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"&lt;p&gt;Most Rap&amp;apos;s just a beat and a boast, but Run and D.M.C., a pair of New York rappers, let the beat run wild and turn the boasts into messages that self-improvement is the only ticket out. Trading off lines or even the words within a line, they get into a vocal tug of war that&amp;apos;s completely different from the straightforward delivery of the Furious Five&amp;apos;s Melle Mel or the every-body-takes-a-verse approach of groups like Sequence. And the music, by Orange Krush, that backs these tracks is surprisingly varied, for all its bare bones. In their adventurous &amp;quot;Rock Box,&amp;quot; Run and D.M.C. set their clipped, back-and-forth exchanges to a crying hard-rock guitar solo, melting rap into rock like it&amp;apos;s never been done before. And the dramatic, dark sound of &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s like That,&amp;quot; with an organ pouncing in at the beginning of the lines, sets up the scolding rap: &amp;quot;You should have gone to school/You could have learned a trade/But you laid in the bed with the bunk half-made/Now all the time you&amp;apos;re crying that you&amp;apos;re underpaid/It&amp;apos;s like that.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still, the bulk of the words are hilariously self-promoting. Their big dance hit, &amp;quot;Sucker M.C.&amp;apos;s (Krush-Groove 1),&amp;quot; is included here, its story the rise of the duo from auditions to success. They rag on the lowly suckers who haven&amp;apos;t bothered to pull themselves up, sneering, &amp;quot;You&amp;apos;re a five-dollar boy and I&amp;apos;m a million-dollar man/You the sucker M.C. and you&amp;apos;re my fan.&amp;quot; You&amp;apos;d think the poor jerks had been stealing welfare checks, but what they&amp;apos;ve done is even more contemptible to Run-D.M.C.: &amp;quot;You don&amp;apos;t even know your English/Your verb or noun.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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