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If I said Rap, what would you say? Violence, guns, bad language, bad influence? If I said Hip Hop, what would you say then? More of the same with nbouncier beats? What If I said "Who's House" If your answer to that last one was not "Run's House", and your answers to the first two were as I suggested, I think I've pinpointed the problem. you don't listen to enough Run-DMC. MCs Run (Joseph Simmons) and DMC (Darryl McDaniels) have officially retired from music after the fatal shooting last year of their DJ Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell, see A867783). The irony being that this is a rap/hip hop band who didn't propagate "gangsta" culture. Their socially responsible protest songs such as the their only UK number one "it's Like That" (which reached number one over ten years after it's original release) show a desire to improve the lot of the poor or unemployed in society ("listen up homeboy, give this a thought/The next time someone's teaching why don't you get taught?"). However, largely their music was purely fun. the rap-rock hybrid of "Walk This Way" with Aerosmith, the lyrical acrobatics of "Peter Piper" ("Now Peter Piper picked peppers, but Run rocked rhymes") and It's Tricky, recently re-released to complement this album, to pure crowdpleasers like the aforementioned "run's House". This album is Run-DMC's swansong. And it's a glorious collection of the music of, in my opinion, the best rap or hip hop band there ever has been. "We are not thugs, we don't use drugs But you assume on your own They offer coke and lots of dope But we just leave it alone" -Run-DMC, "It's Tricky"
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