Raising Hell

Great example of the early genre.

Interesting mix of hip hop and rock. Better than expected.

I liked this one. It's a very cool take on hip-hop with great beats and good rapping. It includes the huge hit Aerosmith crossover "Walk This Way", which, for better or worse, is responsible for the entire rap-rock genre, and subsequently all of nu-metal. Make of that information what you will. Key tracks: Peter Piper It's Tricky Walk This Way

Good, classic rap album, few well known songs, overall positive vibes. Pretty good altogether.

Another one that takes me back, having the cassette when I was in high school. Also introduced me to Aerosmith.

Classic Rap Album. It's Tricky and Walk this Way are staples of the genre,

my head was bobbing

This is the best album they’ve recommended me. I am admittedly a huge rap fan, but even I was unprepared for the mastery that this album displayed. Don’t skip a track!

Not quite as corny as I expected for a mid 80s rap record. Didn't do a ton of interesting things besides implementing rock instrumentals, but it was still a pretty fun listen

A solid early hip hop album. It’s Tricky will always be one of my karaoke favs. I like how the tracks transition into each other like how a dj would mix live.

I was bouncing around to this one. Very fun record with consistently great percussion. I also really love rap over guitars. Standout tracks are: “Raising Hell” and “My Adidas”.

This was a killer album. I only had heard the singles and I like all of them - especially “It’s Tricky”, “You Be Illin’” and of course “Salk This Way” but man I loved “Peter Piper”, “Perfection” and “Raising Hell”. The drums and the guitar work was fantastic on the album which is to me is atypical on Hip-hop albums and why I’m not usually a fan of the genre but I’m guessing Rick Rubin is why the music is equal to the lyrics on this.

I expected this to sound incredibly dated, and it does, but I'd much rather listen to this than any modern-day hip hop.

Again, surprisingly good.

Run-DMC are important as hell to the history of rap and pop culture at large. They were also one of my first favorite groups period. There are some undeniable classics here (“Peter Piper”, “It’s Tricky”) but just a year or two later hip hop evolved in terms of flow, lyricism and beat-making to something so beyond this that it makes this sound like it’s of another century. It makes this sound dated and hard to take as seriously in 2025.

Fun and upbeat. Good for Car Trip.

A lot of the really early hip-hop doesn't hold up, but this is still cool. Well worth its spot on this list.

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.

This is way better than their self-titled debut album. Besides the classics, the rest is still quite good, although not of the same quality.

This rap doesn’t age well to me. Walk this way was creative but overall just feels sooooo basic. Innovators for sure but can’t get pumped up from a run dmc song these days.

This is one of the original hip hop albums released in the world. And it's a good one. I liked it. Probably, without this we wouldn't have had many other rappers.

A fun, punchy reminder of the early days of American hip hop 3.5/5

i get it's corny, but i really do like how much they hype each other up on all the tracks, especially towards Jam Master Jay. he's basically the reason that Run and D's trade-offs work -- he sets up a steady beat, some nice samples (or two members of Aerosmith) for them to work over, and lets them do their thing. as cool of a beat it probably is, "Perfection" shows that they're really nothing unless they work as a power trio. i get the whole mid-school thing is associated with cheesy record scratches and dated beats, but they really make it work. it's not timeless, it's dry aged. i love Run-D.M.C. and i am not ashamed, nor should i be. i mean they made "My Sharona" listenable, desirable even. man, the first No. 1 rap hit really should have been It's Tricky / Proud to Be Black. it shouldn't have been fucking Ice Ice Baby.

I will rate this as a 3 in recognition of Run D.M.C.'s place in Music history. Still, rap/hip hop is something I struggle to listen to. Their version of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" is iconic!

I hoped this didn’t have the Aerosmith song on it. It did. That’s a shame. Some decent moments, but a bit too shouty for me really.

Fun album. Always cool to hear Guitars in rap music

Classic DMC tracks. In 1986 ts was hittin forshure

I understand why it's an iconic album, and I can see how it was influential at its time. Good vibes. But overall not very enjoyable. Beats are stressful

Meh, not too into it, even walk this way was meh. Raising hell bit better, slightly groovy good beat n solo 3/5

This one's really hard. So many of these are stone cold bangers but every track on here INCLUDING those are mired in some of the most dated production and vocal delivery I've heard in a long time. If you're into that, fine, and this is a decent historical document, but I won't be coming back to most of this unless someone puts it on at a party in which case I will go absolutely crazy. 3*

it's tricky changed my life when i was 10

Whereas Run-D.M.C.’s debut album sounded dated to the point of being hard to take seriously now, this sounds dated in a more respectable, old-school-cool kinda way, so that’s progress. I still find the purely percussive tracks a bit simplistic and wearisome but thankfully there are several tracks with more musical grooves that I can certainly get behind. Plus, I hadn’t realised just how monumental this album was for rap in general. No question it deserves its place on the list.

I had never heard the full album before, only two or three songs, but I would have been a big fan. I really appreciated the message and sentiment they conveyed through their music. 10 out of 10, will listen again!

I did not use a private session for Spotify. A complaint about this album is that it resurrected the rotten corpse of Aerosmith and they went on to write some of the blandest, cheesy rock songs of the 80s a clear departure from their heavy seventies classics. Back to this album, it's got some hip hop classics, I am sure it's an essential part of the hip hop genre and it catchy; however not my genre.

3.0

Almost 2 years ago I got Run-D.M.C.'s debut album as my 14th album on the generator. I feel basically the same, in that I really want to like this but I just can't quite get all the way there. Here's the good. First, I do think this album is better than the debut. They really lean into the rap-rock thing on a few songs here which I think was pretty innovative at the time, mostly notably on the Aerosmith "Walk This Way" cover. I guess I didn't realize that this version came out 10 years after the original, so they did Aerosmith some favors bringing back their relevance too. This album also has "It's Tricky" which is just so damn catchy, probably one of my favorite pre-2000s rap songs. Like the debut, the album is also just generally pretty hilarious. The very first line on the album is "Now Peter Piper picked peppers but Run rocked rhymes", and the whole song is just totally goofy. They also love to rap about how they don't do drugs, there's a whole song about "My Adidas". Great fun across the board. The bad is mostly still that the call-and-response rap style has just aged very poorly to me. The pace is just a bit plodding throughout and beyond the couple of songs that I mentioned there's quite a bit of filler. I can't see myself ever playing this start-to-finish again, but I can definitely see why they were some impactful. I've probably overrated a few early rap albums on here and I might be underrating this one, but it's like a 3.5 to me. Favorite song: It's Tricky Other: Peter Piper, My Adidas, Walk This Way, Raising Hell, Proud to Be Black 3/3/25

Rocking. Great fun.

