October 31, 2002
(This post is from my old, old, super old site. My views have changed over the years, hopefully my writing has improved, and there is now more than a handful of folks reading my site. Enjoy.)
What a fucking bummer- <a href=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=501&e=1&u=/ap/20021031/ap_on_en_mu/rapper_killed>Jam Master Jay Dies in NYC Shooting.
"We always knew rap was for everyone. Anyone could rap over all kinds of music. It wasn't the soulful R&B of the '70s and '80s, so we didn't want to be like the soft R&B. We wanted to go hardcore, so we put the rock-and-roll on our rap."
Jam Master Jay was part of Run DMC.