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Run-DMC performed at the legendary Live Aid benefit shortly after Rock Box was released. In late-1985, Run-DMC were featured in the hip hop film Krush Groove, a fictionalized retelling of Russell Simmons' rise as a hip hop entrepreneur and his struggles to get his own label, Def Jam Recordings, off the ground. [17]
Run-D.M.C. is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Run-D.M.C., released on March 27, 1984, by Profile Records, and re-issued by Arista Records. The album was primarily produced by Russell Simmons and Larry Smith. The album was considered groundbreaking for its time, presenting a tougher, more hardcore form of rap. The album's sparse ...
"It's Like That" was first released in 1983 backed with the track "Sucker M.C.'s".The release marked the start of Run-D.M.C.'s career and is widely regarded as ushering in a new school of hip hop artists with a street image and an abrasive, minimalist sound that marked them out from their predecessors.
Run-DMC – “It’s Like That” (1983) A key part of recorded hip-hop’s early years of relying heavily on session musicians for backing tracks, bassist Larry Smith played on early ‘80s ...
For those who were in the Bronx on August 11, 2023, the 50th birthday celebration of hip-hop culminated with a star-studded concert at Yankee Stadium, where the surviving members of Run DMC ...
As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at 7. From Queens, New York, here are Run-DMC. Hip-hop had to go through rock in ...
It was released as the second single from the album in 1985. The song was released as a 12" single and the B-side of the UK pressing also featured the tracks "Sucker MC's" (originally from the album Run-D.M.C.) and "Darryl and Joe (Krush-Groove 3)" (also from King of Rock). [1]
Darryl "DMC" McDaniels could relate to the pressures facing one of rock's biggest stars. While Run-DMC was enjoying their time at the height of hip-hop in the late '80s, a new group was coming up ...