Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the story goes, one day nearly 40 years ago, a precocious 22-year-old New York record producer named Rick Rubin heard one of ...

Pioneers like The Sugarhill Gang, Cold Crush Brothers, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five may have set the template for collectives in rap, but it was Run-D.M.C. that truly ushered the genre's ...

Raising Hell stands as a landmark in hip-hop music and hip-hop history. Obviously, being the first hip-hop album to go multiplatinum carries a lot of weight, but it’s easy to reduce the album—and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. onstage together in 2002 (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Thirty years ago, when Run-D.M.C.’s ...

The impact of the legendary collaboration between Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. on a reworking of the former's “Walk This Way” cannot be overstated. Released in July 1986 as the second single from ...

The largest retailer in sports licensed merchandise and hip-hop's most legendary rap group have joined forces for a historic partnership that launches this fall at select sports retailers nationwide.

Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C.’s version of “Walk This Way” blew open the world of crossover collaborations. The song is still held as the gold standard of experiments in music, but it almost didn’t happen.

Aerosmith was one of the biggest stadium bands in the world in the 1970s. But then came the cliché: drug addiction for lead singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, infighting and, by the 1980s, ...

In 1987, combining rap and rock was still a novel idea. When Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry joined forces at that year’s MTV Video Music Awards, viewers couldn’t help but be in ...

As the story goes, one day nearly 40 years ago, a precocious 22-year-old New York record producer named Rick Rubin heard one of his bands, the hip-hop trio Run-D.M.C., messing with a catchy riff on a ...