I don't think I would recognize the Aerosmith original one as the definite one seems like the Run DMC one and it's the one people still play, It was bound to happen but it still was influential. The single was symptomatic of an experimental scene gradually going mainstream. Then I said that it was musically influential not by creating hiphop covers of rock songs but by cementing the potential of hip hop crossing over to pop and rock. My original post stated that it was one of the first songs that introduced hip hop culture to the mainstream (translated as white Americans, I guess). and if you're hopping on to MY reason for it being musically influential, that wasnt your point.
"Walk This Way" would feel indispensable to a 1995 evaluation of the 80s, and make sense in a 2005 retrospective, but its relevance has been in sharp decline since the early 2000s and the demise of nu-metal.Īgain, no one has debated its cultural relevance. I do think this is a case of the continual evolution of the canon. Run-DMC were just the first to use it on wax (much like the "Big Beat" and "Mardi Gras" breaks). If no "Sucker MCs", then no T La Rock (no Def Jam, no Rick Rubin, no LL, no Beasties, no."Walk This Way"), no "Sucker DJs" or "The Bridge" (no Juice Crew beyond Roxanne Shante, no "South Bronx" or "The Bridge Is Over", no Eric B & Rakim, no "Top Billin'"), no Schoolly D (no Ice-T or NWA!").Īs for the argument that Aerosmith was a more radical break from the hiphop norm, the "Walk This Way" break was popular with hiphop DJs pretty much from the minute the original dropped, before "Good Times" or "Trans Europe Express" even existed, let alone anyone playing them at a hiphop party. The naked drum machine and pared-down no-nonsense Spoonie Gee-influenced rap of "Sucker MCs" was a totally unanticipated bomb (even Spoonie had his boys The Treacherous Three had ditched their early minimalist funk beats for slick Sugarhill disco by '83) that became the sound of street-level rap in the mid-80s. It was a big hiphop/club hit and a very influential record in its own right: It became the template for the Beastie Boys and much of Run-DMC's own future work, Prince ripped the drum machine pattern for "When Doves Cry" but it was a very logical progression for rap in early 1983. "It's Like That" was an even more stripped-down "The Message" redux with Soulsonic Force-style raps (Bambaataa pointed out that MC Globe pretty much invented the slow, drawn-out style Run-DMC became known for). "Sucker MCs" had already revolutionized rap years before the "Walk This Way" cover was even an idea in Rick Rubin's head.
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