The Brooklyn-born friends parlayed a win at a rap contest in the 1980s into a record ... The film didn’t win any awards, but it is an 80s pop culture classic. Run D.M.C. had a major crossover ...

His productions helped bridge the gap between Hip Hop and mainstream audiences in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s." He concluded by writing, "Rest in power to a friend, teacher, pioneer who ...

If you listened to hip-hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was all about Eric ... he told Uptown in an interview. In the late 80s, rapping was just a hobby for Wyandanch, Long Island native ...