jad1097
10-31-2002, 08:38 PM
I am speechless. I have enjoyed their music since they came out in the 80's.
May he RIP.:(
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Jam Master Jay, whose innovative turntable scratching helped the rap group Run-DMC break into the pop music mainstream, is being remembered as a pioneer and groundbreaker by friends and colleagues.
"These are our Beatles," Public Enemy's Chuck D told The New York Times. Public Enemy had paid tribute to Jam Master Jay in a song, with Chuck D rapping, "Run-DMC first said a DJ could be a band."
Jam Master Jay, who was born Jason Mizell in the middle-class Queens neighborhood of Hollis, was shot in the head and killed Wednesday night at a recording studio in the borough's Jamaica neighborhood. He was 37. Another man, Urieco Rinco, 25, was shot in the leg and taken to a local hospital, police said. (Full story)
Police are investigating the shooting, which took place inside a studio on Merrick Boulevard about 7:30 p.m. EDT.
No arrests have been made in the case.
'[Run-DMC] came at a time when rap was not fully embraced by [even] the urban culture. ... People can't understand how important they were in pop music history," said Jim Tremayne, editor of DJ Times, a trade magazine for DJs. "They were absolutely as revolutionary as Elvis" when it came to popularizing rap, and it was Jay who provided the beat, he said.
more.... (http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/31/obit.jam.master.jay/index.html)
May he RIP.:(
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Jam Master Jay, whose innovative turntable scratching helped the rap group Run-DMC break into the pop music mainstream, is being remembered as a pioneer and groundbreaker by friends and colleagues.
"These are our Beatles," Public Enemy's Chuck D told The New York Times. Public Enemy had paid tribute to Jam Master Jay in a song, with Chuck D rapping, "Run-DMC first said a DJ could be a band."
Jam Master Jay, who was born Jason Mizell in the middle-class Queens neighborhood of Hollis, was shot in the head and killed Wednesday night at a recording studio in the borough's Jamaica neighborhood. He was 37. Another man, Urieco Rinco, 25, was shot in the leg and taken to a local hospital, police said. (Full story)
Police are investigating the shooting, which took place inside a studio on Merrick Boulevard about 7:30 p.m. EDT.
No arrests have been made in the case.
'[Run-DMC] came at a time when rap was not fully embraced by [even] the urban culture. ... People can't understand how important they were in pop music history," said Jim Tremayne, editor of DJ Times, a trade magazine for DJs. "They were absolutely as revolutionary as Elvis" when it came to popularizing rap, and it was Jay who provided the beat, he said.
more.... (http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/31/obit.jam.master.jay/index.html)