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Krush Groove (1985)

Joseph Simmons: Self (Run-D.M.C)

Krush Groove

Joseph Simmons credited as playing...

Self (Run-D.M.C)

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  • Rick: Ready to roll, Kurt
  • Kurtis Blow: Now, look, remember: Do it right this time and I want rock 'n' roll, baby!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): [rappin'] I'm the king of rock, there is none
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.), Self (Run-D.M.C): Higher!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): Sucker MC's should call me
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.), Self (Run-D.M.C): Sire!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): To burn my kingdom, you must use
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.), Self (Run-D.M.C): Fire!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): I won't stop rockin' till I retire
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Now we rock the party and come correct Our cuts are on time and rhymes connect Got the right to vote and will elect And other rappers can't stand us
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.), Self (Run-D.M.C): But give us respect!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): [rappin'] As one def rapper, I know I can hang, I'm Run from Run-DMC, like cool from cool and the Gang
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): Roll to the
  • Self (Run-D.M.C), Self (Run-D.M.C.): Rock!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): Rock to the roll, DMC stands for
  • Self (Run-D.M.C), Self (Run-D.M.C.): Devastating Mic Control!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): You can't touch me with a ten foot pole, And I even made the devil sell me his
  • Self (Run-D.M.C), Self (Run-D.M.C.): Soul!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): [rappin'] It's me and DMC
  • Self (Run-D.M.C), Self (Run-D.M.C.): Jay where's the beat?
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Now we're the baddest of the bad
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): The coolest of the cool, I'm DMC, I rock and roll
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): I'm DJ Run, I rock and rule It's not a Trick or Treat
  • Self (Run-D.M.C), Self (Run-D.M.C.): And it's not a April Fool
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): It's all brand new, never
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): Ever
  • Self (Run-D.M.C), Self (Run-D.M.C.): Old school!
  • Reverend Walker: What's this I hear about you two quittin' your job at the car wash?
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): You don't understand. Me and D are stars now. We can't be workin' at no car wash. You wouldn't see Lionel Richie workin' at no car wash.
  • Reverend Walker: Now you are Lionel Richie, and you're Prince. And here comes Berry Gordy.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Russell, will try tell him that we're stars.
  • Russell Walker: Oh yeah, Dad, my homeboys are superstars now.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Thank you.
  • Russell Walker: They got the hottest record on the streets. Sold out in three hours. My boy.
  • Karen: What's the name of your record?
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): King of Rock.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): There is none higher.
  • Karen: King of Rock? Are you two Run-DMC?
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Funky fresh in the flesh.
  • Karen: Oh, man, they've been playing your record on the radio all day.
  • Sheila E.: Wait. I got it. Karen, I got it.
  • [rappin']
  • Sheila E.: I can sing, rap, dance in dress-up pants, I can rock your whole world if you'll give me a chance, I'm Sheila E and my R-A-P, Is the best damn rap that could ever be, I've got a mass appeal, a little girl smile, I'll make you happy, baby, all the while, Cause I'm bad, good God, And if you got a big enough stick, Then come here, Run, this is my house, Don't you want to learn a new trick? You big koala bean head! You got any licks?
  • Sheila E., Karen: All right.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): You real def. I'm gonna put you on stage.
  • Sheila E.: Look, sneaker genius, we're over here tryin' to rehearse.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Rehearse?
  • Sheila E.: Yes.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Why don't you put a little rappin' in, like my man DMC, then maybe you'd get somewhere. You know what I'm sayin'?
  • Sheila E.: Look, so what, big deal, you can rap, but I bet you can't sing and dance.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Who?
  • Sheila E.: You!
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): [on the phone] Yeah. I need six pair of white-on-white Adidas. Four pair of red-and-white, three pair of burgundy-and-white, and five pair of black-and-white Adidas. Yeah. No, I can't wait two weeks. I need it right now.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Is this a holiday I don't know about? Everyone-Tell-Run-What-The-*Fuck*-To-Do Day?
  • D.M.C.: You been illin' lately.
  • Run: So, I'm illin'. Am I illin'? Chillin'! You know what I'm sayin'? Chillin'.
  • Jam Master Jay: Word up, man. If you can ill-out on your family, man, no tellin' what you could do with us, man.
  • Run: Man, I'm illin' on no family, man. You don't know what you're talkin' about.
  • Jam Master Jay: I'm breakin' out, man.
  • Run: Nobody illin' on nobody, man. You all be just frontin'. I want to get paid.
  • D.M.C.: Chill, man.
  • Run: Chill!
  • Karen: Listen to me, the best thing you can do is to keep working so people can see you.
  • Sal: No one's going to see me here.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): I saw you. I thought you was real def.
  • Sal: Thanks. You want something?
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): It's just that me and my man, we have champagne and, you know, we got a new record out, so we wanted to know if you wanted to chill with us. Cause we chillin'.
  • Terri Beiker: You like this? Limousine, champagne, the works. I'd get you on MTV, a national tour. Sponsorship. You name it.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): You could do that?
  • Terri Beiker: Hell, yeah.
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): [rappin'] DJ Run's my name
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): Jam Master Jay is his
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): He's DMC
  • Self (Run-D.M.C.): It's like that
  • Self (Run-D.M.C), Self (Run-D.M.C.): And that's the way it is
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): Unemployment at a record high, People coming, people going, people born to die, Don't ask me, because I don't know why
  • Self (Run-D.M.C), Self (Run-D.M.C.): But it's like that
  • Self (Run-D.M.C): and that's the way it is...
  • D.M.C.: [rappin'] This is funky fresh stuff, it's not an act
  • Run: I'll pass it to D
  • D.M.C.: I'll pass it back
  • Run: Yo, that's the way it is
  • Run, D.M.C.: 'Cause it's like that!
  • Run: So what's up? We def? We def, right? We gonna be def. What's up?
  • Kurtis Blow: [rappin'] Check out my crew that could never be beat, Ah, Kurtis Blow, Sheila E, and Run-D.M.C., And to the Fat Boys, and now you're down by law, Down with the best now let's even the score, Now just throw your hands in the air, And wave 'em like you just don't care, And if you want to bust a move like the Krush Groove, Somebody say
  • Kurtis Blow, Run, D.M.C., Jam Master Jay, Sheila E., Russell Walker: Oh Yeah!
  • Russell Walker: What do you think you're doin' comin' here with your little fly behind?
  • Run: I was tryin' to save yours.

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