Christmas In Hollis

I was originally going to find a screenshot from the scene in Die Hard where Argyle and McClane are in the limo and he's blasting the song and McClane is all like "You got any Christmas music?" and Argyle says "Man, this is Christmas music!"

But the Keith Haring artwork was too good to pass up.

Hi guys, here's more Christmas rapping for you. From Run-DMC

It's pretty rare to find a new Christmas song. All anybody really wants are the standard stuff like "White Christmas" or "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Hell, even on the album where "Christmas in Hollis" premiered("A Very Special Christmas"), all the other songs on the compilation record were covers.

The song tells two different stories. In the first half of the song, Run raps about how on Christmas Eve he spots a man and his dog in the park near Hollis Avenue in Queens, New York. At first wary, Run approaches the man only to discover the dog is a reindeer and the man has a big white beard and a bag full of toys. The clock soon turns to 12 and the bearded man takes flight, but his wallet falls out. When Run opens the wallet, he finds a license reading "Santa Claus" and "cold hundreds of G's," at least a million dollars. Run, knowing in his heart that stealing from Santa is wrong, rushed to mail it back to the North Pole. When he gets home, though, he finds a letter from Santa Claus filled with all the money from before.

The rest of the song has both DMC and Run rapping about a regular Christmastime in Hollis, Queens. Yule log in the fireplace, chicken and collard greens for dinner, the ground outside covered in snow.

It's actually a pretty quaint setting that you would expect from any other Christmas song. Shows how Run-DMC had their hearts in the right place.