Rick Rubin interview

This Daily Beast interview is good, lengthy read.

Are there any artists you wanted to work with but didn’t get to?

I tried to sign N.W.A. I went to the studio when they were recording Straight Outta Compton. I was just a fan, but I developed a relationship with them. And the reason it didn’t work out was … there have been a couple of cases in my life where I make some plan with the artist, but then they already have an existing relationship with a company and the company ends up doing something different. N.W.A was one of those.

A Rick Rubin-produced N.W.A. debut would have been interesting.