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Stephen Hill

"It was pretty surreal. All of our families, friends and haters saw that live on TV!" The surprise smash hit 90s single that saw an underground punk band beat Alanis Morissette, Weezer and Portishead in one of the biggest award upsets ever

Dog Eat Dog.

To most people, the idea of massive, rap-rock crossover hits invading the mainstream was something of a late-90s/early-2000s phenomenon. It wasn’t just your Limp Bizkits and your Last Resorts; it was Alive by P.O.D., Heaven is a Halfpipe by OPM, Kid Rock’s American Badass... the list goes on. But there’s one song that deserves to be in the conversation of great rap-rock chart victories as much any from that time - and it came out a full five years before most of those hits.

All it took was a member of Run DMC to remix an album track by a bunch of skate-punks from New Jersey to achieve a monster hit single, pipping some of the biggest new names in music to MTV award glory in the process.

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