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103. Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Blackest Rap Record Ever Made

The song walk this way was written for the Run DMC Raising Hell album. It's based more on the phrasing, the meter of the words instead of the melody. No one knew it as walk this way, even though that's the name of the song. You take an element like four bars from an old James Brown song and you loop that up to make something new.

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