- [Interviewer] Is this the first time
that you've met each other?
- Yes. - Yeah.
- [Interviewer] And, first let me ask D.M.C.,
what were your impressions?
- When we seen 'em?
- [Interviewer] No, when you met them.
- Just now?
- [Interviewer] Today, here, is the first time you met?
- [Jay] Yeah, they're normal, nice people.
- [D.M.C.] They down with the posse, you know what I'm saying?
- [Russell] That posse, they definitely on that tip.
- [Interviewer] I mean, like,
have you been listening to their records the last few days?
- [Steven] Yeah, what I've heard, it's real good. Real good.
- [D.M.C.] You gonna do one today, right?
- Yeah.
- [Run] Called "Raising Hell."
- Yeah.
- [Run] That's the name of our album.
- [Joe] Yeah?
- All right, see, it's got us easy, it's a born winner.
It's got to be.
Is this still MTV?
Unbelievable.
You're gonna get some stuff here.
Hot stuff.
- [Interviewer] Let's start by telling me
how this came together.
How D.M.C. and Aerosmith came together.
- We was rhyming.
(laughing)
- We were scheming. And I guess, I called up Run.
- I was rhyming.
(laughing)
- [Steven] He asked Joe and I to come down
and do a cameo thing for "Walk This Way."
We said, "Sure enough."
Gladly.
- [Joe] Yeah, I got a phone call.
- [D.M.C.] Because we always dig the record,
you know what I mean?
- [Run] Back in the didday.
- [Russell] And he and I thought, well,
he thought that we should, you know,
because it's their favorite record.
And so we talked to Steve Barrasso, who understood
and thinks it's a good idea, we're doing it.
- [D.M.C.] Yeah.
- [Steven] And we caught wind of it and said, "Why not?"
- [Joe] As soon as I picked up the phone in my room,
you know what I mean, it was, yeah, let's go. You know?
- [Interviewer] But you must - I mean, you're in
the middle of a tour right now, right?
- [Steven] Uh-huh.
- [Interviewer] So you must've been pretty impressed,
by Run-D.M.C. to take the time out,
to come down and do this.
- Uh-huh. - Yeah.
- Especially with a song like this.
With a song like this, you can't go wrong with it,
I mean, it's just - it's such a happening thing.
- [Interviewer] Were you fans of Aerosmith?
- [Run] Yeah, we loved it.
We liked the hard “T-ka” beat.
We had to find something to rap over.
This is before rap records was even made.
So what we wanted to do, we were looking,
through these jammies, and we found this one
called "Walk This Way" with the beat at the start.
And Jay went, "Iz-kat."
(laughing)
He started rhyming over it, and Jay kept going,
"Iz-kat,"
and ever since then -.
- [Jay] Big fans, this is our favorite group.
- [Interviewer] Joe and Steven,
were you fans of D.M.C., before?
- [Steven] Yeah. We've heard 'em
We've heard 'em on the radio before, yeah.
- [Joe] Yeah, and I liked their style 'cause there's
a lot of electric guitar in it, you know,
and yeah,
it caught my ear.
So when I found out about this, I was like,
you know, real excited.
- [Interviewer] Why did you choose "Walk This Way?"
- Because it was -
- 'Cause it's fly, baby.
(laughing)
- Like we said.
- That was the one that started off with the,
"Iz-kat Ba-boom-boom-at."
And we was looking for a beat to rhyme over,
like I said back about five minutes ago.
And when we found the one that went,
"Iz-kat Ba-boom-boom-at," that's the one.
That was the one, Jay said, "This is the one."
- That's "Walk This Way."
- And everybody knew about it, too.
- [Run] All the beat boys.
- [D.M.C.] All the DJs had to have Aerosmith.
(laughing)
[Run] Funky.
- [Interviewer] How long ago did Aerosmith record that song?
- [Joe] Jesus.
- [Steven And Joe] '74.
- [D.M.C.] Twelve years ago.
- I think I wrote it at a soundcheck in Hawaii,
as a matter of fact.
- Oh, yeah?
- I wanted to write something R&B,
something with a backbeat, and there it is.
- [Interviewer] Did you ever think that
it could become a rap?
- No.
- When you take all the guitars off it
and leave just the drums and my vocals,
and there it is.
- Yup. - Something like that.
- Pretty much.
- [Interviewer] How is this version
going to be different from the original?
- [Run] 'Cause we gonna be on it.
- [D.M.C.] Yup, we gonna be rapping.
- [Run] That'll be the main difference, we gonna rap it.
♪ This is it, y'all ♪
♪ We make a record with the Aerosmith, y'all ♪
♪ And it is def, y'all, and it is def, y'all ♪
♪ I said that Aerosmith is the fucking best, y'all ♪
- [Interviewer] Is this something
that you might want to do again?
- We just trying to make this one work, right now.
- Really, man.
- We ain't thinking about, you know,
we ain't thinking about the future.
- We trying to get this album out.
- [Interviewer] What is the role that
Steven and [Joe] Perry will be playing?
- Vocals and guitar.
- Yeah. - It's what they play.
That's what they play.
- We redoing their record.
- You know what I'm saying? We're doing their record, though.
- [Jay] We just, like, on their record. But it's on our album.
You know what I mean?
- [D.M.C.] We taking their record
and putting it on our album.
- [Interviewer] OK. Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Y'all be chill.
- All right.