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Also known as Frederick Jay Rubin, Frederick Rubin, DJ Double R, Rubin

American music producer (born 1963)

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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
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.

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