"From hardcore punk to rare groove and funk, the Beastie Boys have managed to fuse together numerous types of music to create their own inimitable style and gain worldwide critical acclaim as well as huge chart-busting hits. The Lowdown tells the full story of this extraordinary group and includes interviews with all the Boys, audio biography telling it the way it happened and is completed with booklets, poster and rare photographs to make for a future collector's item of the first order and a complete document of the music and career of one the finest hip-hop acts of the past 25 years."