Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell

Raising Hell
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Artist: Run-D.M.C.
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-06-01
Music Label: Arista Europe
Soundtracks:
  1. Peter Piper - Run-D.M.C., McDaniels, Darryl "
  2. It's Tricky - Run-D.M.C., McDaniels, Darryl "
  3. My Adidas - Run-D.M.C., McDaniels, Darryl "
  4. Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C., Perry, Joe
  5. Is It Live? - Run-D.M.C.,
  6. Perfection - Run-D.M.C.,
  7. Hit It Run - Run-D.M.C., McDaniels, Darryl "
  8. Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C., McDaniels, Darryl "
  9. You Be Illin' - Run-D.M.C., Mizell, Jason
  10. Dumb Girl - Run-D.M.C.,
  11. Proud to Be Black - Run-D.M.C., Brown, Andre

Music reviews of Raising Hell

Music Review: Raizing Da Bar!!!
Rating: 5 Stars

2 that person called darkfather and his one star rating of Raising Hell, Huh? Run-DMC vs. 50-Cent or 2-Pac? Don't make me laugh!!! No contest!!! I'll take The Kingz of Rock over 2 Quarters any day!!! They laid the ground work for future hip-hoppers, and unfortunately, other than PE, LL, and NWA, maybe Biggie, there hasn't been many able to truly measure up or carry the torch the way the Adidas Boyz did. Run-D.M.C. and their Raising Hell album is still in my opinion the single greatest reason why there is a rap genre today. Your rating and comments suggest that you are not a real fan and student of true hip-hop and its' humble beginnings.

Description of Raising Hell

Run-DMC's 1986 rap masterpiece, Raising Hell, storms out of the musical gate. One of the albums that defined the transition from the old school to the new school, with its heavy rhyme sequences layered on top of drum-machine beats, and an assortment of pulse-quickening record stabs thrown in for good measure, it's relentless. The late-'80s lyricism of MCs Run and DMC is not as complex as that of today's microphone mathematicians, but that was never the point--what they lack in finesse, they more than make up in intensity, authority, and flat-out lung power. The fact that almost every line of "Peter Piper" has become the hook of another hip-hop song is a testament to the power of these originals (the "not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good" line alone has been used in countless turntablist routines).

The roots of rap/metal fusion are in here, too, with songs like "It's Tricky," "Walk this Way," and the title cut making use of distorted rock guitars and pounding drums, while "Proud to Be Black" helped launch the Afrocentric-conscious rap era of the late '80s. And "My Adidas" prefigured the brand-name fetishism that hip-hop is just beginning to get over. When it comes to beats, bumps, and b-boy bravado, there has never been anyone else like Run-DMC, and this album shows why. --Joe Schloss

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