Run DMC

Run DMC
Left to right: Joseph Simmons, Jason Mizell , Darryl McDaniels
General information
origin	Queens , New York , United States
Genre (s)	Hip hop
founding	1982
resolution	2002
Website	www.rundmc.com
Founding members
MC	Run (Joseph Simmons)
DJ	Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell; † 2002)
MC	DMC (Darryl McDaniels)

Run-DMC (also Run DMC ) was an American hip-hop band.

Band history

Band members Jason Mizell ( Jam Master Jay ), Joseph Simmons (Run) and Darryl McDaniels (DMC) grew up together in Hollis , Queens , New York City , where they formed the hip-hop / rap band Run in 1982 after graduating from high school -DMC founded. Through Russell Simmons (the older brother of Joseph Simmons and co-founder of the US record label Def Jam ) they received their first record deal a year later. Their first single, It's Like That / Sucker MC’s , came out in 1983 .

Along with Grandmaster Flash , Kurtis Blow , Boogie Down Productions and Public Enemy, Run-DMC are among the pioneers of hip-hop . In 1984 they were the first hip-hop group to receive a gold record for their album Run-DMC. For the next two years they also received platinum for their second album, King of Rock (1985) and double platinum for their album Raising Hell (1986). Her video for the piece Rockbox was the first rap video to be broadcast on MTV . They were also the first rap group to make it to the cover of the American music magazine Rolling Stone .

Run DMC made adidas products their trademark

For the title Walk This Way from the album Raising Hell, they were the first hip hoppers to receive a Grammy nomination. Walk This Way was one of the first crossover songs - Run-DMC recorded it together with Aerosmith , who had a chart success in 1976 with their almost identical original version penned by Tyler / Perry. In the films Krush Groove (1985) and Tougher Than Leather (1988), which appeared in Germany under the title Mad Dogs , Run-DMC was one of the first rap groups to act as actors. In 1993 another piece by Run-DMC was released together with a rock band. This time they recorded Me, Myself & My Microphone with the funk metal band Living Color for the soundtrack of Judgment Night - Condemned to be killed , the concept of which took up their idea of ​​a rock song with rap interludes. In the same year they had a recording on the CD The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience . The introductory story to the song tells the visit of the two protagonists in their changing room. Run-DMC were the first rappers to leave their handprints on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

On October 30, 2002, Jam Master Jay was shot dead by a stranger in a Queens music studio. That was also the end of Run-DMC's alleged killers Jason Mizell wasn't caught until 2020.

In 2009 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Best Performer.

The Rolling Stone listed the band 48th of the 100 greatest musicians of all time .

In 2020 Run-DMC celebrated their song "Walk This Way" together with Aerosmith at the Staples Center in Los Angeles - around 34 years after the original cooperation.

Solo careers

Joseph "Reverend Run" Simmons recorded the solo album Distortion . The first single from this album, Mind on the Road , can also be heard in the computer game Madden NFL 2006 by EA Sports . The album was released in November 2005. To release this album, his brother Russell Simmons founded the Russell Simmons Music Group label . The label runs as a sub-label of Def Jam. He has his own reality TV show called Run's House , which is broadcast by MTV . The series shows the life of the Simmons family.

The solo album by Darryl "DMC" McDaniels with the title Checks, Thugs, and Rock 'N' Roll was released on March 14, 2006. Among other things, he has together with 50 Cent when it was not yet known to a large public Studio worked on his own songs.

Members

• Run ( MC ) now known as Reverend Run (also: Rev Run) - real name: Joseph Simmons (born November 14, 1964)
• DMC (MC) - real name: Darryl McDaniels (born May 31, 1964)
• JMJ, Jam Master Jay ( DJ ) - real name: Jason Mizell (born January 21, 1965, † October 30, 2002)

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1984	Run – DMC	-	-	-	-	US53 gold (65 weeks)US	First published: March 27, 1984 US sales: + 500,000
1985	King of Rock	-	-	-	-	US52 platinum (56 weeks)US	First published: Jan 21, 1985 US sales: + 1,000,000
1986	Raising Hell	DE49 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	UK41 silver (26 weeks)UK	US3 × 3 Triple platinum (71 weeks)US	First published: May 27, 1986 US sales: + 3,000,000
1988	Tougher Than Leather	DE46 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH28 (3 weeks) CH	UK13 (5 weeks) UK	US9 platinum (29 weeks)US	First published: May 17, 1988 US sales: + 1,000,000
1990	Back from Hell	-	-	-	-	US81 (15 weeks) US	First published: October 16, 1990
1993	Down with the King	DE60 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	UK44 (2 weeks) UK	US7th gold (16 weeks)US	First published: May 3, 1993 US sales: + 500,000
2001	Crown Royal	DE39 (5 weeks) DE	AT51 (4 weeks) AT	CH40 (5 weeks) CH	-	US37 (6 weeks) US	First published: April 3, 2001

Compilation albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1991	Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983–1991	DE35 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	-	US199 (1 week) US	First published: November 6, 1991
1998	Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983-1998	-	-	-	UK31 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1998
2002	Greatest hits	-	-	-	UK15th gold (9 weeks)UK	US117 (3 weeks) US	First published: September 10, 2002

More compilations

• 2002: High Profile: The Original Rhymes
• 2003: Ultimate Run – DMC
• 2012: The Essential Run – DMC

Live albums

• 2007: Live at Montreux 2001

Sampler (participation)

• Me, Myself & My Microphone with Living Color on Judgment Night (soundtrack, 1993)
• Bounce on The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience (1993) Review by Allmusic . Retrieved July 4, 2013.

