Friday, August 27, 2010
Video: DMC Tours His Hollis Queens Hometown
"The latest video from The Wall Street Journals, WalkAbout NY series shows DMC giving a tour of his old Hollis neighborhood explaining how he and his boys got into rap and taking us into the actual alley where it all got started."
[via The Couch Sessions]
Labels: Old School Hip Hop, Run DMC
Sunday, December 13, 2009
More from the BlakRoc "Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)" Crew, Part II
Jim Jones feat. Rev Run - "Wishing On A Sucker MC" [usershare mp3 links: stream | download]
So basic but so good....
Jim Jones & Maino - “Tryna Win” [yousendit mp3 download link] -
This sounds a bit like "Hate It or Love It" by Game & 50 but it's FIYA! Is from a project?? Why would you just throw a good-ass record like this out there with no purpose. *Smh*.... the industry stays shooting theyself in the foot....
[via Semtex and Splash via Rap Radar]
Friday, October 30, 2009
RIP Jam Master Jay (Jan 21, 1965 – Oct 30, 2002)
RIP to one of the greatest DJ's of all time. Solve his murder already!
LL Cool J Remembers JMJ. [RapRadar]
RIP Jam Master Jay. [Pleasedontstare.com <--- they're back!]
Aquq Boogie remembers Jam Master Jay. [Slang Rap Demo]
The Unauthorized Biography of Run-DMC! [CityonmyBack.com]
Labels: Jam Master Jay, Run DMC
Monday, October 26, 2009
Video: Vintage Run DMC Interview on BBC
Essential! Back in the day, me and my friends wanted those Def Jam jackets SO bad!
[via Oh word]
Labels: Run DMC
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
New Documentary: 2 Turntables And A Microphone: The Life and Death of Jam Master Jay (Trailer)
Featuring interviews with Rev. Run, 50 Cent, Russell Simmons, Common, Young Jeezy, Kid Rock, Ja Rule, Sticky Fingeaz, Bill Adler and assorted other friends & family. Shout to my dude, Garnet Reid too.
[via Rap Radar]
Labels: Jam Master Jay, Movies, Run DMC
Monday, April 20, 2009
Rampage - "I Run D's Mc's"
Tribute to arguably the greatest rap group of all time by Busta's cuz and former Flipmode Squad Lieutenant Produced by DJ Rob Dinero & DJ Excel NYC:
Rampage - "I Run D's Mc's" [Limelinx mp3 stream/download link via Vimeo]
Related: Pete Rock, producer of Run DMC's (creative) hip hop swan song "Down With the King", is at the Hudson Hotel TONIGHT.
Online:
Rampage - MySpace | Twitter
Labels: Busta Rhymes, DJ Excel, DJ Rob Dinero, Rampage, Run DMC
Sunday, April 05, 2009
This Tuesday in DC: Versus Series V.7 - LL Cool J vs. Run DMC
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Related:
Next Saturday (April 11) KeiStar Productions presents SOUL SLAM (XIII): Prince vs. Michael Jackson. Click here for details and here for tickets.
Labels: LL Cool J, Michael Jackson, Prince, Run DMC
Friday, March 27, 2009
Video: Run-DMC on being inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame
Run-DMC are the Greatest Hip Hop duo* of all time!
The 2009 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony of hip hop legends, Run DMC goes down Saturday April 4th at 9PM/8C on Fuse TV. Click here for more info.
* You see how I qualified that descriptor to avoid any extended debates (Will it work though? Outkast, EPMD, UGK and Gangstarr zealots: start your engines!)
Labels: Hall of Fame, Run DMC
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Video: Damani - "My Adidas"
I don't know nathan about this dude but I like this Run DMC remake he did. [via Flawless Hustle]
Friday, February 06, 2009
The Ecko x Marco Run-DMC Hollis Crew 25th Anniversary T-Shirt
Ecko Unlimited and Marco Art have teamed up to produce a limited edition shirt to commemorate Run-DMC's Quarter Century anniversary. And starting today until Sunday, February 8th, it (and all other t-shirts brands on ShopEcko.com) will be on sale for $12.99. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Run-DMC Hollis Crew 25th Anniversary T-Shirt benefit the Jam Master Jay Foundation.
Click here to buy it.
Online:
Jam Master Jay Foundation
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Throwback video: Run DMC - "Sucker MCs" Live on Graffiti Rock
I linked to this in the Jim Jones post I just did but, even though this is mad old (from 1984), it deserves its own post! Video clip also features a 'battle' between Run DMC and Kool Moe Dee & Special K of (then) Treacherous 3 with Jam Master Jay DJ-ing (how ya gonna have the DJ for one half of the battle combatants DJ-ing??) and a lot of 'writtens' from some very well-known classic records, LOL. Still great though....
Labels: Jam Master Jay, Run DMC
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Run DMC Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Alongside Metallica, Jeff Beck, Bobby Womack and Little Anthony and the Imperials in the Class of 2009. I know this news is a week-plus old, I just wanted to acknowledge it!
Labels: Run DMC
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Run DMC: "Christmas in Hollis" (video)
This is as much a perennial as It's A Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th St. Merry Christmas, everybody. I hope Santa brought you everything you wished for!
Labels: Happy Holidays, Run DMC
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Throwback TV clip: Run DMC on Reading Rainbow
Circa 1986. This is more hip hop than most straight up rap records today! LOL at a pre-Star Trek Levar "Geordi La Forge" Burton hosting the show. [via Cocaine Blunts]
Labels: Run DMC
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Hip Hop-inspired Barack Obama t-shirts
'Run DC' t-shirt (as worn by DJ Drama in the "Sumthin's Gotta Give" video):
BUY it here.
'Barack O for President' t-shirt:
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'Barack O for President' t-shirt:
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Labels: '08 Election, Barack Obama, Eric B and Rakim, Run DMC
Sunday, November 04, 2007
A break in the Jam Master Jay case?
I don't usually do news on this site any more but I just happened to catch this story while looking up something else on the amNY newspaper website and, because Jay was one of the all-time, great legends in hip hop, thought I'd share:
"The gunman who killed hip hop icon Jam Master Jay has never been identified, but he has what could be a telltale characteristic _ a tattooed neck, according to a witness.
Randy Allen noted the mystery gunman's tattoo in a story in the Daily News Sunday, marking what the newspaper called his first extensive interview about one of the hip hop world's legendary unsolved slayings. Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, was shot dead in his Queens studio on Oct. 30, 2002. Despite a long investigation and substantial reward, the case has been stymied by uncooperative witnesses, investigators say.
Allen, Mizell's business partner, told the Daily News he had cooperated completely with investigators and was furious that others have not.
"This is a case that can be solved," he said."
Click here for more.
Labels: Jam Master Jay, Run DMC
