Though DMC, 59, grew up writing and rhyming, it wasn't until Rev Run, also 59, gave him that little push that Run-DMC was born. "I was always writing but I never wrote to record.

Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels open up to PEOPLE about the impact of their hit 1986 song "My Adidas" in music and fashion.

A third man was charged in the shooting last year and will be tried separately.. What we know about Jam Master Jay's murder. Run-DMC espoused an anti-drug stance in lyrics and PSAs, but ...

Hip-hop pioneer Jam Master Jay was executed in an ambush motivated by “greed and revenge” over drugs, federal prosecutor said Monday as the trial of the Run-DMC DJ’s alleged assassins got ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The man accused of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay can’t have his rap lyrics used against him at trial, a Brooklyn judge decided Tuesday in a ruling that doubled as a ...

Due to their misgivings about Tyler’s lyrics, Run and DMC goofed around on their initial vocal takes and failed to capture the right energy. At the urging of Jam Master Jay, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 20 years after Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay was brazenly gunned down in his recording studio, a jury convicted two men of his murder Tuesday, bringing closure to one of ...

The man accused of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay can’t have his rap lyrics used against him at trial, a Brooklyn judge decided Tuesday in a ruling that doubled as a history-filled paean to ...

The 2002 killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay has stood for ... Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall said in 2020 she is "not going to hold any individual accountable for the lyrics in a rap song that ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The man accused of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay can’t have his rap lyrics used against him at trial, a Brooklyn judge decided Tuesday in a ruling that doubled as a ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The man accused of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay can’t have his rap lyrics used against him at trial, a Brooklyn judge decided Tuesday in a ruling that doubled as a ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The man accused of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay can’t have his rap lyrics used against him at trial, a Brooklyn judge decided Tuesday in a ruling that doubled as a ...