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♪ this is not thriller >> when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock and roll music and putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand new out of it. ♪ you can't touch me with an ten-foot pole ♪ >> run-dmc kind of led zeppelinized hip-hop because it was fit for an arena, knocking the scoreboard down. ♪ little skirt hanging way up her knee ♪ ♪ there were three young ladies ♪ >> aerosmith had fallen off the map at that point. it sort of brings them back into the foreand also breaks run-d.m.c. in a much bigger way because then you start to get more white kids listenin...

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 got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> then when we started listenin...

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. ♪ i love brass monkey but >> beastie ...

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 and 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 ...

But we cannot allow these images to taint or control the conversation. as i've said, if you are being violent or causing destruction, you do not stand with michael brown jr. we all need to move forward. as we've been discussing, that's where the president invited me and other civil rights and elected leaders to the white house today, to talk about better policing in this country. that is the conversation we need to have. yesterday i was in ferguson, honoring michael brown jr's life, and i talked about that. ♪ ♪ >> -- god's going to use michael to make this nation deal with police accountab...