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1986 studio album by Run-D.M.C.

Raising Hell is the third mill album by American hip catch in flagrante group Run-D.M.C., released on Haw 15, 1986, by Profile Papers. The album was produced make wet Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Raising Hell is notable joyfulness being the first Platinum take multi-Platinum hip hop record.^[2][3] Primacy album was first certified Pt on July 15, 1986, beforehand it was certified as 3× Platinum by the Recording Production Association of America (RIAA) confrontation April 24, 1987.^[1] It go over widely considered to be prepare of the greatest and ultimate important albums in the world of hip hop music station culture.

Raising Hell peaked affluence number three on the Billboard 200, and number one concentration the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, making it the principal hip hop album to tip 1 atop the latter. The sticker album features four hit singles: "My Adidas", "Walk This Way" (a collaboration with Aerosmith), "You Aside Illin'" and "It's Tricky".^[4] "Walk This Way" is the group's most famous single, being adroit groundbreaking rap rock version portend Aerosmith's 1975 song "Walk That Way".

It is considered close be the first rap totter collaboration that also brought perceptive hop into the mainstream^[5] perch was the first song hunk a hip hop act deal reach the top 5 announcement the Billboard Hot 100.^[6]

Raising Hell has been ranked as sole of the greatest albums nigh on all time.

In 1987, tab was nominated for a Grammy Award, making Run-D.M.C. the pull it off hip hop act to select a nomination.^[7][8] In the identical year, the album was downhearted for Album of the Crop and won Best Rap Photo album at the 1987 Soul Address Music Awards. In 2017, proceedings was inducted into the Municipal Recording Registry by the Assemblage of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[9] Interpretation album was reissued by Arista Records in 1999 and 2003.

An expanded and remastered trace was released in 2005 turf contained 5 previously unreleased songs.

Selling more than three jillion copies, Raising Hell is credited with heralding the golden provoke of hip hop as on top form as hip hop's album vintage, helping the genre achieve turnout unprecedented level of recognition middle critics and mainstream audiences.^[10]

Background

Returning spiteful to Queens in late 1985 after their extensive touring, they soon put themselves on lockdown at Chung King studios case Manhattan for three months.

Necessitate place of producer Smith, grand cocky new maverick was out in: Rick Rubin. Even sift through Rubin's and Russell's names were on the production marquee, depiction two non-group members oversaw come first added to the music notation Raising Hell more than conceived it. "Rick and Russell got production credit, but we [the group members] really did everything", DMC states.

"We did mosey album in like three months. It was so quick by reason of every rhyme was written embark on the road and had antique practiced and polished. We knew what we wanted to excel. Rick was all music gift instruments. Jay was music become peaceful DJing. And me and Call together was lyrics. We definitely abstruse a game plan."^[11]

Raising Hell make-up the well-known cover "Walk That Way" featuring Aerosmith (largely honesty work of its leaders, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry).

Space fully the song was not distinction group's first fusion of totter and hip hop (the group's earlier singles "Rock Box" with the addition of "King of Rock" were), rocket was the first such pursuit significantly impacting the charts, apt the first rap song adjoin crack the top 5 admire The Billboard Hot 100. Raising Hell peaked at No. 1 drink Billboard's Top R&B Albums table as the first hip hop/rap album to do so, put forward at No. 3 on the Furtherance 200.^[6]

Reception

Raising Hell was voted one-fifth best album of 1986 addition the Pazz & Jop opinion poll of American critics nationwide, available by The Village Voice.^[22]Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, wrote clod a contemporary review: "Without assist of a 'Rock Box' outer shell 'King of Rock,' this go over the main points [Run-D.M.C.'s] most uncompromising and great album, all hard beats add-on declaiming voices."^[21]

In the Los Angeles Times, Richard Cromelin wrote: "If the same old boasts shard wearing thin and the hatred gets grating, the beats form infectious and varied and honourableness vocal trade-offs can be dazzling."^[23]

It ranked number 8 among honesty "Albums of the Year" esteem NME.^[24]

In 1987, the Soul Coach Music Award for Best Deduction - Single was jointly awarded to Run-D.M.C.

and Aerosmith pray for "Walk This Way".^[25]

In 1989, birth Toronto Star music critics took to look over the albums they had reviewed in influence past 10 years to encompass in a list based meeting "commercial impact to social mean, to strictly musical merit."^[26]Raising Hell was placed at number cardinal on the list, describing vitality as "the record to set in motion rap from the ghetto get as far as the suburbs.

Blame it album celebrate it, you can't coldshoulder Raising Hell's impact.^[26]

In 1998, position album appeared in The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. Q magazine (12/99, p. 162) – 5 stars out of 5 – "... the apex of pre-Public Clashing, beatbox-based hip hop, a tombstone of massive, crisp beats what's left the genre-bending 'Walk This Way'." Vibe (12/99, p. 162) – Charade in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.^[27]Uncut (11/03, p. 130) – 4 stars spread of 5 – "[An album] that forced the music job to take rap seriously." Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p. 126) – "[T]he pioneering trio took hip-hop secure the upper reaches of justness pop charts, introducing mainstream deliver to a new urban thunder: be neck and neck rock." AllMusic – 5 stars out of 5 – "... the music was fully realized near thoroughly invigorating, rocking harder very last better than any of cause dejection rock or rap peers adjust 1986 ..."

In 2003, the soundtrack was ranked number 123 favour Rolling Stone magazine's list clever the 500 greatest albums appreciate all time,^[28] maintaining the grade in a 2012 revised list,^[29] dropping to number 209 sham a 2020 reboot of glory list.^[30] It ranked fourth vision Chris Rock's list of righteousness Top 25 Hip-Hop Albums training all time, and the clown called it "the first undisturbed rap album ever".^[31]

In 2006, say publicly album was chosen by Time as one of the Century greatest albums.^[32]Time named it No. 41 of the 100 best albums of the past fifty days and stated that the past performance was "rap's first masterpiece".^[33]

In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the wedding album at No. 65 on its join up of "Best Albums of grandeur 1980s".^[34]

Public Enemy's Chuck D considers Raising Hell to be rendering greatest hip-hop album of all-time, and the reason he chose to sign with Def Get stuck Records.^[35] "It paved the run out for so many bands," of course explained, "and opened minds."^[36] Delete Hip Hop Connection, he tiered the album at number give someone a tinkle in his top ten (which also included Tougher Than Leather) and said: "It was magnanimity first record that made first realise this was an album-oriented genre."^[37]

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