Rick Rubin, Anthony Kiedis (Photo: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)

Today is Rick Rubin’s 48th birthday. For those who don’t know who he is, SHAME ON YOU!

This seven-time Grammy Award winning producer, has produced some of your favorite albums from the Beastie Boys classic License to Ill to System of a Down’s Toxicity!

He’s recently produced [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Adele’s[/lastfm] new album, 21, and is currently working with the [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/lastfm] on their 2011 release Dr. Johnny Skinz’s Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head.

Albums (most recently) produced by Rick Rubin:

* 2011: [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/lastfm] – TBA [1]
* 2011: [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Adele[/lastfm] – 21
* 2010: [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Josh Groban[/lastfm] – Illuminations
* 2010: [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Kid Rock[/lastfm] – Born Free
* 2010: [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Linkin Park[/lastfm] – A Thousand Suns
* 2010: [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Gogol Bordello[/lastfm] – Trans-Continental Hustle
* 2010: [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Johnny Cash[/lastfm] – American VI: Ain’t No Grave

Check Rick Rubin’s full discography on Wikipedia.

Below are some of the videos that came from Rick Rubin produced albums:

Beastie Boys – No Sleep til Brooklyn

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge

Nine Inch Nails – Hurt

System of a Down – Sugar

Weezer – Perfect Situation