Raising Hell

I relate very strongly to the song about someone going to KFC and accidentally ordering a Big Mac.

The cover of Walk This Way charted higher than Aerosmith's original and is one of the most important and pivotal tracks in hip-hop history and I would gladly give this album 8 stars if I could for that track alone. Also I wish the honkies that run this thing would give us more rap and hip-hop.

I have been known to be wildly inconsistent with my reactions to expensive items. I will happily overpay for a pair of jeans, and later that same day bemoan the state of the world when an ice-cream costs a fiver, despite both items having a similar manufacturing cost. My biggest blind spot in terms of this is with prostitutes. In Amsterdam I will greedily piss away thousands on the women in the windows, but when I'm in Barnsley, I wouldn't pay a tenner for a handjob. Even though it all leads to the same result. What I'm trying to say is, Run DMC are really good value for money. I think.

What a four track run Peter Piper, It's Tricky, My Adidas and Walk This Way is. I needed a little sit down after that. The rest of the album, as good as it is, is a bit underwhelming in comparison.

Finally a non-rock album, feels like I've been waiting so long. This shit is classic, every song on here is catchy af. This is the kinda shit I was waiting for.

These guys are also absolute pioneers of an entire genre and played a key role in bringing it to the mainstream, with some of the tracks from this album at the heart of that. Some people might say inventing rap/rock was perhaps not the greatest gift to music 😂 but the impact of their cover of Walk This Way is immeasurable. Plus it's pure vibes as a listening experience! 9/10

A haiku: Their name’s DMC Here you see, it’s fun to rap Repetitively

Thought I’d love this album but for some reason it fell short of expectations. A few really great tracks in there - It’s Tricky, My Adidas, Walk this Way - but ultimately the other tracks just blended into one another. I’ve always felt with Run DMC that if you’ve heard one of their tracks you’ve heard them all. I get their importance in hip hop and you wouldn’t have bands such as The Beastie Boys without them, but I’d just rather listen to the Beastie Boys. Pioneers no doubt, but there’s a reason I’ve never really listened to a full Run DMC album before.

Such a fun and cheesy romp. I see why this is such a historical album, kicking of hip hops golden age. Great rhymes and lyrics, and even better beats. The only issue I have with it is the fact that it’s a little too samey throughout, in regards to flow in particular. Hats off to Aerosmith for showing up and playing their own sample and joining in on the fun, too. Baller move.

So in the summer of 2023, Aerosmith announced their final tour would be held later that year… I bought tickets, as I had seen them 10-12 times over the years going back to 1978… Anyways, I decided to Audible a biography about them in advance of the show, and downloaded “Walk This Way” by Geoff Edgers, and off I went… Unfortunately, I chose the WRONG “Walk This Way” biography – as I wanted the one by Stephen Davis – but I listened to it anyway… Long story short, the Edgers book was basically the story of how Rick Rubin (i.e. the producer of “Raising Hell”) was able to convince RUN-DMC & Aerosmith to collaborate on the “Raising Hell” album via the track “Walk This Way”. You get some decent background about both bands, some good background about Rubin, especially his early years @ NYU – and the story behind how that song came to be on that album… Obviously, that is the epic track on “Raising Hell”, and what I found fascinating in the book, was that Rubin felt the album would not be anywhere near as successful without “Walk This Way” – and that neither Aerosmith – who had really hit the skids by then, had no interest in doing it, and neither did RUN-DMC… But Rubin was able to get RUN-DMC, Steven Tyler, and Joe Perry in the studio for one evening to try and pull it off… RUN-DMC knowing this would be happening, didn’t even bother to learn the lyrics, and Tyler & Perry were still using, less than enthusiastic… BTW – Rubin didn’t tell the rest of Aerosmith – as he just wanted to the 2 main guys – which is why the drum part is pretty pedestrian, and why the rest of the band was pissed once they found out about it… Anyways – for a couple of artists who were struggling at the time, who came into the session with some seriously bad attitudes, Rubin was able to get what he wanted – and he was absolutely right about that song “making the album”… As for the album, Side 1 is absolutely stunning with the run of “Peter Piper”, “It’s Tricky”, “My Adidas”, & “Walk This Way” – and is truly the heart of the album… “It’s Live” is decent, but “Perfection” is nothing special… As for Side 2, things start out strong again with “Hit & Run”, and the title track – “Raising Hell” as both are quite excellent – but things start to lose a lot of steam from that point on… That said, that’s 6 out of 12 tracks that I really enjoyed, and of course the magic of Rubin’s “Walk This Way” being the centerpiece of the album – exactly as he had imagined it… Not a rap guy by any measure, but this is an excellent album… Would probably give it a 4.25 based on the actual song quality (i.e. although it is interesting when you check Wiki, that Simmons & McDaniels are only credited with writing 2 of the 12 tracks – so not sure what other magic Rubin may have worked back then…), but given the cross-over break-thru of “Walk This Way” and it’s historical significance – I gotta give this album a 5 – and I don’t give very many of those…

If there’s anything to bring me back to a 9 y/o version of myself skateboarding, shoplifting, and trespassing it’s this album.

