The most successful, longest running white boy trio of rappers are back to liven up hip-hop music again! With years in the making, plus a few unforeseen setbacks, the Beastie Boys’ Hot Sauce Committee Part II (What? No part one? We’ll get to that shortly) finally hits the streets on May 3rd. In anticipation, we at COED decided to give all the newbie fans and diehard old schoolers alike a short and sweet hip-hop timeline of all things Beastie Boys. Some things you know… and plenty of little tidbits you probably didn’t.

Beastie Boys fans (aka, everybody), get excited: the reissue of their ’92 classic, Check Your Head is now available! The re-release includes 36 remastered tracks, including 16 B-sides and rare tracks, and is available in a 4 vinyl set, Ecopack double CD and a 2 vinyl set (as well as MP3 format)…