Run DMC : Run DMC

Future archaeologists will discuss two periods in 1980s: before Run-DMC and after Run-DMC. Its no exaggeration to say that the group changed the course of music in the 80s, bringing the old-school of rap into the new with one simple piece of flat, black plastic.

Coming up in the rap world of the early 1980s under the wing of Kurtis Blow (group manager Russell Simmons managed Blow, and Run was, at one time, a DJ known as Son of Kurtis Blow) and Blows bassist and burgeoning super-producer Larry Smith, the trio Joseph Run Simmons, Darryl DMC McDaniels and Jason Jam Master Jay Mizell learned from the best, but created their own path.

1983 was the year that they first broke out. With only an Oberheim DMX drum program and some cuts by Jay, Sucker M.C.s (Krush-Groove 1) was a shot across the bow to the slick, post-disco pocket rap had settled into. It was raw, pure swagger and it took both New Yorkers and music aficionados around th