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>> run-d.m.c.'s latest album has sold more than a million copies in just four weeks, a first for a rap record. >> the album is called life is for ill. that's a stupid name. ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this is our music. we created it. and then here come the beastie boys. and we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ >> and then we started listening to their music, and they were really funky. so we were like, okay, all right. ♪ >> beastie boys come out with what pe thought would be a pop hip-hop group. it was straight hip-hop.

>> aerosmith was falling off the map at that point and it sort of brings them back to the floor. and it 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 talk this way >> run dmc's latest album "raising hell" sold more than a million copies in 13 weeks, a first for a rap record. >> that album is called license to l. that's a stupid name. ♪ you wake up for school and you don't want if a go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby, our culture, this is our music, we created it,...

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 got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> then when we started listening to their music they really were funky and they could really get busy. so we were like, okay, all right....

>> 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 culminate beastie boys. we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> then when we started listening to their music they really were funky...

>> aerosmith was falling off the map at that point and it sort of brings them back to the floor. and it 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 talk this way >> run dmc's latest album "raising hell" sold more than a million copies in 13 weeks, a first for a rap record. >> that album is called license to l. that's a stupid name. ♪ you wake up for school and you don't want if a go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby, our culture, this is our music, we created it,...