Rick Rubin Quotes

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.

I think it's good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.

When Migos flew me out to see if I was actually making the beats, they didn't expect a white kid from Canada to be making harder beats than the guys in Atlanta. Being white in that environment, it was definitely different.

When I was 24, I realized I could never be one of the best rappers, but I knew I had some of the best ideas.

Producers are the people behind the biggest artists in the game. We definitely deserve that title to be considered as an artist, because producers don't get the recognition and the credit that they really deserve a lot of the time.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

Instead of giving all your best tracks to artists, producers now have the opportunity where we can take our favorite beats we make and put our favorite artists on them and release fun songs for people to listen to.

I'm the best SoundCloud rapper.

We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical styles, be creative, and just have fun with it.

I want people to know that I'm not just another kid M.C. I'm actually a fan of good music and hip-hop.

I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

I'd love to work with Drake. I got Drake beats.

I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took me to a place in regards to music that I love and music that I had made previously. We had a clear understanding of what I wanted to make, and he just seemed like he was an advocate for hardcore, uncompromising hip-hop.

I don't sit around listening to beats all day. There's so many producers, and so much of it is derivative.

I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.

I'm not Tupac or this prophetic dude or anything like that. I just want to make music and have fun.

I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.

I've written a couple raps in my day, in my own music career, that people don't know a lot about.

Most people when they rap usually have their homies in the studio who rap with 'em, but they homies don't usually be producers.