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Second, (with 15.8 percent of the vote) was Run DMC, an old-school rap band, probably best known for their collaboration with Aerosmith on "Walk This...
Early '80s rap group Run DMC heads the list of possible acts, joined by the Cowboy Junkies, Luscious Jackson, Redman, Doug E. Fresh, the Samples, God Street Wine, 1995 Springfest headliners G-Love and Special Sauce, as well as two more costly acts, the Wallflowers and They Might Be Giants...
Still, Washington stands by his love of material pop culture. His Pforzheimer single is decorated with LP covers, relics from the 1980s including the fathers of hip-hop, the Beastie Boys and Run DMC...
...juice. That's rapspeak for power. During the past decade, this streetwise entertainment mogul has amassed tons of it. You want to talk records? He owns six labels, including the pioneering Def Jam. Live concerts? His management company boasts a roster of such seminal rap performers as Run-DMC, Public Enemy, LL Cool J and 3rd Bass. Television? His broadcast and film-production company turns out the popular Home Box Office show Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, a weekly showcase for black stand-up comics. Nobody has done more than Simmons, 34, to move rap -- or hip- hop, as aficionados...
...early 1960s, Simmons has built his reputation on a refusal to assimilate. He promotes artists whose speech, dress and demeanor reflect the in-your-face bravado of black urban adolescents and the rebellious fantasies of those in the suburbs. Taking direct cues from his audience, Simmons told Run-DMC to wear their dark glasses and black leather suits onstage and LL Cool J to retain his slouchy, bucket- shaped Kangol hat. He also encouraged Public Enemy to be politically controversial and BWP (Bytches with Problems) to be sexually explicit...