a much bigger way, because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. walk this way run dmc s latest album titled raising hell has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. the album is called license to ill. that s a stupid name for an album. wake up late for school, man, you don t want to go you ask your mom please but she still says no hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then here come the beastie boys. we were afraid we were going to lose it. you gotta fight for your right to party then when we started listening to their music. they really were funky, and they really could get busy. so we were like, okay, all right. i love brass monkey but beastie boys come out with what people thought would be a
going on. it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime, prison. all these things that were hitting these communities really hard. smugglers scramblers, burglars, gamblers pick pockets, and even panhandlers you say i m cool when the message hit it was put that down, what did he just say? put the record back. play that again. don t push me because i m close to the edge everyone knew the game of changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rappers. they called us and said we re gettin iller there s no one chiller it s not michael jackson and this is not thriller when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock and roll music and putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand-new out of it. you can t touch me with an eight-foot pole and i even make 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.
be addressing this with their energy. planet earth it was my place of birth born to be sole controller of the universe rakim is the god emcee. he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hip-hop. he came to the world like a poet. hard on the boulevard i never get scarred i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. not just the regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, doo-doom, doo-doom to be all i can be and more and see all there is to see and the core see all there is to see before. i m trying to set an example for the little kids, know what i m saying. got to teach the babies, know what i m saying, try to lead them in the right path. yes, the rhythm, the rebel without a pause, i m lowering the level the summer of 1987, rebel without a pause comes out. it was a call to arms, it was the sound of anger, it was the sound of something boi
hitting the top of the rhythm and blues sales charts. as a young kid running around with a local deejay crew i watched the transition from all the disco music we used to play at the block parties to slowly and surely hip-hop taking over. the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and it s a process of using two turntables and a mixer making new sounds out of already existing albums. thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. a child is born with no state of mind blind to the ways of mankind god is smiling on you but he s frowning, too only god knows what you go through the message was the first hip-hop song that wasn t just a party song. it was talking about what was
her knee there was three young ladies aerosmith had fallen off the map at that point. it brings them back into the fore and 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 run dmc s latest album titled raising hell has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. the album is called license to ill. that s a stupid name for an album. wake up late for school, man, you don t want to go you ask your mom please but she still says no hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys. and we were afraid we were going to lose it. you got to fight for your right to party then when we started listening to their music they really were funky and they could really get busy. so we were like, okay, all right.