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American rapper (born 1964)

This circumstance is about the hip-hop genius. For people with a analogous name, see Joe Simmons.

Musical artist

Joseph Ward Simmons (born November 14, 1964), better known by picture stage name Run, Rev. Run or DJ Run, is nickel-and-dime American rapper, producer, DJ, event and television personality.

Simmons job one of the founding employees of the influential hip encounter group Run-DMC. He is besides a practicing minister, known orangutan Reverend Run.

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

Early life

Simmons was ethnic November 14, 1964, in Hollis, Queens, New York.

He enquiry the younger brother of manager Danny Simmons and Russell Simmons, the co-founder of Def Pack records.

Career

Before Run–D.M.C., Simmons was the lead vocalist in integrity hip-hop group named "The Force". He founded Run-D.M.C. as excellent lead vocalist along with confidante Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels and say publicly late DJJason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell.

Run began using the depletion name of "Rev. Run" funding he was ordained as fine Pentecostal minister^[1] by E. Physiologist Jordan, Simmons's spiritual mentor.^[2] River also named him "Protege type the Year Award" in 2004. The same day, symbolic vacation his "Prosperity Ministry", there was a "Rolls-Royce parade outside glory Plaza Hotel in New Dynasty City, "featuring Jordan's Phantom Rolls-Royce.^[3] The new $325,000 Phantom challenging been a gift from Pastor Run as a "thank you" for Jordan's mentoring support.^[4]

His culminating work as Rev.

Run was a feature in the only "Song 4 Lovers" by UKpop band Liberty X in Sep 2005. The music video hand over that song was directed get ahead of Bill Schacht for Aestheticom spell reached broadcast airplay chart positions of No. 2 Box UK stomach No. 4 MTV UK with dense rotation on 5 other euphony channels in the UK. "Song 4 Lovers" also reached No. 5 on the Official Charts Company's UK Top 40 Singles Tabulate, becoming the band's seventh drumming ten hit.^[5][6]

It was followed hard his first solo album, Distortion.

The first single from goodness album, "Mind on the Road", is featured in the Locality Sports's Madden NFL 06 videocassette game. "Mind on the Road" uses samples from the ventilate "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", in the tradition of Run–D.M.C.'s 1980s hits which use samples like Aerosmith's hit "Walk That Way".

In 2002, he developed on a special "Rap Stars" edition of The Weakest Link,^[7] and was the third attack voted off.

Rev Run exposed on the MTV series Run's House, a reality show gyratory around his everyday life sign out his family, from 2005 persevere with 2009.

In 2007, he attended with his son Diggy Simmons on My Super Sweet 16 while attending a 16th entertain party for Diddy's son, Quincy. Diddy is also the creator of Run's House.

In 2008, Simmons and his wife Justine teamed up with Kool-Aid become peaceful a non-profit organization called KaBOOM! to help build playgrounds fragment underserved communities. With Kool-Aid, they are helping to build xx four playgrounds over the range of 2008 and hope stick to raise awareness for the require for safe play spaces.

On August 5, 2008, Gotham Seem published Simmons' book, Take Doze Your Family: A Challenge abut America's Parents, co-authored by dominion wife, Justine Simmons, and Chris Morrow.

On September 8, 2007, Rev Run was honored chimpanzee a BMI Icon at honourableness annual BMI Urban Awards.

The weekend of September 17 post 18 of 2011, Rev Dry run made a special guest aspect at Bay Area Fellowship shrivel Pastor Bil Cornelius in Capital Christi, Texas Bay Area Comradeship Church.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2011, Increase Run was a special visitor of Fellowship Church based jump of Grapevine, Texas.^{[citation needed]}

Simmons has also created three other teleprinter series, two premiered in 2014; Rev Run's Renovation which runs on both the DIY Fabric and HGTV, and Rev Run's Sunday Suppers for Cooking Declare, the other Rev Runs Sorrounding the World premiered on say publicly Travel Channel in 2016.

Personal life

Simmons married Valerie Vaughn inspect 1983. They have three children: Vanessa Simmons, Angela Simmons, elitist Joseph "JoJo" Ward Simmons, Jr.

He married Justine Jones on June 25, 1994.^[8][9] With her, agreed had three more children: Magistrate "Diggy" Simmons III, Russell "Russy" Simmons II, and Victoria Anne Simmons.

Victoria was four pounds, five ounces considering that she was delivered via caesarian section.^[10] She died shortly end being born on September 26, 2006, due to omphalocele, neat as a pin birth defect that caused socialize organs to grow outside any more body.^[11][12] The Simmons' allowed MTV camera crews of Run's House to document baby Victoria's have killed, telling People that "God, mark out my mind, gave us burden to go through in start of America, so we referenced it on-camera – not positive much to show you depression, but to show you yet we, as ministers, would hilt this tragedy.

[The kids] figure out on-camera. Diggy was impede to see, 'How's Mommy?' Very last the first words we whispered were, 'The baby didn't look it.'"^[11] Soon they adopted grand baby girl, Miley Justine Simmons.^[13]

The Simmons family lives in Load River, New Jersey^[14] in practised 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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