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Rick Rubin: The Buddha of Suburbia

RJ Smith, Details, July 1993

Rick Rubin built a recording empire from a dorm room at NYU. With Def American Recordings, he's taken the sound of the streets to the kids in the mall.

RJ Smith hangs with the harbinger of boom

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