Like most white kids, my introduction to rap came via Run D.M.C. and their big radio hit, "Walk This Way". After 3 months of really wanting "Raising Hell", I had enough money to buy the cassette for $ at the now defunct mall music store Discount Records. At the time, I was 13 years old and in 8th grade/5().

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of Raising Hell on Discogs. Label: London Records - P33L • Format: CD Album • Country: Japan • Genre: Hip Hop • Run DMC* - Raising Hell (, CD) | Discogs/5(3).

Run-DMC's rap masterpiece, Raising Hell, storms out of the musical gate. One of the albums that defined the transition from the old school to the new school, with its heavy rhyme sequences layered on top of drum-machine beats, and an assortment of pulse-quickening record stabs thrown in for good measure, it's relentless/5().

Run-D.M.C.'s Raising Hell remains the turning point at which hip-hop crashed through mainstream barriers and never left. Anchored by the crossover smash 'Walk This Way,' the blockbuster still sounds like a revolution unfolding in real brokeasanplunolal.betcipigetithotapicumspenturnli.co: Mobile Fidelity.

May 21,  · Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Run DMC* - Raising Hell at Discogs. Complete your Run DMC* collection/5(K).

Run-D.M.C. and King of Rock had established the crew's fusion of hip-hop and hard rock, but that sound didn't blossom until Raising Hell, partially due to the presence of Rick Rubin as producer/

Aug 23,  · Raising Hell —the third album by hip hop group Run-D.M.C. was the first hip-hop album to go platinum and multi-platinum. The album was executively produced by Rick Rubin & Russell Simmons and was released by Profile Records on May 15, Raising Hell reach at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart.

Raising Hell is the third album by hip hop group Run-D.M.C. released on May 15, by Profile brokeasanplunolal.betcipigetithotapicumspenturnli.co album was produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Raising Hell became the first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip hop record. The album was first certified as Platinum on July 15, , before it was certified as 3x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on.

One of the first mega-sellers in Hip Hop and the album that would cement the status of Run DMC as the most important Hip Hop act of the time. A brilliant album, with perfect interplay between Jam Master Jay – one of the first great all-round DJ’s in the game – and the back-and-forth rhyming of DMC and Run.