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Run-D.M.C.

It’s Tricky

1986 · via Run-D.M.C.

Run-D.M.C.’s 1986 recording of “It’s Tricky” is the earliest release on file. Run shares the writing credit with DMC, Jam Master Jay and Rick Rubin. Also recorded by Silmarils (released 1995), Itchy Poopzkid (released 2011) and Bloodhound Gang (released 1996), among 92 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album Raising Hell (1986).

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The three of them wrote this one with Rick Rubin, and other bands kept picking it up for the next couple of decades. Hear the Bloodhound Gang take, then go back to Run-D.M.C.'s own and notice how much of the song is just the three of them.

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Credited writers: DMC, Jam Master Jay, Rick Rubin and Run.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1986.

On the album Raising Hell (1986).

Other recordings on file · first release year

92 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay co-wrote "It’s Tricky" with Rick Rubin. Which of these bands later put its own recording of the song on tape?Bloodhound Gang
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