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...keep you in poverty and keep the system in place. And whether it is right or wrong, it is the perception. The fact is that without the poets, the condition it is easier to ignore. These people are voiceless without their poets. They have no voice except for rapper who either describes his condition or is talking about how to fix the condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Questions with Russell Simmons | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...think Don Imus should have been fired? -Hoziah Outland, Lebanon, Pa.The dialogue is more important than Imus. The fact that we are discussing race is inspiring. I didn't care what happened to him. What he said was hurtful: the difference between those words coming out of a rapper's mouth and his mouth is that when a rapper says them, they are not racial. If I walk up to a black man on the street and say "nigger" with a blank expression, nine times out of 10 he would hug me. That is a fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Russell Simmons | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...advisable to refocus your ideas on how best we can empower black people educationally, economically and otherwise? -Agboola Kehinde, LondonMy office has a whole floor called Rush Community Affairs. We have the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and other organizations. Plus, name me a rapper, and I will tell you the name of his charity. Even the worst rappers that you think you hate. You tell me 50 Cent, and I will tell you about G-Unity [his foundation for kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Russell Simmons | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...keep you in poverty and keep the system in place. And whether it is right or wrong, it is the perception. The fact is that without the poets, the condition it is easier to ignore. These people are voiceless without their poets. They have no voice except for rapper who either describes his condition or is talking about how to fix the condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Russell Simmons | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...only can do what you can do. Just make sure you’re pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain’t, that’s just part of the game. No matter you a rapper, actor, ball player, figure skater, some people gonna like you some people ain’t, you just hope that the majority is more like than dislike...

Author: By Kate E. Cetrulo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jadakiss | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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