Biography

More than any other hip-hop group, Run-D.M.C. are responsible for the sound and style of the music. As the first hardcore rap outfit, the trio set the sound and style for the next decade of rap. With their spare beats and excursions into heavy metal samples, the trio were tougher and more menacing than their predecessors Grandmaster Flash and Whodini. At the same time, Run-D.M.C. helped move rap from a singles-oriented genre to an album-oriented one -- they were the first hip-hop artist to construct full-fledged albums, not just collections with two singles and a bunch of filler. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• Back From Hell

• Beats To The Rhyme

• Crown Royal

• Down With The King

• Hard Times

• Here We Go [live At The Funhouse]

• In The House

• It's Like That

• It's Tricky

• Jam-master Jammin'

• Jam-master Jay

• King Of Rock

• Mary Mary

• Mary, Mary

• Ooh, Whatcha Gonna Do

• Rock Box

• Rock The House

• Run's Freestyle

• Run's House

• Sucker M.c.'s

• Sucker M.c.'s (krush-groove 1)

• Sucker M.c.'s [krush-groove 1]

• Take The Money And Run

• The Ave.

• Tougher Than Leather

• Walk This Way

• What's It All About

• You Be Illin'

Discography

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• Back From Hell

  Arista/Profile / Arista

  1990

• King of Rock

  Arista/Profile / Profile

  1985