This album has a hell of a run on the first side. I was totally hooked, and pretty sure I was on my way to a five-star album. But, the album really does fizzle in the second half. There's still a couple bangers on there but nothing compared to the opening run of "Peter Piper", "It's Tricky", "My Adidas", "Walk This Way", and "Is It Live". It's plainly obvious how influential this album was for the genre, and even more so for rap rock as we know it today. Truly a classic. 4.5 out of 5.

It was fun

Hip-Hop making it to the mainstream. Lots of history in this one. Also learnt that Run is a practising religious minister. Some hits, but somewhat naturally, as pioneers, their sound now feels a bit dated. Absolute respect for what they did for hip-hop in general, and the foundations they laid, but better was to follow. Found it interesting to contrast the subject matter of the lyrics to what hip-hop became after. This - in a refreshing way - was quite tame. 5* to respect its influence, 3* listening experience.

creative for that era

Some good fun 80s rap. You can tell this is where it all came from.

Very nice rap album, still up to date

ok. number 100. 100 down, 1000 to go. a round of applause. so, "Raising Hell" by Run-D.M.C. i like the beat, i like the flow, i like the sampling, i like the version of "Walk This Way" on the album, and i can admit and 100% admit that it is a non-deniable influential hip-hop album. i hates modern rap but the 80s is just pure excitement. the only problem is that i am not wearing my adidas sneakers while listening to this at school. i am wearing a pair of cheaply made sneakers instead. 4/5

Classic hip hop. My older sister had this album when I was a kid and I thought it was so cool. We used to sing along to some of these songs when I was in grade school, good memories.

Day 1!!! I love it! I have heard forever how influential run DMC was to music but never really listened to much by them aside from the obvious one like its tricky and you be illin. Super good album I really enjoyed it! Feel good type of album

Maybe I'm just too young to find this fun, or interesting. I mostly have affinity for this era of rap as scene-setting — I'm thinking about the Kurtis Blow in Armageddon Time. Can't take it seriously in 2025. I appreciate their fast food shoutouts.

A couple of great tracks but too samey for me

Alot of songs I grew up on, overall its not all too interesting, fun though.

Catchy, rocking, comedic, passionate. An absolute joy of an album to listen to, with great song after great song. A ton of hidden gems on this album as well, and the radio hits are still great if overplayed. Overall fantastic album

Some belting tracks.

Wasn’t really feeling this. But appreciate it and there were some good songs there 2.5 stars

Neat but a bit boring

Usually like them but a lot of these songs weren’t great, not a bad record tho

Hells to the yes! Kings of hip hop. Creation of the mainstream hip hop rock collab. Love how they can have really fun tracks and also ones with a poignant message and both seem genuine representations of them as people. Favourite song: You Be Illin

Feels like a novelty album

Lo siento, nada de hip hop cabe en mi gaveta.

Classic. Probably the first hip hop album I ever listened to as a kid

Det är kul, några riktiga klassiker, men det är lite för enformigt och enkelt för mig, ofta bara ett ganska kantigt beat och lite snack/rap över det. 2 av 5

Good shit. The hip-hop/rock fusion sounds awesome, and there are couple of absolute classic tracks. There are also a few I'm less into, which stops this from getting 5 stars, but I really had fun listening to this album

I enjoyed listening to this!! It’s tricky and walk this way being on the album automatically give it a 4 in my opinion, but after hearing everything else I’d give it a 4.5. Some really good songs!

Felt a little let down by this album. It’s been hugely influential, but if we’re just talking abt listenability here I’ve gotta give it a three. It’s Tricky and Walk this Way are BANGERS, but I don’t love the shouting style of delivery that they use. For being as old as it is I was actually a big fan of the beats and production side of things. Unfortunately just not enough from the other songs in the way of lyrics/flow to bump this up to 4. 3.4/5 Fav song: It’s Tricky

Why are they yelling all the time

This album is analogous to the 2024 Yankees. 2 absolute monsters and a lot of average at best teammates. It's tricky is a banger and Walk This Way created a new genre of music, but not quite the supporting cast for a 5. Would like a little more in the way of beats/production besides bass and snares

i like it :)

Ovo je baš iz totalno drugog vremena. Simpa

Iconic

Irgendwie ist es immer der selbe Song. Wird ziemlich schnell nervig. Das Riff auf Walk this way ist gut.

My aversion to rap and hip hop is now well documented in my previous reviews and no doubt those which still remain on this list yet to reveal themselves. In fairness I don’t understand that genre and accept that it was never made for the likes of me. But what I do detest is the glorification of violence and misogyny which seems to be a theme running through the majority of rap I have had to endure. However this album seems to be devoid of all that distasteful stuff which for me is a big bonus. I still don’t like it even when it merges with types of rock music which could appeal to me. But everyone seems to be having lots of fun and I suppose this must have been one of the first albums to come up with the rap rock genre. For that reason and probably for the one and only time I award a rap record slightly higher than the customary 1 star. 1.9/5 19/2/25

This album is shot out of a cannon. Before they were corny VH-1 TV personalities these guys could bring it. The first half is classic after classic with great beats, solid rhymes and infectious fun. Then there is the all-time best crossover track of all time. Like most albums of this era, it falls off in the second half and we get a healthy dose of misogyny and questionable beliefs. It was the times, not all their fault, but that keeps it from perfection.

Some bangers but a bit repetitive

3.5 there’s definitely some hits on the album but all these old hip hop albums sound very repetitive. It’s the same beat over and over.

3.5/5

It's got some really good stuff but not the strongest throughout. Will I listen to again: 60%

This was one of the best rap albums I have ever listened to. These guys knew how to make the crowd get into it. Very good album. Is it live?

I wanted to like this more than I did. Maybe my expectations were too high given the legendary status of It’s Tricky and Walk this Way, but feels like nothing else quite reached the level of those two.

-Grabs attention immediately -Catchy rhythms and beats

ho sempre pensato che “it’s tricky” fosse una disney song 💀

I thought this would get repetitive, but it’s a classic for a reason.

I don't know much about hip-hop but I liked the flow of the rapping, and of course, Walk This Way is an iconic hip-hop song. Overall it was a lot of fun to listen to.

Just no! Only track I like is Walk This Way

I get the significance of this album, though I wonder how it is viewed by true lovers of HipHop, as opposed to ‘rock’ critics. Not one for me. Top track = Peter Piper

hay un gran flow de los muchachos

was kinda boring but there were some good samples. nice feature by aerosmith

Yes, loved and we have a rap book for toddlers we use that has fun history of DMC and other artists

I liked this album, especially the cross-genre tracks. However, most of the hip-hop ones had good lyrics, but the beats were too simple and repetitive to get that last star.

