TOUGHER THAN LEATHER is a unique specimen – a time capsule movie vehicle for a musical act at their height, but a legit act with street credibility that they did not lose by being in a movie. This is not the Fat Boys or Meth and Red making a comedy. It’s Run DMC in a gritty action movie made independently by the same people they made their records with. Maybe a good comparison would be Isaac Hayes in TRUCK TURNER or Jimmy Cliff in THE HARDER THEY COME, except they weren’t playing themselves.
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Tougher Than Leather
Thursday, August 30th, 2012Tags: Beastie Boys, Flavor Flav, hip hop, Richard Edson, Rick Rubin, Run DMC, Slick Rick
Posted in Action, Music, Reviews | 19 Comments »
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