The Essential Run-D.M.C. is no small consolation for being unable to obtain all of the group's albums. Indeed, something of this scope -- following many single-disc overviews -- has been necessary for a long time, as Run-D.M.C.'s catalog is too deep to be sufficiently summed with one disc. Across two discs, there's every necessary Run-D.M.C. single and album cut, including the classics "Hard Times," "It's Like That," "Rock Box," "King of Rock," "It's Tricky," and "Down with the King." The set pays tribute to DJ Jam Master Jay by closing disc one with "Pause" (featuring the man's first appearance as an MC) and by closing disc two with a seven-minute mix of "Jam Master Jammin'" (which went unreleased until the 2005 reissue of King of Rock). Bill Adler, pioneering hip-hop publicist and author of Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-D.M.C., provides quotable-crammed liner notes.
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TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Sucker M.C.'s (0:00)
2 They Call Us Run-D.M.C. (0:00)
3 Peter Piper (0:00)
4 Rock Box (0:00)
5 Beats To The Rhyme (0:00)
6 Ooh, Watcha Gonna Do (0:00)
7 Dumb Girl (0:00)
8 Mary, Mary (0:00)
9 The School Of Old (0:00)
10 King Of Rock (0:00)
11 Together Forever (0:00)
12 My Adidas (0:00)
13 Hollis Crew (0:00)
14 Back From Hell (0:00)
15 Pause (0:00)
Disc 2
1 Down With The King (0:00)
2 Walk This Way (0:00)
3 Christmas In Hollis (0:00)
4 Hard Times (0:00)
5 Here We Go (0:00)
6 Come On Everybody (0:00)
7 The Ave (0:00)
8 Run's House (0:00)
9 It's Tricky (0:00)
10 Tougher Than Leather (0:00)
11 You Talk Too Much (0:00)
12 You Be Illin' (0:00)
13 It's Like That (0:00)
14 Jam-Master Jammin' (0:00)
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