Rick Rubin has helped to create a healthy amount of the music that’s influenced me over the years. As a kid growing up on a skateboard here in southern California, it was the music Rubin had a hand in creating that was the soundtrack to my life. It’s truly impressive the impact Rick Rubin has has not only on music, but on popular culture as a whole. He’s co-founded arguably the most influential label in hip-hop history (Def Jam Records), produced the likes of the Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, Metallica, Run-DMC, Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Public Enemy, and now basically runs Columbia Records out of his palatial home in Malibu.
So the story goes that Rick Rubin made it known that he was a fan of the first Justice album a few years back. Word got back to Pedro Winter and some time later he and the Justice boys got the opportunity to meet Rubin at his home in Los Angeles. Flash forward to last year, Rubin was equally impressed with Justice’s latest effort, “Audio, Video, Disco.” So much so, that he agreed to craft his own interpretation of the latest single, “On’n'On.”
I’m not sure that I have the right words to describe how good this is, so just press play.
Photo: latimes.com
