![]() ![]() ![]() In place of producer Smith, a cocky new maverick was brought in: Rick Rubin. Returning home to Queens in late 1985 after their extensive touring, they soon put themselves on lockdown at Chung King studios in Manhattan for three months. Selling more than three million copies, Raising Hell is credited with heralding the golden age of hip hop as well as hip hop's album era, helping the genre achieve an unprecedented level of recognition among critics. An expanded and remastered edition was released in 2005 and contained 5 previously unreleased songs. ![]() The album was reissued by Arista Records in 19. In 2018, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant". was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Rap Album at the 1987 Soul Train Music Awards. In the same year for this album Run-D.M.C. In 1987, it was nominated for a Grammy Award, making Run DMC the first hip hop act to receive a nomination. ![]() Raising Hell has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time. It is considered to be the first rap rock collaboration that also brought hip-hop into the mainstream and was the first song by a hip hop act to reach the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100. "Walk This Way" is the group's most famous single, being a groundbreaking rap rock version of Aerosmith's 1975 song "Walk This Way". The album features four hit singles: " My Adidas", " Walk This Way" (a collaboration with Aerosmith), " You Be Illin'" and " It's Tricky". Raising Hell peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, and number one on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart making it the first hip hop record reach atop the latter. It is widely considered as one of the most important albums in the history of hip hop music and culture. The album was first certified as Platinum on July 15, 1986, before it was certified as 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on April 24, 1987. Raising Hell became the first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip hop record. The album was produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Raising Hell is the third studio album by American hip hop group Run-D.M.C., released on May 15, 1986, by Profile Records. ![]()
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