CODA rap-rock fusion of the latter’s 1975 hit, 32 Years Ago “,” reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, the irst top 10 RUND.M.C. RAISED ‘HELL’ for a rap act. “My ,” meanwhile, prompted the sneaker giant to sign the irst endorsement deal between a hip-hop AND HIPHOP’S PROFILE group and an athletic line. The trio’s third album became the first rap LP to crack the top 10 Raising Hell’s critical and commercial of the Billboard 200 and the first certified platinum by the RIAA success made it the RIAA’s irst platinum- certiied rap album and Run-D.M.C. CRITICS WHO DISMISSED RAP AS A Run-D.M.C. formed in Queens and the irst hip-hop act nominated for a passing fad were proved wrong when signed with Proile Records in 1983. Grammy. The group was so pioneering trailblazer Run-D.M.C.’s third album, The following year, the act broke a that it competed in the R&B vocal Raising Hell, reached the summit of key cultural barrier when the video performance by a duo or group category. Billboard’s Top Black Albums chart (now for “,” from its self-titled (A rap category didn’t exist until 1988.) called Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums) on debut, made it the irst rap group Run-D.M.C. would release another Aug. 16, 1986. played on MTV. Two years later, Raising four albums, the last in 2001. The It was the irst rap LP to reach No. 1 — Hell presaged hip-hop’s commercial following year, Mizell was murdered just one of many career breakthroughs viability, crossing over to the all-genre in his Queens studio in a still-unsolved achieved by the trio of Joseph “Run” Billboard 200, where it rose to No. 3 — case. Simmons and McDaniels retired Simmons, then 21; Darryl “D.M.C.” the irst rap album to crack the top 10. the group shortly thereafter, though they McDaniels, 22; and Jason “Jam Master The LP’s singles made history, too. occasionally reunite to perform. Jay” Mizell, 21. A collaboration with Aerosmith on a —TREVOR ANDERSON

From left: Mizell, Simmons, then-road manager and McDaniels at London’s Elstree REWINDING Airport in 1987. THE CHARTS

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