Describe Run-DMC's influence on hip-hop.

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Run-DMC did much to popularize rap to widespread white audiences during the mid-eighties; "It's Like That" introduced style "hard-core rap" that stressed hard realities of life; Hard-core rap opened the door for gangsta rap on the West Coast; on "Walk This Way" (1986), the group rapped over Aerosmith's song; the group was popular with general listeners.

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Feeling the heavy burden of trying to create new art surrounded by the grandeur of Roman, Renaissance, and Baroque art, the Futurists saw the new age as an opportunity to

a. free Italy from her numberless museums b. free Italy from her useless admiration of the future c. free Italy from her useless admiration of the past d. none of the above e. both a and c

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