Fucking classic. Just a legendary album with many iconic tracks.

Stone cold classic.

A classic, defining album in hip hop history. One of the first mainstream albums that lead us to hip hop as we know it today. Wonderful MCs with masterful production from two of the best to ever do it.

Ahh it's pretty good for what it is, isn't it? I'd never stick it on at home, but yeah, sound. If it was an item of furniture, it'd be a diamond encrusted lamp shade that screams "Tricky" every time you turn it on.

Obviously dated, and while fun, my potential enjoyment for this era of rap is pretty limited - the rapping tends to be too monotone, for the most part.

It's funny that "Perfection" is the track that keeps this from having an absolutely flawless Side A. That said, it's not flawed enough to lower the rating. To me, this album is Run-DMC's finest. "Dumb Girl" hasn't aged well, but this is still a certified classic.

Such a great album. Loaded with classics. A must own of the genre in my opinion.

First Hip hop/rap I ever owned. Been a while since I listen to the entire album. It's still awesome and yes this album everyone needs to listen to.

This feels so iconic. I love the minimalist Rick Rubin production. A lot of the time the tracks dispense with anything more than beats and just let the MCs do their thing. "Walk This Way" was the big breakthrough, crossover hit, but the album is full of other tunes that pack just as much punch. The lyrics are still echoed in hip hop.

Here's another one that I could write paragraphs about. This album, along with Licensed to Ill and LL's BAD, were the foundation for my love for hip hop. I'm certain that I'm far from alone there as Raising Hell was the first platinum hip hop album and with the smash success of the Walk This Way crossover. For me, this album is as much about Jay's DJing and Rick Rubin's production as it is the rhymes. Granted, they lean heavily on the hard guitar riffs but once again it's a case of "is too much of a great thing a bad thing?" Along with the commercial breakthrough legacy of this album it's also a landmark transition from earlier 80s hip-hop in how clean and precise the production and scratching is. Compare and contrast to Paid in Full, for example. It's an 80s style but still easily holds up today. Four undeniable classics right at the top, along with the title track later, lead the way in making this an easy top 5-10 hip-hop album of the 80s. In fairness, some of the later tracks don't stand out as much on their own but that's a hard ask when up against so many hits. Still solid enough to hold it all together. It has to be a 4-4.5 for the music, but for influence and legacy, sentimentality, and personal enjoyment this is a slam dunk 5 for me.

10/10 energy. So many iconic samples that have been lifted from this album that your memory will recall throughout. So ahead of its time.

Run DMC had been making waves already, but this is the album that helped them and Hip Hop cross-over to the mainstream. Loaded with iconic tracks, and oozing with swagger, this is a must for old school Hip Hop.

One star deducted for resurrecting Aerosmith’s career. Even with that in mind, this is just a really fun record. Hard to dislike it.

"Walk this way" collaboration with Aerosmith and "You be illin'" are standouts.

The album didn't appeal to me either when it was released or today. Even Walk this Way together with Aerosmith doesn't change that. Farewell rap rock.

