Johnny Cash, born in Kingsland, Arkansas in 1932, graduated high school in 1950. Ever since a photo of Rick Rubin and Andre 3000 posing together came out this past weekend, fans have been looking forward to hearing what they have been cooking up. A little up the hill, overlooking Zuma’s white sand and dazzling blue ocean, is Shangri-La, the musical headquarters of producer Rick Rubin. To tease that out, we asked venerable producer and noted genius-whisperer Rick Rubin to interview Kendrick at Rubin’s own Shangri La studios … Rick Rubin Craig Barritt/WireImage “We’re happy to be here,” Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines said last night, “honoring the man who never allows himself to be honored.”

Rick Rubin Speaks on Involvement With Kanye West's "Yeezus" Kevin Abstract Says Rick Rubin Helped Inspire Brockhampton's 'SATURATION' Trilogy. First as co-founder of Def Jam Records in 1984, then in his role as head of American Recordings, Rubin has produced some of … Last May, Rick Rubin and André 3000 sat down at Rubin’s Shangri-La Studio to discuss a wide-range of topics in relation to their creativity, their pasts, and their futures. Few, if any, producers can boast a body of work that matches that of Rick Rubin in terms of variety, influence and substance.
Also Watch. Yet these two, separated in time by more than thirty years, and by an even wider socio-cultural gap, will forever be linked by the music they created together during Cash’s last decade of life.
Hip-hop founding father and entrepreneur Russell Simmons shed some light on the mystery surrounding his split with Def Jam Records founder Rick Rubin recently in an interview …

Producer Rick Rubin born in Long Beach, Long Island, New York in 1963, graduated high school in 1981. … The studio was …