![]() But it happened-in retrospect it had to happen-and with 1986’s goofy, clankingly enjoyable “ Walk This Way,” rap music was big-banged into being as mainstream entertainment. Genius, right? Let’s go! Aerosmith, corroded rock behemoths in a slump, were sort of dazedly into it Run-DMC, coming into their power as hip-hop’s first superstars, were sullen and wary. It was, like many great breakthroughs, both a brilliant idea and the worst idea you’ve ever heard: Get Run-DMC and Aerosmith in the studio together, force them to perform a hybrid, rap-boosted, ebony-and-ivory version of an Aerosmith hit from the ’70s, and then make a video about walls coming down, etc. ![]()
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