we know you so called started rap...but

[monolithicpaw]

I was about to remind you of that when you stated your age. but I didn't want to sound condesceding. Run Dmc cemented hip hop in the books. if not for them it is questionable if Hip Hop would still be here today. Em has brought a lot to the game. but hip hop would still exist without him.

 

[Mvpbrodie93]

I will say Run DMC with Walk This Way Crossed Rap Over in a massive way with Aerosmith and the LL Cool J stayed inthe mainstream keeping rap a pop staple for years. All that said Def Jam did it...

Run dmc, good pick

 

[KplusK]

pac brought rap worldwide before em did yall cant be serious em stans.....and im an em fan..i think wu bridged rap WORLDWIDE before they did real talk

 

[brombonze]

When raising hell dropped Run DMC became household names world wide

 

[icame4wo]

so names that come to mind who had big records and/or stirred controversy that lead to alot of press for rap music:
hammer, run dmc, tone loc, vanilla ice, young mc, nwa, 2 live crew etc

 

[checkyourhead]

beastie boys

licensed to ill = 4x platinum in '87. aint no one touching that

beastie boys >>>>>>>

 

[DaPrinciplez]

LMAO @ The DENIAL.

Please please please just say DaPrinciplez, you are wrong. Eminem DIDN'T put hip hop into every single home.

......then tell me 50 Cent wasnt the next to do it.

And then The South collectively.

......It's ok, I'll wait.

 

[hrap-120]

you seperated them like the wasnt the same but i ment them i think they put in work for sure but brought hemi's to listen i dont know

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Wrong, I included the names of all 3 members Run, DMC, and Jammaster Jay.

The same way they announced themselves in their music.

[video=youtube;ZDSK3qmj_lo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDSK3qmj_lo[/video]

The first rappers to get major air-time burn on M.T.V., with "King of RocK".
The first rappers to get a major apparel deal with Adiddas
The first rappers to have mainstream crossover acceptence with "Walk this Way"

They were the only rap-group that performed at "Live Aid" It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated 2 billion viewers, across 60 countries, watched the live broadcast.

....what did you think it was Emenim?!?

 

[Mvpbrodie93]

beastie boys

licensed to ill = 4x platinum in '87. aint no one touching that

beastie boys >>>>>>>

GOAT album name btw

 

[icame4wo]

Walk this way was cool, but white people never had their own dope single rapper before eminem(on the mainstream, That was good,don't say wackass vanilla ice) Beastie boys were a good group but they couldn't stand toe to toe with the best black rappers. Alot of people say walk this way brought whites to hip hop. BUT ALOtthe white people I know(I'm 18 so the be mindful of the demographic) were brought o hip hop through eminem. And alot of them are your typical "well I don't rap, but I like eminem" types. But most have evolved to listen to other rappers. IMO

Eminem gave them their own, there "hero"

IMO

vanilla ice was good my dude. truth be told. his rhymes then are probably still better than a lot of rappers now. he just sold out, was used cause he was "white" so we call him wack but he did his thing. in order for ice to be as big as he was he had to first be accepted by the rap community first, which he was. you youngins need to learn some rap history before you start believing everything eminem says. we laugh at vanilla ice now but truth be told he did a lot for rap music and he deserves some respect.

 

[Mvpbrodie93]

vanilla ice was good my dude. truth be told. his rhymes then are probably still better than a lot of rappers now. he just sold out, was used cause he was "white" so we call him wack but he did his thing. in order for ice to be as big as he was he had to first be accepted by the rap community first, which he was. you youngins need to learn some rap history before you start believing everything eminem says. we laugh at vanilla ice now but truth be told he did a lot for rap music and he deserves some respect.

Truth be told, I think ice would murk some popular rappers lyrically right now

 

[monolithicpaw]

thanks H Rap! does this mean this thread can be closed now?

 

[icame4wo]

Truth be told, I think ice would murk some popular rappers lyrically right now

them dudes back then had the true essence of hip hop which is gone now. alot of the stuff they was spittin was battle and all that to. these days people be like "i aint a battle rapper". but battlin is apart of the job description of being a rapper. go listen to tone loc first album. you can laugh at wild thang and funky cold medina but as far as the level of emceein on the album goes, he did his thing. rappers just aint spittin like that no more. its way more watered down. and those records were some of the first cross over rap record that exposed rap to a broader audience. so even if you felt like those big records were sell out tracks, the album itself still contained authentic emceeing and hip hop on there. the same for vanilla ice. the hood supported that ish when it came out. it wasnt until later they disowned it.

 

[hrap-120]

thanks H Rap! does this mean this thread can be closed now?

All subliminal Emenim threads should be closed now, and forever.

[video=youtube;4B_UYYPb-Gk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk[/video]

It can be argued that Tupac's combination of music, movies and mayhem may have
made him an international celebrity before his death, because he most definitley was after his death.

