Christmas in Hollis
August 31, 2009 5:21 PM   Subscribe

Hip-hop has another warrant of bourgeois respectability to place on the shelf: Run-D.M.C. have had a street named after them in Brooklyn.
posted by shothotbot (37 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
who's house?
RUN'S HOUSE
posted by porn in the woods at 5:26 PM on August 31, 2009 [5 favorites]


As well they should!
posted by Green Eyed Monster at 5:32 PM on August 31, 2009


Hollis QUEENS.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:33 PM on August 31, 2009 [8 favorites]


This is pretty cool for Run DMC, but I can't help feeling bad for Hollis.
posted by shownomercy at 5:35 PM on August 31, 2009


"Reverend Run"! Haha! Gotta love it!

Didn't know also that they're only the 2nd hiphop act to make it into the R&R Hall of Fame (along with Grandmaster Flash). How long til Public Enemy is inducted, I wonder?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:40 PM on August 31, 2009


Hollis Crew!
posted by box at 5:43 PM on August 31, 2009


Good for them. Here's my favorite, though.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 5:45 PM on August 31, 2009 [1 favorite]


Word!
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:49 PM on August 31, 2009


I'd walk that way.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 5:50 PM on August 31, 2009 [3 favorites]


Hollis QUEENS.

*cringe* thanks for that flapjax.
posted by shothotbot at 5:51 PM on August 31, 2009


Well, just today I noticed that West 54th Street at Broadway is named "Senor Wences Way".
wikipedia has the whaffo.
"s'awright"
posted by hexatron at 5:53 PM on August 31, 2009


Couldn't wait to see / Jam Master jammin'
Couldn't wait to see / Jam Master jam

(Billy Squire-y guitar riff)
posted by porn in the woods at 6:00 PM on August 31, 2009


See also: Joey Ramone Place
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:20 PM on August 31, 2009


I'd walk that way.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 5:50 PM on August 31


Eponysterical
posted by vorpal bunny at 6:23 PM on August 31, 2009


Frank-Zappa-Strasse.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:29 PM on August 31, 2009


Hollis, Queens?
posted by Antidisestablishmentarianist at 6:30 PM on August 31, 2009


Flaming Lips Alley!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:36 PM on August 31, 2009


Your moms has another warrant of bourgeois respectability.
posted by Divine_Wino at 6:39 PM on August 31, 2009 [1 favorite]


"Brooklyn?" now that's just embarrassing.
posted by rxrfrx at 6:50 PM on August 31, 2009 [1 favorite]


Antidisestablishmentarianis, that video is not avaliable in my country due to copyright restrictions. To the point where I can't even see what the title of it is. What am I missing out on?
posted by Dysk at 6:56 PM on August 31, 2009


All hail the The Kings of Rock.
posted by billyfleetwood at 6:57 PM on August 31, 2009


Man, I've only even been to NYC like 4 or 5 times in my life, and most of those were when I was a kid, and even I was like "why would they name a street after Run DMC in Brooklyn?"

With careless mistakes like that, the MeFi breakdance crew is never going to win those new parachute pants.
posted by DecemberBoy at 7:05 PM on August 31, 2009


Brother Dysk - it's the RUN DMC Christmas in Hollis video.
posted by cashman at 7:10 PM on August 31, 2009 [1 favorite]


There was also a street named after Eazy E.
posted by jeremy b at 8:25 PM on August 31, 2009 [1 favorite]


When does the memorabilia shop open?
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:08 PM on August 31, 2009


who's house?

whose
posted by Evilspork at 10:35 PM on August 31, 2009


who's house?

Hugh Laurie. Hugh Laurie is the actor who portrays House.
posted by explosion at 3:41 AM on September 1, 2009 [2 favorites]


I was also, like, "WTF!? Brooklyn?", but it seems just the poster was wrong, and not the city.
posted by bashos_frog at 4:50 AM on September 1, 2009


who's house?

whose
posted by Evilspork at 2:35 AM on September 1 [+] [!]

'whose' still looks dumb to me after all these years.
posted by Space Coyote at 5:16 AM on September 1, 2009


Well, Jay-Z has an entire subway line named after him...
posted by fuq at 6:52 AM on September 1, 2009 [1 favorite]


It's around the way.
posted by jquinby at 6:56 AM on September 1, 2009


Hugh's House?
posted by Cookiebastard at 7:09 AM on September 1, 2009


Fuck yeah! It's like Christmas in Hollis, Queens.
posted by Mister_A at 7:42 AM on September 1, 2009


There was also a street named after Eazy E.

jeremy b gets the win.
posted by adamms222 at 7:56 AM on September 1, 2009


Jay-Z has an entire subway line named after him...

Technically, he has two.
posted by grubi at 8:23 AM on September 1, 2009


Good for them!

But reading the comments, now I'm baffled. What are Run-D.M.C. and Grandmaster Flash doing in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Talented musicians, deserving of note - but how is what they were doing anything at all to do with "rock music"? Surely a defining feature of rap/hip-hop was that it wasn't rock music, didn't have a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, or a backbeat?
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 8:24 AM on September 1, 2009


lupus, "rock" can be defined as more than your everyday rock-n-roll (keep in mind, i pronounce the "n" in "rock-n-roll" as "n", not "an'": "rock-nroll").

Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music.

The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar or acoustic guitar, and it uses a strong back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are sometimes used as soloing instruments. In its "purest form", it "has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody."

-Wikipedia

Rap music can fall into that description. I ha'en't a problem with these pioneers of the last truly pos-modern genre of music being a "hall o' fame" dedicated to an aggressive form of pop music.

So shh!
posted by grubi at 8:31 AM on September 1, 2009


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