As the story goes, one day nearly 40 years ago, a precocious 22-year-old New York record producer named Rick Rubin heard one of his bands, the hip-hop trio Run-D.M.C., messing with a catchy riff on a ...

Pioneers like The Sugarhill Gang, Cold Crush Brothers, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five may have set the template for collectives in rap, but it was Run-D.M.C. that truly ushered the genre's ...

When Run-D.M.C. released their “King of Rock” video in 1985, it was prophetic — and ironic — in three ways. First, the clip depicted the hip-hop pioneers bumrushing a Hall of Fame-like rock museum, a ...

Raising Hell stands as a landmark in hip-hop music and hip-hop history. Obviously, being the first hip-hop album to go multiplatinum carries a lot of weight, but it’s easy to reduce the album—and ...

Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. couldn't have been at more distant points in their respective careers when they joined forces on March 9, 1986 to update "Walk This Way." Run-D.M.C., on the other hand, were ...

The largest retailer in sports licensed merchandise and hip-hop's most legendary rap group have joined forces for a historic partnership that launches this fall at select sports retailers nationwide.

A judge has voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay.

The suit explains that some of the allegedly infringing products claim to be "RUN-DMC styled products" such as fedora hats and square-frame sunglasses that use the group's name in their title or ...

Aerosmith was one of the biggest stadium bands in the world in the 1970s. But then came the cliché: drug addiction for lead singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, infighting and, by the 1980s, ...

The rendition wasn’t honored by the Grammy Awards with a nomination at the time, but 34 years later the iconic tag-team of Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. corrected the oversight by reminding viewers that ...