RUN AND D.M.C. TO PLAY ROOTS PICNIC?

Last year at The Roots picnic, the group headlined their festival but also served as Public Enemy's backing band for a complete performance of It Takes A Nation To Hold Us Back. ?uestlove just posted a video annoucning the lineup (nothing too great, it features The Clipse and Vampire Weekend) but says that there will be a reunion that no one ever expected. He then puts on a black hat and gold chain and folds his arms.  I'm guessing - and I'm sure so is everyone else - Run-D.M.C.  Or, more accurately, Run and D.M.C.  It's not Run-D.M.C. as long as Jam Master Jay is no longer with us. Still that is a pretty cool deal. After Run and D.M.C. didn't perform at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, I didn't think they'd ever perform together again. So thank you to The Roots! Maybe next year they can get Eric B. & Rakim back together!

JAM MASTER JAY DOCUMENTARY

There's a documentary about Run-D.M.C. DJ Jam Master Jay coming out called 2 Turntables And A Microphone. 50 Cent executive produced it (I believe JMJ helped 50 out early in his career) and I think it might be included in the deluxe version of 50's new album Before I Self-Destruct, but I'm not sure about that. Hopefully it is a good doc, and if so, it will deserve to stand on its own. His murder was tragic, and seems to be one of a series of unsolved murders in the hip-hop community. I don't know if the doc gets close to coming to any conclusions about what happened. Here's a trailer:

RUN-DMC JMJ WAY

The corner of 205th and Hollis Ave in Hollis, Queens, is going to be renamed Run-DMC JMJ Way, in honor of Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC. If anyone deserves their own street, especially in Queens, it's Run-DMC.