10 Best Hard Rock Music Videos Of The 80s

10. Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C. Ft. Aerosmith (1986)

Having the pouty mouthed, silk scarf wearing Steven Tyler team up with the effortlessly cool guys from Run-D.M.C. doesn't immediately scream hit single. But it turned out a new-school hip-hop act musically duelling with a classic hard rock band would lead to more then just a career restart for Aerosmith.

It symbolised a shift in the mainstream consciousness when it came to rap. Rock was the domineering genre during the '80s, with rap still very much part of the underground. When rock fans got hold of this particular number, MTV audiences began to ask for more.

Of course, the musical mediator Rick Rubin helped facilitate this collaboration. Initially, neither Aerosmith or Run-D.M.C. were too hot on the idea. Run-D.M.C. had been sampling the intro to the original 1975 version of the song at freestyle events, and had planned to use it on their new album. Rubin floated the idea out that they rerecord it as a collaboration. According to Darryl McDaniels, the hip hop group originally referred to Tyler's vocals as "country bumbkin gibberish".

Rubin managed to work his magic, though, resulting in one of the most enduring rap/rock mashups going. The frosty atmosphere continued onto the video shoot, but in an instance of life intimidating art, by the end of the shoot all parties were getting down with each other.