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Run DMC GREATEST HITS. Your best loved music in it's simplest form. 18 best-selling "Greatest Hits" & "Best of" collections. SONY IMPORT. Are Run DMC the most important group of the past 25 years? Well, if you believe that hip-hop is the most significant musical development in a quarter century, what other conclusion can you draw? Though they may not have been responsible for the birth of rap, the trio from Hollis in Queens represents the genre's coming of age. They were the ones who brought what was largely a regional street phenomenon to the masses. The rhymes, the beats, the style, the attitude Run DMC introduced it all to the world. Focusing mostly on the group's first three albums each of them a cornerstone of rap music this 18-track collection is a reminder of a time when rap enjoyed a kind of childlike innocence; their boasts are forceful but not angry, the beats are simple but exciting, the overall effect (fuelled by heavy-metal riffs) is edgy and aggressive, but not violent or destructive. But most of all, it's fun. In the 1990's, rap artists would take Run DMC's ideas to wide extremes, but the roots of this next generation gangsta rap's street realism, political rap's social agendas, rock-rap's antagonism are found right here.