Wow. So many bangers. Just great stuff all the way through.

Idk that I like this style of 80s music much tbh

Hittar inte så mycket intressanta juttun på dehär albumet. Bästa låten: Raising Hell

Thoughts before listening: The first Run DMC album I got on here was a lot of fun so I would expect more of the same from this one. Review: This is okay, but not quite as fun as the first Run DMC album I heard on this project. This album's hits ("Walk This Way", "My Adidas", and "Its Tricky") are all classics that are getting added to my playlist, but the rest of the album isn't really standing out to me (the title track is the best of the bunch). While this is a bit of a dated sound these days, I do recognize that the mix of rap and rock found on this album was revolutionary for the time. Even just having a traditional 70s-era rock band in Aerosmith appear on the album was a huge deal. I was going to give this 3-stars but the deep cuts are starting to grow on me a bit, so I'll go with 4-stars.

4.85

has aged funny due to how much hip hop has progressed, but for what it is, this is a great time

Soooo old-school, the record scratching kind of cracked me up. The beats were pretty great, though. Fun! 3.5

Je m'attendais à quelque chose du genre des Beastie Boys mais en encore plus répétitif. Le genre d'album dont on aime quelques morceaux mais qui lasse dans son intégralité. C'était bien dans la veine des Beastie. Mais c'était pas répétitif. J'ai passé un bon moment dans le berceau du rap (je me serais probablement passée de Dumb girls cela dit).

I don’t know a whole lot still about rap and hip hop. I’m happy to say that I’ve learned a lot through this project, but I basically started at zero so I don’t know much compared to experts. I have learned, however, that I very much enjoy 80’s and 90’s rap. There seems to be a feeling of authenticity, of urgency about social issues, and even sometimes just some goofy fun. I have been wanting to consume more since I first listened to Biggie’s debut, “Ready to Die,” and have liked what I’ve heard. So when Run-DMC came up today, I was thrilled. This is great album. They move through each track with a certain levity, even when the songs are about something heavy. It seems effortless, as though writing the lyrics was easy and the delivery of them is just fun for them. It’s refreshing after being exposed to modern rap and hip hop, which seems contrived and mostly focuses on how great the performer thinks they are. They try to tell why they’re great. Run-DMC simply shows you. Are all the rhymes expertly written? No, there’s definitely some clunkers and stretches here, stuff written to fit the rhyme but not necessarily sound natural. But you can forgive them for that. It is hard, after all, to write compelling lyrics AND have them rhyme. I dont need to write on and on about the Aerosmith collaboration and how groundbreaking it was. There’s plenty of YouTube essays on that. I will just say how naturally it works; the original “Walk This Way” is almost rapped anyway, so if there was ever going to be any collaboration or collision of these two genres, this was the perfect choice. I thought it was great. Four stars. Standout Tracks: Peter Piper, It’s Tricky, Walk This Way, Is It Live, Raising Hell, You Be Illin’

3/5. It's a classic album and has a few old school bangers. Run D.M.C. are definitely due credit for their influence on hip hop early on. My preferable taste comes on in the next few years after this album's release.

Not for the

3.5

Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell Album Review I get why Raising Hell is considered a landmark album, but listening to it now, it just feels... fine. Not bad, not great, just there. The production is stripped down to the essentials—big, booming beats, simple but effective rock guitar riffs, and that signature Run-D.M.C. back-and-forth delivery. Tracks like It’s Tricky and My Adidas still have that undeniable energy, and Walk This Way is, well, Walk This Way—a crossover moment that’s been talked about to death. It’s all solid, but nothing about it really grabs me beyond its historical significance. The problem is, once you get past the big moments, there’s not much keeping me engaged. The flows feel stiff compared to what came after, the production—while influential—sounds a little too bare at times, and some tracks just blur together. I respect what Run-D.M.C. did here, blending hip-hop and rock in a way that changed the genre forever, but I can’t say I love listening to it. It’s loud, brash, and confident, but also kind of repetitive, like they found one gear and stuck with it for the whole album. That said, I don’t dislike Raising Hell—it just doesn’t excite me. It’s the kind of album I can nod along to but not something I’d actively put on. I respect its place in history, and I get why people love it, but for me, it’s just okay. Not a game-changer, not a skip-all-the-way-through situation, just… meh.

A classic. So influential on the rap and rock that followed. Rhymes and rhythms are *tight*. On the downside, it’s definitely “of an era” that’s passed, so a little dated. But it’s still great! A 4. Will listen to it again.

I be illin………took me back to high school!!

Great album. A few songs didn’t age as well as others. But I still really enjoy this album and listen to many of these songs on a regular basis. I feel that it is a classic. Certainly rap has come a long way but given these were some of the first in this genre and many still are great that is a real testament. I’m not a fan of walk this way mainly because it’s a cover song and I think that a song that combines two genres for one of the first times shouldn’t have been a cover. That and I don’t love Aerosmith. Other songs on here are so good and still quoted regularly that it makes it a top album

So. Many. Hits.

I had the other Run DMC album less than a week ago

Suuuch a great album. Speaking of album openers - Peter Piper goes insano mode. And the percussion elevates this whole project to a whole other level, truly excellent

Fun and family friendly! Sounds like rock and roll to me

it's just fun and I like that they are just rapping about regular stuff ... wearing adidas, walking down the street ... just simple guy stuff that appeals to simple guys like me

Это даже не олдскул, это пре-олдскул! Рэп, который ещё не успел озлобиться и опошлиться, но уже перестал быть наивным. Run-D.M.C. здесь как первопроходцы, прорубающие тропу в густых джунглях для раннего хип-хопа. Шагают твёрдо, но временами оглядываются: влияние сетов Afrika Bambaataa ещё видно невооружённым взглядом. Звучание альбома — сырое, прямолинейное, как разговор на крыльце у дома, где правда важнее изящества. На момент выхода это был взрыв. Чего стоит один только гитарный рифф из «Walk This Way», который врезался в сознание, как метеор в тёплую землю. Это было настолько свежо, что никто не знал, как реагировать. Сегодня же — с высоты прожитых десятилетий — альбом ощущается, как первые шаги ребёнка, который ещё не выбрал, будет он танцором или боксёром. Влияние альбома на мировую индустрию сложно переоценить. Тогда ещё вряд ли кто-то мог предположить, что хип-хоп станет глобальной культурной революцией. Именно поэтому та музыка такая искрення — она ещё не боялась быть простой.

