Run DMC had their day didn’t they? I cant think of one person who didn’t love their collab with Aerosmith in ‘Walk This Way’ and every year ‘Christmas In Hollis’ is on the radio. Talk about the evolution of hip hop! I don’t think Run DMC ever busted a cap in someones ass, though I could be wrong.
The band spoke to London’s Metro and said hip hop is now for ‘stupid America celebrates a person being a drug-dealer.’
‘Ninety-eight per cent of hip hop music that’s out now I say is just bad demos. Lil Wayne, Jay Z ain’t hot, it’s just they’re programmed so many times people are brainwashed.’
‘A rapper will use this excuse ‘ ‘man they don’t go after Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis when they make their violent movies’ and I go ‘if you’re going to use that excuse get off the mic, don’t produce’. ‘I’ll personally kick your ass out of hip hop cos if you’re using that excuse go be an actor.’
OK What? I would pay to see Run and Lil Wayne scrapping. And how does one get ‘kicked out of hip hop’? Is it a club? Darrel McDaniels the MC of Run D, stated that not all their work squeaky clean but was offset with positivity
. ‘If you make a record about a gun, on that very same record or album there’s gotta be a record about not using a gun. If you’re making a record on the bitch or the hoes, there’s got to be a record about your aunt who worked all of the days of her life to send all her children to college.’
‘The reason hip-hop exists is because it started out with good intentions ‘ once all the good intentions left, the music became polluted, it became disrespectful, it became immature.’
Yet singing about your shoes is not immature? I think these guys need to be ushered to the memory ward of the music nursing home.