I was a white suburban Australian teenager in 1986 when Raising Hell was released, and it made immediate sense to me. I saved my pocket money and bought a copy of the LP and a bunch of the 12" singles from the album. I played them grey. I could (and did) recite the album pretty much all the way through. It made immediate and obvious sense; the crunching drums and rock riffs were familiar, and the vocal delivery was new, energetic and exciting. There had been the occasional rap moment on Australian radio or TV prior to this; 'The Message' made an impact, but most of what we saw in Australia were terrible copies or parodies of hip hop (for example, Blondie's Rapture, Stutter Rap, Mel Brook's Hitler Rap or the execrable Might Big Crime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV23mHlMzUk&t=1s Interestingly, all of these terrible examples are white artists). But Run DMC were the real thing. This album broke hip hop as a major new genre of music, and commercially important. I saw them at the Hordern Pavillon (supported by Derek B, and Eric B. & Rakim) in late 1988. And they were awesome; loud and confident and charismatic. But, in many ways, this was a last hurrah for Run DMC. I love Raising Hell, and it has a bunch of songs that are absolute classics of my youth -- It's Tricky, Walk this Way, My Adidas. The hard rocking sound hooks into my subconscious and just presses the dopamine buttons. And you can't overestimate the impact that this had by breaking hip hop into mainstream consciousness through radio and MTV. But it was, musically, a bit of a dead end. Within two years, the big crunching minimalist drum machine sound with simple rock riffs or scratched in hooks were done. Hip hop evolves fast, and it evolved past Run DMC really quickly. They are the epitome of Old Skool, but if you listen to Golden Age records of just a year or two later (Public Enemy's Nation of Millions, or Eric B. & Rakin's Paid in Full, for example), there was a stylistic leap forward that make Raising Hell sound dated. Gone are drum machines, replaced with loops and samples, and Eric B. has revolutionized flow. Those Golden Age records are much more obvious ancestors of today's hip hop than Raising Hell. You do still occasionally here occasional references to this sound as a brief genuflection to the greatness of groups like Run DMC. And they are worthy. Run DMCs achievement is extraordinary. They deserve enormous respect as the first great group of hip hop. And I love it. I can still sing along to much of this album.

In 8th grade, I did a lip sync performance to It's Tricky with another kid in class. Two super-white kids, but we thought we were freaking awesome. So, I still have a soft spot for this album. Relistening to it MAAAANY years later, it holds up really well. Rocking tracks, awesome rapping - it's no wonder it's considered a seminal breakthrough rap album. The rock-rap combination works really well, and of course it brough Aerosmith back to life. Easy 5 for me. Favorite tracks - I like the rock-rap tracks best, but the straight rap songs are fun, too: It's Tricky (love the My Sharona sample), Walk This Way (great combination of the two groups), Raising Hell (great heavy track), You Be Illin' (I laugh every time), Proud to Be Black (my favorite pure rap song on the album - I'm raising my white fist in solidarity).

5 stars!!! One of my all-time favorite songs is on this album. Walk This Way with Aerosmith.

I didn't know I needed this.

I very much enjoyed the track that’s named after Rev Run, but which is entirely rapped by DMC and only features Run grunting and panting like that horny wolf from Droopy. Raising Hell is the prototypical modern Hip-Hop album. Most of the direction that Hip-Hop has taken since this album’s release can be directly traced to Run-DMC, but one of the reasons for it’s influence is it’s simplicity. A fair few of the beats are purely percussion, and the rhymes and themes are mostly basic. But because of the relative simplicity, it does feel like a blueprint. The influence on the Beastie Boys is particularly clear and makes the evolution of Hip-Hop in even a few years really evident. The Beasties were using samples from Zeppelin and Sabbath, and had Kerry King doing their solos. In comparison, Run-DMC’s production seems a little thin, and outside of Walk This Way and It’s Tricky, the riffs and guitar parts seem lacking. And as such, I’d probably rate it just a four. But it’s influence is undeniable, and I can’t not reward that. I’d contrast it to my theory about ZZ Top’s Eliminator from a few days ago, that being we didn’t get a lot of ZZ Top inspired New Wave Boogie because it was so well done on that album. Raising Hell is a masterclass in Hip-Hop’s potential and inspired artists in a way ZZ Top didn’t; inspiring them to have their own go, take the blueprint and expand on it. And if that was it’s goal, it succeeded magnificently

I forgot how great this album was.

This was great. While I have heard songs from jt, I hadn’t really been exposed to it. I wish modern rap was like this.

Flawless. Great production just let's the rhymes shine through. A sound all of their own and not a bad track. Could mark it down for the creation of the often painful rap rock genre (but equally as killer when done right) but won't. Solid 5

It's very distinctly 80s hip-hop, which of course is going to sound a bit dated. As far as 80s hip-hop goes though, it's killer. It's impossible to not get hyped up to something like It's Tricky.

Day315 - this is a fantastic rap album with so many hits and the reason they’re in the rock and roll hall of fame

Bangers

Sounds dated now but still classic

Early rap is something I’ve never really dipped my toes in, let alone dove in to. The structures are wildly similar and straightforward with that “My name’s Pat and I’m here to say…” on the 2 and 4 flow. It sounds very dated to me….but I don't know…Run DMC kinda cooks with it. Their delivery packs heat and the unified, emphasized rhyming is fun. I like their crossing over into rock territory, not just on the famous Walk This Way cover, but on the title track, which is my favorite on the record. It’s not quite a 4 to me, but I couldn’t give it a 3. I totally understand how these dudes influenced so many.

