Raising Hell (album)

Raising Hell is the third studio album by hip hop group Run–D.M.C.. The breakthrough album trumped standing perceptions of commercial viability for hip-hop groups, achieving triple-platinum status and receiving critical attention from quarters that had previously ignored hip hop, dismissing it as a fad.

Background

Raising Hell features the well-known cover "Walk This Way" featuring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. While the song was not the group's first fusion of rock and hip hop (the group's earlier singles "Rock Box" and "King of Rock" was), it was the first such fusion to make a significant impact on the charts, becoming the first rap song to crack the top 5 of The Billboard Hot 100. Raising Hell peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart as the first hip hop/rap album to do so, and at No. 6 on the Billboard 200.

Reception

It ranked fourth on Chris Rock's list of the Top 25 Hip-Hop Albums of all time, and the comedian called it "the first great rap album ever".

Raising Hell

Raising Hell may refer to:

Raising Hell (film)

Raising Hell is a 2010 documentary film by Ed Webb-Ingall that explores the experiences of children of gay and lesbian parents. Webb-Ingall specifically sought to "create a safe space where kids [could] be seen to be speaking freely and openly about their experiences [with gay and lesbian parents] without having to be poster kids for the perfect family or the perfect childhood". The film also features interviews with sociologist and gay activist Jeffrey Weeks, psychologist Susan Golombok and family lawyer Gill Butler.

Production

Research began in 2009 with Webb-Ingall seeking to "profile the experiences of young adult and adult children of lesbian and gay parents in the United Kingdom, starting back in the late 1960s". The half-hour documentary explores "themes of school, gender, sexuality, prejudice, and what the word family means [to] children of lesbian and gay parents in the United Kingdom, aged 12 to 35".

Style

Webb-Ingall made the film with the dual purpose of investigating the "personal and political history of kids with LGBT parents [and giving] himself a lesson in the film theory and techniques of queer filmmakers of the 70s, 80s and 90s". This stylistic decision was not for nostalgic purposes, but to instead "embed the film in a wider queer history, [allowing] the film [to be a part of it]".

Raising Hell (book)

Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story is a nonfiction work by David Weir and Dan Noyes, with a foreword by Mike Wallace. It was published in 1983 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company and contains reprints of investigative journalism articles from the time period, with analysis and background on how the journalists investigated the issues and prepared for the articles. An article by Kate Coleman and Paul Avery called "The Party's Over", which discussed the Black Panthers, was analyzed.

Jessica Mitford and Mike Wallace both wrote positively of the book. It was also reviewed in Newspaper Research Journal.

Raising Hell is used as a college textbook, and is referenced in Pearson's The Shadow of the Panther, and in John Lofland's Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities.

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