If you didn't hear The Beastie Boys:Fight for Your Right or Run DMC: Walk This Way with Aerosmith. It wasn't 86/87 Rap was so big "Yo MTV Raps" came out in 88.
http://youtu.be/iDiwoKOD8hA .
http://youtu.be/9WNPorqIyD8 .
In a song by NOFX hes says he listing to Public Enemy & Reagan Youth so if you listened to "Punk" you might listen to "Rap"... If you watched MTV or listen to top 40 radio in 86/87 you heard The Beastie Boys:Fight for Your Right or Run DMC: Walk This Way with Aerosmith. Constantly and on the "Rock" station .
http://youtu.be/iDiwoKOD8hA .
http://youtu.be/9WNPorqIyD8 .
Yeah those two songs were big but that was basically it. The 80s were mostly about suburban pop culture, suburban pop and rock. Hip-hop and rap didn't take over until the 90s. I mean put on WPLJ 95.5 or Z100 in the 80s and it was almost all pop and some rock and all but no hip-hop (other than for those two songs). OTOH put on Z100 at one point in the 90s and it was almost impossible to avoid grunge or rap. The two songs you mention were practically the only thing hip-hop at all that was totally mainstream and accepted by mainstream pop culture then back in the 80s.
yep, no rap. thats why i love the 80s, rap was for the brothas, and just a certain type of of brotha......... other brothers had r n b,,, look at dr dre's first rnb group.... music was still rock n roll, or that electro beat stuff.
shareI was born in 1969. In 1987, it was still The Replacements, REM, and Husker Du. A few kids listened to the Beastie Boys and Run DMC. Not many. However, only two years later, 1989, everybody was listening to Public Enemy and BDP.
Rap took off in 1988/1989.
IMO, PE, BDP, and NWA changed everything.
Metallica was really big 1987-1990.
1987 was REM. 1989 was Public Enemy. Big shift. PE changed everything. IMO, it's all about Chuck D and Spike Lee. Chuck D's lyrics and Spike Lee's movies got white kids into rap (black music).