Released 1986
(September 6, 1986)
Weeks in Top 200: 71
Billboard Peak (R&B): 1
(August 16, 1986)
Weeks in Top 75: 60
It's Tricky (Simmons/McDaniels/Mizell/R.Rubin)
My Adidas (R.Rubin/Simmons/McDaniels)
Walk This Way (S.Tyler/J.Perry)
Is it Live (Simmons/McDaniels/Mizell/R.Rubin/S.Sever)
Perfection (Simmons/McDaniels)
Hit it Run (Simmons/McDaniels/Mizell)
Raising Hell (Simmons/McDaniels/R.Rubin)
You Be Illin' (Simmons/Mizell/R.White)
Dumb Girl (R.Simmons/Simmons/McDaniels)
Son of Byford (McDaniels)
Proud to be Black (A.Brown/D.Simmons/McDaniels)
It's Tricky (2000) Single
News Releases:
August 17, 1986: Fighting breaks out between
gang members attending the Long Beach Arena date of Run-DMC's Raising Hell
tour. Police, summoned by promoters when the melee erupts at 7:35 p.m.,
don't arrive until 11. Forty-two people are injured in what is, up to that
time, hip hop's most notoriously violent event. The California arena had
already established a 16-year history of violence at concerts. Some of
the previous incidents: In 1970, 46 were arrested at a Jethro Tull show;
in 1971, 21 were arrested after battling with police at a Ten Years After
show; in 1972, 31 were arrested on drug charges at a Led Zeppelin performance;
in 1985, a young concertgoer was injured when he fell from a balcony onto
his head at a Deep Purple show.