Kenny Beats + Rick Rubin, Part 2
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Since his first conversation with Rick, Kenny Beats’ star has continued to rise. In the past couple of years he has produced songs with Ed Sheeran, Da Baby and Vince Staples. He’s also taken several trips to the UK, and produced over 30 songs with British artists like FKA Twigs and Slowthai. Today, Kenny explains how for the first time in the history of hip-hop, an American sub-genre made its way across the pond to the UK, only to come back to the States in an updated form that is now influencing American rappers. Kenny and Rick also talk about why they don’t care about understanding English rappers' slang, and how a group of German classical musicians are co-producing some of the biggest hip-hop records today.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:11.4 | Hey y'all, today we're bringing you part 2 of Rick Rubin's conversation with producer |
| 0:15.8 | Kenny Beats. |
| 0:17.4 | On last week's episode, Kenny broke down how regional sounds and hip-hop have spread |
| 0:21.6 | across the US and connected disparate cities. |
| 0:25.4 | And since his first conversation with Rick, Kenny's star has continued to rise. |
| 0:30.1 | In the past couple of years, he's produced songs with Ed Sheeran, the baby, and the |
| 0:34.2 | staples. |
| 0:35.2 | He's also taken several trips to the UK and produced over 30 songs with British artists |
| 0:40.0 | like F.K.A Twigs and Slowtime. |
| 0:42.8 | Today, Kenny explains how for the first time in the history of hip-hop, an American subgenre |
| 0:48.2 | made its way across the pond to the UK, only to come back to the United States and an |
| 0:53.0 | updated form that is now influencing American rappers. |
| 0:57.4 | Kenny and Rick also talk about why they don't care to understand English rappers slang, |
| 1:01.7 | and how a group of German classical musicians are co-producing some of the biggest hip-hop |
| 1:06.3 | records today. |
| 1:08.3 | This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm Justin Richmond. |
| 1:20.5 | Here's Rick Rubin and Kenny Beats. |
| 1:24.2 | How you feeling, man? |
| 1:25.8 | I'm good. |
| 1:26.8 | Long time no see. |
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