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Run DMC - "King Of Rock"
Posted on October 13, 2005 11:43 AM
For "Throwback Thursday" we’re gonna take it back like 20 years. Man... This shit makes me wanna go get my adidas out the closet. Be right back!
Legendary rap trio Run DMC burst onto the pop scene noting parallels and bridging the gap between rappin and rockin. In their own special way, they let the world know that rap was OUR rock. At this point in the game, these dudes as a collective were definitely the kang of ghetto rock. “King of Rock” [watch it now] was one of many similar visual offerings from the crew that played a huge role in the popularization of our genre. In other words… Thanks to these cats… I’M GETTIN’ MONEY, NIGGAAAAAAA!
Don’t these cats look old as fuck already? This is like 1984… They look 30. Especially DMC. They both look like they weren’t quite ready to let go of the 70s. DMC looks straight out of a blaxploitation film, while Run had the meanest sideburns this side of Ashanti.
After snuffing an old ass security guard who tells them they don’t belong, DJ Run and Daryl Mac proceed to violate the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Museum on some Rosewood shit.
Let’s rap for a second, people. I’ve always pondered the significance of their experience in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. You would think they are paying homage to the genre by performing with a full rock band on the stage, but they are straight destroying shit and clowning recent music history. Thoughts? Air em out.
I gotta say though… That mocking guitar dance Run does is funny as fuck.
What kind of security lets them do all that shit? If this were really the case, there wouldn’t have been anything left for Run DMC to trash. Crazed white folks would have already ransacked everything from coke and Twinkies Elvis to cousin-fucking Jerry Lee Lewis.
There’s a strange irony in Run DMC watching themselves in the vintage black-and-white television. Like the artists they clowned on, they have become relics, throwbacks and ambassadors to an era lost. Rewind on your earlier days with me. If you weren’t even a twinkle in your pappy’s nuts yet, then come on down for some American History X. You’ll thank me later.
Questions? Comments? Requests? Feeling like your clothes are way too baggy? ronnie_mexxx@yahoo.com
Comments
Dammit man!!! Hip-hop is a beautiful thing! First, watching Big Daddy Kane on the Hip-Hop Honors show cats that it was cool to spit hot shit and still do more than a 2-step. And then this shit right here?!!! I want to go get my fat laces, boombox, cardboard box and start perfecting my windmill all over again. That's the time when it was pure and energetic.
Free 40's of Old English for everyone courtesy of DMC's AA sponsor.
Run D M C...
Shout out ta my NY niggas the true originators
Let's cut all of that commercial bull$h!t and bring hip-hop back to its early years with the sound of this new generation, ya min'?
Dubz up
Yo I remember the first time I saw Run-DMC, It was 1985 at the Fresh Fest at MSG in NYC, Run and them was the headliners. Whodine came out on Honda Scooters. Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five, The Fat Boy's. And you know what not one incident. Peace & Love to Jam Master Jay & to 1985
Wow... a living breathing Fresh Fest attender on Talkin' Videos.
Thanks for the memory, Joe Roc. A true honor.
I was at home watchin Star Trek or somethin. Moms was probably there.
All I GOTTA SAY IS "PALLADIUM" AND "UNION SQUARE", BIG UP TO THE OLD SCHOOL. DAMN I'M GETTING OLD, LOL. Big up ron mexico for the throwback. I'm looking for the special ed throwback though, Oh yeah "WHODINI" the other trio that should be getting love.
Long Live RUN D.M.C.
Oh yeah, props to the trio that got me into rap, always loved this video. I think it taught white folks how to not only be scared of black men in jumpsuits, but how to look scared as well.
Excellent choice Ron.
JMJ we miss you!
I Met DMC on Jamaica Ave in Queens back in 86. He gave me free passes to Latin quaters for a show but i was too young to get in. BigUp to all my 25 + hip hop heads that remember rocking kangols and snatching Lee patches! 80's for life!! somebody bring it back!! Reppin NYC all day before the Bloods,Crips and Kings! back when the Supreme Team and Decepts Ran da street. Shout out "Powerful", "supreme","Pappy Mason" and all the real true High rollaz!
WERD!!! D3y ShouLd bring dis rapp bak cuz dis rite hurr is d@ jam nd d@ rapp 2d@y sucks mo den ah vacum!!!!! LOLZZ!!! Yo i luv Run DMC. I 4ev@ washin' RUN'S HOUSE!!!!!!!!1 IGHT IM OUTZ PEACE OUT HOMIE$!!!
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