Rick Rubin

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Frederick Jay Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records.

Along with Russell Simmons, he is the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings and also established American Recordings.

With the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Geto Boys, and Run-DMC, Rubin helped popularize hip hop music.

Rubin has also worked with artists from other genres such as Adele, Linkin Park, AC/DC, Kanye West, Johnny Cash, The Avett Brothers, Justin Timberlake, Metallica, Slayer, System of A Down, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Limp Bizkit, and Slipknot amongst others. In 2007, MTV called him "the most important producer of the last 20 years", and the same year Rubin appeared on Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Early life

Frederick Jay Rubin was born in Long Beach, New York and grew up in nearby Lido Beach. His father, Michael (Mickey), was a shoe wholesaler and his mother Linda a housewife. While a student at Long Beach High School he befriended the school's audiovisual department director Steve Freeman who gave him a few lessons in guitar playing and songwriting.

He then played in a band with childhood friends Marc Greenhut, Carlos Ferreiro, and Joey Ferrante, performing at garage and school shows for town friends until a teacher helped him create a punk band called The Pricks. Their biggest claim to fame was being thrown off the stage at CBGB, after performing two songs, for brawling with the heckling audience, a brawl which was instigated by friends of the band who had been instructed to do so to get the show shut down and create a buzz. Although he had no authority in New York City, Rubin's father travelled from Nassau County, New York, to Manhattan wearing his Long Beach auxiliary police uniform as he attempted to "shut down" the show.

Personal life

Rubin was raised in "loving, Jewish household" in Long Island, New York. He is married to Mourielle Hurtado Herrera, a former actress and model turned farmer. They have a child named Ra.

On 23 October 2022, Rubin was the guest on BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs programme and chose as his luxury item, a deck, containing 78 Tarot cards.

His debut book, announced in 2022, will be published in early 2023 by Canongate in the UK, to be titled, The Creative Act: A Way of Being is a non-fiction work about creativity. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art," said Rubin in a statement. "Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be."

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Career

Rubin formed Def Jam Records in his senior year of high school using the school's four-track recorder. Hose was inspired by Flipper of San Francisco's Flipper. A Hose track was released by Def Jam in 1982, in a brown paper bag with no identification. The band performed in and around New York, traveled around California, and performed with seminal hardcore bands such as Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, Circle Jerks, Butthole Surfers, and Minor Threat, making friends with Fugazi frontman and Dischord Records owner Ian MacKaye. As Rubin's enthusiasm moved toward the NYC hip hop scene, the band broke up in 1984.

Rubin, who befriended Zulu Nation's DJ Jazzy Jay, began to discover hip hop production. By 1983, the Bronx rapper T La Rock produced "It's Yours" and debuted it on Def Jam. In 1984, producer Arthur Baker helped to sell Baker's Streetwise Records' worldwide. Rubin was brought into jazz promoter/artist Russell Simmons in the Negril club, and Rubin said he needed assistance getting Def Jam off the ground. While Rubin was attending New York University in 1984, Simmons and Rubin edged out Jazzy Jay and the official Def Jam record label was established. "I Want a Beat" by LL Cool J was their first album to be released. Rubin continued to discover more hip-hop acts outside of Bronx, Brooklyn, and Harlem, including rappers from Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island, which culminated in Def Jam's signing of Public Enemy. Rubin was instrumental in pointing the Beastie Boys away from their punk roots and into rap, resulting in Kate Schellenbach's departure from the group. The Beastie Boys' "Rock Hard"/"Party's Gettin' Rough"/"Beastie Groove" EP, of which Rubin's production work with breakthrough act Run-DMC, of which previous recordings were produced by Russell Simmons and Orange Krush's Larry Smith, appeared on the 'Rock Hard"/"Beastie Groove" EP in 1985. His shows were often characterized by heavy stone fusing rap. Rubin drafted Adam Dubin and Ric Menello to co-direct the music videos for the Beastie Boys' "You Gotta Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" - "You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)" - "You Gotta) Fight for Your Rights (To Party!)" - "You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" The band's mainstream hip hop careers were boosted by their songs "No Sleep Till Brooklyn."

Sue Cummings, an editor at Spin magazine, had Run–D.M.C. Aerosmith and Aerosmith collaborate on a cover for Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" (Walk This Way). This 1986 film has been credited with both bringing rap hard rock to mainstream ears and reigniting Aerosmith's career. In 1986, he worked with Aerosmith again on demos for their forthcoming album, but their collaboration came too early and resulted in only terrible studio jams. Rubin began his long musical relationship with Slayer, resulting in Reign in Blood, a classic of the heavy metal genre. This was his first encounter with a metal band.

The Cult's debut Electric in 1987 became their pivotal third album. The album, produced by Rubin, remains one of The Cult's most popular and classic works. Rubin would appear on The Cult again in 1992 for the single "The Witch." Rubin has been named as both the music supervisor for the film Less than Zero and the film's soundtrack composer. In the 1985 hip-hop motion picture Krush Groove, which was inspired by Russell Simmons' early days as an artist manager and music producer, Rubin depicted a character based on himself. He conceived and co-wrote a second Run-D.M.C. run, alongside Ric Menello. In 1988, Tougher Than Leather was a film.

