Profile Records

Hip-hop was scorned by the established music industry as a novelty idiom until 1986, when Run-D.M.C. enrolled Aerosmith's vocalist, Steven Tyler, and guitarist, Joe Perry, to take part in a revival of the hard rockers' hit �Walk This Way� from 10 years earlier. Released on the Profile label, the resultant record was accepted by many radio formats and became the first rap hit to make the