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.
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Evening Standard (UK)
July 6, 2018
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He was absolutely right, of course — alongside fellow MC Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and late DJ Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell, Simmons presides over a party-starting discography that helped turn the Queens trio into rap’s first mainstream stars.
On the way up the steps to the first Run-DMC in show London in 12 years, the brickwork is decorated with clippings from their glory days, a parade of hip-hop firsts: a Rolling Stone cover from 1986, news of their collaboration on Aerosmith’s Walk This Way the same year, their appearance at Live Aid and the tr
It was a revelation: Three songs into its headlining show on the main Steel Stage at Bethlehem's Musikfest on Saturday, rap group Run-D.M.C. was sounding as fresh as when it blazed the trail for hip-hop to hit the radio (and MTV) more than 30 years ago.
