"Walk This Way" is a song by American rock group, Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler (whom is the leader of Aerosmith) and Joe Perry (whom is the lead guitarist of the band). It was originally released as the second single from their 1975 album ‘Toys In the Attic’. In addition to being one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s, it also helped resurrect their career of Aerosmith, bring them back into the charts and helped create the sub genre of ‘Rock/Rap’ when it was covered by rappers Run D.M.C. in 1986 on their album ‘Raising Hell'.
This song changed the way Aerosmith was seen by the masses, it had a change of audience, now that of the most famous rapper groups of the decade had collided with the most famous rock band of the century, they were both bound to share listeners. This clash was the first of it’s kind, but certainly not the last; for example, the most recent one being the song ‘Rockstar 101’ by Rihanna, one of the most sensational pop stars of the decade, whom collided her talents with the lead ex-guitarist of the band Guns N’ Roses, who happens to be the greatest guitar player alongside Jimi Hendrix and Joe Perry; when these two crossed paths, it was no surprise to the general audience as this has been done before, all starting from walk this way by Aerosmith and covered by Run D.M.C. Below is the album art cover which the first version of Walk this way was released in, not the newer rap version. The link to the newer version with Run D.M.C. is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIbHPs_M55Q . This music video illustrates the different genres clashing together. First you have the hippies with the long clothes and guitars, then you have the rappers with the clean tight symmetrical clothing, and DJ set. This was the first video of it's kind, to get such different acts, together and make them perform, which is why this has become one of the most significant videos of all time.
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