reports, an attempt to name the area in the trio's honor was shot down in a 24-to-1 vote in 2014, but later approved by the New York City Council
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Horovitz — who called the experience "f---ing awesome" — also took a moment to thank council members and the city of New York "for teaching us what to look at, what to listen to, what to wear, how to love, how to live." Diamond, 57, told the crowd Saturday that the honor was a "multiyear battle," as he saluted the specific neighborhood in New York for being a "cool place that we wanted to go and hang out."
“The second we heard rap music, it was so revolutionary and so exciting, the fact that we somehow got to go from being literally kids listening to every hip-hop record, mixtape, song we could possibly try to memorize every word, thinking that we’d be able to actually make a rap record, and go on to make those rap records, and now here we are all those years later, thank you so much for everything," he said,...