Run-DMChas officially run its course at least for now.
In video footage obtained from the event, membersRev.
“How many people out there came to see Run-DMC?”
Nas and Lauryn Hill perform at Hip Hop 50 Live at Yankee Stadium.Theo Wargo/Getty
Simmons asked the crowd, who cheered in response.
“How many people from the old school had the cassette tapes?
… Talking about my old-school people, people that know ‘Peter Piper’ and ‘My Adidas.'”
Run-DMC at the Hip Hop 50 concert in New York.Theo Wargo/Getty
This isn’t the first time Run-DMC have announced that they were dropping the mic.
Simmons and McDaniels floated the idea that they were winding down activities earlier this year.
“Run-DMC is over,” McDaniels toldRock the Bells.
“The only way Run-DMC gets back together is if the Beatles get back together.
Can that happen?”
At the time, DMC said their final show would be an April performance at Madison Square Garden.
“It’s going to be the last episode of the documentary we’re doing.
Run-DMC’s last show ever,” McDaniels said.
“‘Cause it’s time for Run to go be Paul McCartney and me to be John Lennon.
We done did what we could do.”
