Run-DMC – Raising Hell LP Vinyl Record

Run-DMC – Raising Hell LP Vinyl Record

Raising Hell is the third album by hip hop group Run-D.M.C. released on May 27, 1986 by Profile Records. The album was produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin, and became the first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip hop record.

Raising Hell 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. In 2018, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or artistically significant”. 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.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said about the album “Where other rap records, including Run-D.M.C.’s, were all about the rhythm, this is layered with sounds and ideas, giving the music a tangible flow. But the brilliance of this record is that even with this increased musical depth, it still rocks as hard as hell, and in a manner that brought in a new audience.”

Pressed on Classic Black Vinyl.

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