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RUN-DMC

"We couldn’t rap over the disco records we used to listen to on the radio because there weren’t hard beats. Run-DMC’s version of rap is really hard beats, loud rock ’n’ roll beats. Run-DMC couldn’t rap over ‘Boogie Nights,’ so we used to find records that had hard beats like Aerosmith.”

August 2, 1987

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RUN-DMC

"We couldn’t rap over the disco records we used to listen to on the radio because there weren’t hard beats. Run-DMC’s version of rap is really hard beats, loud rock ’n’ roll beats. Run-DMC couldn’t rap over ‘Boogie Nights,’ so we used to find records that had hard beats like Aerosmith.”

—Jam Master Jay