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DISGRACELAND

Run DMC: Innovation, Evolution and the Mysterious Death of Jam Master Jay

DISGRACELAND

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Music, True Crime

4.613.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Run DMC is directly responsible for elevating hip hop to previously unimagined heights. They took rap music into an entirely different direction and helped mainstream the genre. They were beloved as musicians, innovators, and people – none more than their DJ, Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell, which makes understanding his senseless murder near impossible. Who killed Jam Master Jay and why? And why are there literally zero suspects when there were numerous eyewitnesses? To view the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Double Elvis

0:05.0

How did Malcolm finally gain his cat's respect?

0:10.0

Was it because he saved 35% on Trainline and bravely looked into the eyes of his dismissive

0:16.0

pet where he saw something that said,

0:19.0

I don't actually hate you.

0:22.0

His Trainline to thank for Malcolm gaining his cat's respect.

0:26.0

We hope so. We really do. Great journey start with Trainline.

0:31.0

Leverage savings from advanced fairs, rail carts and split save wearer available versus equivalent flexible fair TNC's

0:36.0

supply.

0:38.0

Discrease and as a production of Double Elvis.

0:41.0

The stories about run DMC are insane, but not in the way you think. Not in a particular disgrace landway.

1:01.0

Their story born in part out of the crime and grime of 70s and 80s New York City, gang violence,

1:07.0

stick up kids and assassins. Aside from the unsolved murder of DJ Jam Master J,

1:13.0

the insanity surrounding run DMC is more about the group's music than it is about true crime.

1:19.0

Run DMC with the first rap group to grace the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, to be played on MTV,

1:26.0

to be nominated for a Grammy award. Run DMC were not only real deal B-boys from the block,

1:32.0

they were the first rap group to sell half a million records, then a million, then the first to have a multi-million selling album,

1:39.0

gold platinum and multi-platinum, and it was all due to the groundbreaking music they recorded.

1:45.0

Great music. That music you heard at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

1:50.0

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Mallory and Nick MK1.

1:57.0

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to jump by Van Halen.

2:02.0

And why would I play you that specific slice of Harry Chess virtuoso synth cheese could I afford it?

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