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...Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, one of America's foremost arbiters of cool, has dabbled in records and clothing, comedy and cell phones. So, what's next for rap's first large-scale entrepreneur? Taxes, naturally. Simmons, ceo of the sprawling Rush Communications hip-hop empire, has partnered with Intuit, owner of the TurboTax software program, to launch TTrefund.com a website geared toward tax filers ages 18 to 24. The TurboTax system guides young e-filers through the intimidating tax terrain and lets them deposit any refund directly into a checking account or Rush Card, a Simmons-branded prepaid Visa...
...Chan's Rush Hour smashes, to Quentin Tarantino, who screened Ong-Bak at his home with his pal the RZA of the iconic rap group Wu-Tang Clan. "Tony is my homey, yo," says the RZA. "He's young, energetic--a new breed of martial artist born in the hip-hop generation...
...last fall, is that his focus on hiring "rising young scholars" slights women, whose "research careers tend to peak a bit later than men's careers" because of family responsibilities. Many at Harvard were upset last spring when Summers rejected a tenure recommendation for Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar of hip-hop in the African and African-American studies department, prompting her to leave for Stanford. Some Harvard women are worried that Summers' comments will make recruitment of top female faculty even tougher. Candidates for teaching, says physics professor Melissa Franklin, "do consider the feeling among other female faculty...
...there is hope. For the first time, black artists are at the global forefront of popular culture. According to Forbes magazine, the hip-hop “nation” consists of approximately “forty-five million hip-hop consumers between the ages of 13 and 34” and wields about $1 trillion in spending power. Visionary artists and entrepreneurs recognize that hip-hop has become a force for wielding real social, political, and economic power across race and class lines...
Brandon M. Terry ’05 is a government and African American studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears regularly. This column is the first of an ongoing series on hip-hop as a social and cultural force...