Rolling Stone Menu Beastie Boys’ Mike D on Biz Markie: ‘Not Just a Rapper, But a True Entertainer’
“Once, he was doing a DJ set opening up for us, and the power suddenly cut out,” D remembers of the “Just a Friend” rapper, who died Friday. “He didn’t miss a beat, human beatboxing and singing”
By Misha Vladimirskiy/butchershopcreative.com
Beastie Boys and Biz Markie were both New York hip-hop pioneers, so it’s natural they spent a lot of time together. The two artists often shared a stage, including a 1988 Madison Square Garden show where Biz performed an inimitable version of Elton John’s “Bennie and The Jets.” (The song later ended up on the Beasties’ Sounds of Science
Beastie Boys Mike D on Biz Markie: Not Just a Rapper, But a True Entertainer
Beastie Boys Mike D on Biz Markie: Not Just a Rapper, But a True Entertainer Once, he was doing a DJ set opening up for us, and the power suddenly cut out, D remembers of the Just a Friend rapper, who died Friday. He didn t miss a beat, human beatboxing and singing
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Beastie Boys and Biz Markie were both New York hip-hop pioneers, so it’s natural they spent a lot of time together. The two artists often shared a stage, including a 1988 Madison Square Garden show where Biz performed an inimitable version of Elton John’s “Bennie and The Jets.” (That version later ended up on the Beasties’ Sounds of Science
OtterTune to compete with Oracle automation, but also for open source databases
Lindsay Clark Fri 14 May 2021 // 10:45 UTC Share
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A university spin-out startup has announced a private beta of an automated database tuning service which its founder claims can double the performance or halve the cost of the popular AWS Relational Database Service.
Among its marketing hype, though, is the, erm, novel approach of launching a hip-hop album of beats and screeching otters. More of that later.
Originating from a project at Carnegie Mellon Database Group, OtterTune is based on the idea you can use machine learning to identify the optimal setting for database parameter knobs, a task well beyond most developers and something even seasoned DBAs struggle with, given the number of databases on the market that they might be required to manage.