The one singer Rick Rubin would always love: “All the time”Rick Rubin always lived for changing things up every single time he heard something new. By the time that Rubin came off working on projects like Yeezus, Blake was still relatively new on everyone’s radar. I think a lot of it is the James Blake influence. James Blake is spectacular, I love him all the time.” And given where Blake would go, Rubin seemed to have pretty good instincts about him as well.