- Breakthrough Hit: "Walk This Way", undoubtedly.
- Channel Hop: The group were originally signed to Profile Records in the US and 4th & Broadway Records in the UK. While they stuck with Profile Stateside, in the UK, they shifted over to London Records in 1986, then got Profile to distribute them worldwide during the '90s. In 1999, they moved over to Arista Records after their buyout of Profile.
- Cut Song: "Slow And Low," which never made it past the demo sessions for King of Rock. The Beastie Boys heard the song and sought Run-D.M.C.'s permission to cut their own version, note , which appeared on Licensed to Ill. The original "Slow and Low" demo would appear as a bonus track on a 2005 "deluxe edition" of King Of Rock.
- Troubled Production: Crown Royal was probably doomed from the get-go. Clive Davis signed the group to Arista Records hoping to return them to prominence the same way as Santana - a big comeback album with some guest stars of the current music scene. A modern update suited Run just fine, but D.M.C. had no interest whatsoever in the current music scene, and wanted a more introspective take on hip-hop (and he'd get his wish on his 2006 solo album, Checks Thugs and Rock n Roll). Disagreements over where to take their new material resulted in D.M.C. largely withdrawing from the album's proceedings, and he's almost a non-factor on the album. On top of that, current nu-metal faces of the day, like Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst and Kid Rock, were game to contribute, but their management denied the use of their songs as singles. They wound up reduced to releasing the first single, "Rock Show," with Third Eye Blind's Stephen Jenkins, and critics almost unanimously panned Crown Royal upon release. Sadly, this was the final album before the group's dissolution, following Jam Master Jay's murder in 2002.
- Uncredited Role: They served as uncredited ghostwriters for several artists, including Beastie Boys on their first album. On the flip side, "Them Girls" off of Crown Royal had a beat produced by Ad-Rock, but he had his name taken off of it when he found out Fred Durst would be on it.
- What Could Have Been:
- The group wrote a song called "Slow And Low" while working on their album King of Rock, but ultimately discarded it as an outtake. Then The Beastie Boys, who were also on Def Jam at the time, heard a demo of the song and asked to do their own version, which appeared on Licensed To Ill - the Beastie Boys made a couple of slight lyrical changes to put a bit of their own personal touch on it, but it's still credited on their album as being written by Run DMC and Rick Rubin. The original Run DMC demo appeared as a bonus track on a 2006 re-release of King Of Rock, but a more fully produced version apparently doesn't exist.
- While Michael Jackson was working on Bad, he brought Run-D.M.C. into the studio to collaborate on a song called "Crack Kills". According to DMC
, the song ended up being scrapped after Jackson's pet chimpanzee, Bubbles, bit Jam Master Jay, though he and the rest of the group remained on good terms with Jackson, even getting a thank-you in the liner notes for Bad.
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