Interview With DMC from RUN DMC (Good Read)
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Good ?
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@stew this should be stickied for a week
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Down with the King is the ? ? mann....
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so many jewels in that interview. good drop 5Grand
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yo i can't lie i started to tear up a little at parts of that interview.
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Good read .......and much respect for sticking this interview.
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I was feeling these quotes.Competitively, LL doesnt get the credit for becoming a legend by his ? self. He didn't have Jay and Run backing him up. Public Enemy, EPMD and Naughty By Nature had their crews, but LL was all by himself and giving us hell. Another ? that was a threat and still is better than everybody in Hip Hop by himself is Doug E. Fresh. At the height of our Raising Hell time, we would do shows with him, and he would come out by himself, take out a harmonica and start playing it while doing the beatbox. It was presentation, showmanship and delivery, you could be a ABC rapper with a limited skill set vocally and be better than all those ? saying a lot of words.If it's competitive creatively, you'll have growth. Right now, there's no growth in the game. Chuck D said, "When Run-DMC came along, y'all created a great problem for the world. Y'all gave birth to Public Enemy, LL Cool J, N.W.A, De La Soul, Eric B. & Rakim and Kool G Rap." People saw us and knew they could be them. In our era was if those dudes do red, you can't do red. If he does blue, you can't do blue. For you to come in the game you had to go, "Okay, Ill be orange. Now it's like, Oh ? , red is hot," and you got all of these people doing red. Of course there's gonna be one that does red better than anybody else, and everybody else gets jealous. Twitter beef is ? , if somebody says something about you, get on stage or make a ? record and settle it there.I remember one day Big Daddy Kane said he saw me ? as ? outside of club saying I would battle anybody and that nobody was better than me, and he was such a fan that he gave me a pass. He said, "I'm looking at my idol DMC, and I wanted to go at him but I was in total awe."If the radio host from New York goes to Florida and discovers a dope artist down there, he's supposed to be able to come home tomorrow morning, get on Hot 97 or Power 105 and say, "Last night I was in Florida, and this morning I want to play you this record I heard." Then the ? in New York will hear that and be inspired. ? that playlist ? .They say, "If we don't play these same eight songs every 20 minutes over and over, we're not gonna get no business." You'll get more business by playing a ? new song that you just got yesterday that none of the ? listening have ever heard, because they would listen all day to hear it again.When I was 15 years old, my brother was 18. When I was 22, my cousins and relatives were 25 and 30. Those little jewels of education and inspiration that could be street knowledge—when I'd hear that ? I'd write a rhyme about it. Everybody 15 and younger was getting information from me, at 18 years old. I was acting and talking the way my 25 to 50 year old elders were speaking. When that kid who's nine hears me and turns 16, he's highly evolved. Nowadays kids age nine to 18 are looking at individuals 25 to 50 years old who dress like them, act like them and talk like them, and they're winning. There's no power in sitting there with an elder, because he's ? foolish and on the same level as you.Go listen to my records. Everything that I represent at 50-years-old today is spoken in my records. Kids say, "Mr. DMC, you're just saying this right now because you're a pioneer. You've experienced a lot in the business forever, and you're 50 years old." I've been saying this since I was your age, so let's not get it twisted. For anybody to say anything about Chuck D, first off they're wrong because anybody saying anything about him didn't do what he did at his young age. At 22 years old he formed Public Enemy, and it wasn't just about him being the greatest rapper of all time, it was about what he did with his music. Writers and radio stations will never do what he did with his music.
You can never say anything about Chuck, Melle Mel or Bambaataa, because if you go listen to Hip Hop before it was on records these ? was prophets with all of the music that came from our ill fortune, poverty, death, destruction and drug dealing and gang banging. Chuck D is a prophet of rage, and everything he said about the music industry is happening now. The ignorance, the disrespect of our culture, the use of the N word, people look at Chuck now being 52 years old, but go listen to what that man was saying when he was your age, young buck. The disrespect of women, the downloading in the Digital Age, he prophesied all of that. People go, "DMC, who do you think is the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac or Biggie?" When I say Chuck D, they'll never say anything to that. That man is the ? voice of ? . -
Dope read.
One question tho
Did you really have to say DMC from run dmc?
What other dmc is there? -
SheerExcellence wrote: »Dope read.
One question tho
Did you really have to say DMC from run dmc?
What other dmc is there?
There used to be a DMC DJ competition every year back in the 80s and 90s. I'm not sure if t hey still do it but I know DJ Jazzy Jeff won in 1986, Cash Money won in 1987 and DJ Miz won in 1988. I think q-Bert and Roc Raida won in the 90s.
anyway, DMC stands for Disco Mixing Championship.
so yeah, there is another DMC that's related to Hip Hop -
there's also devil may cry...
