Jam Master Jay: 1965-2002

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It seems to me that this was the first rap group to ever break the color barrier on a national scale in the genre of rap music anyway. They shortly thereafter teamed up with Steven Tyler to do a remix of Aerosmith's "walk this way". Run DMC was always a very upbeat sort of group to listen to, and I found out recently that out of every and all three teens I have polled so far, none of them had any idea that Jimmy Pop didn't write "Tricky". Or why he screamed "the singer for def leppard's only got one arm", so many times on the hooray for boobies cd. Run DMC was at one time a very big influence in my own creative endeavors, I surely hope that the guy is still alive under another name because the music of RUN was another very important part of an ongoing movement to open closed minds. It worked wonders for me!