UUSI Run DMC Crown Royal CD (2001) - Ilmainen Toimitus

01. It's Over 3:40

02. Queens Day 4:18

03. Crown Royal 3:13

04. Them Girls 3:33

05. The School Of Old 3:20

06. Take The Money And Run 3:48

07. Rock Show 3:14

08. Here We Go 2001 3:21

09. Ahhh 4:21

10. Let's Stay Together (Forever) 3:19

11. Ay Papi 3:16

12. Simmons Incorporated 4:56

The title says it all: "Crown Royal"

For Run DMC, the band largely credited

with merging rock and hip-hop--Crown

Royal must seem something of a vindica-

tion. When they hit the skids a decade a-

go, the hip-hop community rallied around

with contributions to 1993's evangelical

Down with the King. Eight years on, the

old-school triumvirate returns with anot-

her album built on collaborations, but this

time largely from a bunch of noisy young

rockers keen to pay their dues and boost

their credibility. Step up Third Eye Blind,

Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, Kid Rock, and

Sugar Ray. And to think Run DMC had to

be talked into teaming up with Aerosmith

to record "Walk This Way" back in 1986.

Of course, hip-hoppers are represented,

too, with Method Man guesting on the im-

pressive "Simmons Incorporated," and

Nas and Mobb Deep'sProdigy chipping in

on the jumping "Queen's Day." Pride of

place, though, goes to "It's Over," a throb-

bing electro beat twinned with a stirring

Russian choir sample that's produced by

Jermaine Dupri.

More than any other hip-hop group, Run

D.M.C. are responsible for the sound and

style of the music. As the first hardcore

rap outfit, the trio set the sound and style

for the next decade of rap. With their spa-

re beats and excursions into heavy metal

samples, the trio were tougher and more

menacing than their predecessors Grand-

master Flash and Whodini. In the process

they opened the door for both the politici-

zed rap of Public Enemy and Boogie

Down Productions, as well as the hedo-

nistic gangsta fantasies of N.W.A. At the

same time, Run-D.M.C. helped move rap

from a singles-oriented genre to an album

oriented one -- they were the first hip-hop

artist to construct full-fledged albums, not

just collections with two singles and a

bunch of filler. By the end of the '80s

Run-D.M.C. had been overtaken by the

groups they had spawned, but they con-

tinued to perform to a dedicated following

well into the '90s.

All three members of Run-D.M.C. were

natives of the middle-class New York bo-

rough Hollis, Queens. Run (born Joseph

Simmons, November 14, 1964) was the

brother of Russell Simmons, who formed

the hip-hop management company Rush

Productions in the early '80s; by the

mid-'80s, Russell had formed the pione-

ering record label Def Jam with Rick

Rubin. Russell encouraged his brother

Joey and his friend Darryl McDaniels

(born May 31, 1964) to form a rap duo.

The pair of friends did just that, adopting

the names Run and D.M.C., respectively.

After they graduated from high school in

1982, the pair enlisted their friend Jason

Mizell (born January 21, 1965) to scratch

turntables; Mizell adopted the stage na-

me Jam Master Jay.

Genre: East Coast rap

Julkaisuvuosi: 2001

Levy-yhtiö: Arista

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