King Of Rock  by RUN D.M.C.

A few months after the release of Run D.M.C.'s first album, the release of Kings Of Rock comes in January 1985. The second album by the rappers from New York is a shift towards a rock sound as there are endless electric guitar riffs amidst the - also - endless rapping of Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels, creating a musical pandemonium - for that time. Naming the album Kings Of Rock was an idea by Corey Robbins, who was the co-owner of Profile Records, the company that released the album, and the goal was to attract some of the rock music fans despite the fact that it is a hip hop album.

The song Can You Rock It Like This, which opened the second side of the album and was the fourth single from the album, was a composition by Rick Rubin, Larry Smith, and a then 16-year-old named James Todd Smith, who would later be called LL Cool J and would become one of the legendary figures of the hip hop scene.

King Of Rock became the first hip hop album to be released in CD format, and it was also the third hip hop album to become platinum in the U.S., as it spent 56 weeks in the Top-200 of Billboard. King Of Rock undoubtedly built a part of the legend of Run D.M.C. and turned them into one of the most significant and influential groups of the specific music scene.