Rap-metal is born

4 July 1986: Number 40 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicEver wondered why Limp Bizkit exist? Blame the day that Walk This Way, a collaborative cover version of a 1975 Aerosmith single by Run-DMC and Aerosmith's Steve Tyler and Joe Perry, was released. The resultant collision of hip-hop and guitar rock (which became the first rap single to reach the Billboard top five, remarkably enough) spawned its own genre – rap-metal.If ever there was a dream genre for a white ...

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