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*The rap community owes a lot to the Simmons family, Russell Simmons and his brother Rev. Run of Run D.M.C. It is arguable that without their trailblazing efforts in rap, Hip-Hop would not exist as a worldwide culture that grew from the genre of rap music. So saying all of that, Jo Jo Simmons, Run’s [...]
*Kimora Lee Simmons recently made it clear that it’s time to focus on family rather than getting a new man. Four months after announcing her separation from actor Djimon Honsou, the entrepreneur tells the Daily Mail that life is a journey and relationships come and go. “Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, [...]
*Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose are the proud parents of a baby boy. The couple on Thursday welcomed Sebastian Taylor Thomaz, the first child for the rapper, 25, and his model fiancée, 29. “Happy Birthday Sebastian ‘The Bash’ Taylor Thomaz!!! Everyone welcome this perfect young man into the world,” tweeted Wiz (real name Cameron Thomaz) [...]
*If the Illuminati does exist, celebrities have been quite open about exposing this so-called secret society, often mocking conspiracy theorists’ theories. And in the most recent of celebrity statements regarding the Illuminati, Russell Simmons swears this mythical (as he would put it) organization is just lazy people’s excuse to continue living life lazy. In an interview [...]
*Oh dang, Uncle Russell and Rev. Run (the Simmons brothers) are getting sued by business partner Rasheed Young, president of Run Athletics. Last year November, Rasheed sent the brothers and hip hop moguls a letter, accusing them of funneling millions in revenue from the popular girl version of the footwear, Pastry, into a different company [...]
*An ex-business partner of Russell Simmons is accusing him of secretly funneling money from Run Athletics into a separate account. Simmons has responded to the allegation, calling his ex-partner Rasheed Young a “disgruntled employee.” Young is the former president of Run Athletics and threatened to sue Russell Simmons and his brother Rev Run, reports The [...]
*John Legend, Russell Simmons, Danny Glover, Brad Pitt and filmaker Eugene Jarecki released joint statements in praise of President Barack Obama’s evolution on the enforcement of marijuana legislation on Wednesday, agreeing with Obama’s assertion that “we’ve got bigger fish to fry.” The president was discussing recreational marijuana use in Colorado and Washington, two states that [...]
*Russell Simmons will throw a second hip-hop ball to celebrate the genre’s influence in the re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama. The music mogul organized the Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball after President Obama became the first African-American to be voted into the White House in 2008. The event took place following Obama’s official inauguration ceremony in [...]
*Election Day officially is the most-tweeted political event in American history with 20 million tweets, according to — what else? — a tweet from the microblogging site’s Twitter Government account, according to The Hollywood Reporter. So what did the celebrities have to say as the 2012 election results came in? THR scanned Twitter and found [...]
*In a guest post for The Hollywood Reporter, Russell Simmons is firing back at calls to boycott Denzel Washington’s new film “Flight.” Some critics believe the movie reinforces black stereotypes with the depiction of an African American airline pilot as a drunk. Simmons, however, believes the film exemplifies “how Hollywood can embrace a new American [...]
*Russell Simmons is urging New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg to come to the aid of the city’s homeless in the wake of superstorm Sandy. The hip hop mogul spoke out about the horrible circumstances faced by the homeless after New York was ravaged by the storm on Monday, and accused Mayor Bloomberg of failing to [...]
*It looks like YouTube is doing what Hollywood just somehow couldn’t or wasn’t willing to do all these years. And that is provide serious opportunities to African American players in entertainment. The prodigious internet brand and cultural icon is providing a platform for content creators such as Shaquille O’Neal, Jay-Z, Diddy and Russell Simmons, among [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “No person is your friend who demands your [...]
*Russell Simmons is urging fans to boycott zoos and circuses, insisting both tourist attractions are just another form of slavery. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The rap mogul and entrepreneur is encouraging all his Twitter followers to take a stand after watching lions and elephants in their natural habitats while on safari in South Africa [...]
*LL Cool J and Sean “Diddy” Combs were among the notables who packed a standing-room-only funeral chapel Wednesday to pay final respects to music-industry mogul Chris Lighty. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The 44-year-old was found dead in his Bronx apartment last week with a gunshot wound to the head. The medical examiner ruled it [...]
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