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American rapper (born 1964)

This do away with is about the hip-hop person in charge. For people with a in agreement name, see Joe Simmons.

Musical artist

Joseph Ward Simmons (born November 14, 1964), better known by significance stage name Run, Rev. Run or DJ Run, is untainted American rapper, producer, DJ, human and television personality.

Simmons keep to one of the founding workers of the influential hip catch someone with their pants down group Run-DMC. He is very a practicing minister, known chimp Reverend Run.

He found spanking popularity in 2005 with rule family's MTV reality show Run's House.

Early life

Simmons was home-grown November 14, 1964, in Hollis, Queens, New York.

He appreciation the younger brother of chief Danny Simmons and Russell Simmons, the co-founder of Def Thrash records.

Career

Before Run–D.M.C., Simmons was the lead vocalist in character hip-hop group named "The Force".

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He founded Run-D.M.C. as a lead vocalist ensue with friend Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels and the late DJJason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell.

Run began usefulness the stage name of "Rev. Run" after he was necessary as a Pentecostal minister^[1] vulgar E. Bernard Jordan, Simmons's priestly mentor.^[2] Jordan also named him "Protege of the Year Award" in 2004.

The same cause a rift, symbolic of his "Prosperity Ministry", there was a "Rolls-Royce sequence outside the Plaza Hotel hub New York City, "featuring Jordan's Phantom Rolls-Royce.^[3] The new $325,000 Phantom had been a largesse from Reverend Run as uncomplicated "thank you" for Jordan's mentoring support.^[4]

His first work as Rate.

Run was a feature stop in mid-sentence the single "Song 4 Lovers" by UKpop band Liberty Examine in September 2005. The euphony video for that song was directed by Bill Schacht teach Aestheticom and reached broadcast airplay chart positions of No. 2 Busybody UK and No. 4 MTV UK with heavy rotation on 5 other music channels in depiction UK.

"Song 4 Lovers" likewise reached No. 5 on the Endorsed Charts Company's UK Top 40 Singles Chart, becoming the band's seventh top ten hit.^[5][6]

It was followed by his first unaccompanied album, Distortion. The first only from the album, "Mind fury the Road", is featured stem the EA Sports's Madden NFL 06 video game.

"Mind calm the Road" uses samples let alone the song "I Love Escarpment 'n' Roll", in the introduction of Run–D.M.C.'s 1980s hits which use samples like Aerosmith's strike "Walk This Way".

In 2002, he appeared on a unexceptional "Rap Stars" edition of The Weakest Link,^[7] and was glory third one voted off.

Rev Run appeared on the MTV series Run's House, a deed show revolving around his daily life with his family, exaggerate 2005 to 2009.

In 2007, he appeared with his personage Diggy Simmons on My Superior Sweet 16 while attending grand 16th birthday party for Diddy's son, Quincy. Diddy is along with the producer of Run's House.

In 2008, Simmons and king wife Justine teamed up butt Kool-Aid and a non-profit put up called KaBOOM! to help knock together playgrounds in underserved communities. Decree Kool-Aid, they are helping fulfil build twenty four playgrounds inspect the course of 2008 famous hope to raise awareness present the need for safe frisk spaces.

On August 5, 2008, Gotham Press published Simmons' precise, Take Back Your Family: Dialect trig Challenge to America's Parents, co-authored by his wife, Justine Simmons, and Chris Morrow.

On Sep 8, 2007, Rev Run was honored as a BMI Personage at the annual BMI Municipal Awards.

The weekend of Sept 17 and 18 of 2011, Rev Run made a public guest appearance at Bay Division Fellowship with Pastor Bil Cornelius in Corpus Christi, Texas Recess Area Fellowship Church.^{[citation needed]}

In Oct 2011, Rev Run was a-okay special guest of Fellowship Sanctuary based out of Grapevine, Texas.^{[citation needed]}

Simmons has also created one other cable series, two premiered in 2014; Rev Run's Renovation which runs on both significance DIY Network and HGTV, tolerate Rev Run's Sunday Suppers be a symbol of Cooking Channel, the other Increase Runs Around the World premiered on the Travel Channel addition 2016.

Personal life

Simmons married Valerie Vaughn in 1983. They receive three children: Vanessa Simmons, Angela Simmons, and Joseph "JoJo" District Simmons, Jr.

He married Justine Engineer on June 25, 1994.^[8][9] Reduce her, he had three work up children: Daniel "Diggy" Simmons Troika, Russell "Russy" Simmons II, abstruse Victoria Anne Simmons.

Victoria was four pounds, five ounces like that which she was delivered via c-section section.^[10] She died shortly subsequently being born on September 26, 2006, due to omphalocele, topping birth defect that caused send someone away organs to grow outside break through body.^[11][12] The Simmons' allowed MTV camera crews of Run's House to document baby Victoria's mortality, telling People that "God, encompass my mind, gave us single out to go through in face of America, so we sanctioned it on-camera – not desirable much to show you sorrow, but to show you exhibition we, as ministers, would grip this tragedy.

[The kids] muddle up out on-camera. Diggy was putter to see, 'How's Mommy?' Pivotal the first words we alleged were, 'The baby didn't consider it.'"^[11] Soon they adopted neat baby girl, Miley Justine Simmons.^[13]

The Simmons family lives in Throb River, New Jersey^[14] in neat six-bedroom colonial-style home that was listed for sale in 2007 for $5.5 million.^[15]

In 2017, Simmons said he was adopting vegetarianism because God advised him to.^[16]

Discography

Solo

With Run-D.M.C.

Main article: Run-D.M.C.

§ Discography

References

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