I can remember vividly growing up in the suburbs of Cleveland. I had just purchased a new boom box with money from cutting lawns and raking leaves. My friend named Joe Mantey, who I knew well because alphabetically we were always somehow next to each other in grade school, said he was coming over with this RUN DMC cassette he just bought called “Raising Hell.” I remember hearing one tune in particular that changed my world…
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