Review #209: Raising Hell, Run-DMC

#209: Raising Hell, Run-DMC

Foundational hip-hop album alert. Nearly all the rap artists we’ve reviewed so far have cited Raising Hell as an influence. I almost wish I had come across it before I had already discovered Nineties rap.

Run-DMC was made up of Run (aka Joseph Simmons), DMC (aka Darryl McDaniels), and Jam Master Jay (aka Jason Mizell) who, as you might guess, was the…