Run-DMC

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Infobase Publishing, 2009 - Rap musicians - 104 pages
Considered by many to be the most influential hip-hop artists of all time, Run-DMC's melding of rap with rock, stripped-down musical arrangements, edgy lyrics, and straight-off-the-street look transformed the sound and style of rap during the early 1980s
 

Selected pages

Contents

Introduction
6
October 30 2002
11
HipHop Comes to Hollis
17
DJ Run and Easy D
27
Its Like That
37
Kings of Rock
46
Walk This Way
56
Down with the King
65
Appendix
89
Chronology
90
Glossary
93
Bibliography
95
Further Reading
97
Photo Credits
98
Index
99
About the Authors
104

New Directions
76
Copyright

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Louise Chipley Slavicek
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Louise Chipley Slavicek
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About the author (2009)

Chuck D, one of the pioneers of Rap music, is the founder and lead rapper for Public Enemy, which has a fan base of over twenty million people. Aside from his work with the "Rock the Vote" campaign, for which he was honored with the Patrick Lippert Humanitarian Award, he recently signed on as a reporter for the Fox News Channel. He also acted in his first film, An Alan Smithee Film--Burn, Hollywood, Burn. A new Public Enemy album was released in late 1997.

Bibliographic information

TitleRun-DMC
Hip-Hop Stars Series
AuthorLouise Chipley Slavicek
ContributorChuck D
PublisherInfobase Publishing, 2009
ISBN1438103506, 9781438103501
Length104 pages
  
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