Full Clip: Pete Rock Runs Down His Entire Catalogue
“Down With The King”—Run-D.M.C. (1993)
“I was scared to do this song [laughs]. It was such a difficult situation because we had to convince Russell Simmons to like the song and understand who Pete Rock was. This is Run-D.M.C. we are talking about. This is one of the greatest groups of all time and Russell started out with them. To listen to a young producer like me, I was only 20 at the time. Russell was like, ‘How old is this guy? He doesn’t know anything.’ I told him this was the new ‘90s shit…you have to get with it. But Russell wasn’t with it. For a while I was losing hope that it was even going to happen. But Jam Master Jay was with me on it! He came to my house one day ringing my mother’s doorbell [laughs]. I open the door and it’s Jay at the door. He was like, ‘Yo, let’s go make this song. Don’t worry about shit…watch this. We are going to make this happen!’