Goofy and fun album with classic golden age hip hop rhymes and great beats. Is their flow repetitive? Yeah! They’re inventing this shit! The hits on this album are impossible to not smile to, it makes me feel nostalgic for a period I did not live. Also to close out the album with, stay in school, stay off drugs, and be proud of who you are is so classically golden era. Run DMC is for the kids!!

Classic DMC tracks. In 1986 ts was hittin forshure

it's tricky changed my life when i was 10

Raising Hell Peter Piper - It’s Tricky - My Adidas - Walk This Way is a superb, exciting run of 4 songs. The interplay of the two voices and the bell hook on Peter Piper is excellent. It’s Tricky is superb, the vocal hook is very catchy and the Knack sample is excellent. My Adidas is great and despite it;s ubiquity Walk this Way is a banging bit of rock-rap pop music. It’s hard to maintain that quality thereafter, although Raising Hell’s guitar mash up is good and You Be Illin’ is great, as good as those first few songs. Aside from the songs I love the whole sound of this, it’s got an almost minimalist focus on beats, scratches and vocals, with samples and instrumentation sparsely deployed to accent the drum machines and rapping. It makes a nice contrast to what would come in the following years with the density of the sound of Public Enemy and the intricate, complex layering of samples on 3 Feet High and Rising and Paul’s Boutique. Thoroughly enjoyable and hugely influential, it’s still a fun and exciting listen. Solid 4. 👟👟👟👟 Playlist submission: It’s Tricky

My brother came back from a summer working in America with this on cassette. It was like he had come back from the future.

More like “Light Jog-DMC”. This album is great for cleaning your sunglasses, as you inevitably leave a smudge and have to redo it. In all honesty, it was actually pretty good…illin’ you could say. I enjoyed the heavy drums, guitar riffs and scratches on quite a few songs, as well as the beat boxing on my fav track, Hit It Run. The most notable aspect of this kind of rap is the unison on the last lyric of the bar. Where one of them sings the line and then they all yell the last word. Classic. Was more of a novelty listen for me than anything. Was very cool to get a sense for what mid-80s rap was all about. That said, I wouldn’t necessarily revisit this on the reg. It’s tricky because you gotta give props to the trailblazers. They earn an extra star because they made an Aerosmith song better than the original. Aerosmith sucks.

One of the most iconic rap albums of all time with an almost incalculable influence spanning both genres and decades. Admittedly, it does sound a tad dated given what is being made today, but all modern rap music must pay homage to the OG's who paved the way. A wildly original style for the time. Although it may sound a little dorky for today's standards, there isn't much to not like. 4/5

Man, that's just good. The only reason it doesn't rate a five is because the beats get REALLY repetitive when listening to a whole album. But every track, taken by itself, is a banger.

Kaikki isot hitit, hyvin kulkee vaikka selkeä oman aikansa levy.

YES! Montag morgen, am Weg in die Arbeit, irgendwie war ich bissl schneller! Bei denen reichts auch einfach wenn nur die drums und das gerappe sind. Macht einfach voll Spaß!

Classic old-school Hip-Hop Rock, most songs have a fairly simple hook or lyric but the verses are where they really shine. I never realized how much Beastie Boyz picked up from Run DMC, the influence is super obvious here. Raising Hell stood out, that was a great tune. Good mix of goofy tunes with some serious punchy ones.

The first thing to strike the contemporary listener is how antiquated the album sounds. I mean this neither as condemnation nor praise, but just observation. It sounds exactly how a major hip-hop act would sound in 1986. So, with that qualifier, the album is still rather fun. The shared duties and alternations between the lads still delights. Easily a 4-starrer. However, there isn't quite a sense of flow between the songs. Raising Hell feels more like a collection of songs than a cohesive album. This is not a flaw per se, but I can't declare it a masterpiece.

Energiskt, och låter före sin tid. Aldrig tråkigt.

Oh yeah, this was pretty great! Sometimes listening to old school hip-hop can be a bit of a chore, as the rhymes can sound basic and dated, and the attitudes can be, uh, regressive, but this still sounded pretty fresh! I guess the amount of rock music being sampled (and the Aerosmith collab) make this much more accessible to my goblin-pale ass. In the version of the album I listened to there was a bonus track of them recording a commercial for some live dates, and they refer to themself as "Rap n' Roll", and YES, that's a great label! Fave track - all the singles were great - also liked "Proud to be Black" for the Tubman reference!

