{"id":228489,"date":"2026-06-08T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=228489"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:45:48","slug":"dmc-on-krush-groove-glasses-dmc-adidas-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dmc-on-krush-groove-glasses-dmc-adidas-more\/","title":{"rendered":"DMC On Krush Groove, Glasses, DMC Adidas &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2NenSstUOo?si=zAsKUZsleZA1QDX1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC sits down at the Morrison Hotel Gallery to look through photographs spanning Run-DMC&#8217;s career and tell the stories behind them. From Hollis, Queens, to the cover of Rolling Stone, he walks through how Run-DMC became the face of hip-hop. He recalls shooting Krush Groove with director Michael Schultz, who had made Car Wash, and admits the experience wasn&#8217;t what fans assume. DMC had a single line in the whole film while Run carried the scenes. Darryl McDaniels also clears up a long-running myth about Run-DMC&#8217;s cars, since Run never actually drove the white Eldorado from the movie. The glasses that made Darryl McDaniels a target as a kid in Catholic school became a signature once Run-DMC started rapping about them, to the point where fans started wearing glasses they didn&#8217;t even need. He explains the origin of the laceless Run-DMC Adidas look too. Add Fresh Fest as hip-hop&#8217;s first national arena tour and the Together Forever tour with the Beastie Boys, which the media bet would never work, and Darryl McDaniels lays out how Run-DMC kept proving the doubters wrong Darryl McDaniels also makes the case for hip-hop as the cousin of disco, pointing to 2001 Inductees Queen and their &#8220;Another One Bites the Dust&#8221; and 1989 Inductees The Rolling Stones&#8217; &#8220;Miss You&#8221; as rock acts who made disco records of their own. When Run-DMC&#8217;s self-titled 1984 album went gold and landed the group on MTV, it proved hip-hop could work as a full-length format. But Darryl McDaniels is clear that the real achievement for Run-DMC wasn&#8217;t being first to go platinum or first on the cover of Rolling Stone. 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