering)
01:23 (upbeat music)
01:26 (audience cheering)

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