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Run-DMC Release Raising Hell, First Rap Album to Go Platinum

Run-DMC release Raising Hell, which becomes the first rap album to reach number one on the pop charts and the first to go triple platinum. Their rock-rap collaboration with Aerosmith on Walk This Way breaks hip-hop into mainstream white America.

Events

  1. May 15, 1986
    Run-DMC Release Raising Hell, First Rap Album to Go Platinum

    Run-DMC release Raising Hell, which becomes the first rap album to reach number one on the pop charts and the first to go triple platinum. Their rock-rap collaboration with Aerosmith on Walk This Way breaks hip-hop into mainstream white America.

  2. May 27, 1986
    Lonnie Johnson patents the Super Soaker

    The NASA engineer's water gun becomes the best-selling water toy ever made.