Now, 46-year-old Yauch – who’s been battling cancerous parotid gland and lymph nodes – has revealed that most of the songs from the planned Part 1 LP have made their way onto Part 2... meaning that, actually, the only real difference between two albums is the title’s digit. In an email missive to fans, the “Pass The Mic” MC clarified the album’s tracklisting, revealing they can expect to hear new collaborations with the likes of Nas and Santigold. 

“I know it’s weird and confusing,” Yauch wrote, “but at least we can say unequivocally that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out on time, which is more than I can say about Part 1, and really is all that matters in the end. We just kept working and working on various sequences for part 2, and after a year and half of spending days on end in the sequencing room trying out every possible combination, it finally became clear that this was the only way to make it work. Strange but true, the final sequence for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 works best with all its songs replaced by the 16 tracks we originally had lined up in pretty much the same order we had them in for Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. So we’ve come full circle.”

With over 40 million albums sold throughout their career, the Beastie Boys’ last release was the instrumental LP The Mix-Up, their seventh longplayer, which came out three years ago. 

The tracklisting for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is:

“Tadlock’s Glasses”, “B-Boys In The Cut”, “Make Some Noise”, “Nonstop Disco Powerpack”, “OK”, “Too Many Rappers” (featuring Nas), “Say It”, “The Bill Harper Collection”, “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” (featuring Santigold), “Long Burn The Fire”, “Funky Donkey”, “Lee Majors Come Again”, “Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament”, “Pop Your Balloon”, “Crazy Ass Shit”, “Here’s A Little Something For Ya”.