Raising Hell

[cj hood]

a new Run DMC book is about to drop.......there's an advanced copy on ebay for $4.......my boy gotta copy and said there's tons of beastie stories in it....including quotes from adrock!!!

[Weezman]

Run-D.M.C. is synonymous with hip-hop, and, appropriately, Ro's look at the pioneering, influential band's history plays like a history of the genre. Drawing on interviews with many of rap's biggest names, Ro (Have Gun Will Travel) charts the rise and fall of Run (Joe Simmons, younger brother of impresario and Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons), D.M.C (Darryl McDaniels) and Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell). Hailing from middle-class Hollis, Queens, Run-D.M.C were the first to blend rock and rap, a formula that took them to the top of the pop music charts in the mid-1980s and early '90s. The book's supporting cast includes L.L. Cool J (who had an intense rivalry with Run), the Beastie Boys, Def Jam co-founder and producer Rick Rubin, and Aerosmith, who embraced Run-D.M.C and their 1986 remake of the chart-topping single "Walk This Way." Success, however, was fleeting, owing to bad record deals, lawsuits, alcoholism, meandering film projects and a rape charge pinned on Run (he later found God, to the skepticism of some close friends). Tragedy reigns, however, as the story opens and closes with the unsolved murder of Jam Master Jay in his Queens studio in 2002.

i didnt know that?? :confused:

[PaddyBoy]

a new Run DMC book is about to drop.......there's an advanced copy on ebay for $4.......my boy gotta copy and said there's tons of beastie stories in it....including quotes from adrock!!!

Cool! Maybe they'll be some info about whether they did a track together.

[cj hood]

Cool! Maybe they'll be some info about whether they did a track together.


i always believed a collaboration (track) existed...

[laurie_hammy]

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[D.M.W.112]

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[midzi]

'Hip-hop scribe Ronin Ro returns to the printed word form with his latest offering, “RAISING HELL: The Reign, Ruin and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay” (Amistad), a definitive story of a group among the first of America's rap royalty. “Run-DMC had diversity, distinct styles, their own look, new sounds,” Mr. Ro said of his subject matter. “They weren't pawns of a producer or riding coattails into the industry. They had their own identities and rapped about various themes everyone could relate to. They dispelled myths about the inner city, they included scratching, they didn't mind spending money to include cool samples, and they didn't need large crews backing them up onstage, glitzy videos, or to mimic their peers from any other region.”

The “Rolling Stone” and “ SPIN” magazine contributor conducted intimate interviews with surviving members of Run-D.M.C., Def Jam Records co-founders Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin, Kurtis Blow, Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy's Chuck D, as well as other members of the group's inner circle, for the hardcover tome. “They answered some of the hardest questions they'll ever face with candor,” he added'http://eurweb.com/story.cfm?id=23112