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Raising Hell

Artist Run-DMC Released 1986 Type album

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The only Run-DMC record held here. 1986 is also the year this tree dates Rap rock from. It is one of the four records Rap rock is listed as starting from.

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Raising Hell is the third studio album by American hip-hop group Run-D.M.C., released on May 15, 1986, by Profile Records. The album was produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Raising Hell is notable for being the first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip-hop record. The album was first certified Platinum on July 15, 1986, before it was certified as 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on April 24, 1987. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most important albums in the history of hip-hop music and culture.

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