Rapsy.. ale z dziecinstwa, wesole i wyrazne.

All time great 4 track set to start things off. The rest is good, but never rises to the heights of It’s Tricky or Walk This Way.

7/10, but I'll rate it as four stars because of its influence.

Wow this brings me back to middle school/high school. Such a fun album. I only really remember the big hits really - It’s Tricky and Walk This Way - but I enjoyed all the songs.

Really enjoyed it. I generally like my rap family friendly with low swears or racial epithets and not so much about Ice cubes dick. This delivers with a killer opening 4 tracks. It gets a little repetitive thereafter and could do with a little bit magic to funk it up a bit.

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

The album soon gets into its rhythm with the mammoth sound of 'It's Tricky'. A rap-rock tour de force. And all the rap/rock fusion numbers yield glorious results (Walk This Way, It's Tricky, Raising Hell). Without detracting from its historic importance, outside of the rap-rock, it can sound dated. The minimalist beats with the early rap-style offers little light and shade, and doesn't feel like it's moved on too much from Grandmaster Flash. However, it remains pretty entertaining and doesn't take itself too seriously. Like the Beasties, Run-DMC has a consistent style, theme, it's entertaining, and the rap rock is great.

Where song about Nike smh

78/100. Very iconic record. I listened to this a lot when I was younger. Good beats, nice and fun lyricism. Today, I don’t feel this record is overly impressive—maybe I’ve just listened to it too many times in my life.

decent

This is bad, not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good...

Classic

Not for every day every mood, obviously. But perfect for what it is.

Amazing, especially considering how early it was. Some great ideas and fun raps.

Classic

Love the pass the mic style of that bygone era. It's just a really fun album.

They were helping establish the foundation of something new. The pieces and themes were all there, but distinct with raw flavors like an unmarried stew.

The only real problem I have with the album is it sounds so of its time that it's hard to listen to it and not think of how its sonic template has basically become a parody of itself. That's not the album's fault, though!

Groundbreaking and fun.

SO MUCH FUN HOLY SHIT how much fun were these guys having when they made this album THE ANSWER IS SO MUCH FUN.

A lot of hack critics have compared Rap music to Rock. Let me join them. You can do worse than comparing the development of each generation, separated by about 25 years. Raising Hell is from Rap's "pre-invasion" era, it promises great things to come, but it's not quite there yet. The beats, rhymes, flow, turntablism just aren't in the same league of records that will be recorded just five years later (Low End Theory and De La Soul is Dead both come to mind). Also, this album helped give Aerosmith a second act that the world didn't need.

Oh yeah. I legit love this period of hip hop where things were gleeful and nobody was routinely called a ho.

Legendary. And STILL a really fun listen nearly 40 years later.

Tricky and Walk This Way are two of my favorite workout songs and I was hoping to discover some new faves but the rest of the album didn’t do it for me.

A little of this went a very long way. Walk This Way isn’t even that great, but it saves this from being a 1.

Groupe connu avec 'Walk this Way' qu'il était difficile d'éviter à l'époque de sa sortie. Sinon Hip-Hop, 23eme album =>1/5. J'ai arrêté après walk this way justement, aucun intérêt musical par ailleurs.

4*

first hip hop LP of this project, pleased it's an old school classic

The beginning of rap rock.

Raising Hell is the third album from Run-D.M.C., and it was the record that made them stars. This is the first commercially successful rap album, and helped define the first decade of the genre. The album sits high on the "greatest rap album" lists as well as the "greatest albums of modern music" lists. Raising Hell includes a cover of Aerosmith's "Walk this Way," which helped drive the success of the album. The album also includes a few of the trio's early hits, like "My Adidas" and "It's Tricky." These tracks all had successful videos in the very early days of MTV, which helped Run-D.M.C. bring rap to a much wider audience.

True pioneering on this record as hip hop wastes no time infiltrating rock and roll, the results of which we still see today.

I feel saying that, as a rock fan, saying that Run DMC is personally one of my preferred hip-hop group feels like it’s cheating. Next to the Beastie Boys, Run DMC paved the way for a relationship between rap and rock. I mean, Walk This Way was practically a rap song disguised as a rock song. It just took some time for someone to realize it. Besides that, everything else on Raising Hell is infectious. It’s Tricky has had real estate in my head since I was a kid since I first heard it in SSX Tricky.(awesome game series by the way. EA should bring it back if they didn’t suck dicks) The other songs are great too, especially You Be Illin’. There’s a little mid-80’s hip-hop cheese here, kind of like the Beastie Boys vibe with License to Ill. But the influence and quality of this album can’t be denied. It’s a classic for a reason. Favorite track: It’s Tricky Other hits: Walk This Way, You Be Illin, Raising Hell, My Adidas, Proud to be Black

4.5/5 Just because the rhymes and flows are simple and up-front doesn't mean they don't go hard as hell. The beats have such a classic, head-banging way about them, and the little bursts of samples are amazing. This is a special album in the history of rap. The rock infusion lifts the whole thing. Peter Piper 4.5/5 It's Tricky 5/5 My Adidas 5/5 Walk This Way 5/5 Is It Live 5/5 Perfection 3/5 (LEAST FAV) Hit It Run 3.5/5 Raising Hell 4.5/5 You Be Illin' 5/5 (FAV) Dumb Girl 4/5 Proud to Be Black 5/5

It is what it is

A great album, some would even consider monumental for the genre of hip-hop. Several catchy, fun to listen to songs. It's amazing reading about how the collab between Aerosmith and DMC would elevate hip-hop to a much larger audience. It's a shame, however, what the genre would eventually become today as artists don't make music like this anymore (although the same can be said with most classic rock bands). I was close to giving it a 5, given it's enjoyability and landmark influence, but upon its conclusion I didn't find myself dieing to run it back again or replay any song in particular.

Old school hip hop always surprises me as to how fun it is. This sounds like Run-DMC were having fun when they recorded it and I know I had fun listening to it. I hate that feeling got lost somewhere along the way. The only real negative about this album - other than the fact that people just hadn’t quite figured out rapping yet at this time - is that it is front-loaded. The quality of the songs drops off with “Perfection” and never rises to the level of the first half of the album. That’s pretty minor though. This is a really strong album and I’m glad to have heard it.

Meh

3 I know I'm white because this just reminds me of the Beastie Boys, who released their first album the same year as this

I left this listening experience similar to leaving the Barbie movie - the whole thing was fine but the novelty ran off about 10 minutes in

Stiff fresh after all these years. Brings me back to mtv days. Love the guitar riffs in raising hell.

not bad

Walk this way is really all this album needs for a 5 star rating, but the album is even more than that. Everything on this album is basically just perfect. 5/5

I’ve never enjoyed 90s rap but this was such a fun listen!!! I will return

nearly 40 years old, still tough! swaggering, boasting, with minimalist beats and backing.

