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Rick Rubin
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American music producer (born 1963)
OverviewAI-generated
Rick Rubin is a person whose professional career began in 1982. He is associated with the musical genres of rap, hip hop, electronic, and rapcore. His net worth is listed as 250,000,000. On social media, he has 188,982 followers.
Rubin has authored works including *Creative Act*, *Acto de Crear / the Creative Act*, and *Naked Against the Rain*. He is also credited with five works in academic records. His musical activity has been tracked with 7,891 listeners and 27,278 plays.
He has been referenced by 1,347 other encyclopedia articles. Notable quotes attributed to him include "The Beatles are proof of the existence of God." and "I guess edgy things tend to get my attention."
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Also known as
- DJ Double R The Loudness King
- Born
- Frederick Jay Rubin , ( 1963-03-10 ) March 10, 1963 (age 63) , Long Beach, New York , U.S.
- Origin
- Hempstead, New York , U.S.
- Education
- New York University
- Genres
- Hip-hop rock heavy metal country pop
- Occupations
- Record producer record executive
- Instruments
- Guitar drum machine turntables
- Works
- Production discography
- Years active
- 1981–present
- Labels
- Def Jam American Columbia Warner Bros.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rick
- Family name
- Rubin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lido Beach
- Occupation
- music executive
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Genre
- country music
- Record label
- Epic Records
- Image
- RickRubinSept09.jpg
- Residence
- Long Beach
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- name in native language
- Rick Rubin
- influenced by
- Flipper
- date of birth
- 1963-03-10
- Commons category
- Rick Rubin
- net worth
- 250000000
- topic's main category
- Category:Rick Rubin
- birth name
- Frederick Jay Rubin
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- owner of
- The Mansion
- social media followers
- 188982
- different from
- Rubin
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin (/ˈruːbɪn/, ROO-bin; born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer. He is a co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records.
Rubin helped popularize hip hop by producing records for pioneering acts such as LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Geto Boys. He has also produced hit records for acts from a variety of other genres, such as pop (Kesha, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga), heavy metal (Danzig, Metallica, Slayer), alternative rock (The Cult, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, the Strokes, Weezer), hard rock (Audioslave, AC/DC, Aerosmith), nu metal (Linkin Park, System of a Down, Slipknot), and country (Johnny Cash, The Avett Brothers, the Chicks, Tyler Childers, Kid Rock).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rick Rubin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.