Run-DMC

Until Run-DMC came along in the early 1980s, most hip-hop music wasn't much more than nursery rhymes over disco loops. They popularized the idea of rap as a new kind of rock & roll--the voice of the streets set to the raw sounds of a turntablist one-man-band. The group even managed to pioneer the collision of rock and rap with a groundbreaking take on Aerosmith's "Walk This Way." Run-DMC is now viewed as the avatar of old-school hip-hop, almost quaint by 21st-century gangsta standards, but undeniably influential. Sadly, Run-DMC disbanded in 2002, after the tragic murder of Jam Master Jay, the group's groundbreaking DJ.

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• Kool Moe Dee
• LL Cool J
• M.C. Shan
• Original Concept
• Schoolly D
• Stetsasonic
• The Fat Boys
• Too Short
• U.T.F.O.
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• Whodini

• Aerosmith
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• Parliament
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• The Gap Band
• The Sugarhill Gang
• The Treacherous 3

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• DJ Spooky
• EPMD
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• Naughty By Nature
• Onyx (Rap)
• Public Enemy
• Slick Rick
• The Beastie Boys
• Wu-Tang Clan

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