
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.