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LL Cool J, Doug E. Fresh, Kurtis Blow: Krush Groove Party, Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 18 January 1986

RUSH PRODUCTIONS, an organization with the best intentions, conceived this event to be a celebration of the success of the film Krush Groove and of the consolidation of hip-hop/rap as a cultural and commercial force. But from the beginning a pall hung over it with the announcement that Run, of the headlining Run-DMC, was in the hospital with a collapsed lung and wouldn't make it.

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