Every year, the National Recording Registry inducts 25 pieces of music into their "vault." The Librarian of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board select music that is “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” On Wednesday (March 21), Run DMC's classic album Raising Hell was selected to be added to the registry.
On the Library Of Congress' website, Joseph Simmons, better known as Rev. Run, said in a statement, “The thing that I remember most about ‘Raising Hell’ is that it was so much great energy that it was made very easily. To think that something that just came out of my mouth and out of my creativity is being put on this level of honor just blows my mind.”
The National Recording Registry already includes several classic hip-hop albums, such as N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton, Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and Public Enemy’s Fear Of A Black Planet.
Source: hiphopdx.com