Oh man the drum machines on this! Especially the 808s! The interplay of the MCs sounds a little dated now but if you think about it that'd be hard as hell to pull off - like constantly doing alley-oops on the basketball court.

Amazing bars, wordplay, and arrangements define this LP. An absolute blast to listen to.

Deserving of being called a classic. It served as an influential blueprint for many of today's top artists and broke down barriers between audiences. However, as someone who grew up in the 2000's, I believe that if you weren't there at the time that this was released you won't be able to fully resonate with it. Hip hop has evolved so much in the decades since this album, and Raising Hell can feel a litle prehistoric as a result.

No. 279/1001 Peter Piper 3/5 It's Tricky 3/5 My Adidas 3/5 Walk This Way 3/5 It Is Live 3/5 Perfection 3/5 Hit It Run 2/5 Raising Hell 2/5 You Be Illin' 3/5 Dumb Girl 2/5 Son of Byford 3/5 Proud to Be Black 3/5 Average: 2,75 Similar to their first album I just don't think this has aged that well.

I used to like this band when I was a kid, but I don't think their sound has aged well purely because other rap acts have done their schtick better, Beastie Boys in particular. Still very influential and deserves to be on the list though.

This is probably the best type of rap that I care to listen to, sparse, creative, fresh, and fun. Almost feels like a brand new sound that aliens from a different world introduced here. I'll give 3 stars

An ode to the cow bell, which never fails to improve a song and here creates the impression that the boys are tap dancing around the beat. The only other punctuation is Jam Master Jay's guitarless rock beats and the boys' punched-out vocals.

3 car y'a des tracks dégueulasses

Fun in doses.

Bisschen lahme Drum Machine die ganze Zeit. Das Lied mit Aerosmith ist fett

Couple of decent tracks but the repetition is blatantly obvious

Not that interesting to me as I am not a hip hop fan. Reminder of how bad a lot of pop music was in the 80s.

This is just too corny to be appreciated

Important and ferocious fun at its best, which is “Tricky”, "Walk this Way" and the opener "Peter Piper", the rest part-validates the contemporary philistine's labelling of this as novelty music: behind the then-bold eruptions of mechanised horns and vinyl scratching there's not much to hang onto.

Didn't get the love for this at the time, and still think it's a poor effort. Not really "fun" rap like Sugarhill Gang etc. earlier, and pretty weak compared to Public Enemy or even LL Cool J. Boring beats and one-note shouty rhymes, like the similarly overhyped Beastie Boys. Walk This Way is definitive, but only because the original is terrible. Barely scrapes a 3 for historical purposes [EDIT - downgraded as it's boring as shit]

Although the 80s breakin', scratchin', rappin' scene was cool, I never could get into the music. It's always comes off as hokie with pretty weak rhymes. I get that this is the early stages of the genre and MCs wanted it to be positive and approachable for all. Walk This Way was the 1st to bridge the rock/rap gap and that's why we see the album on the list. Tricky is another pretty good one but the cheeseyness takes over. They even make fsrt sounds while best boxing. Knew that Run-DMC would make the list and not the worst group in my opinion from 80s hip hop...1.9.

Wasn't my jam. Couple of good songs .

I know Run DMC is one of the most influential rap groups but I just can't stand rap "groups". Having 1 guy rap and a bunch of others help finish every sentence is just annoying as hell. And then the "music" on this album sounds like it was made on a shitty Casio keyboard using the drum beats setting. It sounds like the producer said "Let's crank up the bass drum and make the rest sound far away in an echo chamber." Bonus star only for being so influential to music.

Unsure if just dated or really that bad. Terrible cliche lyrics and terrible production on most tracks. Truly irritating kick drum plastered over almost every track. Only gets 2 because of Get Tricky being a classic

Not a fan, all of the songs except one sounded the same.

Walk this way is fine. Raising Hell is partly ok. The rest is terrible, so terrible.

amazing

Superb

Fun

Absolute legend. Enjoyed a lot .

This is basically the genesis point for rap music as a commercial genre. It has a very rhythmic, driving sound mostly lacking in melodies, with simplistic yet enjoyable flows. The lyricism isn't the best, especially compared to what was to come for the genre, but it's not horrible. This album may not have aged the best, but it essentially codified hip hop as we know it and broke the genre into the mainstream. Four stars for the quality; an extra for its place in rap history.

