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Run-DMC Recall 'My Adidas' Impact, 25 Years Later

09.02.12

' Yeah, we wear Adidas [with] no laces, we got gold chains, we got Cazals and all of that, but I go to St. John's University. ' And, 'Those young people are nothing but troublemakers and those young people don't know nothing. It was about taking the image of the b-boy and b-girl and letting the world know we're a people of vision, we're inspiration, motivation, we're educated too. "It came from the place of people would look at the b-boys, the b-girls and go, 'Oh, those are the people that cause all the problems in here. The song was released in 1986 and appears on Run-DMC's triple-platinum Raising Hell album. "It was a song that was about our sneakers, but it was bigger than just talking about how many pairs of sneakers we had," DMC told MTV News. ' So they was judging the book by its cover, without seeing what was inside of it. ". DMC continued, "So me, Run and [Jam Master] Jay was like, 'Yeah, we going to make a record about our Adidas.

Source: MTV.com