{"id":203282,"date":"2026-04-20T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203282\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:18:12","slug":"new-book-explores-run-dmcs-groundbreaking-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203282\/","title":{"rendered":"New book explores Run-DMC\u2019s groundbreaking album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens rap group Run-DMC was already a major force in music when it released \u201cRaising Hell\u201d in 1986\u2014an album that would go on to redefine hip-hop.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring the groundbreaking collaboration \u201cWalk This Way\u201d with Aerosmith, the record became the first hip-hop album to reach platinum and multi-platinum status.<\/p>\n<p>In his new book, \u201cRun-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years,\u201d hip-hop historian JayQuan takes a deep dive into the album and its tracks. <\/p>\n<p>He joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d this week to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens rap group Run-DMC was already a major force in music when it released \u201cRaising Hell\u201d in 1986\u2014an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2274,25,2275,3952,9,24,55,54,12,56,380,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-203282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-mornings-on-1","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-mornings-on-1","11":"tag-mornings-on-1-authors-week","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}