{"id":753838,"date":"2026-07-10T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753838\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:59:10","slug":"run-d-m-c-celebrates-40-years-of-raising-hell-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753838\/","title":{"rendered":"Run-D.M.C. Celebrates 40 Years of ‘Raising Hell’ Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRun-D.M.C.<\/a> has been Raising Hell for over four decades. With the Queens-bred crew\u2019s Raising Hell album celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Run-D.M.C.\u2019s Darryl \u201cD.M.C.\u201d McDaniels and\u00a0Joseph \u201cRun\u201d Simmons sat down with Billboard on Thursday (July 9) to reflect on the seminal LP\u2019s impact on hip-hop. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cRaising Hell was special because we wasn\u2019t trying to make a music industry album; we was trying to make a hip-hop album,\u201d D.M.C. explained.<\/p>\n

\n\tRaising Hell served as Run-D.M.C.\u2019s third album, which arrived on May 15, 1986. The project debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200<\/a> and was powered by singles like their cover of Aerosmith\u2019s \u201cWalk This Way,\u201d \u201cMy Adidas\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Tricky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRaising Hell is the prototype, the blueprint. It\u2019s the Sgt. Peppers of hip-hop. It made everybody after us, if you want to do an album, you got to do it on that level,\u201d D.M.C. continued. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWalk This Way\u201d notched the first-ever top five hit for a hip-hop single on the Billboard Hot 100,<\/a> as it reached No. 4. <\/p>\n

\n\tRun-D.M.C. knocked down plenty of doors in their journey. They were the first hip-hop group to receive a Grammy nomination and Raising Hell was the first rap album to go platinum. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c40 years, I pray it lives up to how me and D felt in \u201987 going on tour,\u201d Run added. \u201c[Producer] Jam Master Jay was everything to Raising Hell\u2026 He was like the one-man-band making Raising Hell.\u201c<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the full video of Run-D.M.C. reliving Raising Hell below. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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