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KRS-One Apologizes To Ad-Rock For Song That Said He’d Died

NEW YORK – OCTOBER 04: Rapper KRS-ONE poses in the press room at the 4th Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors ceremony at the Hammerstein Ballroom on October 4, 2007 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

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KRS-One accidentally memorialized the wrong Beastie Boy named Adam on "Hip Hop Speaks From Heaven," a song off of his new album The World Is MIND that pays tribute to dead rappers: "Like a late fog in the mist/ I see King Ad-Rock / And rest in peace Nate Dogg/ Their names and their natures will last." While that's all very touching, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz is still very much alive, acting in movies and designing ugly shoes for a good cause, and KRS-One actually meant to pay tribute to Adam "MCA" Yauch, who died of cancer in 2012. Now, KRS-One has extended an official apology to Ad-Rock for saying that he died, promising to redo the song and pull the original version off of the digital release:

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— KRS-One (@IAmKRSOne) May 13, 2017

KRS-One better not have cursed Ad-Rock!

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