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Adorable Kids Pay Tribute To MCA By Recreating Beastie Boys "Sabotage" Video
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Jen Carlson
Published May 15, 2012
Modified May 15, 2012
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A Portland-based filmmaker and father of two, James Winters, got his kids and his nephew to reenact the Beastie Boys' video for "Sabotage" as a tribute to Adam "MCA" Yauch, who succumbed to cancer on May 4th. This is one of the more adorable tributes created so far (but our favorite is still the mural in Brooklyn), so we won't even question why they felt the need to go off-script and put a clown in it.
So when is the PS 22 chorus on Staten Island going to pay tribute?
Below you can watch the real video, and the all LEGO version:
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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