Name: Rick Rubin Compares the Creative Process of Eminem, Jay-Z, and Anthony Kiedis
Uploaded: 2022-10-12T17:40:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rick Rubin Compares the Creative Process of Eminem, Jay-Z, and Anthony Kiedis' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rick Rubin Compares the Creative Process of Eminem, Jay-Z, and Anthony Kiedis' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-12. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience the different ways of approaching comedy it's it's got
a parallel with music right I mean there's got to be some artists that you
know they just want to riff they want to figure it out on the fly they want to
do
it all you know almost off the top of their head and then there's other artists
where every single word is gone over and meticulously analyzed and pieced
together yeah there's no right right or wrong way and no stuff to find your way
yeah whatever works for you yeah yeah I've worked with artists who do it
completely different ways you know you'll see like Eminem will he's always
writing in a book always writing all the time and he's always got notebooks
writing and I asked him it's like are these all you know rhymes to use he's
like no no no it's like 99% of what I write I'll never use just to stay
engaged in the process of of writing and finding new ways to write so that it
just
when I need it it just comes and then Jay-Z would doesn't write anything down
yeah and
he just listens to the beat and hums hums and then goes into the goes on the
mic you
know 20 minutes later and just says a whole complicated very complicated verse
I don't know how I don't know how he can remember it much like much less have
just
written it and just be able to do it like free it's crazy does he practice on
his own
does he does he create these raps on his own with like alone or does he only do
it
when he's talking to people does he only do it on stage no no no this is this
is on for
a record like when we were recording 99 problems I played the beat for him he
likes the beat and
and then he says okay just keep playing it and then he sits in the back of the
control room on the couch and he's and you just hear him humming like mmm mmm
mmm mmm mmm as I say 15 or 20 minutes and then he jumps
so I was like okay I got it and then he goes in no no paper no writing nothing
and delivers the whole thing and then says let's try it again and then he does
it again and the words will be the same but the phrasing will be different so
it's more like um an improvisational solo you know if you have a melody you
could play the same melody with uh putting emphasis on different parts of it so
he does it it's not the same the words are the same
or close to the same but the feeling of it and the rhythm of it changes when he
does it again and he does it a few times there's like okay I think that one's
good and but did you ever ask him these things that he's saying has he said
them before does he he's not I I know he hasn't because it's it's happening
live in the room in this moment so but
it's not like he's not recited he's not even though it's live in the moment it's
not like things that he's thought of no just all off the top yes it's happening
live in the room in this moment so but it's not like he's not reciting he's not
even though it's live in the moment it's not like things that he's thought of
no just all off the top yes it's not like he's not reciting even though it's
live in the moment it's not like things that he's thought of no just all off
the top yes and
yes wow yes in that incredible it's insane never say anything like it that's
incredible yeah he's famous for that he's famous for having it all in his head
but instantaneously or you know relatively instantaneously does anybody else do
it like that like
i've not seen naz right i've never seen anyone else do that do that wow it's
not uncommon for singers or rappers to hear something and immediately start
like
automatic writing where they'll just start saying nonsense words yeah the first
thing that comes to mind
over the over the beat where you can feel a shape of what it can be yeah and
like um we just made two new
albums with uh the chili peppers that the second one just came just coming out
now i think but the first
one came out like six months ago but two double albums and the way anthony
works is he'll hear the music
and he'll sing along but he'll sing along with an idea of a melody but he doesn't
yet have words
and just sing nonsense words and just sing along making up nonsense words
automatically real time and
then listens back and says okay this phrase in this spot sounds good and this
phrase in this spot sounds
good what else goes with that and then it's like a puzzle where you fill in the
rest it's like you
you don't necessarily have an idea of what the song's going to be about or you
might not even know what
the song's about until you finish you might not even know after the song's
finished what it's about
you might not know for years what it's about because it's like a dream you know
it comes from the
subconscious yeah it's a great way to work it's a great way to write to um just
like participate with
what's going on in a free way and then listen back to what you did and look for
clues look for where
where is the connective tissue here are there any things here that that sound
like they belong there