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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.
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In the same year, Simmons formed Russell Simmons Music Group, or RSMG, a record label founded as a joint venture with Universal Music's Island Def Jam Music Group. [25] Tony Austin was the label's president. [26] [27] Simmons and his brothers founded the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation in 1995.
One evening, in Smith's home studio in Queens, Run and D persuaded Larry and Russell [Simmons] to let them have a chance to make a demo. Russell agreed; taking Run's $100 rap and extensive additional lines penned by the prolific DMC, Russell doled it out line by line between the two vocalists, who sprayed their lyrics over the stark beat onto tape.
Raising Hell was voted fifth best album of 1986 in the Pazz & Jop poll of American critics nationwide, published by The Village Voice. [22] Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, wrote in a contemporary review: "Without benefit of a 'Rock Box' or 'King of Rock,' this is [Run-D.M.C.'s] most uncompromising and compelling album, all hard beats and declaiming voices."
The song is considered one of the seminal rap music songs, [4] [5] making it one of two songs by the group included on the Profile Records anthology album. [4] The song is included in most of Run-D.M.C.'s compilation albums, including Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983–1991 , Greatest Hits , [ 1 ] Ultimate Run-D.M.C. , The Best of Run-DMC ...
King of Rock is the second studio album by American hip hop group Run-D.M.C., released on January 21, 1985, by Profile Records. The album was produced by Russell Simmons and Larry Smith . King of Rock became the first rap album to be released on CD , and was the third rap album to be certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of ...
Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture Waist Deep is the soundtrack to Vondie Curtis-Hall's 2006 film Waist Deep. It was released on June 13, 2006 via Russell Simmons Music Group . Track listing