Run dmc Quote by Raekwon

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

— Ja Rule

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream…

— Ice Cube

I'm not really up on what's new. I'm still listening to Run DMC twenty-five years later. In the same way that the baby-boomers in…

— Colson Whitehead

I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.

— Redfoo

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

— Axel Alonso

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the…

— Isaac Hayes

Older generations can sometimes look down on today's hip hop but I refuse that mindset. I remember how hurt I was when older people…

— Erik Parker

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica -…

— Vanilla Ice

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

— Erik Parker

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand…

— Taryn Manning

I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I…

— Goldie

My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like, that conglomerate.

— Neal Brennan