Run Dmc Quotes

• ... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco ... maybe it's time to play heavy metal on R & B, things like that. Certainly culminating on things like Aerosmith doing the rap thing with Run DMC, which if they hadn't done that, or if Eddie hadn't played with Michael Jackson, or if I hadn't done "Hot Stuff", people would have said "You can't do that"

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  Jeff Baxter

  Music   Running   Rap  

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• Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

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  Ice Cube

  Running   Art   Rap  

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets.

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  Jay-Z

  Running   Art   Night  

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.108, Random House Group

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• As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

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  Ja Rule

  Running   Queens   Rap  

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.

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  Rob Zombie

  Running   Song   Rap  

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• If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

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  Vanilla Ice

  Running   Boys   Generations  

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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