Rick Rubin

"The Beasties are still bad — they get laid, they do drugs, they break laws, they laze around. But this time they know the difference between bad and evil.”

"Now 23, rock's hot­test producer is the closest pop music has come this de­cade to producing a conceptualist who can compare to Phil Spector in studio wizard­ry, business acumen, and steam-rolling ego"

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