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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why It Took the Beastie Boys’ Mike D 15 Years to Finally Make His 1st Solo Album Thank You · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Mike D, the guy who made up one third of
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  Speaker 2: the trailblazing hip hop group, the Beastie Boys, is back
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  Speaker 2: in the game with Thank You, his first ever solo album,
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  Speaker 2: a full 15 years after the last Beastie Boys release.
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  Speaker 3: Such a long time for such a successful artist to
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  Speaker 3: not release a single note of music. And he admits
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  Speaker 3: to NPR it was because of immense grief.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, losing his Beastie Boys bandmate MCA, who died of
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  Speaker 4: cancer back in 2012, was incredibly hard on Mike and
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  Speaker 4: impacted his ability to find any joy in making music.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever he opened his computer to try to work on music,
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  Speaker 2: because it was still what he did, how he defined himself,
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  Speaker 2: he would be overcome with true sadness.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike D was grieving not only someone that he
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  Speaker 3: loved so much, but also their entire identity that they
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  Speaker 3: had created together.
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  Speaker 4: But what did bring him back to the studio was
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  Speaker 4: helping him rediscover the joy was working with two other
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  Speaker 4: people that he loves with.
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  Speaker 1: All his heart, his kids.
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  Speaker 2: His two sons, Davis and Skyler, who he calls brilliant
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  Speaker 2: musicians in their own right, helped produce the project and
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  Speaker 2: simply made music fun again. So Mike D's album, Thank You,
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  Speaker 2: it's out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.