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Rick Rubin

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Rick Rubin is a Country and Heavy metal act. Their catalogue also touches Hip hop and Rock. Their sound grew out of Flipper, Rage Against the Machine, The Strokes, Weezer and Audioslave. Those roots explain a lot about how Rick Rubin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Cakes Da Killa, Fly Anakin, Childish Gambino, Your Old Droog and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into JPEGMAFIA, Devon Hendryx, Prince Paul and Ed Sheeran, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Rick Rubin, reaching back through Flipper and forward to JPEGMAFIA. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Rick RubinFlipperRage Against the Mac…The StrokesWeezerAudioslaveAC/DCAerosmithMix Master MikeJPEGMAFIADevon HendryxPrince PaulEd SheeranCakes Da KillaFly AnakinChildish GambinoYour Old DroogMacklemore & Ryan Le…Princess NokiaGoldLinkIsaiah Rashad

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Rick Rubin connections

Rick Rubin grew out of Flipper, Rage Against the Machine, The Strokes and Weezer, shares an orbit with Cakes Da Killa, Fly Anakin, Childish Gambino and Your Old Droog, went on to shape JPEGMAFIA, Devon Hendryx, Prince Paul and Ed Sheeran. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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