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Nas In Conversation with Rick Rubin

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Rise and Fall of Run DMC and Rap

It's Yours was really just like, it was almost like a documentary of what the club really felt like. And Tila Rock's ROM schemes was crazy. What I always wanted an 808 rolling 808 or 909, which one did you use on that? That was an 808. The 909 is a little more like, more like Eurodancy. It's like a tighter sound. So with Walk This Way, so you knew that at this point, Run DMC had become the biggest, instantly the biggest rap group in the world. But still to me, the biggest, best rap group that ever happened to hip hop.

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