Throwback: Happy 60th Birthday, Rev Run!

November is here y’all! And of course, it means that the year has flown by before our eyes. 

Much like the ten months before it, November is full of birthdays. So let’s get to it, right? 

• Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ frontman Anthony Kiedis celebrated his 62nd birthday on November 1
• Nelly, one of the most commercially successful artists of the early 2000s celebrated his 50th birthday on November 2 
• Mobb Deep’s Prodigy  was born 50 years ago on November 2
• Onyx’s Sticky Fingaz celebrated his 51st birthday on November 3
• The Screaming Eagle of Soul, Charles Bradley was born 76 years ago on November 5
• Bryan Adams celebrated his 65 — holy shit, 65th! — birthday on November 5
• Radiohead‘s and The Smile‘s Jonny Greenwood celebrated his 53rd birthday on November 5
• The Eagles‘ Glenn Frey was born on this day 76 years ago on November 6
• The incomparable and legendary Joni Mitchell celebrated her 81st birthday on November 7
• Eric B and Rakim‘s Eric B celebrates his 61st birthday today 
• Scarface celebrated his 54th birthday on November 9
• Warren G. celebrated his 54th birthday on November 10
• XTC co-founder and primary songwriter Andy Partridge celebrated his 71st birthday on November 11
• The legendary Neil Young (a.k.a. God) celebrated his 79th birthday on November 12

I’ve loved Run DMC since I was very little. Those brothers were a revelation to me: They were cool. They swaggered. They were from Queens — and they looked like me, my family and my neighbors. I could see myself in them. Yes, representation matters, y’all. 

Run DMC‘s Rev. Run celebrates his 60th — yes, 60th! — birthday today. Happy birthday, brother! Thank you for creating music that has transformed my life.