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DMC Interviews and Features
Below are our features and interviews with DMC.
Interview
Rapper DMC Discusses His Love Of Heavy Metal
After eleven years with this site, I've had the privilege of speaking with all kinds of musicians about heavy music. While this is, and always will be, a heavy metal website, it's always interesting to hear a view on the genre from an unexpected source, which is why last month, I took the opportunity to sit down in Grosvenor House, a JW Marriott hotel in London overlooking Hyde Park, to speak with one of the first stars of hip hop, DMC, of the legendary group Run DMC about his love of metal and rock music, his collaborations with the likes of Aerosmith, Myles Kennedy and Slaves On Dope, his new EP, "Back From The Dead" and much more. You can check out the interview in two parts below, while some excerpts are as follows:
On the importance of "Walk This Way":
"It was so cool that we did it with them (Aerosmith.) We could have just remade it alone but it wouldn't have had the impact that it had. Their fans were like, 'Why are they with the rap guys!?' and our fans didn't know any better and thought, 'Why are they doing a record with The Rolling Stones!?' When Steven Tyler took the mic stand and put it through the wall, it's exactly what happened. Rock and rap breaking barriers and coming together." More...