Walk This Way

You know, it was their first experience seeing this is before the Beastie Boys.

You know, this is before Walk This Way with Aerosmith.

And, you know, it was a year plus before that all happened.

So I think I would like to meet them and tell them I did it.

And I'll take all the credit slash blame for this one.

This song is the heir to one of the great rock and roll traditions of the past, I don't know, 30 years or so, which is a tradition that began with the same producer of this song, Rick Rubin, with Walk This Way and Aerosmith and Run DMC.

And it goes into, you know, bringing the noise with...

Anthrax and Public Enemy.

We released it.

It was already out, Walk This Way.

They added some hip-hop elements to it with Run DMC, and it really almost kicked off a movement.

Grandmaster Flash, they were around.

other sutherland

yeah the son and the father both in classic vampire movies um there's a scene when the teenage vampires attack a group of like skater punk rockers on the beach and they they come down and they just sort of they murder the whole group and Walk This Way is playing, I think, by Aerosmith.

It's creepy, man.

They do a great job of using the fire as the lighting for the scene.

Yeah, they are that easy sometimes.

Brian, who did Aerosmith team up with for their song Walk This Way? Run DMC.

You know what? Give it and take it the way.

Tamara, what former rocker horror picture show star earned an Oscar nomination for her role in Lorenzo's Oil? Susan Sarandon? Susan Sarandon's a correct answer.

And then I loved Aerosmith.

And then they got together and did Walk This Way.

That was a great song.

And it was a great video.

Coming up now, triple play for you.

Run DMC featuring Aerosmith, and this is called Walk This Way.

Now there's a back seat lover that's always undercover And I talked to my daddy, he say Said, "You ain't seen nothin' 'til you're down on your muffin And there sure been changin' ways" And there's a cheater leader that's the real big pleader Who loves like a river, his And the best thing lovin' was his sister and his cousin And it started with a little kiss, like this See-saw swingin' with the boys in school And the feet flyin' up in the air Singin' hey, diddle diddle with the kitty in the middle And we swingin' like we just don't care So I took a big chance at the high school dance With a lady who was ready to play It wasn't me she was foolin', 'cause she knew what she was doin' When she told me how to walk this way She told me to walk this way, talk this way Walk this way, talk this way She told me to walk this way, talk this way Walk this way, talk this way Just gimme a kiss Like this Schoolgirl sleazy with a classy kinda sexy Little skirt hangin' way up her knee There were three young ladies in a school gym locker And they found they were lookin' at me I was a high school loser, never made it with a lady 'Til the boys told me somethin' I missed Then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor And I gave the girl a little kiss, like this See-saw swingin' with the boys in school With your feet flyin' up in the air Singin' hey, diddle diddle with the kitty in the middle And a-swingin' like you didn't care So I took a big chance at the high school dance With a missy who was ready to play It wasn't me she was foolin', 'cause she knew what she was doin' When she told me how to walk this way She told me to walk this way, talk this way Walk this way, talk this way She told me to walk this way, talk this way Walk this way, talk this way Ooh, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow I sit here by myself and you know I love it You know I don't want someone to come pay me a visit I wanna be by myself, I came in this world alone Me, myself, I I wanna go to China and to see Japan I'd like to sail the oceans before the seas run dry I wanna go by myself, I just room enough for one Me, myself, I I wanna be a big shot and have ninety-five I wanna have a boyfriend and a girl for life But only on Saturday, six days to be alone To just me, myself, I, me, myself And I, just me, myself, I Don't wanna be the bad guy Don't wanna make a soul cry It's not that I love myself, I just don't want company Just say me, myself, I, me, myself And I, just me, myself, I

II stay here by myself and you know I love it.

You know I don't want someone to come pay visit.

which LL Cool J made explicitly in his own induction speech that hip hop has always loved rock and roll, always sampled it, always borrowed from it.

Run DMC's collaboration with Aerosmith on Walk This Way is often cited as a moment when the two genres found a genuine common language.

The counter argument is that loving something, sampling something, even transforming something through your engagement with it is not the same as being the same thing.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer integrated the works of Aaron Coppola, Scott Joplin, Mussorgsky, Bartok, and Bach.

John Coltrane loved Bach.

That doesn't make A Love Supreme a classical recording.

The fact that Run DMC sampled Aerosmith does not mean that Walk This Way is a rock record.

It means it is a hip hop record that incorporates rock elements, just as rock records have long incorporated blues elements without thereby becoming blues records.