Raising Hell (Remaster) (CD) ~ Run-DMC (Artist) Cover Art

Raising Hell (Remaster) (CD)

By: Run-DMC (Artist)

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Run-DMC Artist Snapshot:

Until Run-DMC came along in the early 1980s, most hip-hop music wasn't much more than nursery rhymes over disco loops. They popularized the idea of rap as a new kind of rock & roll--the voice of the streets set to the raw sounds of a turntablist one-man-band. The group even managed to pioneer the collision of rock and rap with a groundbreaking take on Aerosmith's "Walk This Way." Run-DMC is now viewed as the avatar of old-school hip-hop, almost quaint by 21st-century gangsta standards, but undeniably influential. Sadly, Run-DMC disbanded in 2002, after the tragic murder of Jam Master Jay, the group's groundbreaking DJ.

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DISC 1 for Raising Hell (Remaster) (CD) Album By Run-DMC (Artist)
1   Peter Piper
2   It's Tricky
3   My Adidas
4   Walk This Way - (with Steven Tyler/Joe Perry)
5   Is It Live
6   Perfection
7   Hit It Run
8   Raising Hell
9   You Be Illin'
10   Dumb Girl
11   Son Of Byford
12   Proud To Be Black
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.126) - Ranked #120 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[T]he pioneering trio took hip-hop into the upper reaches of the pop charts, introducing mainstream to a new urban thunder: rap rock."
Rolling Stone (9/5/02, p.76) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...This kicks butt..."
Q (12/99, p.162) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...the apex of pre-Public Enemy, beatbox-based hip hop, a monument of massive, crisp beats plus the genre-bending 'Walk This Way'..."
Q (11/03, p.138) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Home of their defining musical moments..."
Uncut (11/03, p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...[An album] that forced the music biz to take rap seriously..."
Vibe (12/99, p.162) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century

Title Note

Run-DMC: Joseph "Run" Simmons, Daryll "DMC" McDaniels (rap vocals); "Jam Master" Jay Mizell (keyboards, percussion, scratches).

Additional personnel: Steven Tyler (vocals); Joe Perry, Rick Rubin (guitar); Daniel Shulman (bass); Sam Sever (drum programming).

Engineers include: Steve Ett, Andy Wallace, Jay Burnett.

Rap music may have been making some headway in terms of mainstream acceptance by 1986, but it was the release and breakthrough of Run DMC's cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" that cemented the deal. Rap was out of the urban ghetto and into the white, hard rock suburbs. And Run DMC was the perfect band to initialize the natural crossover, being among the first of hip-hop's nationally respected acts, and definitely the first to hint at the marriage of hardcore rap and power chords with 1983s "Rock Box" and 1985s "King of Rock."

RAISING HELL, the band's third full-length release, includes far more classics than just that one pop hit. "Peter Piper," "It's Tricky," "My Adidas" and "You Be Illin'" define the old-school hip-hop aesthetic about as well as any four songs on any rap full-length recorded in the '80s. Listen to any song on this LP and you'll recognize two to three lines that have become standards in the language of rap. A historic album? You don't know the half of it.

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