Hit Parade: The Def Jams Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Watching this year’s Grammy Awards, it’s clear hip-hop is the dominant genre in popular music. But back in the ’80s, it was an influential but still underground style looking fora place on the charts and some mainstream respect. That is, until Run-DMC met Aerosmith. This month, how some out-of-favor ’70s rockers teamed up with the top crew in rap to remake an old hit—in the process, opening lanes for a trio of punks-turned-MCs, and a witty hip-hop lothario. We’re still feeling the reverberations today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker, you know me, Tim and Eric, Bridesmaids and Fantastic Four.
0:04.8	I'd like to personally invite you to listen to Office Hours Live with me and my co-hosts,
0:09.4	DJ, Doug Pound, and Vic Berger.
0:12.4	Howdy. Every week we bring you laughs, fun, Hello, and Vic Berger. Howdy.
0:13.4	Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games, and lots of other surprises.
0:16.3	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
0:18.1	We love having fun, excuse me?
0:19.8	Songs.
0:20.3	Vick said something.
0:21.0	Music, music.
0:22.0	Music, I like having fun.
0:24.0	I like to laugh.
0:26.0	I like to meet people who can make me laugh.
0:29.0	Please subscribe.
0:31.0	No. Subscribe no. hit parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine about the hits from
0:44.5	coast to coast. I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's
0:49.5	Why Is This Song Number One series. On today's's show at the Grammys this year many of the most
0:56.1	compelling performances came from the world of hip-hop from Kendrick Lamar. Lemar. To new rap star, Cardi B.
1:08.0	supporting the night's biggest Grammy winner Bruno Marsh.
1:14.0	Okay, okay, okay.
1:16.0	Okay.
1:17.0	You're jipping and possess and getting paid.
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