Kings of Rhyme

"We're not gonna work too hard to impress anybody, we just gonna put it out," D.M.C. says of the next record. "We gonna make it, put it out; if you like it, you like it, if you don't, you don't; but we gonna stay on the road, you know what I'm sayin'? It ain't a thing like we gonna put an album out, we gonna sell 20 million records, and we gonna take a break. No. 'Cause we feel we can tour with Run-D.M.C. forever.

"If we never put out another album again, we can work until we're 85, and that's really our goal, to represent hip-hop and rap longevity. To do what Sinatra did, to do what the Temptations are doin', to do what Michael Jackson is doin'--to be somebody that was not just in hip-hop, but in the music industry for over 30 years."

Run-D.M.C. is scheduled to perform as part of the Freak Show on Saturday, October 31, at Celebrity Theatre, with Phunk Junkeez, the Pharcyde, Bombshelter DJs, and Cousins of the Wize. Showtime is 7 p.m.