Russell Simmons:
"We had done "King of Rock", we had done "Rock Box," we had done all these records that use guitars. We were trying to see which interesting guitar riff we could borrow, and found one that we had used for many years that we used to call "Toys in the Attic." That was the name of the Aerosmith album the riff was from. We kept like, "Yo we gotta get a copy of Toys in the Attic. We haven't heard it in a while but that's what we wanna use." We were gonna cut the beat back and forth, that's how we gonna make this record. It's not gonna be any singin' or none of that crap. Rick Rubin was like, "No, let's call up Aerosmith," I said, "Who?" "Aerosmith." "Who are they?" "That's the people from Toys in the Attic; that's the band." Run and D.M.C. were not for the idea. I was a little bit in the middle about, "Are you gonna rap those lyrics?" But we had a lot of fun makin' it."
Ludacris:
"I don't necessarily know how rock acts think, but I know that when a hip-hop artist collaborates with a rock artist it's a real fine line. You gotta watch yourself. When Run-D.M.C. did that, hip-hop artists weren't mad at it, they loved it. Whenever you get a good collaboration and it works, you've definitely made your mark in history."
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