Mark Ronson

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Arts, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Mark Ronson is a record producer, DJ, and songwriter. Beginning his career in the mid-1990s as a DJ, he gained wide recognition in 2006 for his work with Amy Winehouse and Christina Aguilera, earning Producer of the Year for Winehouse’s Back to Black. Over his career, he has earned nine Grammy Awards, along with a Golden Globe and an Academy Award, for projects including “Uptown Funk” with Bruno Mars and “Shallow” from the A Star is Born soundtrack. Ronson has released five solo albums, formed the duo Silk City with Diplo, founded Zelig Records in 2018, and served as lead and executive producer of the Barbie movie soundtrack. His memoir, Night People, is a reflection on his life in music and the culture that shaped it, and it will be published on September 16, 2025. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Athletic Nicotine https://www.AthleticNicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://Squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://DrinkLMNT.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Tetrogramminton.
0:03.0	Tetrackermiton. I had spent my whole life living in New York, right?
0:27.1	Making my record, being in clubs in New York, you make a record here.
0:30.9	You want people in New York to bump your shit.
0:32.8	You want people to be into your shit in the place that you live.
0:35.6	And it kind of didn't do that much in New York.
0:38.7	And it suddenly started to do a lot in England.
0:42.4	So obviously it was nice to have a place
0:44.7	where they were digging the record.
0:46.5	And then also it made me think like,
0:48.3	okay, the fact that I spent the first eight years of my life
0:52.0	in this country surely influenced my taste or did something more than I
0:56.3	maybe absorbed before. And then by going back to England and just being around there and
1:03.6	DJing in clubs there, I met Lily Allen and then I met someone who introduced me to Amy.
1:09.2	So there was this feeling like, okay, sure, you like to go where people like your shit.
1:15.0	But there was also more like I was just creatively inspired there.
1:18.9	So after a couple years, I went back to England.
1:22.3	And then eight years to England, I was suddenly flying to L.A. all the time to make records.
1:29.4	And I was like, I mean, just try and go to L.A. for a little bit.
1:32.5	And I lived in L.A. for four years, came back to New York.
1:36.9	What motivated the move to New York from L.A.?
1:39.4	There was this thing, and it's a slightly cliched New York versus LA thing that I just was like,
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