The Beastie Boys are currently working on the follow-up to 2007's The Mix-Up. The band offered up the following information in regards to the new album:
We're actually in the middle of recording it right now. It's a lot of vocals, a lot of words -- very wordy. And it's political, depending on what you call political. You know, if toilet talk and fart jokes are political, which they can be, in that sense yeah, very.