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I was thinking about Rick Rubin and how he's known for producing a ton of great albums with artists like LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Slayer, Run-DMC, Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc. in the 1980s and 1990s. Then you hit the 2000s and Corey Taylor of Slipknot just ripped into him and Metallica had that critically mixed Death Magnetic release in which the band members openly bitched about playing such long songs live (not even touching the 'Loudness War' issue).


Any other names come to mind? More curious about the Hip-Hop side of production as Dr. Dre seems like the biggest name out there but there's gotta be others who were maybe once great but have fallen in recent times?
 
Zeuss was a big name in early 00s metal/core, but for the life of me I can't find an album he's done that even comes close to what Scott Burns could do in his sleep.
 
Boots Riley has done some stuff I like but tweets like that—Rubin being a right-wing paranoid shithead isn't news!—are just so fucking smug. I remember Riley saying The Irishman was anti-union because...it accurately portrayed Jimmy Hoffa as a criminal? Just real dumb lame-brained shit. The equivalent of that Onion article about the guy who gets a rush telling people John Lennon beat his first wife.
 
Riley's in his 50s and posts shit like some 20-year old first getting into being a leftist
 
I've seen speculation online that Rubin, who worked with Kanye West on Yeezus, was likely the person who set Kanye on his recent path. Which is possible. Kanye seems like he didn't need a lot of help, though.
 
"Ah, but isn't Rick Rubin Jewish? How can Kanye West be an antisemite then?", a dumb person asks. "Buddy", I respond, "if you think Kanye West has ever cared about ideological consistency, I don't know what to tell you."
 
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