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Russell Simmons revolutionized both rap music and hip-hop fashion by growing them from marginal street fads to mainstream must-haves, starting with the record label he co-founded (Def Jam) and his clothing line (Phat Farm). Now 50 and pretty much retired from both worlds, hip-hop's original businessman is focused on charities and empowerment causes. Simmons spoke with Time.com about his politics, his recent book Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success, his fortune and his little princesses...
...Virginia…” on May 20, the band owes something important to this particular record store. “We have a hardcore connection with Newbury Comics, particularly since this was the first record store to carry our record. Before we signed with a record label we consigned our live record to this store, and they would buy 50 of them and sell them,” she says.Contributing to the carnival atmosphere, two twenty-something women dressed in little more than sheets stood on footstools waiting to be painted by Newbury Comics patrons. Sarah E. Paterson...
...Music,” a hip-hop songwriting contest sponsored by Essence Magazine and the Berklee College of Music, is emblematic of the voices currently challenging artists and consumers to re-think the elements that define rap music, opposing not only its occasionally misogynistic messages, but the major-label influence on the its image...
...about portraying the part,” Irving adds. “It wasn’t really a race issue.” The original book, by Ben Mezrich ’91, was recently exposed by The Boston Globe as more creative than its non-fiction label would suggest—according to the article, large portions of the novel are embellished or completely false. But again, neither Irvine nor Kaplan put much stock in the media crtiques. “[Mezrich] got the essence of what we did very well,” Irvine says, though...
...drug—now going by the mellifluous label TG101348—attacks a mutated protein that induces growth of the cancerous blood cells that fuel so-called myeloproliferative diseases, which afflict about 100,000 people in the United States, according to a press release from the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where the study was conducted...