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- Artist
- Run-DMC
- Released
- 1986
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Early New York Hip-Hop
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Released in 1986, 'Raising Hell' became the first hip-hop album certified platinum, proof that the genre could sell at a scale far beyond its independent-label roots.
The rest is in Early New York Hip-Hop, a members' issue.
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- Breakbeat
- A drum pattern, usually sampled from the break of a funk or soul record, with syncopated rhythms rather than a steady four-on-the-floor kick.