shows or added to the hysteria with talk of hiring extra security guards for concerts, more dispassionate observers have suggested that the group is getting a bum rap. Bloody incidents also plagued some theaters showing Krush Groove, the 1985 film in which the group appeared, leading Parents’ Music Resource Center spokeswoman Tipper Gore to claim that rappers tell fans, “It’s all right to beat people up.” While promoters have canceled Run-D.M.C. concert led to mass arrests or serious injuries. It was the fifth time this past summer that a Run-D.M.C. A riot between two youth gangs at the Long Beach Arena last August left forty-two people injured. As its fame has increased, the trio has consistently been associated with violence.
must decide how to be pop and streetwise at the same time. Having broken through to white radio with “Walk This Way,” its collaboration with the hard-rock group Aerosmith, Run-D.M.C. While their remarks have the same uncompromising grittiness as their music, the tension behind their words reveals that Run-D.M.C. See Public Enemy's Animated 'Public Enemy Number Won' Video With Mike D, Ad-Rock, Run-DMC We really dig Barry White.” The rappers have discussed collaborating with White, the rotund soul man who had a string of sexy hits in the Seventies. Run, 22, who is careful to distance his group from Boy George and “homo-assed drug takers,” says, “Michael wants us to make a record with him, and we don’t really want to make a record with Michael. “We don’t paint our faces neither,” says Jay, 21. “Kids can look up to us,” yells Run, so named because of his motor mouth. (Darryl McDaniels, also known as D) and Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) - the trio that has recently injected rap into the American mainstream with its double-platinum album Raising Hell – are blasting the white-gloved Jackson and other glitzy pop stars.
Shit! Who cares? Why should I go? Is his thing really mine?” Eyeing a gold Jacuzzi in his $750-a-night suite at the Stouffer airport hotel in Los Angeles, Run, the deffest rapper in the world, exclaims, “Me go to Michael Jackson‘s for dinner? I just don’t know if I’m going.