But Raising Hell‘s reality is that, thanks for the aforementioned songs and tracks like the Aerosmith collab “Walk This Way,” both rap and Run-D.M.C. began to go mainstream. — D.S. With a ...

One of the pioneers of the New York-bred genre’s growing appeal was Queens-based Run-DMC. Gearing up for their third studio album Raising Hell, which would eventually release in 1986 ...

Rubin had been hired to produce Run-DMC’s third album, Raising Hell, and he wanted a single that would break the trio in Middle America. Rubin had grown up worshiping Aerosmith, so he decided Ru ...

But after Run-DMC — which was rounded out by their late DJ Jam Master Jay — hit it big with their 1984 self-titled debut, 1985’s “King of Rock” and especially 1986’s “Raising Hell ...

The music world mourned when Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ of the hip hop trio Run-DMC, was fatally shot ... the triple-platinum selling album “Raising Hell,” which also included the ...

Rubin: We had finished the album [Raising Hell, Run-DMC’s third]. I listened to it and felt like there was something missing. That idea worked simultaneously with this conversation about how hip ...

Run-DMC's "hip-hop thing" hit the scene in 1983 with their first record, "Sucker M.C.'s." "Raising Hell" was their third studio album, and it hit number one on Billboard's R&B chart, the first hip ...

Fleetwood Mac’s first concert with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, the chart-topping "Ebony and Ivory," Run-DMC’s legendary Raising Hell album, Mariah Carey’s debut single "Vision of Love," and ...

Run-DMC was founded by Jay, Joseph "Run" Simmons, and Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels in the 1980s. The group's 1986 album, titled Raising Hell, was the first hip-hop album ever to go platinum and ...