Mike D Recalls Telling Ad-Rock He Was Making a Solo Album: “It Was Almost Like a Relationship”

Mike D may have spent decades making records with Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, so telling his Beastie Boys comrade that he was making one without him wasn’t just any regular conversation. The hip-hop and punk veteran just released his debut solo album, Thank You. In a new CONSEQUENCE cover story, he recalled waiting till he was fully committed to it before breaking the news to his longtime friend and collaborator. Find Mike D Tickets “There was a point in making the record that I realized I was enough into it and really committed to not only making it but probably releasing it that I had to call Adam and tell him,” he remembered. “It’s almost like I was calling [and] telling him I was in a relationship or something. I guess I was — I was in a relationship with making a record.” Fortunately, Ad-Rock took the news about as well as Mike D could have hoped. “He couldn’t have been sweeter, if I’m honest,” he said. “He was just very supportive, and then we also joked around and he said, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do. I’m playing some drums.’ So it was nice. I’m glad that we had that conversation.” Still, he never considered asking his former bandmate to make a gues...