Video albums

• Together Forever (Greatest Hits 1983-2000) (2002)
• Forever Kings (2004) (unofficial documentation)
• Let's Stay Together (Together Forever) / Rock Show (DVD Single) (2001)
• Live at Montreux (DVD) (2007)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1985	King of Rock King of Rock	-	-	-	UK80 (3 weeks) UK	-
1986	My Adidas Raising Hell	-	-	-	UK62 (4 weeks) UK	-
	Walk This Way Raising Hell	DE13 (13 weeks) DE	AT26 (2 weeks) AT	CH9 (7 weeks) CH	UK8th gold (12 weeks)UK	US4th platinum (16 weeks)US	feat. Aerosmith
	You Be Illinois' Raising Hell	-	-	-	UK42 (4 weeks) UK	US29 (18 weeks) US
1987	It's Tricky Raising Hell	DE28 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	UK16 silver (9 weeks)UK	US57 × 2 Double platinum (10 weeks)US
	Christmas in Hollis A Very Special Christmas	-	-	-	UK56 (4 weeks) UK	-
1988	Run's House Tougher Than Leather	-	-	-	UK37 (4 weeks) UK	-
	Mary, Mary Tougher Than Leather	-	-	-	UK86 (2 weeks) UK	US75 (6 weeks) US
1989	Ghostbusters Back from Hell	-	-	-	UK65 (2 weeks) UK	-
1990	What's It All About Back from Hell	-	-	-	UK48 (3 weeks) UK	-
1993	Down with the King Down with the King	-	-	-	UK69 (2 weeks) UK	US21st gold (17 weeks)US	feat. Pete Rock & CL Smooth
1997	It's Like That Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983–1998	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (27 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (23 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (28 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (25 weeks)UK	-	vs. Jason Nevins
1998	(It's) Tricky Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983-1998	DE23 (9 weeks) DE	AT11 (9 weeks) AT	CH22 (6 weeks) CH	UK74 (6 weeks) UK	-	vs. Jason Nevins
2003	It's Tricky 2003	-	-	-	UK20 (4 weeks) UK	-	feat. Jacknife Lee

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1985	Sun City Sun City	DE17 (13 weeks) DE	AT30 (2 weeks) AT	CH7 (10 weeks) CH	UK21 (9 weeks) UK	US38 (13 weeks) US	as part of Artists United Against Apartheid

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Finland 1998: for the single It's Like That  France 1998: for the single It's Like That  Italy 2017: for the single Walk This Way  Canada 1986: for the single Walk This Way 1988: for the album Tougher Than Leather 1993: for the album Down with the King  New Zealand 1987: for the album Raising Hell

Platinum record  Belgium 1998: for the single It's Like That  Canada 1987: for the album Raising Hell  New Zealand 1998: for the single It's Like That  Sweden 1998: for the single It's Like That

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	platinum1	750,000	musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	6,495	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	-	250,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	3 × gold3	platinum1	250,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	platinum1	22,500	nztop40.co.nz
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	30,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	3 × gold3	8 × platinum8th	9,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	1,960,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	14 × gold14th	16 × platinum16

Web links

Commons : Category: Run – DMC  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Run-DMC in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Run-DMC at Allmusic (English)
• Run-DMC at Discogs (English)
• Run-DMC at MusicBrainz (English)
• Run-DMC at laut.de
• Run-DMC at Legacy Recordings (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Run-DMC Bio. In: rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone , accessed July 4, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Run-DMC biography. In: Laut.de . Retrieved July 4, 2013.
3. ^ Run-DMC Biography. In: TheBiographyChannel.co.uk. Bio, archived from the original on December 13, 2009 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Run DMC - The Rockers. In: Born4Rap.de. 2009, archived from the original on April 7, 2010 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} headshot: Run DMC rapper killed in the record studio. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , accessed July 4, 2013.
6. ↑ Original soundtrack: Living Color & Run DMC - Me, Myself & My Microphone. In: Laut.de. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
7. ↑ DJ Jam Master Jay shot. In: Laut.de. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
8. ↑ The Mystery of the Death of Jam Master Jay ; Sueddeutsche.de; accessed on August 18, 2020.
9. ^ Run DMC. In: discogs.com. Discogs , accessed July 4, 2013.
10. ↑ 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Like It's 1986: Aerosmith and Run DMC at the Grammys. Accessed January 31, 2020 . 
12. ^ Run's House. Official description of the Run's House series. In: mtv.de. MTV , April 25, 2010, archived from the original on October 23, 2010 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Checks, Thugs, and Rock 'N' Roll. In: allmusic.com. Allmusic , accessed on January 8, 2017.
14. ↑ 50 Cent Speaks About Impact Of Run-Dmc's Jam Master Jay. In: gigwise.com. Gigwise, January 21, 2009, accessed July 4, 2013.
15. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart positions: DE AT CH UK US