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Today I learned that Run DMC was TOTALLY against doing a remake with Aerosmith for “Walk This Way.” They initially read the lyrics and called it “hillbilly bullshit”, and refused to do it. Rick Rubin “persuaded” them to do it, and the rest is history.

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