Track Listing

1. It�s Like That - Jason Nevins Remix
2. Walk This Way - featuring Aerosmith
3. Sucker MC�s
4. My Adidas
5. King Of Rock
6. It�s Tricky
7. Can You Rock It Like This
8. You Be Illin�
9. Rock Box
10. Run�s House
11. Peter Piper
12. Bounce
13. Beats To The Rhyme
14. Jam Master Jay
15. Hard Times
16. Down With The King
17. Mary Mary
18. What�s It All About
19. It�s Tricky � Run -DMC Feat. Jacknife Lee

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21362 in Music
• Released on: 2003-04-14
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Are Run-DMC the most important group of the past 25 years? Well, if you believe that hip-hop is the most significant musical development in a quarter century, what other conclusion can you draw? Though they may not have been responsible for the birth of rap, the trio from Hollis in Queens represents the genre's coming of age. They were the ones who brought what was largely a regional street phenomenon to the masses. The rhymes, the beats, the style, the attitude--Run-DMC introduced it all to the world.

Focusing mostly on the group's first three albums--each of them a cornerstone of rap music--this 18-track collection is a reminder of a time when rap enjoyed a kind of childlike innocence: their boasts are forceful but not angry; the beats are simple but exciting; the overall effect (fuelled by heavy-metal riffs) is edgy and aggressive, but not violent or destructive. But most of all, it's fun. In the 1990s, rap artists would take Run-DMC's ideas to wide extremes, but the roots of this next generation--gangsta rap's street realism, political rap's social agendas, rock-rap's antagonism--are found right here. Run-DMC--like almost all pioneers from Elvis to Louis Armstrong--suffered a period of irrelevancy when they were looked upon as quaint or outdated, but their time will come. Rest assured, this is not 80s retro kitsch. --Marc Greilsamer

CD Description
Posthumous best-of album from hip-hop legends who split up following the murder of DJ Jam Master Jay in 2002. In on hip-hop almost from the very beginning, this collection shows the development of their pioneering style and includes all their hits including 'It's Like That', 'Sucker MCs', 'My Adidas', 'It's Tricky' and the seminal rap-rock track 'Walk This Way' which they recorded with Aerosmith.

Customer Reviews

Run DMC :o)
When Jam Master Jay was shot down last year, rap music suffered its most significant loss, more significant even than Tupac and Biggie - because Jam Master Jay was part of the greatest rap group of all time.

In the early eighties, when hip hop was peopled by flashy funksters in high suede boots and gloves glittering all the way to the elbow, rapping to the beats of live bands, Run DMC preferred to play it raw. Just Jam Master Jay with his turntable, some hardcore rhyming from rappers Run and DMC, the three of them simply all in black, leather jackets, sneakers, and fedoras. They weren't trying to look like George Clinton or Bootsy Collins. They rapped about reality, about the streets, and looked the same as the stories they told.

And it worked. Run DMC made every commercial breakthrough for rap music: they were the first to get a gold and platinum album, the first to be nominated for a Grammy, and the first to be featured on MTV. They also created the genre's most sustainable subgenre, rock rap, paving the way for such rockers as Limp Bizkit, the Beastie Boys and Linkin Park. No wonder they've warranted not one but two greatest hits collections.

In nineteen tracks this focuses on the pivotal material between 1983 and 1988, scorchers such as 'Walk This Way' (that resurrected the careers of ageing rockers Aerosmith in 1986), 'My Adidas', 'King of Rock', 'Sucker MC's', 'Peter Piper' and 'Rock Box'. And, unlike the consummate Run DMC collection, 'Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983-1991', this brings us up to date with some newer, though less weighty material, such as 'Down With The King' and the Jason Nevins remix of 'It's Like That' (a 1998 UK number one). Perhaps in another effort to boost their profile, following their ill-fated comeback a couple of years back, we're also given the sadly dispensable dance remix by Jacknife Lee 'It's Tricky 2003', which, frankly, is nothing more than a mustard burp to the original.

But this is most surely a must-have for the serious hip hop fan, a top-notch selection of tunes, a legend of a band, and also, something of a goodbye. With Jam Master Jay behind us, and the failed comeback, and Run and DMC's tendency now to appear only in other people's videos, this does seem to mark the end of a career for the guys that made rap change the world. And oh, but what a career that was.

10 squid well justified
The Amazon review asks the question - are Run-DMC the most important band in the last 25 years?
The answer to this couldnt be yes - we can not simply forget Guns 'n' Roses, Nirvana, (and for the Brits) Oasis etc. However they remain one of the most listened to records in my collection, which contains some great (in my opinion)bands.
This album lives up to their title and contains most of there greatest hits - both the obvious ones, My Adidas, It's Tricky, It's like that, as well as 'Beats to Rhyme' and 'Mary Mary.' And then theres Walk this Way w/Aerosmith which is one of the all time greats, and one of the 1st songs to successfully mix rock and rap. A notable absence is Rock Box which is another great hit from Run, DMC, and the late Jam Master Jay. This album is a bargain for £10, a cd of truly great hits.

RUN DMC at their best
This album represents a collaboration of the efforts made by RUN DMC over their years of domination of the hip-hop world. This album provides entertaining listening as it is one of those albums that you can just press play, and listen to every song without wanting to skip to the next one. There are so many quality songs on the album and with the added bonus of all the classics 'walk this way', 'tricky', 'peter piper' and 'mary mary'. This album is a must purchase for any old skool hip-hop fan, and anyone who is a fan of anything RUN DMC. The album is literally what the title says, "run dmc: GREATEST HITS!"