Beastie Boys star Mike D regularly broke down in tears during the recording sessions for the band's latest album because the drugs he was taking for painful dental work left him feeling "angry and angsty".
The rap trio released its new album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two last week (03May11) after a two-year delay, prompted by band member Adam 'MCA' Yauch's cancer diagnosis.
But he wasn't the only one suffering during the recording process - Mike D, real name Michael Diamond, has revealed he was in a lot of pain while making the record and the sessions were delayed by his emotional outbursts.
He tells Britain's NME magazine, "Making this album proved difficult because I kept breaking down in tears... It ended up where I couldn't really do anything but cry. I was weeping like a baby. We had to start documenting it all and sending the proof to our manager to show her why we still had no songs on tape."
But his bandmate Yauch insists Mike D's dental drugs actually helped the recording process, adding, "Mike's ongoing dental work was a major asset. He was on steroids, which was (sic) making him all steroidy (sic), angry and angsty. He was just screaming on the record.
"When he'd come back from the dentist, his mouth would be all numb... The numbness made his tongue marginally fatter, so (it) was causing him to lisp a tiny bit. That lisp is on the record."