According to Pitchfork, a previously unreleased video for “Too Many Rappers” featuring Nas from the Beastie Boys final album, The Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, was recently discovered on the website of video editor Neal Usatin.
Beastie Boys message board member “Eoin MCL” posted their discovery yesterday afternoon:
“While on a bus journey watching the credits of the “Don’t Play No Game” video on my iPad I spotted the name Neal Usatin. Recognising it from his previous work on Oscilloscope Labs projects I Googled the name to see what else he had worked on. During my digging on his website ‘sweetcutz.com’ I found his online résumé which curiously listed a credit on the unreleased “Too Many Rappers” video, directed by Roman Coppola. Further digging unearthed the treasure we have been looking for these past few years, thought by some to not even exist.”
The video appears to have been filmed around the time of the Beastie Boys appearance at Bonnaroo in 2009. The festival was the group’s final performance before the death of Adam Yauch in May 2012.
