Songs That Changed Music: Run DMC Aerosmith Walk This Way

Learn more about Walk This Way here: Run DMC and Aerosmith were in as different stratospheres as could be. The Boston rock band made up ofSteven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer and Brad Whitford were bonafide music legends who had hit a rockstar midlife crisis, as their singles didnt skyrocket the way they used to and substance abuse started infiltrating the band. Meanwhile, the rap trio from Holis, Queens which included Joseph Simmons (Run), Darry McDaniels (DMC) and Jason Mizell (Jam Master Jay) rebranded themselves as RunDMC in 1983 while they were still teens and they were intimately familiar with Aerosmiths music. Mizell had been using Aerosmiths 1975 hit Walk This Way between his decks and Run had rapped over the track since he was 12. But it was the genius move to combine the two disparate groups that created one of the greatest genrecrossing hits and arguably changed t