Kenny Beats

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Kenny Beats is a highly acclaimed music producer and songwriter known for his unique sound and creative approach to music production. With an impressive discography that includes collaborations with some of the biggest names in Hip Hop, Kenny has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the industry. His distinctive style, blending trap and electronic music elements, has earned him a loyal fanbase and critical acclaim. From producing chart-topping hits to hosting his own popular web series, Kenny Beats has become one of his generation's most sought-after and influential producers. Kenny previously performed as half of the electronic music project Loudpvck before returning to his Hip Hop roots. Kenny recently returned to DJ’ing live and released his first album under his production moniker, Kenny Beats, called Louie. *Note: KB refers to Jimi Hendrix’s drummer as Mitch McConnell while talking to Rick. He, of course, meant Mitch Mitchell. ------- Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Ancestral Supplements https://ancestralsupplements.com Use code TETRA ------- LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------- House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra ------- Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton
0:07.0	I can remember opening a FedEx envelope.
0:28.6	And inside of it was a cassette player, which I've not seen a set player in a long time.
0:34.6	Oh yeah, I'm sure.
0:35.6	With headphones attached to it. And it didn't say who it came
0:39.7	from. It had no information. And I start listening to it and what's on this recording is incredible
0:47.0	music. It's incredible and odd. Is it an album? Is it a mixtape? Is it some old recording? Like, it's so unusual and bizarre and good. A friend of
0:59.9	mine, Richard Russell, was in town from Excel and I asked him, did you send me this? And I showed it to him and he listened
1:06.0	a little bit. He's like, no, I wish. And it turned out you sent it to me.
1:11.9	Yeah.
1:12.5	Tell me what that was.
1:14.4	I wanted to send my first record I ever made to people who I felt like collaborated on it without knowing it.
1:24.3	And so you were one of, I think, 10 or 12 people who got it ahead of time and no one of the
1:33.0	people knows who else got it. So I never was like telling this other person, oh, I sent one to Rick
1:38.1	and I just sent them to the people. I'd say 11 out of 12 responded or maybe everybody now has responded, but it took a while.
1:47.0	And even when you had first heard it was...
1:48.2	Well, I didn't know who did.
1:49.2	I don't know who sent it.
1:50.3	It was so vague.
1:52.7	I was just hoping that knowing you and your team well enough, that it would just get to a place where you'd press play.
1:59.5	And if I could get to a place where you pressed play on it, maybe without even knowing
2:03.0	what it was, that to me was the only way for you to really hear it maybe in a pure way.
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