Run-DMC break-up

Over the next years the group has recorded very little. Mizell produced and supervised and emerging artists, including Onyx, 50 Cent and Young, where he ended up signing a contract with the label JMJ. Simmons divorced, remarried, and began to focus on spiritual and philanthropic efforts by becoming a priest. He also wrote a book along with his brother Russell. McDaniels, also married, made an appearance on the 1997 double-album Life After Death Notorious BIG and focused on increasing family.
Although the group continued to tour worldwide, more than a decade living lifestyle of the rap superstar has started taking a toll on McDaniels. He got tired Run-DMC, and there is more friction between him and Simmons, who was eager to return to recording. (Simmons currently adopted the nickname "Rev Run" in light of his religious conversion.) On tour in Europe in 1997, McDaniels ongoing battle with substance abuse assault causing severe depression, dismissing a dependency prescription drugs. McDaniels continued depression for many years, so much so that he contemplated suicide.
In 1997, producer and remixer Jason Nevins Remix "It's Tricky" and "It's Like That." Nevins remix of 'It's Like That "hit No. 1 in the United Kingdom, Germany and many other European countries. A video made for "It's Like That", although no new images of Run-DMC appeared in it. In 1999, Run-DMC recorded the theme song for WWE fight stable D-Generation X on "Kings" . They also make a rare appearance in the video version of the music of "Bodyrock" by Moby. their version of "Kings" including the album, WWF Aggression (2000).

Shortly after, the band finally returned to the studio, but in an environment of increasingly tight, Simmons and McDaniels difference "began to show. In the wake of the exploding popularity of rap rock artists like Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Kid Rock, Simmons wants to return to a sound, aggressive hard rock tone that makes the famous group. McDaniels - who became fans of the singer-wise songwriterslike John Lennon, Harry Chapin, and Sarah McLachlan - want to go to a more introspective. Shown on VH1's popular documentary series Behind the Music in early 2000, McDaniels says he was creative frustration and highlights some of the songs that he recorded. Continues to cause friction McDaniels has missed most of the recording group sessions in protest.
Simmons, however, recorded material, invite a few guest stars such as Kid Rock, Jermaine Dupri, Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, Method Man, and his fellow Queens MC Nas and Prodigy of Mobb Deep to contribute to this project. The resulting album, Crown Royal, has been delayed due to personal problems, and when finally released in 2001, showing that three appearances by the DMC. Although not a major one, the album is selling well at first. However, many critics have denounced the lack of involvement of the DMC, and fans wondered if this is "real" album by Run-DMC. Several positive comments: Entertainment Weekly notes that "hip-hop roast, new elementary school Nas and Fat Joe has paid tribute to the brilliant line rhyme .... Run is still soft. "[
After the Royal Crown, the group began to turn in the world with their "Walk This Way" companion, Aerosmith. The tour was successful gala celebrating the collaboration between the two actions and recognize the countless rap and rock acts who have been influenced by the sperm before they reach 15 years. Although there is much to do with the album, McDaniels knows the scene, he suffered a vocal disorder that has been voted unusable once booming a whisper tense. Make McDaniels allowed out of depression and it seems revitalized in the tour. There is even talk of Run-D.M.C. eventually signing with the label Def Jam, which is no longer held by the founder.
Simmons, however, grew increasingly tired of hip-hop. His family grew, and he helped his brother his mark clothing Phat Farm, Russell, make Run-DMC lower priority. Aerosmith began to discuss the expansion of a successful tour, but then a bus to another performance, Simmons announced he was leaving and was not interested back. In another shock, "Run was reported as saying:" Yo, tomorrow, we will notify [Aerosmith] we will not do the tour we will go home .. You need to know what you do because I do not want to do either  Despite the protests McDaniels, Mizell, and Tyler, Simmons insisted. Visit their career when he looked up, and it is uncertain whether the three never record again.
On October 30, 2002, Jam Master Jay was gunned down in a recording studio in Queens. hip-hop community was in shock after the news, and other group members, it destroys. McDaniels initially did not believe the news, thought [citation needed] "They say [he was shot] because the studio would not be a Jay-Jay, and it will be all good." The truth is slowly being accepted by both McDaniels and Simmons, who received news of EPMD DJ Scratch. The outside of the studio where the assassination took place, fans and friends gathered and left shoes Adidas, albums, and flowers for the legendary DJ. Mourners honored as a family that stayed out of trouble. This murder has not been resolved, echoes the unsolved murders of hip-hop titans colleagues 2Pac and Notorious BIG. Accordingly, Run DMC and announced that the group was officially dissolved, and they withdrew pseudo Run-DMC