Joseph Simmons

About

Joseph Ward Simmons (born November 14, 1964), better known by the stage name Run, Rev. Run or DJ Run, is an American rapper, producer, DJ, and television personality. Simmons is one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group Run-DMC. He is also a practicing minister, known as Reverend Run.
He found new popularity in 2005 with his family’s MTV reality show Run’s House.

Simmons was born November 14, 1964, in Hollis, Queens, New York. He is the younger brother of artist Danny Simmons and Russell Simmons, the co-founder of Def Jam records.

Before Run–D.M.C., Simmons was the lead vocalist in the hip-hop group named “The Force”. He founded Run-D.M.C. as a lead vocalist along with friend Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels and the late DJ Jason “Jam-Master Jay” Mizell.
Run began using the stage name of “Rev. Run” after he was ordained as a Pentecostal minister by E. Bernard Jordan, Simmons’s spiritual mentor. Jordan also named him “Protege of the Year Award” in 2004. The same day, symbolic of his “Prosperity Ministry”, there was a “Rolls-Royce parade outside the Plaza Hotel in New York City, “featuring Jordan’s Phantom Rolls-Royce. The new $325,000 Phantom…