Frat Rap Takes Over New York Beastie Boys Square

The Beastie Boys will finally be honored through a Manhattan corner that’s been instrumental in their careers. Which is pretty amazing accomplishment even for a bunch of upper-middle-class, never-been-battled punk rockers in leather jackets and skinny jeans bellowing knowingly obnoxious, semi-ironic lyrics and the fact that these three clownish white Jewish kids accidentally invented what would be known as frat-rap After nine long years of trying The New York City Council has voted to officially bestow the name “Beastie Boys Square” upon the intersection of Ludlow Street and Rivington Street in New York City The intersection, at Ludlow Street and Rivington Street in NYC, will be familiar to fans of the influential rap trio for a pretty simple reason: It’s the intersection pictured in the cover photo of the group’s 1989 sophomore album, Paul’s Boutique. And yes, it took a while for the second album to grown on us, but it did eventually make its way to double platinum status by 1999 In 201