Rick Rubin is one of modern music's biggest producers ... Then Rick and Russell came along, and they had big ideas," Ad-Rock recalls in the audiobook companion to the Beastie Boys Book. "Things seemed ...

and it caught Rick Rubin’s attention.” You can listen to the interview below. Kiedis noted, "Rick brought the Beastie Boys to our dingy little rehearsal spot, and he sat there, and we ...

Rick Rubin became famous in the ’80s as the producer of some of the greatest hip-hop and rock records of that decade - from Run-DMC’s Raising Hell and the Beastie Boys' Licensed To ... He is the ...

In 1984, Ronald Reagan was president; “Beverly Hills Cop” topped the box office; and Rick ... Beastie Boys and Public Enemy’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.” Rubin ...

Nine-time Grammy award-winning music producer Rick Rubin ... early 1980s, Rubin helped pioneer the mainstream birth of the hip-hop genre in the late 1980s with the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC.

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It’s hard to imagine the Beastie Boys’ catalog without “(You Gotta ... along with Def Jam Records co-founder and hit songwriter-producer Rick Rubin, the song launched the trio of Yauch ...

Today, few people have as long a history in the world of professional music-making as Rick Rubin ... In those nascent years, Rubin worked with the likes of the Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, and LL ...