Run-DMC was partly responsible for introducing rap music to a brand new audience thus they often were the go-to guys whenever anything rap or hip-hop culture related came up. Their live shows with Jam Master Jay set the precedent for how future rap groups had to command a stage and rock a crowd.
They were the standard bearers. They were champions of the art form and the culture as well as hip-hop ambassadors. Source: Artist. View this post on Instagram. More Like This. Big Daddy Kane vs. Walk This Way did more to popularise rap beyond a specialist audience than any other song, and its worldwide success was instrumental in making hip-hop a globally relevant art form. That they did it on their own terms is all the more remarkable.
Raising Hell made Run-DMC superstars, but from that point on mistakes and missteps dogged a group who had barely put a foot wrong for the first three years of their existence.
The follow-up LP was delayed while an accompanying feature film was made, and by the time Tougher Than Leather arrived in , hip-hop was moving at a speed few genres ever reach: any artist would struggle to remain at its cutting edge. The only difference now was that the samples they used tended to feature more instruments than just bass and drums. But Beats to the Rhyme was mould-breaking: as the title suggests, the track reversed the traditional construction of rap tracks, with Jay having to fashion a backing track after Run and D had laid down their vocals.
The three verses — two from D, one from Run — offer the observational detail and first-person storytelling that the growing hip-hop audience had come to expect.
Most Run-DMC singles had instrumentals or album tracks as B-sides, and most of their career was in the era before multi-artist posse cuts became ubiquitous. Run was charged with rape though the case was eventually dropped , Jay survived a car crash and a shooting and D became alcoholic. Most of the hip-hop audience wanted to hear hardcore political rappers like Public Enemy , not crossover artists like Run-D.
Consequently, the film bombed and the album only went platinum, failing to spawn any significant hit singles. Following its release, both Run and D. After McDaniels sobered up and the charges against Simmons were dismissed, both of the rappers became born-again Christians, touting their religious conversion on the album Down With the King.
Although they were no longer hip-hop innovators, the success of Down With the King proved that Run-D. After a long studio hiatus, the trio returned in early with Crown Royal. The album did little to add to their ailing record sales, but the following promotional efforts saw them join Aerosmith and Kid Rock for a blockbuster performance on MTV.
By , the release of two greatest-hits albums prompted a tour with Aerosmith that saw them travel the U. Sadly, only weeks after the end of the tour, Jam Master Jay was senselessly murdered in a studio session in Queens. Only 37 years old, the news of his passing spread quick and hip-hop luminaries like Big Daddy Kane and Funkmaster Flex took the time to pay tribute to him on New York radio stations. Possibly the most visible DJ in the history of hip-hop, his death was truly the end of an era and unfortunately perpetuated the cycle of violence that has haunted the genre since the late '80s.
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