Legendary "Hip Hop" Producer Has Passed Away! RIP

Legendary "Hip Hop" Producer Has Passed Away! RIP 

Legendary producer Larry Smith has passed on after 

crafting hits for the likes of Run DMC, Whodini and 

Kurtis Blow during Hip-Hop’s earliest phase.

Smith was a Hip-Hop musician without peer, who used 

live instruments on rap songs. Run of Run DMC 

immortalized Smith on the group’s hit record “Sucker 

MC’s” when he said, “Larry put me inside his Cadillac 

/The chauffeur drove off and we never came back.” 

Smith had been ailing in recent years due to a stroke 

and succumbed on Friday December 19.

DMC of Run DMC fame paid his respects on Twitter. 

“Rest In Beats larry Smith Music In Your Heart hip Hop 

Was Your Gift to The World! No one does it better!”

At a recent concert stop in Brooklyn, Run paid his own 

respects.

“My man Larry Smith, he produced these records. It’s 

sad but fitting he passes away on the day I return to a 

big stage like this… I love you Larry, I hope you’re 

watching from Heaven and I’m making you proud,” 

Run said at the Barclays Center in downtown 

Brooklyn.