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Who was the first hip-hop act to release a platinum-selling album?

Retry Correct Incorrect Run-D.M.C. were pioneers in just about every sense of the word in America’s nascent hip-hop industry of the 1980s. Among many of their unprecedented accolades, the group was the first rap act not to only go platinum but multi-platinum with their 1986 album Raising Hell.

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Who was the first hip-hop act to release a platinum-selling album?

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