It’s been over 40 years since the pioneering hip hop group Run-DMC formed in Hollis, Queens, but Darryl “DMC” McDaniels insists, “I remember everything like it was yesterday.” He appeared at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary & Unscripted virtual event to discuss the Peacock docuseries Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story, which chronicles the group’s incredible achievements and influence.

Along with McDaniels, Run-DMC was comprised of Joseph “Run” Simmons and the late Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell. “We’re going back to 1980,” producer/EP William H.

Masterson III said of the series, “when really hip hop was relatively small, and taking the viewer on a ride with these three young men from Queens that came together and really changed a lot — changed pop, changed fashion, changed music, changed race relations between white people and Black people.” RELATED: Contenders TV Docs + Unscripted – Deadline’s Full Coverage The story is told in three parts but easily could have gone longer, Masterson said. “We had talked about doing even four parts, and candidly we probably could have done five,” he noted. “We had about a hundred hours of interviews across 16 different subjects.

We did about 15 hours of verité [footage]. So, we had enough — it was more of like what were the most important things that we wanted to share and that the guys wanted to share because it just had never been done.” RELATED: Deadline Contenders Television 2024 Arrivals & Panels Gallery: Tom Hiddleston, Lily Gladstone, Maya Rudolph, Kali Reis, Jodie Foster, Kurt Russell & More Jamaican native Kirk Fraser directed the series. “When my family migrated to the States, Run-DMC was the first group that introduced me to hip hop,” Fraser explained.

‘Kings From Queens: The Story Of Run DMC’ Shows How Hip Hop Pioneers “Changed Pop, Changed Fashion, Changed Music” – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

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