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‘Hip hop mogul’ Russell Simmons calls for ‘voluntary’ bleeping of certain derogatory terms used by rappers

Last week, I blogged about a rap ‘summit’ of sorts involving some of the top names in rap music and entertainment, including Russell Simmons. In that post, I noted the platitudes and excuses he and others at the ‘summit’ issued which suggested they were more interested in shifting the blame from the rappers who engage in hateful – and in some cases popular – instances of glorifying cop killing and denegrating women (especially black women), to the ‘conditions’ which supposedly ’cause’ these rappers to write such ‘lyrics.’ .....   [Read More]

The impromptu ‘global warming’ debate: David, Crow versus Rove (MORE: AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT)

Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics has a summary of what happened this weekend at the WH Correspondents dinner, where singers Laurie David and Sheryl Crow – global warming alarmists currently on a two week college tour to promote fear of an environmental apocolypse – confronted WH political advisor Karl Rove on the issue of ‘global warming.’ The short version, according to Bevan: Laurie David is a rude publicity hound......   [Read More]

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......   [Read More]