Run This: Why We Love Rev Run

Happy birthday, Rev Run!

Vanessa and Angela - Even with Diggy's steadily improving rhyme skills, we gotta go with Angela and Vanessa as our favorite young Simmonses. With their looks, their style and their hustle (they've already launched a sneaker line, a website and more), it's no wonder half of hip hop has a crush on them. Good job, Run! (Photo: Johnny Nunez/Wire Image)
Rev. Run on raising boys and girls: - "For boys you want to teach them how to treat a lady, how to play football, how to handle themselves in the street. With a girl, it's another whole animal."(Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images)
He Keeps the Faith - Run, who's ordained as a Pentecostal minister and proudly wears the cloth in the public eye, made it cool to mix rap and spirituality. Amen. (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
He's Still Doing It - Rap don't crack. Even though he's pushing 50, Rev. Run reunited with his old band-mate DMC to perform at Jay-Z's massive Made in America Festival this summer. It was their first performance since Jam Master Jay was murdered in 2002.  (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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