Since the 1990s when I was a kid, I had always heard about Run-D.M.C. and of course heard so many of their songs, but to be honest, Ronin Ro's 𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡 book gave me more of an education on the legendary group than anything I ever heard, seen, or read on the group.𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡 chronicled the life and times of Run D.M.C. from their humble beginnings in the Hollis, Queens section of New York City to around the year 2005. The book didn't really pull no punches. It described the tension between the group members in different stages of their run, the lack of cash flow at different points of the group's run, how the group had to put out albums just to help them pay their bills (mostly in the late 1980s and early 1990s), the period when the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy were more popular than Run-D.M.C., and more. If you don't know anything about Run-D.M.C. from their inception to the mid 2000s decade, then you need to read this book.The author of this book packed a lot of information about the group into 329 pages. He really wanted his readers to be more educated than they ever were about a rap group that were not only pioneers, but who showed that rap music could meld not only with R&B music, but rock music too.As with any book Ro writes on a musical group or artist, I am always happy to see pages and chapters dedicated to the different albums these artists released during their run. Every album Run-DMC ever made from 1983 (𝘙𝘶𝘯-𝘋.𝘔.𝘊.) to 2001 (𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘭) was analyzed and dissected in this book. And because of the analysis of those albums, I was compelled to go on YouTube and revisit and listen to those albums to further educate myself on the Run-D.M.C. sound and mystique.This book also let me know how deep in the streets Jam Master Jay was and how his street cred helped the group navigate their way up the popularity chain in certain parts of New York City in the early 1980s. There were parts of New York where Run-D.M.C wasn't wanted or allowed to perform (by their own race, LOL), but Jay's street cred opened doors for the group.This book also showed me how a label president at Profile Records (Cory Robbins) believed in the group more than Run's own brother Russell ever did in the 1980s. But it was Russell ironically (page 131) who helped the group create one of their signature songs, "My Adidas."Pros of 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍: The book wanted to be a deeply researched chronicle on the ups and downs of Run-D.M.C, and it was. Ro did his own research on the group, he grew up during the golden ages of rap music (1980s and 1990s), the man knows rap music very well, and he didn't rely heavily on news articles, books, and other publications and such on Run-D.M.C. to write this book. And I respect that.Cons of 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍: There was a solid portion of this book dedicated to the Beastie Boys and their success and as I was reading these pages on the group, I was like man, Ro could have dedicated all of them pages to some more little-known information about Run-D.M.C. I guess Ro was a fan or so influenced by the Beastie Boys' music back in the 80s and 90s he saw fit to dedicate part of this book to them. I was not amused.In conclusion, Ro did it again. He wrote another music-based book that made you the reader see an artist(s) in a different light or least on a more introspective or deeper level. I would recommend this book to rap music historians, Run-D.M.C. fans, or those who are curious about what the group was about during their prime and how they lived their lives after the fame.