Meh

Simple and crisp, can't say it gripped me too heavily but I had a great time.

First half of the album is great but spotty after that.

Old school hip hop is definitely the best form of rap. This one is more fun and light hearted compared to others The main hits are good, but it's the songs I'm not seeing getting talked about as much that are the proper bangers, for example Hit It Run and the title track The beats are good but get a tad repetitive. It also ends on a couple weaker songs which is why I'm not giving it a 5

Surprised me with how cosy it felt. Probably because I love Beastie Boys and now I'm hearing where they got... A lot... From...😬 Some real stinkers though. Dumb Girl is one of the stupidest songs I've ever heard.

Pretty boring, beats all blend into one Personal favourites - raising hell, proud to be black 3/5

13/01/24 Didn't expect to like this album but apparently old skool hip hop is growing on me.

1980s rap aura 🔥

Strong start to the album, first 4 or 5 songs were incredible hip hop classics (peter piper, its tricky, walk this way), sort of lost steam towards the end of the album, in my (controversial?) opinion they got a bit repetitive

An important album putting Rap on the map with some help from Aerosmith. And this album brought back Aerosmith into the spotlight as well.

I already found myself wishing for it to end quickly by the end of the second track. It's just not up my alley and while I understand this album is a major landmark for the Hip Hop industry I just could not come to like it. Having said all that, this album was really ahead of its time and definitely deserves some points in creativity and inventiveness.

Fun, old school but massively for me

A couple of duds but mostly great fun whilst making a clear statement. You be illin is a great find for me

Hip-hop in the mid 80s was preparing to make the transition from being a trendy fad to being seen as the real thing and Run-D.M.C. was one of the most pivotal rappers to bridge the gap in more ways than one. Having already made their stances clear on prior releases (King of Rock and their endorsement of Adidas clothing, for example), Run-D.M.C. not only doubled down on those stances but they whipped from thin air an unlikely collaboration that not only broke down barriers but helped lay the foundation for what ended up being a form of rock genre that went way beyond what was envisioned. Raising hell? When it came down to it, they surely did. Favorites: Peter Piper, It's Tricky, My Adidas, Walk This Way, Is It Live, Perfection, You Be Illin, Proud to Be Black.

Another 80s rap album. This will probably be a struggle... Peter Piper - your classic 80s rap. You know the drill. Earnest. Cheesy beats. Lost it at: "He's not Hansel." "He's not Gretel." It's Tricky - A classic! Catchy. My Adidas - alright. Walk This Way - this is a great song once you studiously ignore the lyrics (yikes). Is It Live - not bad. Perfection - LIVING for the smug singing at the beginning and throughout. Also - "DM-" "CCCCCCCC!" - stunning. Song gets pretty boring after the first min though. Hit It Run - hated this so much I had to skip it. Raising Hell - "IT is SOMEwhat FRIGHT'ning!" - amazing. Love the rock elements of this song too incl. the guitar solo. Also love "He's off the WALL, on the BALL". You Be Illin' - really like the hook on this. Dumb Girl - thought the beginning was dumb (!) but then loved how the beat came in. Love how the final 'Dumb Girl' sounds like Ru Paul said it. Son of Byford - what can really be said. Proud to be Black - pretty good. Great lyrics. All in all I liked it a lot! Surprisingly.

Just gonna give this 2

After Fugees near perfect The Score yesterday this was always going to struggle to match that. Decent but not sure I'll come back to it.

3 pretty cool retro hiphop. Favorite song: walk this way

cool

Great album, would be even better if they had a third guy who said the last word of the rap when they said it

This is a tricky review. Going to try to keep it ill. Best idea ever to bring Aerosmith out of the gutter. What a great moment in time. This album broke barriers and was huge, as well it should have been. When I dance and raise my hands in my cubicle, you get 5 stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

RUN D.M.C. convinced a lot of white parents in the burbs that Rap might be ok. Tricky even showed up at the skating rink wedged between Hall & Oates and Disco Duck. Raising Hell is one of the most important rap albums- without it we wouldn’t have a lot of the artists, art, and fashion that we have today. It’s a shame they weren’t rewarded the way they should have been. Rest well Jam Master Jay. We still love your jams.

i prefer their debut. Peter Piper rules though.

Good, classic rap album

I recognise some songs just as they've been sampled more recently, iconic! I don't really listen to hip-hop but I still enjoyed it.

Old flows for sure however this album (and Run-DMC in general) is important in the history or rock/hip-hop fusion with, obviously, Walk This Way but also the use of guitars in Raising Hell and others. 2.88

3/5 Hard to go back to old school rap lyrics Good beats

This album is fire.

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.

old hip hop

“So I went to the hat store and bought me a hat” Important hip hop predecessor, no mention of “bitch” but a whole song called “Dumb Girl” so…just as misogynistic? Favourite songs: It’s Tricky, My Adidas

Negatives: too much record scratching, lack of music (just two guys talking to a beat). Positives: lots of energy, reasonably creative lyrics for hip hop. I give it three stars since it was an influential album.

Weird to listen to this album now! It's almost quaint. I can definitely see its influence. The VH1 hype machine really talked it up in the 90s-00s. As a listening experience, it's mostly fine. Fewer slurs than Green Day, props for that. Highlights: 'It's Tricky' (possibly due to SNL exposure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCUKya4gLFM ), 'You Be Illin'' (I'm always here for the lols), 'Proud to be Black' (satisfying rhyme scheme)

Helloo happy new year everyone:—) So I liked the first couple of songs and then it became really repetitive and I checked out. Peter piper was exciting, made me imagine an alternative universe where I breakdance on a piece of cardboard by day and then go into a battle at night and totally win. But by the end of the album I was brought back to reality of washing the dishes my dishwasher didn’t want to wash. I sounds like these guys had a lot fun recording this album though, we love a collaborative effort 👏👏 it would get a 4 different live or in a different environment. 3 baby freezes and it’s like that and that’s the way it is

Chan ned so viel zum little MC Run-D.M.C. OG hustler sege - hald wider old school hiphop. Humortechnisch findis super, aber musikalisch wirdi mer das Album keis zweits mal meh geh. Hald paar Klassiker wo mer durs Lebe immer mal wider ghört, aber mir langets denn au bi dene wenige Moment. Zwei old school Hiphop Zigis für de Fabian und de Christian

