Calling out “hip-hop mogul” Russell Simmons
Last night, I blogged about a rap music ‘summit’ that was organized in the aftermath of the Don Imus “nappy headed hos” controversy, a summit that was more a dog and pony show than a conference of leaders in the rap and music community who wanted to get together to do something meaningful in response to the heavy criticism rap music has come under in the last couple of weeks. In that post, I noted how Simmons wanted to shift the blame for rap’s negative influence on kids to the ‘conditions’ that supposedly ’cause’ the rappers to rap what they do.