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before. Hell, they pioneered the use of drum machines, the use of drum machines along with live instrumentation, and the synthesis of emcee routines and record making. You take any one of those away, Hip Hop changes for the worse. And that's without the industry stuff they did.
There is only a handful of groups that could play to 50 people, 500 people, 5,000 people, or 50,000 people and not have to rely on hit records to smash the venue. Run DMC is at the top of that list.
And don't get it fucked up, no group or artist in the history of Hip Hop has ever been bigger than Run DMC was in 1986. 5 million sold in 1986=about 20 million today.
When we're talking the greatest groups ever, there's few groups we can really put in the same air with them and they all fall short in some way. We take Run DMC for granted because of the era but they managed to shift the culture in a way that made way for the golden age, because they gave the green light for everybody after them to come out and be who they really were. __________________________________________ CHOP-THESE-BITCHES!!!! ------------------------------------ Garhart Ivanhoe Poppwell Un-OK'd moderator for The Lesson and Make The Music (yes, I do's work up in here, and in your asscrease if you run foul of this
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