Massively popular album that cemented hip hop as a cultural juggernaut. A new style of rockstars you could say. This album in fact is so rock adjacent that it basically becomes a rock fusion album that was likely seen as a very possible route rock could evolve from. And in a lot of respects it did. And not only that this album forever changed music relations as a whole, attaching brands to faces in the industry, Run-Dmc were basiaclly brand ambassadors for Adidas which was unheard of at the ... read more
This album is squished inbetween two of their most well known and influential albums so it ends up being this weird transition project that no one really talks about. Going into it I was expecting just a continuation of their first album, but instead this one leaned a lot more heavily on their rock influences which was a cool switch of pace, added a lot more energy and strayed a bit from the griminess feel of their first. And from what I can remember they would continue and master the rock ... read more
I actually really enjoyed this, I think this is objectively the best album of this whole elctro rap genre. It's enjoyable for the whole tracklist except the random 5 minute instrumental version of "5 minutes of Funk" disguised as "Featuring Grand Master Dee," without the vocals it misses half of the fun and has no purpose really. The instrumental track "out of control" though is absolute fun, sounds like halloween hip hop, its zany and weirdly entertaining, ... read more
This album has "The message" and then everything else. I mean everything else is pretty cool but throughout the tracklist your just waiting for THE song. The message SONG is a absolute banger, the conscious lyrics mixed with the funky upbeat production makes for a unique combo that really hasn't been replicated since. And they couldn't have picked a better song title, this song brought the messaging into hip hop, the social advocacy was always there, hip hop in itself was a ... read more
These guys were the first to record rap which brought the whole idea of records to the genre. And although it's made up of stolen flows it still works as a fun showcase of hip hop to the world. Really was a hit that catapulted the genre's success.
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