Happy 60th Birthday Run!

Celebrating the legendary rapper and founding member of Run-DMC… Thank You Joseph!

Joseph Ward Simmons was born on November 14, 1964 in Hollis, Queens, New York City, New York (U.S.A.)

“Happy Birthday” Image by Gift Habeshaw from Unsplash (filter by Anthony Woodard)

Dec. 10, 1984: Run-DMC's Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels performing at the Long Beach Arena

Photo Credit: Ian Dryden, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

While I remembered Run-DMC from the movie “Krush Groove”, I did not connect with their rhythms and rhymes until the Summer between seventh and eighth grade. Their legendary 1986 album Raising Hell, along with Licensed to Ill by their comrades, the Beastie Boys, cemented my love for ‘80s Rap and Hip-Hop. "My Adidas", “Peter Piper”, "Walk This Way", "You Be Illin'" and "It's Tricky" all take me right back to the beginning of my teenage years.