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‘He was in his head a lot”: Rick Rubin on the hardest-working artist he collaborated with
Rick Rubin's career reads like a top 40 charts compilation. It spans across all genres and all names, but this artist he ...
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Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label by Bill Adler and Dan Charnas
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As The Co-Founder Def Jam Recordings, What Is Russell Simmons’ Net Worth?
Def Jam Recordings, which he co-founded with Rick Rubin in 1984, became one of the most influential labels in hip-hop history ...
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Def Jam Chairman and CEO Tunji Balogun shares his vision for reshaping the iconic label
In the ever-evolving landscape of the music industry, few labels carry the weight and legacy of Def Jam Recordings. Founded in 1984 by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin, Def Jam has been home to ...
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How Rick Rubin thinks about creativity, listening and pioneering new ideas
Nine-time Grammy award-winning music producer Rick Rubin took the Qualtrics ... After co-founding Def Jam Records in the early 1980s, Rubin helped pioneer the mainstream birth of the hip-hop ...
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Eight things we learned from Rick Rubin's Desert Island Discs
Music producer Rick Rubin has been shaping the sound of ... Rick fell in love with the emerging rap scene and co-founded the label Def Jam Recordings. He helped catapult the music into the ...