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"My Adidas" is the first single from Run–D.M.C.'s third album Raising Hell. It is about Adidas footwear. [1] Released in 1986, the song was written by two of the members, Joseph "DJ Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and was produced by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons.
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."
Run-DMC is the first rap act to have reached a number of major accomplishments: [44] Adidas sneakers with the Run-DMC logo. A No. 1 R&B charting hip hop album; The second hip hop act to appear on American Bandstand (the Sugar Hill Gang appeared first on the program in 1981) The first hip hop act to chart in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 ...
The following is a comprehensive discography of Run-DMC, an American hip hop group. Run-D.M.C. have had hit singles across the globe from Australia and New Zealand to Belgium and Ireland. Their biggest hit outside of the US was the Jason Nevins remix of "It's Like That".
"Hit It Run" – 3:11 "It's Tricky" – 3:04 "Peter Piper" – 3:23 "It's Like That" – 4:51 "Raising Hell" – 5:33 "My Adidas" – 2:49 "Sucker M.C.'s (Krush Groove 1)" – 3:11 "Mary, Mary" – 3:14 "Here We Go" (Live at the Fun House) – 4:06 "Beats to the Rhyme" – 2:42 "Down with the King" – 5:04 "It's Like That" (Run-DMC vs. Jason ...
Jason William Mizell (January 21, 1965 – October 30, 2002), better known by his stage name Jam Master Jay, was an American musician, actor, record producer and DJ.He was the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-DMC.
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 ...
Rolling Stone writer Mark Kemp remarked, "'It's Tricky' cribs the guitar part from the Knack's 'My Sharona,' a fatuous New Wave song, and turns it into vital street art." [8] Pitchfork ' s Tom Breihan claimed, "Run and DMC had also stepped their rap game up; "It's Tricky" is basically as good as the two of them ever got, spitting quick-tongue witticisms and yelling booming threats with equal ...