Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Korea Times Staff Reporter
Hip-hop legend Darryl ``DMC' McDaniels showed Korean fans what real hip-hop music is like, when he performed at the grand reopening of the Hard Rock Cafe Seoul, Wednesday evening.
It was DMC's first time to visit Seoul, but he was obviously pleased with how hip-hop culture has spread to this part of the world.
The Hard Rock Cafe Seoul in Itaewon was packed with people, who jumped, cheered and chanted to DMC's rap music. DMC, a founding member of hip-hop pioneers Run-DMC, got the party started with one of the group's old hits ``Here We Go.'
DMC also performed the classic, ``Walk This Way.' The song was remade in collaboration with rock group Aerosmith, who first recorded it in 1975, in the 1980s, and started the trend of collaborations between artists from different musical genres.
Instead of a rock group, DMC collaborated with local hip-hop duo Dynamic Duo, who rapped some parts in Korean.
In a press conference before the concert, DMC admitted he doesn't even listen to any of today's music or watch any of the music channels. He doesn't consider any of the current hip-hop music as ``real' hip-hop.
``Real hip-hop is in a class by itself. … I don't listen to the radio or watch music channels. I only listen to the artists and everything on the walls of the Hard Rock Cafe. Classic does not mean old. It means it is better than anything that would come after it,' he said.
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