Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Krush Groove All Stars (Fat Boys, Run DMC, Sheila E. And Kurtis Blow) music video Krush Groovin'
Run DMC music video Run's House
Run DMC music video Mary, Mary
Run DMC music video King Of Rock
Run DMC music video Faces
Run DMC music video What's It All About
H.E.A.L. (Human Education Against Lies) (Harmony, Kid Capri, Big Daddy Kane, Freddie Foxxx, Mc Lyte, Queen Latifah, Krs-One, Ms. Melodie, Run DMC) music video Heal Yourself
Run DMC music video Beats To The Rhyme
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That
Run DMC Feat. Jagged Edge music video Let's Stay Together (Together Forever)
Run DMC music video Mary, Mary
Run DMC music video Run's House
Run DMC music video Christmas In Hollis
Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Run DMC music video You Be Illin'
Run DMC music video Down With The King
Run DMC music video You Talk Too Much
Run DMC music video Mary, Mary
Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Run DMC music video Rock Box
Run DMC music video Run's House
Run DMC music video Christmas In Hollis
Run DMC music video Rock Box
Run DMC music video What's It All About
Run DMC music video Ohh, Watcha Gonna Do
Run DMC music video Down With The King
Run DMC Feat. Steven Jenkins music video Rock Show
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC music video Let's Stay Together
Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That (Jason's Battle Blaster)
Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Tricky (Remix)
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That
Run DMC music video You Talk Too Much
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC music video Run's House
Run DMC - Bar-Kays - Dazz Band music video It's Tricky - Freakshow On The Dance Floor - Let It Whip
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That
Run DMC music video King Of Rock
Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Run DMC music video Down With The King
Run DMC music video You Talk Too Much
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC music video King Of Rock
Run DMC music video What's It All About
Run DMC music video Run's House
Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That
Run DMC music video Mary, Mary
Run DMC music video Pause
Run DMC music video It's Tricky (Krazytoons Remix)
Run DMC music video Christmas In Hollis
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Run DMC music video Down With The King
Run DMC music video King Of Rock
Run DMC music video Christmas In Hollis
Run DMC music video Rock Box
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins music video It's Like That
Run DMC Feat. Aerosmith music video Walk This Way
Run DMC music video Ghostbusters Rap
Run DMC music video It's Tricky
Run-D.M.C. was a hip hop group founded by the late Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell that included Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels. The group had an enormous impact on the development of hip hop through the 1980s and is credited with breaking hip hop into mainstream music. The three members of Run-D.M.C. grew up in Hollis, Queens, New York, USA.
The band signed a record deal with Profile Records in 1983, and Run’s older brother, Russell “Rush” Simmons, signed Run-D.M.C. to his newly formed management company Rush Productions that same year. On their first major United States tour, the group set new fads by performing dressed in baggy black clothing, Adidas Sneakers (always with shoelaces removed), and Fedora hats.
Their mainstream success continued as the group performed at the famous Live Aid concert in 1985, and their 1986 album ‘’Raising Hell’’ became the highest-selling rap album in history (this record was later broken as rap gained more popularity with artists like Notorious B.I.G. and Eminem), reaching number 3 on the ‘’Billboard magazine’’ album charts and selling over 3 million copies. The album featured the famous cover version of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way”, a rap-rock collaboration performed with Aerosmith members Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. The song was the first hip-hop track to make the Top 10 on Billboard’s singles charts.
Run-D.M.C. were renowned for breaking new ground in rap music. “It’s Like That” and “Sucker MC’s” (1983) were the first hip hop tracks that relied on electronic beats and nothing else. “Peter Piper” (1986) was the first rap record in which the DJ cut up a record (in this case, “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” by jazz musician Bob James. Run-D.M.C. became the first rap act with a platinum album and multi-platinum album, as well as the first rappers to appear on the cover of ‘’Rolling Stone’’ magazine, to receive a Grammy nomination and to appear on Saturday Night Live] and American Bandstand.
After a period of lackluster commercial success after the ‘’Raising Hell’’ album, the group made a comeback in 1993 with their album ‘’Down With the King’‘, which made Billboard’s Top 10 for album and the Pete Rock assisted single “Down With the King”.
Jam-Master Jay was shot and killed in October 2002, leading Run-D.M.C. to announce their retirement.
