♪ don't push me 'cause i'm close to the edge ♪ >> everyone knew the game had changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rappers. ♪ they told us it was getting better ♪ ♪ it's not michael jackson ♪ and this is not thriller >> when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock 'n' roll music and putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand new out of it. ♪ you can't touch me from a ten-foot pole ♪ ♪ and i even made the devil sell me his soul ♪ >> run-dmc kind of led zeppelinized hip-hop because it was fit for an arena, knocking the scoreboard down. ♪ little skirt hanging way up her knee ♪ ♪ there were three young ladies ♪ >> aerosmith had fallen off the map at that point. and it sort of brings them back into the fore. and it also breaks run-dmc in a much bigger way because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. ♪ walk this way ♪ talk this way