Run DMC

   
Artist: Run DMC

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   Dance
   Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Back from Hell

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 16


   
 Raising Hell

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 17


   
 Run Dmc: Remastered

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Greatest Hits

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 19


   
 High Profile-The Original Rhymes CD

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 20


   
 Crown Royal

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Down With the King

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 15

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More than whatever other hip-hop chemical group, Run-D.M.C. are creditworthy for the profound and style of the music. As the number one hard-core rap getup, the trio lay out the sound and style for the next decade of pat. With their free beat generation and excursions into heavy alloy samples, the triplet were tougher and more baleful than their predecessors Grandmaster Flash and Whodini. In the process, they open the door for both the politicized blame of Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions, as comfortably as the hedonic gangsta fantasies of N.W.A. At the same time, Run-D.M.C. helped move rap from a singles-oriented literary genre to an album-oriented one -- they were the first rap artist to construct full-fledged albums, not scarce collections with two singles and a lot of filler. By the end of the '80s, Run-D.M.C. had been overtaken by the groups they had spawned, only they continued to perform to a consecrated following well into the '90s.


All trine members of Run-D.M.C. were natives of the bourgeoisie New York borough Hollis, Queens. Run (born Joseph Simmons, November 14, 1964) was the brother of Russell Simmons, wHO formed the rap music management company Rush Productions in the other '80s; by the mid-'80s, Russell had formed the pioneering phonograph record label Def Jam with Rick Rubin. Russell encouraged his brother Joey and his quaker Darryl McDaniels (born May 31, 1964) to flesh a rap duette. The couple of friends did just that, adopting the name calling Run and D.M.C., severally. After they graduated from high school in 1982, the copulate enlisted their supporter Jason Mizell (born January 21, 1965) to scratch line turntables; Mizell adoptive the stage name Jam Master Jay.


In 1983, Run-D.M.C. released their outset single, "It's Like That"/"Sucker M.C.'s," on Profile Records. The single sounded wish no other rap at the meter -- it was surplus, blunt, and adept, with hard beat generation and potent, literate, daring vocals, where Run and D.M.C.'s vocals overlapped, as they ruined each other's lines. It was the outset "fresh school" rap recording. "It's Like That" became a Top 20 R&B run into, as did the group's second single, "Hard Times"/"Jam Master Jay." Two other hit R&B singles followed in early 1984 -- "Rock Box" and "30 Days" -- before the group's eponymous debut appeared.


By the prison term of their second gear album, 1985's King of Rock, Run-D.M.C. had get the most popular and influential rappers in America, already spawning a number of imitators. As the Billie Jean Moffitt King of Rock title suggests, the group were break down the barriers between stone & roll out and pat, rapping over heavy metallic element records and thick, heavy barrel loops. Besides releasing the King of Rock record album and marking the R&B hits "Billie Jean Moffitt King of Rock," "You Talk Too Much," and "Can buoy You Rock It Like This" in 1985, the mathematical group also appeared in the strike pic Krush Groove, which likewise featured Kurtis Blow, the Beastie Boys, and the Fat Boys.


Run-D.M.C.'s nuclear fusion reaction of rock 'n' roll and strike stone-broke into the mainstream with their third album, 1986's Raising Hell. The record album was preceded by the Top Ten R&B single "My Adidas," which go under the stage for the group's biggest run into individual, a cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way." Recorded with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, "Walk This Way" was the first base rap music record to appeal to both bikers and rappers, as evidenced by its bill spatial relation of number four-spot on the pop out charts. In the waken of the winner of "Walk This Way," Elevation Hell became the first base strike album to attain number one on the R&B charts, to chart in the pop Top Ten, and to go platinum, and Run-D.M.C. were the first base strike work to received airplay on MTV -- they were the first base rappers to cross over into the pop mainstream. Lift Hell also spawned the hit singles "You Be Illin'" and "It's Tricky."


Run-D.M.C. washed-out most of 1987 recording Tougher Than Leather, their follow-up to Rearing Hell. Tougher Than Leather was accompanied by a moving picture of the same name. Starring Run-D.M.C., the film was an tender lampoon of '70s blaxploitation films. Although Run-D.M.C. had been at the altitude of their popularity when they were recording and motion-picture photography Tougher Than Leather, by the time the propose was released, the rap world had changed. Most of the rap audience wanted to hear hard-core political rappers like Public Enemy, not crosswalk artists like Run-D.M.C. Consequently, the film bombed and the album merely went atomic number 78, failing to breed any pregnant strike singles.


Deuce old age after Tougher Than Leather, Run-D.M.C. returned with Back From Hell, which became their first base album not to go atomic number 78. Following its handout, both Run and D.M.C. suffered personal problems as McDaniels suffered a bust of alcoholism and Simmons was accused of rapine. After McDaniels sobered up and the charges against Simmons were fired, both of the rappers became born-again Christians, touting their religious conversion on the 1993 album Down With the King. Featuring node appearances and production assistance from artists as diverse as Public Enemy, EPMD, Naughty by Nature, A Tribe Called Quest, Neneh Cherry, Pete Rock, and KRS-One, Down With the King became the comeback Run-D.M.C. needed. The title track became a Top Ten R&B reach and the album went amber, peaking at number 21. Although they were no longer rap music innovators, the success of Down With the King proved that Run-D.M.C. were still well-thought-of pioneers.


Subsequently a long studio apartment hiatus, the triplet returned in early 2000 with Treetop Royal. The album did little to tot to their peaked record gross revenue, simply the following promotional efforts proverb them join Aerosmith and Kid Rock for a blockbuster performance on MTV. By 2002, the handout of two greatest-hits albums prompted a tour with Aerosmith that proverb them journey the U.S., constantly playing "Walk This Way" to conversion 'tween their sets. Sadly, only weeks after the end of the tour, Jam Master Jay was mindlessly murdered in a studio apartment academic session in Queens. Only 37 age older, the news of his passing spread speedy and hip-hop luminaries like Big Daddy Kane and Funkmaster Flex took the time to pay tribute to him on New York radio stations of the Cross. Possibly the most visible DJ in the history of rap, his death was truly the end of an era and unluckily perpetuated the cycle of violence that has haunted the genre since the late '80s.





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