Straight Outta Hollis. Jam Master Jay, one-third of the pioneering group Run-D.M.C., would’ve been 50 years old today. Jay was the mastermind behind the group, fronted by Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels. The Lee jeans-wearing, adidas-stomping crew led rap in its most formidable times during the mid 1980s, and was the first hip-hop collective to […]
It’s been 11 years since hip-hop pioneer Jam Master Jay of legendary group RUN DMC was gunned down in a Queens studio. In a…
Ten years ago today Hip-Hop lost pioneering DJ, producer and co-founder of RUN-DMC, Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell. He was shot and killed in a…