Def jam records biography of albert einstein
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Albert Einstein's Post
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Rick Rubin Revisits the Origins of Def Jam Records & the NYU Dorm Room Where It All Began
There may have been no more influential a label in the late s than Def Jam Records. Founded by Rick Rubin, Def Jam launched the careers of The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and dozens more hip-hop pioneers. But its beginnings were humble. The earliest Def Jam releases list the mailing address as “5 University Pl. #” Current and former NYU students out there may recognize this address—it’s a dorm room in the university’s Weinstein Residence Hall, where in , Rubin set up shop and began trying to reproduce the sound, as Rolling Stone writes, of “the raw performances he heard in clubs and the wild parties he threw.”
In the short Rolling Stone documentary above, “Rick Was Here,” see the pioneering producer revisit his origins, returning to his old dorm for the first time in 30 years. He talks about the “very specific feeling” of early hip-hop, an
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Albert Einstein – Prodigy & Alchemist
I laughed after listening to the opening three songs on Albert Einstein. Not that there's anything amusing about Prodigy's team-up with Alchemist. Far from it. For his part, the Mobb Deep man still rhymes like he's suffering from a particularly paranoid bout of nedstämdhet. Alchemist's beats are in that zone where it seems like he's soundtracking illegal bare-knuckle fights down rancid, piss-strewn alleyways. The 16 songs that man up the project exist in a murky nook far away from the idea of corporate-branded hits to swindle the mainstream and colorful overnight viral Internet sensations. I laughed because for all the bluster about a new wave of New York City rappers being part of a renaissance movement, Prodigy has cut an album that reminds the world that he not only created much of the template that those sprouting up now want to emulate but that he still makes music at a substantially higher level than they've