If Run-DMC’s 1984 debut created the “rap star” prototype, 1986’s Raising Hell retrofitted it, laying the blueprint for the rapper as rock star.
It took an act with arena-sized presence to make the leap into rock stardom. It also required an unimpeachable stature within hip-hop to attempt that leap without alienating a fickle and notoriously territorial base. It’s a testament to the greatness of Run-DMC that Raising Hell, their third long player, makes it feel so effortless. As integral to the album’s outsized success as Run-DMC’s willingness to experiment was their confidence to stay true to themselves. Underneath the screeching guitars and high decibel hooks, Raising Hell remain’s rooted in hip-hop sonically, lyrically, and culturally. MORE
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Tracklist:
- Peter Piper
- It's Tricky
- My Adidas
- Walk This Way
- Is it Live?
- Perfection
- Hit it Run
- Raising Hell
- You be Illin
- Dumb Girl
- Son of Byford
- Proud to be Black
Raising Hell is the third album by hip hop group Run-D.M.C. released on May 15, 1986 by Profile Records. The album was produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Raising Hell became the first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip hop record. The album was first certified as Platinum on July 15, 1986, before it was certified as 3x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on April 24, 1987.
Raising Hell peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, and number one on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart making it the first hip hop record reach atop the latter. The album features four hit singles: "My Adidas", "Walk This Way", "You Be Illin'" and "It's Tricky". "Walk This Way" is the group's most famous single, being a groundbreaking rap rock version of Aerosmith's 1975 song "Walk This Way". It is considered to be the first rap rock collaboration that also brought hip-hop into the mainstream and was the first song by a hip hop act to reach the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100.
It's been 35 years since the most well known album by Run-D.M.C was released, helping to bring Hip-Hop to a mainstream audience and break down a lot of barriers the once underground movement faced. How do you think it holds up now in 2021?
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By their third album, Run-D.M.C. were primed for a breakthrough into the mainstream, but nobody was prepared for a blockbuster on the level of Raising Hell. Run-D.M.C. and King of Rock had established the crew's fusion of hip-hop and hard rock, but that sound didn't blossom until Raising Hell, partially due to the presence of Rick Rubin as producer. Rubin loved metal and rap in equal measures and he knew how to play to the strengths of both, while slipping in commercial concessions that seemed sly even when they borrowed from songs as familiar as "My Sharona" (heard on "It's Tricky"). Along with longtime Run-D.M.C. producer Russell Simmons, Rubin blew down the doors of what hip-hop could do with Raising Hell because it reached beyond rap-rock and found all sorts of sounds outside of it. Sonically, there is simply more going on in this album than any previous rap record -- more hooks, more drum loops (courtesy of ace drum programmer Sam Sever), more scratching, more riffs, more of everything. Where other rap records, including Run-D.M.C.'s, were all about the rhythm, this is layered with sounds and ideas, giving the music a tangible flow. But the brilliance of this record is that even with this increased musical depth, it still rocks as hard as hell, and in a manner that brought in a new audience. Of course, the cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way," complete with that band's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, helped matters considerably, since it gave an audience unfamiliar with rap an entry point, but if it were just a novelty record, a one-shot fusion of rap and rock, Raising Hell would never have sold three million copies. No, the music
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If Run-DMC’s 1984 debut created the “rap star” prototype, 1986’s Raising Hell retrofitted it, laying the blueprint for the rapper as rock star.
It took an act with arena-sized presence to make the leap into rock stardom. It also required an unimpeachable stature within hip-hop to attempt that leap without alienating a fickle and notoriously territorial base. It’s a testament to the greatness of Run-DMC that Raising Hell, their third long player, makes it feel so effortless. As integral to the album’s outsized success as Run-DMC’s willingness to experiment was their confidence to stay true to themselves. Underneath the screeching guitars and high decibel hooks, Raising Hell remain’s rooted in hip-hop sonically, lyrically, and culturally. MORE
If Run-DMC’s 1984 debut created the “rap star” prototype, 1986’s Raising Hell retrofitted it, laying the blueprint for the rapper as rock star.
It took an act with arena-sized presence to make the leap into rock stardom. It also required an unimpeachable stature within hip-hop to attempt that leap without alienating a fickle and notoriously territorial base. It’s a testament to the greatness of Run-DMC that Raising Hell, their third long player, makes it feel so effortless. As integral to the album’s outsized success as Run-DMC’s willingness to experiment was their confidence to stay true to themselves. Underneath the screeching guitars and high decibel hooks, Raising Hell remain’s rooted in hip-hop sonically, lyrically, and culturally. MORE
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