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Break retired the oversized chains and Adidas sweats. Rev. Run is rocking Allegiant Stadium.
Joseph Simmons, groundbreaking rapper and co-founder of Run-DMC, is performing astatine halftime of Sunday’s crippled betwixt the Raiders and the Washington Football Team. Rev. Run, arsenic helium is known professionally, besides is the prima of the MTV world amusement “Run’s House.”
“I’m honored and excited to person the accidental to execute for Raider Nation astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas, the Entertainment Capital of the World,” Rev. Run said successful a statement. The groundbreaking, 57-year-old creator is simply a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, on with Run-DMC, which has been named arsenic the top hip-hop creator ever by MTV and VH1.
For a Vegas angle, the radical enlisted Penn & Teller for the “It’s Tricky” video successful 1987. For another, Aerosmith re-cut “Walk This Way” with Run-DMC a twelvemonth earlier, efficaciously breaking the partition betwixt stone and rap. Both videos are unqualified classics from this nonsubjective perch.
Rev. Run is simply a unit connected societal media, too, evoking spiritual messages, usually “God is good” oregon “God is the greatest.” He has amassed 3.9 cardinal followers connected his @RevRunWison Twitter relationship with conscionable a azygous travel (the echofon Twitter app for iOS and Android users). The Rev besides has 2.2 cardinal followers connected his @revwon IG page, with zero follows.
This season, the Raiders besides person presented stone greats Carlos Santana and Sammy Hagar; DJs Marshmello and Steve Aoki; rappers Ludacris, and Too Short with Ice Cube; and besides the “World Famed Tiger Marching Band” from Grambling State University.
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