No one's meant to stay in the limelight forever, but it only takes a handful of songs to get the public's attention all over ...

It’s Tricky is a song that mixes a catchy beat with a rock sample from “My Sharona” by The Knack. The lyrics discuss the challenges of maintaining focus in the public eye. This speech is my recital, I ...

Standing at hip-hop's centre during its mid-1980s zenith, Def Jam founder Rick Rubin proved instrumental in pushing rap's acceptance into rock audiences.

This is the oral history of Run-DMC’s cover of “Walk This Way”. It’s 15 December 1974, and Perry, Aerosmith’s 24-year-old lead guitarist, is messing with a riff before a gig in Honolulu.

Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story, a three-part documentary released ... We could have got Best Rock Collaboration [for “Walk This Way” with Aerosmith]. “There were so many awards the ...

But as producer Rick Rubin says in an interview with Rick Beato, the creation of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s 1986 hit Walk This Way was no easy task. Rubin says it was his idea for the hip-hop trio ...

But as producer Rick Rubin says in an interview with Rick Beato, the creation of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s 1986 hit Walk This Way was no easy task. Rubin says it was his idea for the hip-hop trio to ...

Joel Kim Booster and More Of all of Run-DMC’s hits, none has been bigger than “Walk This Way,” their groundbreaking collaboration with Aerosmith and Steven Tyler. It has become a classic ...

As a DJ in Run-DMC, he crafted beats and scratches that helped rap break through to a mainstream audience in the 1980s. With hits such as "It's Tricky" and a genre-crossing version of Aerosmith's ...

worked the turntables in Run-DMC as it helped hip-hop break into the pop music mainstream in the 1980s with such hits as "It’s Tricky" and a fresh take on Aerosmith’s "Walk This Way." ...

He and Run-DMC had publicly stated their opposition ... solidified by the rap-rock crossover “Walk This Way” with Aerosmith in 1986, as well as appearances on “Saturday Night Live” and ...

Mr. Mizell still kept elite company in popular music circles later in his career, touring arenas in the summer of 2002 with Run-DMC as the group opened for Aerosmith, its collaborators on the ...