I've only voted Mobb Deep and NWA as top 5
Poll Is Run DMC A Top 5 Rap Group?
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Run DMC kicked down doors.
Run DMC was the only group getting heavy rotation on MTV from 84-86. This was before Yo! MV Raps.
Run DMC was the first rap group to go platinum.
Run DMC was the first rap group to go multiplatinum.
UGK wasn't the first group to do anything. Neither was 36 Mafia, or Bone or Mobb Deep for that matter.
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OGDirtyD
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Anybody can open a door doesnt make them greater then everybody else if this is about music quality and their music ain't cutting it. Old heads can jam out to their nostalgic taste but UGK had substance and shit to really say. Their content shits on Runs and that's what I'm going by. Somebody can pick up a UGK record in 2019 and a Run DMC record, I guarantee UGK content still more relatable to this day from the avg listener, cant say the same for Run "Walk This Way?, Its Tricky? Nah but High Life and One Day def can be felt.
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Remember it’s not where you from it’s where you at...and Run DMC was at Top of the Hip Hop in the mid 80’s... UGK was always at the Underground level so most people outside the South NEVER heard their entire Discography... It’s Apples to Oranges in comparison
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UGK got shit like that scattered all around their discography. Plus more stuff RUN DMC never even touched subject wise. I get they are the OGs of this hip hop shit but groups like UGK just got better substance in their music.
UGK (or 36 Mafia, Outkast, Bone Thugs, Mobb Deep, NWA or Pubic Enemy) were never the absolute #1 Hip Hop group. Actually, Outkast went diamond so I guess it could be argued that they were #1 in their peak.
But the rest of those groups had hits and got play on BET/MTV but you can't say they were the face of Hip Hop. You can't say UGK shut down retail stores from New York to Cali to Florida to Texas when their album dropped. UGK may have shut down retail stores in the South, but trust me when I say there wasn't much anticipation for their album when it dropped in the East Coast.
I get that they represent the South, but they really weren't that big on the East Coast and that's indisputable.
Run DMC was huge in the South, West, Midwest and East coast.
Run DMC was huge in Europe and Japan.
You might prefer UGK due to your age and geographical location, but they didn't make an impact like Run DMC. Nobody did.
The closest you could get to making an impact like Run DMC would be 2Pac, Biggie and Eminem.
Jay Z and Nas didn't even make an impact like Run DMC.
Wu Tang didn't make an impact like Run DMC.
You gotta remember rap albums weren't common in the early/mid 80s.
These are ALL the rap albums that came out between 79-85
1979-85
1. Run-D.M.C. (Profile '84)
2. L.L. Cool J: Radio (Def Jam '85)
3. Wild Style (Animal '83)
4. Live Convention '82 (Disco Wax '82)
5. Live Convention '81 (Disco Wax '81)
6. Fat Boys (Sutra '84)
7. Whodini: Escape (Jive '84)
8. Run-D.M.C.: King of Rock (Profile '85)
9. Treacherous Three (Sugarhill '84)
10. Mantronix: The Album (Fresh '85)
11. Malcolm McLaren & the World Famous Supreme Team: D'Ya Like Scratchin' EP (Island '82)
12. The Big Break Rapper Party (Sounds of New York '80)
13. The Fat Boys Are Back (Sutra '85)
14. Too $hort: Don't Stop Rappin' (75 Girls '85)
15. Crash Crew (Sugarhill '84)
16. Too $hort: Raw, Uncut & X-Rated (75 Girls '85)
17. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5: The Message (Sugarhill '82)
18. Kurtis Blow: Ego Trip (Mercury '84)
19. Too $hort: Players (75 Girls, '83)
20. Whodini (Jive '83)
21. Sugarhill Gang: 8th Wonder (Sugarhill '81)
22. Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde: The Champagne of Rap (Profile '85)
23. Def Mix Volume 1 (Pop Art '85)
24. Kurtis Blow (Mercury '80)
25. Sugarhill Gang (Sugarhill '79)
Edit. There was a female rap group called The Sequence that had a few albums. They were on Sugarhill Records. But they don't really have a classic song.
But the rest of those groups had hits and got play on BET/MTV but you can't say they were the face of Hip Hop. You can't say UGK shut down retail stores from New York to Cali to Florida to Texas when their album dropped. UGK may have shut down retail stores in the South, but trust me when I say there wasn't much anticipation for their album when it dropped in the East Coast.
I get that they represent the South, but they really weren't that big on the East Coast and that's indisputable.
Run DMC was huge in the South, West, Midwest and East coast.
Run DMC was huge in Europe and Japan.
You might prefer UGK due to your age and geographical location, but they didn't make an impact like Run DMC. Nobody did.
The closest you could get to making an impact like Run DMC would be 2Pac, Biggie and Eminem.
Jay Z and Nas didn't even make an impact like Run DMC.
Wu Tang didn't make an impact like Run DMC.
You gotta remember rap albums weren't common in the early/mid 80s.
These are ALL the rap albums that came out between 79-85
1979-85
1. Run-D.M.C. (Profile '84)
2. L.L. Cool J: Radio (Def Jam '85)
3. Wild Style (Animal '83)
4. Live Convention '82 (Disco Wax '82)
5. Live Convention '81 (Disco Wax '81)
6. Fat Boys (Sutra '84)
7. Whodini: Escape (Jive '84)
8. Run-D.M.C.: King of Rock (Profile '85)
9. Treacherous Three (Sugarhill '84)
10. Mantronix: The Album (Fresh '85)
11. Malcolm McLaren & the World Famous Supreme Team: D'Ya Like Scratchin' EP (Island '82)
12. The Big Break Rapper Party (Sounds of New York '80)
13. The Fat Boys Are Back (Sutra '85)
14. Too $hort: Don't Stop Rappin' (75 Girls '85)
15. Crash Crew (Sugarhill '84)
16. Too $hort: Raw, Uncut & X-Rated (75 Girls '85)
17. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5: The Message (Sugarhill '82)
18. Kurtis Blow: Ego Trip (Mercury '84)
19. Too $hort: Players (75 Girls, '83)
20. Whodini (Jive '83)
21. Sugarhill Gang: 8th Wonder (Sugarhill '81)
22. Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde: The Champagne of Rap (Profile '85)
23. Def Mix Volume 1 (Pop Art '85)
24. Kurtis Blow (Mercury '80)
25. Sugarhill Gang (Sugarhill '79)
Edit. There was a female rap group called The Sequence that had a few albums. They were on Sugarhill Records. But they don't really have a classic song.
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@5 Grand You have a point with the underlined.
The bolded statement however...
Would say that RUN DMC's impact and the Clan's impact are apples and oranges?