Run D.M.C.‘s debut album on Profile, a NY area hip-hop label that was distributed by Arista, who would later reissue it. It was produced by Russell SImmons and Larry Smith, and recorded at Greene St. Recording in Soho.

Note the credit on the rear jacket to “Music by Orange Krush” – that’s Larry Smith and his Oberheim DMX drum machine.

What a profound debut – with “Hard Times” and “It’s Like That” ushering in a new style, it became a landmark in early hip-hop.

My copy, via A1 Records in NYC, is a repressing from the mid-late 80s based on the 1775 Broadway address for Profile Records in the rim text.