Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Roland Stone Music Now.

Today we're going to be talking about a new book called Walk This Way, Run DMC, Aerosmith, and the song that changed American music forever.

It's just announced by Jeff Edgers, who's a writer for the Washington Post, and he's joining me right now, hopefully,

Jeff, hello. Hi there, how you doing doing good. Thanks for making time to do this today.

Of course my pleasure so glad to be on the show. Congrats in the book it's a great read now make your case

for Walk This Way being a song that changed specifically the collaboration between

Run DMC and Aerosmith changing American music forever.

Well, then it's important to note that, you know, Walk This Way, the Run DMC version,

there are a lot better Run DMC songs.

There are better ones on that Raising Hell.

But it's very simple, I can make the argument in 15 seconds. This is the first rap song that was played on mainstream radio which ruled the day and in light of that because MTV followed radio programming and rock radio, you remember the flag and you know this is

MTV rock and roll, they followed Rock Radio and so it's the first rap song that was played in like

main rotation on MTV so it changed everything I mean everything you can think of that came after in this universe in living color

Fresh Prince of Bel Air public enemy and anthrax, even terrible things like the

fat boys and the beach boys. All those came after walk this way.

Fair enough. I mean frankly I'm not sure it matters whether we can hold up the argument which I think is a strong

argument because the book is such an enjoyable narrative anyway it's sort of a

secondary issue one of the main things I enjoy in the book is the people who

undercut the song and its importance that you allow to speak like Lear Cohen who always hated people who

always hated it.

The song and his importance that you allowed to speak, like Lear Cohen, who always hated it.

I got this amazing footage nobody had ever seen that was in the Viacom vault and I

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