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# Superproducer Rick Rubin says, ‘I know nothing about music’
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/superproducer-rick-rubin-says-i-know-nothing-about-music/
- Published: 2023-10-06T14:48:19.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-06T14:48:22.000Z
- Description: I chose this week’s Hypebot Flashback Friday post because I’ve finally gotten around to reading superproducer Rick Rubin’s wonderful book “The Creative Act: A Way Of Being.” As part of. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/10/superproducer-rick-rubin-says-i-know-nothing-about-music
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:44

I chose this week’s **Hypebot Flashback Friday** post because I’ve finally gotten around to reading superproducer Rick Rubin’s wonderful book “The Creative Act: A Way Of Being.”

As part of the release tour for the book, he was interviewed on 60 Minutes, and it offers a glimpse into how Rubin – who calls himself a reduced rather than a producer has made hit records with The Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Public Enemy, and LL Cool J to Adele, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, and more even though he plays no instruments and can’t operate a recording studio soundboard.

In some bonus content from the interview, Rubin shared how **“**Ad-Rock” Horovitz of The Beastie Boys found the demo tape of LL Cool J and sent it to Def Jam Recordings, then based in his dorm room at New York University’s Weinstein Hall.

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