80s Music Central News

The seminal rap group Run-DMC is now looking to return to the studios for a new album, thanks to a new deal with Arista Records, which has also acquired the rights to Profile's back catalogue. The group, which hasn't issued an album since 1993's "Down with the King," enjoyed a revival of sorts last year when DJ Jason Nevins worked up a series of remixes of Run-DMC's very first hit, "It's Like That," from 1983, a song which will appear on Arista's upcoming "Ultimate Dance Party 1999" compilation. Run says that "quite a bit" of the new album is already completed, and that the rap group hopes to have the album out in the next five months. Run also indicated that they were in discussions with Will Smith's production company to make a movie that he described as "something like a 'Krush Groove 2,'" a sequel to the 1985 hip-hop film that featured L.L. Cool J, Kurtis Blow, New Edition and Sheila E.