<< Is there even a comparison? The Beastie Boys have been around for well over 10 years!
The only other one I would add to that, though, would be House of Pain. >>
Beastie Boys have been 'round for ~20yrs.
<< << Well, I like P.O.D. and Korn way better than anything mentioned herein. But they probably don't "count" because they can do more than rap. >>
Korn is good, but I would classify them as punk/industrial >>
Korn, bizkit, (basically any band that has the rap/metal mix) is usually defined as "nu metal" although some people call it "rapcore." And in 10yrs we'll all make fun of them the same way we make fun of Poison today. To Korn's credit though, they boot strapped on their first album. No/little radio air play but they still managed to get a huge following behind that album. Their genre became Mtv's b|tch and they (and bizkit) became Mtv's poster boys for acceptable pop rebellion.
Lethal