Rubin and Simmons separated in 1988 after Rubin had a falling out with then Def Jam president Lyor Cohen. Rubin left Los Angeles to start Def American Records, while Simmons remained at Def Jam in New York. Rubin, a Los Angeles-based rock and heavy metal band, as well as alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, and stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay, signed to Danzig, Masters of Reality, The Four Horsemen, and Wolfsbane. Although Rubin's focus at this time was predominantly focused on rock and metal, he maintained a close relationship with rap, signing the Geto Boys, and continuing to work with Public Enemy, LL Cool J, and Run–D.M.C. among others.

Rubin had originally marketed the term "Def American Recordings" but his new name was given to him. Rubin discovered that the word "def" had been integrated into the standardised dictionary and held a real funeral for the word, complete with a casket, a grave, celebrity mourners, and The Reverend Al Sharpton's eulogy. Def America is now American Recordings. "When advertisers and the fashion world co-opted the image of hippies, a group of the original hippies in San Francisco completely buried the image of the hippie." When it went from street jargon to mainstream, it lost its purpose."

Johnny Cash's American Recordings (1994), a collection of six cover songs and some new material written by others for Cash at Rubin's request, was the first big project on the renamed label. Following a fallow period, the album was a critical and commercial success, and it helped to restart Cash's career. For five more Cash albums: Unchained (on which Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed as the backing band), Solitary Man, The Man Comes Around (the last album to be released before Cash's death), A Hundred Highways, and Ain't No Grave were all recreated. The Man Comes Around received a Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance ("Give My Love to Rose") and a Best Country Collaboration with Vocals award for 2003 (Bridge Over Troubled Water with Fiona Apple). Rubin introduced cash to Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt," and the expanded cover version of it on The Man Comes Around will become a signature tune of Cash's later years. "Long Shadow," a song Strummer wrote for Cash that never did, as well as a cover of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song," was also produced by Rubin. Both songs were released on Strummer's last album, Streetcore, which was released after his death. Also created a version of "Redemption Song" with Strummer and Cash, which was also included in Cash's posthumous box set Unearthed.

Rubin has also released a number of albums with other artists that were not available on other labels than American. Arguably his greatest achievement as producer came from his time with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom Rubin produced six studio albums from 1991 to 2011, beginning with the band's fifth album, "Get It Away" and "Under the Bridge." The six Chili Peppers' album spawned 12 top-one singles on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, a feat that the band also holds in 2015, as well as many accolades, including six Grammy nominations (with six wins) with a Producer of the Year Grammy nomination for 2006's Stadium Arcadium, which was also nominated for Album of the Year. The band has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide, the bulk of which have been sold through Rubin-produced albums. Various members of the Chili Peppers have also been used on other Rubin projects. The band revealed in late 2014 that they would be working with Danger Mouse on their 11th studio album, after 24 years of being with Rubin. Rubin, on the other hand, has resurfaced in the role of producer for the band's two albums, Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen.

Mick Jagger's 1993 Wandering Spirit album, Lords of Acid's 1994 Voodoo U album, Tom Petty's 1995 Wildflowers, Donovan's 1996 Sutras, and Metallica's 2008 Death Magnetic are among others. Rubin executive-produced Shakira's two-album project Fijacion Oral Vol. Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 1. 2. He was due to appear on Talib Kweli's album Eardrum, Clipse's album Til the Casket Drops, and Lil Jon's album Crunk Rock. Rubin also produced the Jay-Z album "99 Problems" and was included in the song's music video. He also worked with Eminem on "Berzerk" the song and music video.

Rick Rubin produced Black Sabbath's 2013 album 13 and Billy Corgan's comeback solo album Ogilala.

Rubin was named co-head of Columbia Records in May 2007. Rubin co-produced Linkin Park's 2007 album Minutes to Midnight with Mike Shinoda. Rubin and Shinoda co-produced A Thousand Suns' 2010 album, A Thousand Suns, and their June 2012 debut, Living Things.

Rubin was named Non-Classical in the Grammy Awards in 2007 for his work with the Dixie Chicks. Michael Kranz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Green Day, and Johnny Cash were all awarded the award in 2009 for a film project starring Metallica, Neil Diamond, Ours, Jakob Dylan, and Weezer.

Rubin received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2007 and 2012. The former was known for his work on the Dixie Chicks album Taking the Long Way, and the latter was praised for his contribution to Adele's album 21.

Rubin left Columbia University in 2012 and resurrecting the American Recordings imprint through a deal with Republic Records. The first albums under this new partnership were La Futura of ZZ Top and The Carpenter of The Avett Brothers.

Rubin attempted to record a cover album with Crosby, Stills & Nash in 2012, but the brief sessions were ultimately unsuccessful. Graham Nash went on to say that the sessions were "irritable" and that "not a good experience."

Rick Rubin joined Endeavor Content in July 2021 to further expand his home studio, Shangri-La Recording Studios.

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