“Thirty years ago, Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith teamed up for “Walk This Way,” proving to the mainstream that hip-hop and rock-and-roll had more commonalities than contrasts. The song also paved the way for three decades of rap-rock collaborations, with very mixed results. For every “Judgment Night” soundtrack there’s an album like Lil Wayne’s “Rebirth.” For every Rage Against the Machine, there’s a Limp Bizkit. And while Banks & Steelz — the pairing of Interpol frontman Paul Banks and Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA — never reaches Fred Durst and company’s repugnant lows, it will probably go down as a misstep for both artists, an answer to a question nobody asked.”
