Run-DMC – Tougher Than Leather (VG/VG+) – LP, Australasia 1988

Tougher Than Leather is an LP by Run-DMC from 1988 released on the London Records, Profile Records label.

About this album

Tougher Than Leather is a hard-edged late-’80s Run-DMC album that sharpened the group’s crossover appeal without softening its streetwise force. Issued in 1988, it followed the trio’s breakthrough run and found them balancing booming beats, direct-to-the-point rhymes and a tougher, more militant tone. The title track, along with cuts such as Run’s House and Mary, Mary, shows the group working at the point where hardcore hip-hop, consciousness and rock-influenced swagger met. Coming from one of rap’s most influential acts, the album helped confirm Run-DMC’s status as pioneers who brought hip-hop firmly into the mainstream.