Collaboration should be half the fun of any creative process, but Rick Rubin knew some artists meshed together like oil and water.

While Rick Rubin can devote as much as he needs to his craft, he knew that some people were miles ahead of what he could do.

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 Ill to Slayer’s ...

Rick Rubin, the producer of “Licensed to Ill ... But when Rubin first met the Beastie Boys, he was an NYU college student making tapes and throwing epic parties in his dorm.

Beastie Boys was a button first ... eventually leading to a working relationship with Rick Rubin, then an NYU student. Rubin would co-found the label Def Jam in 1984 with Russell Simmons, then ...

its essence was captured in the credit he applied to early recordings that read “Reduced by Rick Rubin”. Def Jam swiftly began to take off, partnering with major labels and expanding its roster to ...

But the Beastie Boys—with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin—were crucial to bringing rap music to the mainstream. Rubin wondered why rap albums didn’t sound like the music he was hearing in the ...

Rick Rubin, Adam Yauch) The Crüe first debuted their Beastie Boys cover during a secret club show for 450 lucky fans last summer at the Underworld in London, U.K., and have been keeping it a part ...

Nine-time Grammy award-winning music producer Rick Rubin took the Qualtrics X4 stage ... the hip-hop genre in the late 1980s with the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. In 2007, he was named one of the ...

As a producer, Rick Rubin would go on to work with some ... have made the biggest impact in hip-hop, in addition to Rubin: the Beastie Boys; MC Serch of interracial rap group 3rd Bass; Lyor ...