Cooles cover bros und sicher au e meilestei in start i di ganz rap kultur ine aber to be honest, de sound isch mer way too zappelig und nervös. Sorry bros, danke fürs album aber für mini ohre im 2024 isch das gar nüd. Au wenni it‘s tricky mal guet gfunde han, aber chans mir ez eigentli au nüm geh. Darum d bewertig it‘s tricky für mich, aber muess 2 brochni herze oder 2 ermüedeti ohre für das album geh.

das isch ja würklich mal es old old scool konzert gsi ich glaubs die 4 jahr vo dem album bis so zu sache wie "a tribe called quest" findi persöndlich denn schonamal eh gueti witerentwicklig und au öppis woni mich ezt au grad sehr druf freue nach dere gschicht und ih dere spahte gsehni mich au sehr stah muesi sege, das hettmer das album klar gmacht aber wie scho ahtönt simmer mit dem album nanig ganz bi de sach ahcho, drum gits da grad 3 versehentlichi spucker ih die erst bounce reihe am konzert ine!

ui das findi ez ganz schwierig zum bewerte… zum eine isches bestimmt es sehr pionierartigs und ihflussrichs album gsi uf de andere siite chamers hützutag grösteteils nümm wüki lose findi, also drüviertel vo de lieder verhebed minere ahsicht leider nümme (ufjedefall bi mim hütige mood), nächstmal bitte bizli weniger gitarre power chords, scratches und beat box attempts It‘s Tricky isch aber immerno en liechte bop tho

3/5

Run DMC are legends. It’s tricky and my adidas and walk this way are classics. But 80s rap is not my type of rap.

Great

Run DMC's third album goes hard and Rick Rubin knows how to get the white boys into rap. This album and its four singles represent rap finally being recognised in the charts. Peter Piper is pretty standard 80s rap riffing on nursery rhymes over a stripped back mardis gras beat. Rubin and Jam Master Jay's pop genius is on display with It's Tricky sampling My Sharona. My Adidas continues to demonstrate Jay's chops on the deck with a series of complicated scratch routines over a clever homage to Adidas. The Walk this Way cover achieves the seemingly impossible task of making 80s hard rock funky (although points off for paving the way for rap rock I suppose). Is it Live struggles to squeeze some groove out of an 808 and while the boasting is fun it hasn't aged well. Perfection keeps things stripped back with a (live?) drum track and more lyrical boasting. Hit it Run brings back the turntablism and amps up the vocals with Run and DMC aggressively spitting bars. You can see where the LA rappers got their ideas from. The title track brings the guitar locks back but the vocals don't maintain the energy. You be Illin has some great storytelling in the style of the Biz. Dumb Girl has a great 808 and feels like a bit of inspo for Memphis. Proud to be Black closes the album with an important message for the bigger audience the album attracted. 1986 is a huge year for rap (Licensed to I'll, Eric B is President, The Source, Kool Moe Dee, 2 Live Crew). Not sure what else we're going to see from this year in the list but Raising Hell earns it's place for figuring out how to give rap commercial appeal. Anyone who got rich rapping in subsequent decades owes this album a lot.

80s classic, but very repetitive

Energetic

second track of this album kicks like spread eagle across the block i can hear how pivotal this record was to one of the most important acts of my life (& contemporary music if we're being honest). flows are a little dated but the energy more than makes up for it, v glad this is on this list

I’d never listened to this album from start to finish because so many of these tracks were already overplayed by the time I could remember. Even though I was already familiar with the songs, it was still nice to hear them in the true album order, which flows perfectly with all the right tracks in all the right places. The album has so much punchy energy, I can only imagine the fun environments it’s been played in over the years. I also have to give credit to Run-D.M.C. for crossing over into the rock genre, appealing to that audience while staying true to their hip hop identity.

Insanely influential album. There’s some classic songs on here, some are still fun to listen to. It gets a bit old listening to a whole album of this because it’s pretty primitive when it comes to rhyme schemes. If I was eating based on cultural impact it’d be an easy five. But my ratings are based on personal enjoyment so it’s a solid three for me.

Cool but not my thing

Is this the first rap album we’ve heard that doesn’t have fucking common on it?? I really think it is. That’s an insane statistic. Ah wait we heard Snoop Dogg. Well. I still like that Common isn’t involved. This is oooold too. Pretty excited to hear the corn, the cheese and potentially some excellent production/beats. Sky review part III The bells have been rocked. The bass is excellent, the rhymes are fun if not a little silly and this song starts us off strong. Not bad. Two highly nostalgic video game songs in three reviews???? YO YO YO THIS IS RAHZELL AND WELCOME TO GARIBALDHI BIG. Does he say big? Whatever man. DO AN ÜBER TRICK. SSX Tricky rules and so does this song. Rocking a rhyme is not that easy buddy. About time you figured this out. Gold. And to this day, whenever a New Yorker sees tinted windows, they spring to their feet knowing “Daryl” of Run-DMC is in the backseat of that Subaru Forester. The best commercial I’ve heard today. The energy keeps rolling. It’s super corny, but the beats continue to hit very hard and the conviction is there, even when rapping about your homeboy having 50 pairs of sneakers. Excellent transition. Did this song bring real hip hop to the mainstream? Or was it the Sugarhill gang song?“RAPture” does not count (sorry Blondie). There have already been a few guitars on this album and what’s a few more. Loved this version of the song as a little fella and it still rocks pretty hard. Man I’m so mainstream. At least this song about high school girls is from the perspective of a high school boy. It ain’t the 60’s anymore. Run-DMC killed 4 people?? I mean that surprises me. They tout being drug free and not thieves, but I suppose they can “knuckle down” and commit some form of manslaughter. And that’s not “man’s laughter” for all you wordplay heads out there. The altitude and the exact same flow is getting to me slightly. Hopefully the lot optometry bars we hear this flight. I hate when old rap does this. Just making outlandish things up in order to arrive at the word you want to rhyme. I like the stripped back beat yet again, but “I’ve got a dog, cat, a mouse, a rat” needs to be edited out of this song to this day. 39 years, I don’t care. Get it outta here. Yeah we’re very same-y now. The very breathy beatboxing brings to mind a certain freak and if he truly is on a leash. I like this one. I shouldn’t, but the riff is pretty sweet. Much like Trooper’s Iconic request, Run-DMC seems obliged to raise more than a little hell. The lyrics are more menacing seemingly and seem to have a point. Well. Some of the time. I don’t know what rocking up on the mic to the right and rocking all night having common, but hey, it was the 80’s. Is this a KFC ad? That Big Mac line was so fucking dumb that I laughed. God dammit. DINNER, YOU ATE IT. What is happening? Gold. The word dumb has been thrown around a lot in my head during this review. Maybe it hasn’t graced the type surface enough but man so many of the rhymes are dumb, and this song is pretty dumb too. Freak on a Leash type beat once again. Nice Korn-based interlude A serious song?? They said it right in the bloody intro. Proud to be Black. Kind of a cool song to end a whirlwind of an album. Kind of high and mighty as a few of the lyrics come across here but this is easily the best message so far. The commitment to this album is impressive. As silly as much of it sounds now, the fire was there from the first track until the close. How this group could muster that energy in order to discuss the seemingly brain dead subject matter that we delved into on some of this album is truly a marvel. I love the fire it has and while not a Shakespearean piece of literature, it was a blast and half filled with explosions and nonsense one-liners that will probably have me coming back for repeated listens. Run don’t walk to “Raising Hell” if you like unserious fun with a side of genre pioneering. 3.5 HIGHLIGHTS: It’s Tricky, Walk This Way, Raising Hell

