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The music video for the single "Rock Box" was the first ever hip hop music video to be broadcast on MTV and received heavy rotation from the channel. The song was the group's most popular hit at that point and the album was certified platinum. Run-DMC performed at the legendary Live Aid benefit shortly after Rock Box was released.
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 ...
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."
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.
A comprehensive list of albums, singles and chart positions of Run-DMC, an American hip hop group. See their studio, live and compilation albums, as well as their hit singles and collaborations with other artists.
Learn about the first hip hop song to feature a brand endorsement deal, written by Run-D.M.C. members and produced by Rick Rubin. The song praises Adidas footwear and reached the charts in 1986 and 2000.
Learn about the history and impact of "It's Like That", a hip hop song by Run-D.M.C. released in 1983 and remixed by Jason Nevins in 1997. The Nevins version was a global hit and broke the Spice Girls' record in the UK.
The hook of the song ("Whose house?/Run's House") is quoted by Loki in the Kevin Smith film Dogma. [1]The song is also featured in Smith's film Chasing Amy. [2] The hook has also been adapted into the catchphrase of American professional wrestler Swerve Strickland, who presents a call and response to the crowd: When he asks "Whose house?", the audience responds with "Swerve's house". [3]