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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...
...TIME: Recently BMG record label pushed famed music executive Clive Davis into a lower position. Are music industry business models changing too fast for the older execs?RUSSELL SIMMONS: You need progressive young thinkers, but Clive always is good at finding them. If you need people to find new ways to monetize music, they're likely to stumble into Clive's office as much as they are anyone else's [for] his vision. He's open minded enough to find whoever that is. It's not going to be the top executive who figures out the next creative...
...protester from Dalian, who has lived in Japan for two years as a Japanese company employee. "I like sports. I like Japan. Politics shouldn't be directed at the Games." But politics dogged the torch's journey through Europe and the U.S., sparking protest about China's human rights record and its treatment of Tibet. Japan knew the relay needed to be calm to maintain the recent easing of historical tensions between the Japanese and the Chinese. Chinese President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit Japan May 6-10, the first visit by a Chinese head of state since Jiang...
...part. He and Dolls lead singer Amanda M. Palmer were the main attraction during the festivities at Harvard Square’s Newbury Comics—a place Viglione described as “The Mecca of all things cool”—for the first annual Record Store Day last Saturday.Organized by an alliance of music stores, including greater Boston area chain Newbury Comics, Record Store Day was celebrated nationwide with in-store appearances from independent music artists as well as special vinyl-only releases from artists like R.E.M., Death Cab For Cutie, Built To Spill...
...That's hardly an encouraging start to negotiations, and neither is the track record. A controversial peace accord in 2006 dissolved in a spate of attacks on military forces and allowed extremists to regroup. The government contends that current negotiations are more likely to stick since they're being conducted with tribal leaders, not just with militants...