 

[KplusK]

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Wrong, I included the names of all 3 members Run, DMC, and Jammaster Jay.

The same way they announced themselves in their music.

[video=youtube;ZDSK3qmj_lo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDSK3qmj_lo[/video]

The first rappers to get major air-time burn on M.T.V., with "King of RocK".

The first rappers to get a major apparel deal with Adiddas

The first rappers to have mainstream crossover acceptence with "Walk this Way"

They were the only rap-group that performed at "Live Aid" It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated 2 billion viewers, across 60 countries, watched the live broadcast.

....what did you think it was Emenim?!?

ok i already knew all that an yeah lets go to how many album they sold outside of the u.s. im not knocking them at all but im talkinging where overseas is constantly buying that person album they was to early they made it happen but not on a worldwide note where yeah rap is serious. cause if you think about it they didnt even think rap was gonna last long in the us when rundmc dropped.

 

[KplusK]

and i never said em said was either at all...cause he wasnt at all...go back and read my post

 

[KplusK]

shit i would say nwa had shit popping more all away around the board than rundmc did even though they did do it first....if you ask me

 

[DaPrinciplez]

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Wrong, I included the names of all 3 members Run, DMC, and Jammaster Jay.

The same way they announced themselves in their music.

[video=youtube;ZDSK3qmj_lo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDSK3qmj_lo[/video]

The first rappers to get major air-time burn on M.T.V., with "King of RocK".

The first rappers to get a major apparel deal with Adiddas

The first rappers to have mainstream crossover acceptence with "Walk this Way"

They were the only rap-group that performed at "Live Aid" It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated 2 billion viewers, across 60 countries, watched the live broadcast.

....what did you think it was Emenim?!?

I don't think it was Eminem, I know it was Eminem.

Now I'm not a fool, I know that I could never ever get you to admit the truth, not in a million fuckin years.....so I ain't going to argue the point.

It's simple too me....I've seen the days before Eminem came out, Hip Hop was available if people wanted it, yes, it was mainstream in America but on a World-Wide level it was a selective thing, it was still rather underground in world wide mainstream media (unless of course you want to consider all outgoing American media as "worldwide" but even then, it wasnt as big) and it was still underground as a music genre worldwide.

....and then Eminem came out, but lets not even say thats what did it....what did it was The Marshall Mathers LP, that album, is what put hip hop into every single person's mouth and home.

Do you not remember the "Britany Spears" buzz goin on world-wide in the media (oh wait, your all in America so how could you really even know right?), well Eminem topped her for the number 1 album with The Marshall Mathers LP.....and since that day, it's been a wrap.

.....then 50 came through and did it just as big and then the South turned hip hop into some sort of thing that had all the lil kids and white girls doin hip hop dancin and shit....*shrugs*

Run DMC didnt put hip hop into every home worldwide.....sorry. You don't have to admit the truth H-Rap, none of you's do, but inside, you all the truth.

And that will be the last thing I say on the matter. That's it. The truth, no more needs to be said.

 

[hrap-120]

ok i already knew all that an yeah lets go to how many album they sold outside of the u.s. im not knocking them at all but im talkinging where overseas is constantly buying that person album they was to early they made it happen but not on a worldwide note where yeah rap is serious. cause if you think about it they didnt even think rap was gonna last long in the us when rundmc dropped.

and i never said em said was either at all...cause he wasnt at all...go back and read my post

"Walk This Way" is a song by American hard rock group Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. It was originally released as the second single from their 1975 album Toys in the Attic. It peaked at Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a string of successful hit singles for the band in the 1970s. In addition to being one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s, it also helped resurrect their career and revolutionized the new hybrid sub-musical genre of "rock and rap", or the molding of rock and hip hop music when it was covered by rappers Run-D.M.C. in 1986 on their album Raising Hell. It became an international hit and won both groups a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap - Single in 1987.

UK CD single (1724331)

1. "Walk This Way" - 2:52
2. "Walk This Way" [Yoad Mix] - 3:01
3. "Walk This Way" [video] - 3:07
4. Behind the Scenes Footage [video] - 3:15

Charts

Chart Peak
position Irish Singles Chart[7] 14 Romanian Singles Chart[8] 54 UK Singles Chart 1 UK Download Chart 2 European Hot 100[9] 8

It was also one of the first big rap singles in the UK, reaching a peak of Number 8 there. The landmark collaboration catapulted Run-D.M.C. into mainstream stardom and would influence rap music for years to come.

 

[KplusK]

nah and im bugging you think walk this way was just the answer to rap all worldwide lets look at the sales world wide from there to now and see when shit changed...im not gonna look shit up now cause its late but you cant be serious..even though walk this way was a cross over us wide dont make it world wide dude.