Rick Rubin: Punk Rock, Hip-Hop, Advantage of Big Companies

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Not for nothing, but Rick serves as yet another "poster boy" for how there will never be income "equality." Mr. Rubin would not be "equal" in salary to most people, whether there's a free market, a crony capitalist market, a socialist non-market, or a communist non-market.

Eminem, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Beastie Boys, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Lana Del Rey, Krishna Das, Johnny Cash, Adele, Rage Against the Machine, Run DMC, Danzig, Slayer, the (extremely versatile) list of course goes on and on (and on). That's why Mr. Rubin is in the 1%.. Because you (and tens or hundreds of millions of others) listen and like the albums that he produces and not the ones produced by most of the other wanna-be (or actual) "music producers."

But, of course, the envy-fiends have their "reasons" as to why they think they should be paid that kind of money and/or deserve (like mobsters do) to have a a piece of his pie.

Or that if you could only get others to vote in a certain way, you'd be Rick Rubin, or in his shoes. Such a conceit reinforces the obvious: you can only control your self. Little-to-no benefit comes from worrying about or trying to influence what other people do or don't do (especially when it has nothing to do with you and you can't do anything about it anyway). The conceit that anything else is the case leads to profound suffering on both the personal as well as on the social and political levels.

Angelina Jordan Does Nancy Sinatra Better than Nancy Sinatra

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Kind of a mini-Lana Del Rey, (who is also inspired by Nancy Sinatra)

VideoSifts @UsesProzac Sings The Most Wonderful Song

pumkinandstorm

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Your phone passed the test. The audio quality was exceptional! I actually prefer your voice singing this over Lana Del Rey's (and I'm a huge fan of hers)!

UsesProzac

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Thank you so much, @pumkinandstorm! I recorded it on a whim for Eric. It was very informal, lol. I recorded it with my phone.. bleh! I'm pleasantly surprised it's well received!!