Raising Hell  by RUN D.M.C.

In 1986, the top album of the New York rappers' careers, Raising Hell, will be released. RUN DMC collaborates with Rick Rubin and records the album that was destined to become the first hip hop album to go platinum and multiplatinum in the U.S., reaching 3,000,000 in sales.

Noteworthy at the time, of course, was the cover of Aerosmith's song "Walk This Way" featuring Steven Tyler (vocals) and Joe Perry (guitar). It was one of the first steps for what would later be called rap metal, funk metal, nu metal, and so on. At that time, it seemed inconceivable for such a collaboration between rock and hip hop music to exist. Today it is considered one of the milestone albums for the entire structure of pop/rock culture and music.

Raising Hell brought many hip hop groups and artists of that time out of obscurity and the margins, and additionally, Aerosmith started a second career that was much more commercially successful than what they had in the 1970s.