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Nothing has been the same since Feb. 13, 1970.

The hip-hop pioneer talks about learning to love his glasses, and the all-star collaborations he has on the way

A much bigger way, because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. ♪ walk this way ♪ >> run dmc's latest album titled "raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "license to ill." that's a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you don't want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then here come the beastie boys. we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you gotta ...

Her knee ♪ ♪ there was three young ladies ♪ >> aerosmith had fallen off the map at that point. it brings them back into the fore and also breaks run-dmc in a much bigger way because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. ♪ walk this way ♪ >> run dmc's latest album titled "raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "license to ill. that's a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you don't want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was...

Jane McAlevey, a PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, spent two decades as an organizer in the labor and environmental justice movements. She is the author of Raising Expectations (Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Verso, 2012).