It’s December, and that means it’s time to listen to Christmas music until you’re ready to slit your wrists. Seriously, Christmas is over two weeks away and if I hear that Paul McCartney song one more time I’m going to throw a shopping cart through the PA system of whatever grocery store I’m in when it comes on.
But Christmas songs are not all bad. Run DMC’s ‘Christmas in Hollis’ is a bop and I love hearing it every year. Just not too many times.
Joseph Simmons, known to you and I as Reverend Run, recently told Page Six about the interesting circumstances around writing the Christmas classic.
“I was in my new house that I just purchased in Hollis [Queens]. I was by myself. And I look down at my plate — it was eggs, jelly and toast. I just finished my breakfast and I wrote the rap.”
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Added Rev Run, “I look down [at the lyrics] and I thought, ‘Wow this is crazy.’ I wrote that in like one minute.”
Page Six added that Run mentioned he was high at the time, and you have to respect a man of God who gets high before breakfast. Let’s all be glad he is because ‘Christmas in Hollis’ is the best thing to ever happen to Christmas. Okay, second best.