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Article: Why I Support Gangsta Rap
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
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- February 17, 1994
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Russell Simmons
Los Angeles Sentinel
02-17-1994
Why I Support Gangsta Rap.
BY RUSSELL SIMMONS
CEO of Rush Communications
My commitment to the hip-hop culture, its purveyors and its audiences, leads me to speak out against the recent increase in rapper-bashing, or what journalist and moralist like to think is "the anti-gangsta rap debate."
I have been working with rap artist and the hip-hop culture in all its manifestations for 15 years. The artist I represent produce a range of music--hard core, political, party, Christian, gangsta. Through my companies, Rush Artist Management and RAL/Def Jam Recordings, I have helped broker this music from the margins to the mainstream.
Let's be clear--rap ...