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 Darryl and Joe Apr 07, 2008
I was a teenager when this album came out and fell totally in love with hip hop around this time. This album was the icing on the cake for a kid like me in the 80's. Get this album and you will re-live those great hip hop memories.
TRULY THE KINGS OF ROCK & RAP May 12, 2007
I GREW UP LISTENING TO THESE GUYS.EVERY TRACK ON HERE IS ON FIRE.THE ONLY RAP CD THAT COMES CLOSE TO THIS IS THEIR 1ST SELF TITLED RELEASE.ALL PRAISE THE TRUE KINGS OF HIP HOP!!!!!!
WHAT, NO REVIEW YET?!!!....... Jan 10, 2007
C'mon fellow heads! This is that business!Of course their debut self titled album is awesome but this one has it's own place in history too! When have you,ever,ever, see an intro to a movie like KrushGrove when they threw down on 'King of Rock' ( I am 33 and I still get pumped watching that,so do my little cousins!)Daryl and Joe helped me to appreciate the art of M.C.ing and Djing all on the same track. And You're Blind? Oh my god, You're Blind.......dude, one of the FLYEST HOOKS EVER! Around that time, wearing glasses was considered nerdy, D.M.C. made it cool, and proved you can could rock lenses and be hard all at the same time. RUNDMC the album certainly open the door, but this album created the phenom!
Original, hard, and classic hip hop Jan 24, 2006
The second of the classic Run-DMC albums brought their heavy rock influence to the spotlight. Jam Master Jay produced tracks with rocking guitar lines and drum patterns that matched Run and DMC's hard delivery perfectly. Many will argue that this is the best Run-DMC album and it's easy to see why.
"King Of Rock" is one of the coolest songs. The guitar line is really good and the rhymes are untouchable, there are so many classic lines from that song. "You Talk Too Much" disses a certain blabbermouth that the Hollis Crew was acquainted with, and it approaches six minutes of destroying disses and jokes to him. Without this track I don't think we'd see any diss tracks in rap today, that's how influential this album is. "Jam Master Jammin'" is not too different from "Jam Master Jay" on the debut, it's another just another amazing Run-DMC song. "Roots, Rap, Reggae" is another one of the most influential songs. Run-DMC had already fused rap and rock together, which is still done today, so here they took the time to do the same with reggae. Yellowman, a great 80s reggae singer, is a welcomed collaborator. Without this song I couldn't see dancehall reggae today. "Can You Rock It Like This?" is a very hard sounding track, the bass and guitar sound very harsh and heavy. This deluxe edition has demos, live recordings, and remixes, so it's a good buy.
"King of Rock" was universally influential by fusing rock and rap and changing the face of music once again. This album has been imitated countless times but will never be duplicated.
This is what set the standard... Dec 20, 2005
This Album set the standard for all Rap music today. Rap was good and people listened but KOR blew the roof off the rap world. Every cut gets a good rating from me. But the main title King of Rock Fused the Rock and Rap world and forever solidified raps place as a legitimate art form. No matter how many times I listen to it it still sounds fresh.
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