Randy Holmes/Walt Disney Television via Getty ImagesBeastie Boys reunited with Rick Rubin on a new episode of the producer’s Broken Record podcast.
The conversation marks the first time Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Rubin, who produced the Beasties’ classic 1986 debut album Licensed to Ill, have spoken in about 20 years.
“Like most Zoom calls, their reunion gets off to a glitchy start,” a description for the episode reads.
The subsequent, hour-long call is a lot less dramatic than that, with Ad-Rock, band mate Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Rubin falling into a fun, relaxed rapport about hanging out in the future mega-producer’s college dorm room at NYU and the very early days of the Beastie Boys.
The conversation also features filmmaker Spike Jonze, who directed the new Beastie Boys Story documentary.
By Josh Johnson
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(Video contains uncensored profanity.)
