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| | Paste Magazine :: Review :: Run-D.M.C. - Reissues :: Arista/Legacy (Page 1) |
 | | For most of the 1980s, Joseph “Run” Simmons, Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels and Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell ruled the East Coast, dropping wordbombs such as the epic “It’s Like That,” which ably depicted the era’s underground street culture. |
 | | With Run’s brother, fledgling producer Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin behind them, the trio proved unstoppable, creating whole albums in a genre that was hitherto based on singles, pioneering the way for fl Americans on MTV and, most importantly, merging rap vocals with hard-rock beats. |
 | | Blunt shout-outs and boasts laid over grinding electric-guitar riffs and a head-banging drumbeat, the album was an atomic blast, laying waste to pop fodder like Robert Palmer, Toto and Asia, as music scribe Andrew Graham judiciously points out in the liner notes. |
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