Page 1 of Run Dmc - Jam Master Jay shot dead

Jam Master Jay, part of the pioneering rap trio Run DMC, has been shot and killed.

Publicist Tracy Miller confirmed the death of the 37-year-old rapper, whose real name was Jason Mizell.

A legal source said the rapper was shot in the head at a recording studio in the New York City borough of Queens. A second person was shot in the ankle and the gunman escaped.

Run DMC is widely credited with helping bring hip-hop into music`s mainstream, including the group`s smash collaboration with Aerosmith on the 1980`s standard Walk This Way.

"We always knew rap was for everyone," Mizell said in a 2001 interview with MTV. "Anyone could rap over all kinds of music."

"It wasn`t the soulful R&B of the `70s and `80s," he said of the group`s early work. "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."

The trio released a greatest-hits album earlier this year. In 2001, the rappers produced Crown Royal, breaking an eight-year silence.

Enemy

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo.... s***.. damn.. when was this?

AARGGGHHHH... a whole period of my youth.. destroyed!!...

a sad day its true... but perhaps it will mean the re-release a possible greatest hits etc... or some more Jason Nevins covers!!!

My youth is disappearing fast>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

indeed it is, and replaced by todays rappers. a talentless parody of what rap once was.

While I agree it is sad about JMJ what about the bloke with him who was shot in the leg or ankle or something is he now singing walk this way ?

Awwwww Man,
That is terrible, I have ALL their jammin` discs dude, know wha im sayyin ?

Seriously though they were great. I especially loved "Ice, Ice baby" with that superfly genesis riff ! WIKKID ENNIT ! !

I love music

K

....and i quote. Ready?

, How y`all feelin out there? Ah yeah. ah, check this out...One two three, in the place to be, he is DJ Run, and i am DMC, funky fresh for 1983, DJ jam master jay, inside the place with all the bass,he leaves without a trace, and he came here tonight to get on your case...

AND WE ARE, THE CRUSH MOVIN, THE BODY MOVIN, THE RECORD MAKIN, AND THE RECORD MAKIN!..

....and it goes a little somethin like this...

Pure class, Adidas Tracksuits would never be the same again.

God rest his funky soul...

Westy