Hip Hop witnessed the arrival of a record that would forever change the culture. On this day in 1983, Run-D.M.C. released ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Run-D.M.C. in the 1980s. (Photo: Michael Ochs Archives) When Run-D.M.C. released their "King of Rock" video in 1985, it was ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

1986: Innovative Queens hip-hop crew Run-D.M.C. dropped their third studio album Raising Hell on May 15, 1986. In a time when hip-hop was still an outlier in the music industry, Run-D.M.C.'s Raising ...

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 ...