Well this first RUN DMC Album was a snoooooozer. Rock Box was kind of innovative; mixing the rocking guitar lick with hip-hop, but the album as a whole was BORING (these are totally my original comments)

Some aspects are dated, but can’t deny the broad influence this album had. It’s worthy of classic status.

It was okay. I didn’t love it, but I liked a few songs.

Amazing album. Groovy, rocking, funny, timeless.

A classic

Some lyrics that have not stood the test of time

First time hearing this album, and most of these tracks. I feel like a lot of these are ripe to get sampled (and obviously a lot of this has been). Pretty chill over all, not as in-your-face as I would have thought.

i listened to the wrong dmc album but god damn i’m in love

la cover di walk this way spacca tutto lo spaccabile, ma comunque è un altro album rap che a un certo punto mi annoia, sorry

The flow and rhymes are not where hip hop would eventually go but for the mid 80s these songs were banging and also had mass market appeal.

Classic

Favorite Track: It's Tricky

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

It's Tricky!!!!!! Walk This Way. Holy shit this album rules. Somehow they manage to make the worst sounding drum samples stay fresh and exciting, while the raps and flow manage to maintain their edge and freshness. Dumb Girl is kind of a shit song. Proud To Be Black is an uplifting, if somewhat on the nose song but its earnestness is what makes it great.

This is a lot of fun. Aerosmith crossover a look into the future from 86 or wherever. It's a compilation per spotify? Anyway apparently these guys were 'new school' rather than old school at one point but it feels firmly old school now. More polished rapping and produciction than the last one I got from them.

Nice one

This was a fun album, not really my interest but I have heard the Aerosmith collaboration before. Overall fun 3 star for me.

I wore out this cassette back in the day. I was a huge Run-DMC fan through this album. The year after this album came out, I began my love affair with hard rock and metal, but I have no doubt that Run-DMC was at least partially responsible for my ears to be ready for the harder sounds. I never lost my love for Run-DMC. Revisiting this album after all these years was pure joy. The back and forth rapping, with their trademark punctuations they each provide to the other's lines. The beats/DJ-ing by Jammaster Jay. 5 stars.

Fun album with the hits

The beats and rapping is quite primitive, Hip Hop has come a long way since this album. Still fun to listen and the tracks really bang. And of course Walk This Way is a certified hood classic.

Меня заебали эти однообразные олдскульные хип-хоп альбомы чесслово. Текст текстом, но… Лучшая песня - It’s Tricky.

Þarna er komið rapp sem ég get hlustað á og jafnvel sungið með einhverjum ad lögunum. Ég væri alveg til í að hlusta á þessa aftur. Mér fannst hún nefnilega hress en hún mun alltaf gjalda fyrir rappfordómana mína

5/5. Masterpiece, front to back basically perfection, save some aged lyrics. Sometimes you forget how good guitar riffs and solos sound with rap beats and vocals. This goes hard even today and its Run DMC. Sure the lyrics are mild sometimes but there is a raw energy that come through on each song. Didn't realize so many classics were on the same album. Gonna be on repeat for a bit. Best Song: Walk This Way, It's Tricky, Raising Hell

what happened to rap GROUPS like these guys, beasties, even sugar hill gang??? there’s just such obvious charm going from voice to voice. maybe just the style of rap today doesn’t lend itself to it as much

Ok, one of the only things I really knew about RunDMC going into this was that they covered Walk This Way, but I was not expecting it to go so hard. I think they just own it now, it's their song. I like the way these guys play with and merge genres. It's fun to listen to.

Fun as hell. Smile on my face for the duration of the album.

A nice work of early hip hop with multiple notable tracks ( it’s tricky ) and an Aerosmith feature … it’s not something I’d play back too often but it’s a fun enough listen and the raw energy is enjoyable

It’s the black Beastie Boys!

3.5/5

Good tunes, took me back to my youth 4/5

Some of this feels a little dated. Not in terms of the lyrical content, but rather the musical style. Hip Hop has just come a long way from the 80s, and this probably influenced some of that 90s sound that I (personally) really don't like. But this is really good. It's really top heavy, but the top very much has some incredible and notable songs. The back portion of the album falls pretty far from the bar they set with the first 4 or 5 songs. And the beatboxing that shows up on "Get It Run" and a couple other times after is really bad. I also haven't ever listened to this version of "Walk This Way" before and holy shit. Favorite Song(s): It's Tricky, Walk This Way, Raising Hell

Dated

18 and Completely ignoring this. Checked back now, understand the means

All it's cracked up to be

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

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

Yeah classic stuff

I am sure we will get the first 2 albums on this list. This album is probably the weakest of the three. More commercial maybe. It mostly held up by the super hit, Its Tricky, but on the whole, not a terrible listen. Somewhere between a 3 and 4

The first four tracks are the most famous and really showcase what to expect. I'd call this "boombox rap", it's made to be played loud for everyone to hear. Not a big fan of the type of the rap flavor, feels like I'm constantly being yelled at lol

It was crazily good. I didnt expect that so many good songs were from that album alone!

No I don't want to "Talk like this". Don't totally hate it but it is pretty dire.

I love the rock cuts they use instead of generic electro filler. And who doesn't love Tricky?

Pretty good, a couple of recognisable songs but don't know if I'd be going back to listen to it again.

Für Hip-Hop okay. Und als Highlight "Walk this way" 2/5

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 liked this a whole lot more than their debut. Some real old school hip hop! My one caveat is that the Aerosmith cover makes me dread when their albums pop up here for me.

Not a fan at all of walk this way, but the rest was nice.

I forgot how great this album was.

