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Run-DMC

Childhood friends Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels were barely 16 when they started rhyming together at loosely organized DJ jams in their neighborhood of Hollis, Queens, in New York City. After graduating high school, they met DJ Jason Mizell, who was spinning records as Jazzy Jase before adopting the handle Jam Master Jay. As Run-DMC, the trio changed the course of Hip Hop music and fueled its commercial acceptance by the “MTV generation” of the mid-1980s. Their 1984 debut album, Run-DMC, made the case almost overnight. With the stripped-down arrangement of the single “It’s Like That” and its...