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Rating: Today I am going to fill a significant gap on DeBaser. 0 and I repeat 0 reviews on Run DMC is just not acceptable. This album then has influenced all subsequent hip hop and the emerging crossover.
Third work by the trio released in 1986, it was the first album to achieve great commercial success that fused old school hip hop with early hard rock influences, laying the foundations of the genre that later established itself on a large scale in the '90s with Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Rage Against The Machine (just to name a few of the most well-known).
Produced by Rick Rubin, the album was also distinguished for an extraordinary sound clarity and for the aggressive and sharp bases of the late DJ Jam Master Jay, as well as the historic lyrics by the two MCs Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Joseph "reverend Run” Simmons who alternate at the microphone like Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
The first four songs are an absolute bomb, the revolutionary (at the time) beats of "Peter Piper", the engaging "Tricky", the very famous "Adidas" and the celebrated "Walk This Way" featuring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry from Aerosmith, really beautiful and fun. After a couple of misses ("It Is Live" and "Perfection", quite bland), our guys return to scratch with "Hit It Run", filled with scratches, the funky "You Be Illin'", the rock-infused title track (which could have been done by the Beastie Boys) and the very strange "Dumb Girl", then closing, after a brief interlude, with the proud "Proud To Be Black".
An album absolutely essential in any hip hop (and not only) discography that respects itself.
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By Davide1990
"Walk This Way, a track originally by Aerosmith and remade by Run-DMC, was the first Rap video to air on MTV."
Hip-Hop radically changed after this album, and it began to be respected and listened to by fans of other genres as well.