Classic album

I don’t trust you if you don’t like this album. Just banger after banger. The four song run to start the album is just absurdly good. Yes the flows can be a little rudimentary and repetitive, but the lyrics are good so does it really matter?

Classic hip hop .Absolutely awesome

The quintessential rap album for me. I know there was some stuff going on before this, but most casuals had no idea until this one landed. I love the precision of this one. Absolutely a classic, and still fun to listen to 40 years later

This was bloody brilliant. Even though I’m not overly fussed on Aerosmith even I can’t deny that Walk This Way is a great song on an album packed with great tracks. Listened to it twice already and I’ll definitely be keeping this one saved. Top Track - Raising Hell

Of all the bands/groups/artists whose biggest song is a cover I've already heard, I never knew Run-D.M.C. was one of them. Apparently their cover of Walk This Way got so big it out-charted the original. Anyways, I love this duo. They're beyond fun at all times and have some wildly entertaining beats to carry their energy even more. Also, their chemistry together. I'd pay someone $15 to find me a group of two people who work better together onstage. All of the passing back and forth inside and between lines is great and adds to the fun even more. If you can't tell, I think this album is incredibly fun, and proof that all rap is improved by real guitars. Bonus points for the saxophone in You Be Illin'.

Such a cool album. I don’t think anyone at the time had any idea what a rock/hip hop fusion collab would be like. Wish modern hip hop had more of a jam master jay beat to it.

I was having a terrible day. I was enraged, bothered, and everything seemed to be going worse by the minute. Then I decided to try today's album, and it was just what I needed! Not every song is a winner, but they are all creative, energetic, and fun!

LOVED this album. A blast from the distant past. The first three songs….the best.

Dazzling.

5balls

N.W.A. put West Coast Hip-Hop on the map, but Run D.M.C. beat them to the chase on the East Coast by a few years, and brought a floundering 70s rock band back from the dead in the process, with their classic 1986 record, 'Raising Hell'. Already gaining popularity [and notoriety] for their first two records, 'Run D.M.C.' and 'King of Rock', Run D.M.C. perfected their craft on 'Raising Hell', becoming the first hip-hop record to go Platinum on the American charts, effectively signaling a new player in popular music. The rhymes on 'Raising Hell' are electric. Rappers Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels give their raps plenty of groove and atmosphere, and their confidence as performers, aided by the clever DJ work of Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell, add plenty of emphatic weight to this record. With such classics as 'It's Tricky', 'My Adidas' and 'You Be Illin'', Run D.M.C. changed the game not only in getting mainstream audiences to take hip-hop seriously, but ensuring the genre could easily suit the album format that had previously only been reserved for conventional pop and rock acts. Then there's reviving Aerosmith's career. Aerosmith were a spent force by the mid-80s, a band torn apart by drugs, infighting and declining interest in classic rock. Enter Run D.M.C. producer Rick Rubin introducing the duo to Aerosmith's 'Toys in the Attic' record during the 'Raising Hell' sessions, which eventually led to Rubin inviting a recently reconciled Steven Tyler and Joe Perry to re-record their parts for Run D.M.C's new version of the Toys in the Attic hit 'Walk this Way', with Run and D.M.C. rapping the verses. After the reimagined 'Walk this Way' blew up, Aerosmith were the talk of the town again, and their next three records, 'Permanent Vacation', 'Pump' and 'Get A Grip' formed one of the most successful comebacks of all time. So, not only did Run D.M.C. change the game for popular music with 'Raising Hell', they resurrected the career of one of America's most influential rock bands. Not bad for three friends from Hollis, Queens. Best tracks: Peter Piper, It's Tricky, Walk this Way, Raising Hell, You Be Illin'

''Hit it run'' reminded me of ''the Show'' by Slick Rick and Doug e. Fresh

Trendsetting, and still holds up incredibly well.

My brother bought this for my birthday in 1986, I was thirteen, and loved playing it under the stairs of my parent’s house. A great album. My parents hated it and would forbid me from playing it on my fisher price record player. They did not understand the power of hip hop. So what do I think of it now? It sounds dated but it’d great.

Epic album. 2 great songs and the rest was very listenable.

Excellent album! Proper good start to the day with this one

Capolavoro

I don't need to listen to this (but I will) as it's already 5 stars in my mind. How many albums have four huge hits in a row right off the bat? It's simply one of the greatest albums of all time.

All around awesome plus. Old school, and great great great. And I’m not really even a huge rap/hip hop fan.

5/10