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		<title>Russell Simmons Answers Obama</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hip hop pioneer (and, in recent years at least, kinds of a strange guy) Russell Simmons answers Obama&#8217;s post-Imus criticisms of rap. He makes a good point: there&#8217;s a difference between artists and moronic punditry/jockdom, or whatever it is that Imus did. I always feel a bit hinky when government officials use their time to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hip hop pioneer (and, in recent years at least, kinds of a strange guy)<a href="http://soundslam.com/articles/news/news.php?news=070419_obama"> Russell Simmons answers</a> <a href="http://obamamedia.com/blog/2007/04/14/obama-with-geffen-money-sounds-like-lieberman/">Obama&#8217;s post-Imus criticisms of rap</a>. He makes a good point: there&#8217;s a difference between artists and moronic punditry/jockdom, or whatever it is that Imus did. I always feel a bit hinky <a href="http://www.tv.com/murphy-brown/show/799/episode_guide.html">when government officials use their time to go after the arts</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>My response to Sen. Obama is that you have to talk about the poverty and ignorance that creates such a climate that the poets can talk like that and all the politicians owe them an education and an opportunity for a better life and maybe they&#8217;ll say something better.&#8221;</p>
<p>Simmons defended <a class="iAs" style="border-bottom: 0.075em solid yellow; font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; color: yellow; background-color: transparent; padding-bottom: 1px" target="_blank" href="http://soundslam.com/articles/news/news.php?news=070419_obama#">hip-hop artists</a> further stating, &#8220;People who are angry, uneducated and come from tremendous struggle, they have poetic license and they say things that offend you, you have to talk about the conditions that create those kinds of lyrics. When you are talking about a privileged man who has a mainstream vehicle and mainstream support and is on a radio station like that you have to deal with them differently.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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