Talk:Joseph Simmons

message: Why is there a recent editing controversy about the name of Run's first wife?  Is it Annie King or Valarie Vaughn?  Is it one person with two names?  All I've found in a cursory google search are articles which quote this article.  I don't know anything about it.
Maybe more importantly, why is anyone just changing it back and forth without any explanation?
Smuckola (talk) 19:39, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ex-wife

message: Does anyone else feel this wiki needs to be expanded? The other members of Run-DMC seem to have much more comprehensive articles. Is it due to a lack of information? I'm not a giant Run-DMC fan but this seems rather lacking, if there is any fans out there with good citations, please weigh in
Tunafizzle (talk) 03:38, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: is joseph simmons or reverand run really a reverand?
yes he is
:He is, in fact, a reverend.  A good expansion of this article should cover how he came to be ordained, which church ordained him, and his ministry as well the source of the nickname "Run".  I don't have the info or I would do it myself.  70.63.94.191 (talk) 01:18, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Has he always been a reverend? Or was this after the commercial success a la Mason Betha (Ma$e).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ummel (talk • contribs) 19:31, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reverand

message: Joseph Simmons II (Jojo)was born on Friday, September 29, 1989. In the article, I still saw that he was 16 years old even after he turned 17.
:Yes, the article originally said that Jojo was born in 1990, which is incorrect. Jojo is really born in 1989 and once I have corrected the article, it has been reverted again to 1990, which is wrong. NHRHS2010 Talk  23:30, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not necessary to type in all-caps in the edit summary. If you have a cite that says his birthdate is in 1989, feel free to change it, per WP:RS. Ckessler 02:21, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Son's age

message: At the very end of the article, it stated, "She was rumored to have had complications due to either a case of".  Until someone can add an ending to this sentence, I have deleted it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Melissa Dilo (talk • contribs) 03:02, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete sentence 

message: is that really a picture of him?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.244.47.83 (talk) 00:08, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Rev Run's middle name is given here as Ward.  Some other sites also do:
Discogs, which cites three  albums as sources.
Elsewhere, his middle name is given as LLoyd:
BuddyTV,
BookRags,
ChaCha.
You would think that the biography on MTV, which hosts his reality TV show, would resolve it, but it simply states that he was "born Joseph Simmons."  Nor does the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Famehttp://www.rockhall.com/inductee/run-dmc/   shed any light.
His personal blog, RUN'S WEBhttp://www.revrun.com/, doesn't seem to contain any information on this.
Perhaps his little autobiography It's Like That: A Spiritual Memoir would resolve it, but I have not read it.  Its  publisherhttp://us.macmillan.com/itslikethat, which refers to him as Reverend Run, offers no information.
MidwestGeek (talk) 22:04, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually "Lord" that he says, he's just rap-bragging  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.43.144.160 (talk) 17:58, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle Name: Ward or Lloyd? 

message: Why does this article seem to focus almost entirely on his work in the 2000s?  Surely there ought to be a discussion of Run-D.M.C.'s work in the 80s, right? john k (talk) 15:14, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A puzzling article 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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