![]() If only one kid turns away from gangs or drugs, we’ve been successful.” As Run explains, the group will take phone calls at KDAY, a local radio station, “just so a small beginning can be made to stop gangs, stop drugs. He insists that he, D and Jay have come to Los Angeles to promote a truce among warring “gang-bangers,” not simply to clean up their image. So as Run leaves his penthouse suite to collect a rented black Corvette at the hotel’s carport, he looks concerned. To much of white America, rap means mayhem and bloodletting. shows or added to the hysteria with talk of hiring extra security guards for concerts, more dispassionate observers have suggested that the group is getting a bum rap. Bloody incidents also plagued some theaters showing Krush Groove, the 1985 film in which the group appeared, leading Parents’ Music Resource Center spokeswoman Tipper Gore to claim that rappers tell fans, “It’s all right to beat people up.” While promoters have canceled Run-D.M.C. concert led to mass arrests or serious injuries. It was the fifth time this past summer that a Run-D.M.C. A riot between two youth gangs at the Long Beach Arena last August left forty-two people injured. As its fame has increased, the trio has consistently been associated with violence. must decide how to be pop and streetwise at the same time. Having broken through to white radio with “Walk This Way,” its collaboration with the hard-rock group Aerosmith, Run-D.M.C. While their remarks have the same uncompromising grittiness as their music, the tension behind their words reveals that Run-D.M.C. Michael writes lyrics, but I write what I think. ![]() ![]() Michael probably would like me to lay some of this on his album. I don’t have a big mansion and beautiful clothes. I’ve made a lot of money, but I still live in Hollis. We have good rhymes about it because we still see it, we live in the neighborhood still. “Michael doesn’t feel the way I feel,” snaps Run, a native of Hollis, a middle-class neighborhood in Queens, New York. “Michael? If I met Michael Jackson and he had that thing on his face, I’d rip it off. ![]() “He doesn’t fit the program,” says Darryl, 22. Nile Rodgers, Peter Hook, Darryl 'D.M.C.' McDaniels Discuss Sobriety in New Zine We really dig Barry White.” The rappers have discussed collaborating with White, the rotund soul man who had a string of sexy hits in the Seventies. Run, 22, who is careful to distance his group from Boy George and “homo-assed drug takers,” says, “Michael wants us to make a record with him, and we don’t really want to make a record with Michael. “We don’t paint our faces neither,” says Jay, 21. “Kids can look up to us,” yells Run, so named because of his motor mouth. (Darryl McDaniels, also known as D) and Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) - the trio that has recently injected rap into the American mainstream with its double-platinum album Raising Hell – are blasting the white-gloved Jackson and other glitzy pop stars. Shit! Who cares? Why should I go? Is his thing really mine?” 4, 1986 issue of Rolling Stone.Įyeing a gold Jacuzzi in his $750-a-night suite at the Stouffer airport hotel in Los Angeles, Run, the deffest rapper in the world, exclaims, “Me go to Michael Jackson‘s for dinner? I just don’t know if I’m going. This story was originally published in the Dec.
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