Run-DMC

A Softer Kind of Hip Hop Gathers Steam

  Nick Krewen Special To The Star Saturday, April 10, 1999     Money, guns and “hoes.” If you’re aware of any semblance of hip-hop culture, you’ve heard it all before: the tired rap clichés where men brag about the numbers of dollars in their bank accounts, the inexhaustible supply of women wilting at their sexual prowess, the impressive numbers of corpses they’ve plowed through during gang shoot-outs. Yada yada…

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RUN D.M.C

PUBLISHED IN THE KITCHENER-WATERLOO RECORD Friday, Oct 23, 1997   By Nick Krewen For The Record   Beats, rhyming and scratching. Run-D.M.C., the rap pioneers from Hollis, Queens in New York, promise to keep it pure and simple Saturday night when they make a rare appearance at the University Of Waterloo’s Federation Hall. “We’re not using any fancy costumes or big choreography or anything like that,” declares Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels…