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Rick Rubin

Highest Rated: 67% One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das (2012)

Lowest Rated: 43% Krush Groove (1985)

Birthday: Mar 10, 1963

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Birthplace: Lido Beach, New York, USA

Arguably one of the music business' most successful and influential record producers for over three decades, Rick Rubin helped to popularize hip-hop music in the 1980s through the seminal Def Jam Records, which he co-founded with entrepreneur Russell Simmons. His stripped-down production style, which emphasized the artist over the beats while melding rap and rock elements made such acts as Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J into mainstream superstars and minted Rubin as a visionary force in the future of popular music. After leaving Def Jam in 1988, he launched a new label, Def American, which featured Rubin's celebrated, award-winning collaboration with rock acts like Slayer and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as established artists, most notably Johnny Cash, whose career was revitalized by a series of acclaimed albums with Rubin. By the new millennium, Rubin had produced some of the biggest records of the decade by major artists like the Dixie Chicks, Justin Timberlake, Neil Diamond and Metallica, which preceded his appointment as co-head of Columbia Records. Though the job was plagued by conflict with the label's executives, the discord did not prevent Rubin from continuing his winning streak, with two Grammys for Producer of the Year and Album of the Year with Adele's starmaking 21 (2012). Rubin's long, storied career and ability to draw the best from a wide variety of artists made him a major creative force within the increasingly moribund music industry.

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Highest rated movies

67% 54% One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das
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58% 37% The Pick-Up Artist Watchlist
43% 81% Krush Groove
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: A Voice from Heaven
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36% Tougher Than Leather
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Filmography

Movies

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67% 54% One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das Unknown (Character) $91.2K 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: A Voice from Heaven Unknown (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 36% Tougher Than Leather Director $3.5M 1988
58% 37% The Pick-Up Artist Original Music $11.6M 1987
43% 81% Krush Groove Rick (Character) $11.1M 1985

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Behind the Music Self 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet 60 Minutes Guest 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Behind the Music Self 2021
97% 91% McCartney 3,2,1 Executive Producer,
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2021
100% 100% Shangri-LA Unknown (Character) 2019
No Score Yet 76% My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman Guest 2018
No Score Yet 57% Saturday Night Live Unknown (Guest Star) 2013