Posted on 04/30/2007 3:53:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings and the so-called C.E.O. of hip-hop, do you think the outrage over Don Imus’s prickly language and his firing might broaden into a crusade against song lyrics? It already has broadened to lyrics. It’s been that way since 1983. They’ve been yelling at me from Run-D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys till now.
What do you make of Barack Obama, who recently said that rap musicians should reform their lyrics? What we need to reform is the conditions that create these lyrics. Obama needs to reform the conditions of poverty. I wish he really did raise his money on the Internet, like he said. I wish he really did raise his money independently.
What are you saying? I think about one-fourth of his campaign contributions came from small donations made over the Internet, even though he collected more than any other Democratic candidate from Wall Street people. So at the end of the day, he’s controlled, too. That’s my point. He’s a mouse, too, like everybody else.
Are there any presidential candidates who inspire you? I talk to John Edwards more than I talk to anyone. He has said more things about the conditions we need to think about. He went to yoga with me. He did the whole class, an hour and a half. He sweated like crazy. He’s in good shape, but it was hard on him.
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Not unless there's a white guy or a conservative to ruin in the process.
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Now there's a you tube video that would knock silky out of the race!
This is not an interview. It is a touchy, feely piece of existential BS.
If Simmons wants to do something useful to correct his decades of promoting hate and garbage, this is NOT the way to do it, and some duffus NYT questioner is not the right person to conduct a serious interview.
But then, again, it is the New York Times, where quality and the truth are not prerequisites for a story.
This is not an interview. It is a touchy, feely piece of existential BS.
If Simmons wants to do something useful to correct his decades of promoting hate and garbage, this is NOT the way to do it, and some duffus NYT questioner is not the right person to conduct a serious interview.
But then, again, it is the New York Times, where quality and the truth are not prerequisites for a story.
Grown MEN do YOGA???? ICK!
Bwhahahahahaha!
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