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
*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
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
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]
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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