Is Run-DMC directly responsible for the current pop rap generation?

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

The 1986 version of the song is often credited as helping break hip hop music into mainstream pop music as it was the first hip hop song to hit the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the remake demonstrated how elements of hip hop music can be part of rockand pop songs, harking back to the DJing of Afrika Bambaataa, who would mix in tracks by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stonesand Grand Funk Railroad among the more usual funk breaks. It also briefly samples the opening drum intro of the original in a middle section of the song. This version of "Walk This Way" charted higher on the Billboard Hot 100 than the original version, peaking at number 4. It was also one of the first big hip hop 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 hip hop music for years to come. The song paved the way for other pop acts to introduce elements of hip hop into their music. It pioneered the trend of rhymed/sung collaborations that is so present on American Radio from the late 1990s and 2000s to the present. The collaboration also introduced a fusion of rock and hip hop, later known as rap rock, to a wide audience for the first time.

We can also attribute the door it opened for appropriation, and for Lil Wayne's rebirth album.


Did they elevate hip hop to a greater plateau and also destroy hip hop at the same time?

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Run-DMC couldn't have been responsible for hip hop's current state.

The genre was destined to get bigger. Run-DMC had already been in a hit movie, performed at Live Aid, had airplay on MTV, and went gold by the time "Walk This Way" came out. Naturally, they made it possible for the new school of rappers (Rakim, KRS-One, BDK, Public Enemy) to get shine and for the mainstream audience to pay attention to hip hop when it was at its creative peak.

The bigger hip hop got, the more it was going to get taken over by corporations and monopolized. All Run-DMC was show people what hip hop was all about and those same people responded by pouring more money into the genre, making it commercially viable.

 

[Art Barr]

This is false.
As culturally hip hop had moved into the new school way of thought and run dmc were solidly hold over end of the ol school way of thought artist business wise.
Which mm carry over with certain late fringe ol school artist like LL at the time as well.
To be more of the gateway to new school way of thought.
That eventually morphed into a more realistic draw and consistent quality scale.
that had to be matched culturally for that particular act.
in actual skill of vocal within rap's then prohibitive tale meets sonic audio history book base format.


Art Barr

 

[Big Mel]

Someone ban this fakkit. I'm no longer in the mood for nonsense.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

We can also attribute the door it opened for appropriation, and for Lil Wayne's rebirth album.

 

[boskey]

Very stupid thread.