What popular music needs right now...

...is more men like this:

"I want to say a little something
that's long overdue/
The disrespect to women
has got to be through/
To all the mothers and sisters
and the wives and friends/
I want to offer my love and respect to the end."

- Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys

Yauch, with his daughter Tenzin Losel

"I think every person has the ability to effect change... Every one of us affects the world constantly through our actions... through our every thought, our every word, the way that we interact with other people we're constantly affecting the world."

- Adam Yauch

1964 - 2012

RIP, MCA. You have my love and respect, always.