for jay-z to be the first one to get rick rubin to produce in such a long time shows you how specialt one, hit me. bom. ♪ rap patrol on the gat patrol ♪ fools that want to make sure my casket's closed ♪ >> yeah, that's money. >> rick rubin created so many classic hip-hop records. with the beastie boys, run-d.m.c. taking a break beat and mixing it with an ac/dc guitar stab. that's rick rubin 101. ♪ i pull over to the side of the road ♪ ♪ i heard son, do you know what i'm stopping you for ♪ ♪ because i'm young and i'm black and my hat's real low ♪ ♪ do i look like a mind reader sir i don't know ♪ >> what jay-z represented was the fact you can have real longevity in hip-hop. for the longest time new york had been the center of the world in hip-hop. the south for the most part hadn't really made itself heard. and that starts to change in the 2000s. and you're getting outkast. and outkast is amazing. ♪ ♪ one, two, one, two, three >> outkast became rap's beatles in the 2000s because we found both but particularly andre becoming more obsessed with a kind of adventurous landscape of music. ♪

rubin, why is he doing all this other stuff. that's just a layman's objection. >> ladies and gentlemen, the book is "john marshall." please thank rick brookhiser. [applause] >> over the past 20 years, but to be discovered thousands of author events and book festivals triggers a portion of a recent program. >> you know, this is where i also say a lot of people have become very dispirited. people talk about how they're feeling and i want to remind us that the beautiful design that was created many years ago that is our democracy anticipated these very moment. and we created checks and balances in our system and the design of our democracy is being tested right now. think about a tabletop. it stands on four legs. three independent coequal branches of government in a free and independent press. and what is happening -- [applause] and what is happening is kind of like a house coming in now, and a natural disaster have been in the shingles are falling off that the house is standing. think about it this way. when the executive branch's doing things like the muslim day and for trans-in the military for daca, of course they're saying you've