Rick Rubin has filed legal documents to change his name from Frederick Jay Rubin, according to TMZ.
Rubin hopes to make his nickname his legal name, the report says.
Rick Rubin has not commented on the name change.
Recently, Rubin praised Kanye West, who he’s been collaborating with. “From a creative standpoint I can’t think of anyone who has come out—who has been more consistently great from the time they started making music until now,” he said. “I can’t think of anyone else. I think he’s the most consistently great, creative person in music today.”
Rubin also praised another rapper he’s worked with, Eminem.
“Maybe the best rapper of any emcee,” Rubin said. “He may be the best…He’s very hyper-critical of detail. And hears the music in a very deep way. And hears internal rhythms in tracks. And writes words to work on so many different levels rhythmically within what’s going on musically. To where if we change a little thing in the track to better the track it might not work in his mind how it relates to what he’s saying and how he’s phrasing. His phrasing is so glued to the music and written that way. Like he just sees it as not just riding the flow. It’s much more complex. And he’s always writing. He’s always writing—Not when he’s making an album. He’s always writing in life. He’s got these notebooks he carries around and he’s always writing. And he said to me he knows probably 99 percent of it, 98 percent of it will never be used for anything. But he wants his facility to be there so that when he needs to write something it’s like practice.”
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Greatest Producer of our time, hats off to you sir…
“Greatest Producer of our time”
That would be DJ Premier, but I’ll let you escape with that one.
the greatest producer of all time is only an opinion there is no definitive GOAT producer. Some might say Primo or Rza, others might say Pete Rock or J Dilla. Some new jacks might say Young Chop or Mike Will Made it and none of these would be incorrect.
Lol jokes. Premier sucks dick.
that goes to 40 fuck boy
best beard in the bizness
is this really news the guys name is FredRICK Rubin
fucking douchebag and 90% of his Johnny Cash albums were dogshit too, white people deserve this cornball fuck, the rest of us don’t
dats racist
hah hah remember when Rick signed Jim Jones to a dozen album deal for big $$$…
then got shitcanned? (He never should have been hired.)
Nice work, Rick– what an ear for fucking talent!
his resume speaks for itself, what did you produce in the last 30 years besides turds?
Race has NOTHING to do with talent! ALL of DEF JAM’s foundational iconic signings were his, THE founder of DEF JAM – including LL COOL J, PUBLIC ENEMY & BEASTIE BOYS! Easily one of THE Top 5 individuals in the HISTORY OF HIP HOP! Even Russell Simmons NEVER signed an act as iconic as Rick consistently did! The fact that he ALSO is a legendary producer of ROCK (SLAYER, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, LINKIN PARK, JOHNNY CASH,More) is testament to his AMAZING TALENT!
jews run hiphop aint blacks are just jealous
Let me fix that piece of shit statement for you.
Jews run, hip-hop ain’t. Blacks are just. Jealous?
That was dope.
^ that was a clever stroke my friend