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Rick Rubin: Mental Metal Master

Paul Elliott, Sounds, 11 March 1989

From rap to metal, LL Cool J to Slayer, producer Rick Rubin has shaped the definitive street beats of the decade. Paul Elliott hears the whole story, and how Rubin plans to shake the '90s with his new label, Def American.

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