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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.

Questions for Russell Simmons – Rap Music – Def Jam Recordings – Explicit Lyrics – Politics – New York Times

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