A few great tracks

I think it finally happened. I found my first five star rap album. Maybe it’s because I’ve been exposed throughout this process and grown my appreciation. It might be the rock’n’roll influenced felt throughout this album. It might have been the catchy lyrics that land in the perfect zone of “tough” but not harmful. Whatever it is, I dig it.

It's alright.

good bells and basic drums and samples, voice variation and dope rhyme, pre-kendrick (superior)

I just love 'It's Tricky', and not just because of the snowboarding game. Very good album

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.

While I like some individual hip-hop songs from before this (The Message, Planet Rock, Rock the Bells and a few others) I often find the albums quite underwhelming as people were still really figuring out what could be done with the genre. There would be one or two standout songs and then just a string of forgettable tracks that all sounded very similar and were going for the same thing Raising Hell is the earliest hip-hop album I can think of where everything just clicked. The years just after this pushed things further, with Public Enemy, NWA, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul and loads more doing their own twist and pushing the boundaries even further from around 1987 onwards, but for 1986 this was basically unprecedented. Not only did Run-D.M.C. really figure out how to make a varied and interesting hip-hop album, they also pioneered combining this genre still in its infancy with rock on songs like Walk This Way and Hit It Run, expanding their sound even further. It’s quite front heavy with four fantastic songs to kick it off, but it doesn’t drop off too hard and it’s a truly remarkable release for it’s time

achei meio chato legal a ideia de pegar um rockzão brabo de beat, mas me cansou rápido

o único rap rock possível. absurdo demais. só pedrada. eu perdoo eles por terem trazido esse subgênero ao mainstream, o que acarretou em bandas horríveis.

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

mwah, niet super. Leuk om een keertje te horen maar niet voor herhaling vatbaar. 6/10

i loved this album at the time , but realistically it’s a bit sonically repetitive these days . some classics songs on there though

Better then I thought

3 out of 5. This is probably the most fun rap album I've heard so far.

80s hip hop is a bit like rock n roll 55-64ish - neccessary, but dated

Dated AF sound, but some seminal tracks on there. Enjoyed listening to this

Favorite song: Raising Hell

decent rap, and "Walk This Way"

First four songs are absolute bangers. I would say the rest of the album is hit and miss for me. "It's Tricky" is my absolute favorite off this album. Makes me incredibly nostalgic for the amount of hours I poured into playing "SSX Tricky" as a kid. I like enough of this enough to merit 4 stars, but there's enough weak on here to me to have it fall short of 5.

I understand that it's a groundbreaking album it's just not a sound that is very compelling to me. 1 or 2 songs that I liked the rest meh! 2.5 stars

It's good. Classic tracks. I didn't like the songs towards the end but need another few listens. Maybe

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.

Run DMC, er...walked? so that Beastie Boys could run!

This is gonna be great!

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

OK, first of all, the tom toms at the start of Dumb Girl are straight off Down Under. This is better than the Beastie Boys, but it’s still no better than the singles off the album. Didn’t mind it, wouldn’t choose to listen to it.

It's so hard to separate the out-and-out monster influence that Run DMC has had on music, and the actual listening of the album, because it's clear that these guys helped shape music from then 80s onwards, and yet outside of the two or three banger singles the rest is just kind of... Meh? The flow is a bit one-speed, the drum machines sound incredibly cheesy nowadays and there's not much to write home about. Not going to be one of my all time faves, that's for sure. Also, Tricky is a series of limericks and once I heard that I couldn't stop focussing on it. Don't know what to do with that information, but now you have it too. Faves: Tricky, Walk This Way

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.

fun album, didn't miss a beat. Would I listen to it again? Probably

I’d never listened to this album from start to finish because so many of these tracks were already overplayed by the time I could remember. Even though I was already familiar with the songs, it was still nice to hear them in the true album order, which flows perfectly with all the right tracks in all the right places. The album has so much punchy energy, I can only imagine the fun environments it’s been played in over the years. I also have to give credit to Run-D.M.C. for crossing over into the rock genre, appealing to that audience while staying true to their hip hop identity.

Interesting. Had only really listened to tricky and Walk this Way featuring Aerosmith. Guitar Hero was such a simple time, sampling great rock classics. The album is just okay. The mix of heavier drums and record warping is distinct and I suppose that’s great. I think that’s all I have to say.

Bangers

Absolutely classic. Finally brought hip-hop to the attention of everyone who wrote it off for the last 7 years. Minimalistic but appropriate for the time. Packed with energy, hits, and a killer guest appearance, this deserves to be remembered forever as the breakthrough of one of music's most popular genres

Grand, like.

Sounds dated now but still classic

Fierce fun.

I was surprised how much I liked this album. I expected it to be more "cheesy" than it is. However, there are several songs that hit really hard, and having both Walk this Way and Tricky on the same album almost makes it feel like a compilation, at this point, due to how much I've heard those in my life. Overall, it's hard to not give this 5 stars, because it is fun, and even if I won't personally listen to it much, it obviously had such a huge impact on music, in general, helping define hip-hop and rap.

I don’t tend to find myself listening to hip hop, but listening to this album was really nice. Run-DMC is really interesting and they’ve got an awesome cover of Walk This Way

The album that brought rap/hiphop to the burbs….

Good old school hip hop album. Rick Rubin's involvement shows with the rock influences. The first 4 tracks are clearly on a different leven than the rest of the album. The rest is still good.

Yup, this is pretty darn dope. Favourite tracks: Peter Pipe, It's Tricky, Walk This Way, Is It Live, Hit It Run, You Be Illin'.

A classic

eh ja, klassiker zum mitsingen. klare favoriten mit den bekannten titel, aber solide all-through. old school halt.

Riesenplatte und immer noch gut! So macht Rap Spass und das Crossover ist super, heute ja fast normal.

Not my usual listen. It was fun though. Bumped up a star for It's Tricky and Walk This Way.

Classic old school rap.

I can appreciate the artistry of the rapping as a creative use of language, and the song with Aerosmith was a trip down memory lane, but I loathed this band at the time and still dislike the sound of the album intensely, and can’t bring myself to give more than one star to anything using those smeary sounds.

Bit cheesy but I like it

Fine I suppose. Tricky is very irritating though isn't it? It feels like what nerds think hip-hop might be, and it was in a terrible film that I can't now place. On the other hand, they do know how to write catchy tunes, and I sang my Adidas to myself quite a lot today.

++: It's Tricky, Walk This Way, You Be Illin' +: Peter Piper, My Adidas, Is It Live, Hit It Run, Dumb Girl Son 0f Byford +-: Perfection, Raising Hell 7,3/10