The godfather of modern hip-hop has decided enough is enough. Russell Simmons, the co-founder of Def Jam records and the inspiration behind bands as diverse as Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J, is as sick of the lazy vulgarity of rap music as many of the rest of us. painful, hurtful, misogyny that, in particular, African American women have experienced in the United States, Simmons' organisation, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, said in a statement.
The word 'nigger' is a racially derogatory term that disrespects the pain, suffering, history of racial oppression and multiple forms of racism against African Americans and other people of colour, it added. racism, only alter the vocabulary with which it was expressed. This is like abstinence-only sex education, one reader wrote to the Simmons countered in an interview with the Associated Press, saying: This is a first step.
It's a clear message and a consistency that we want the industry to accept for more corporate social responsibility. about the direction rap music has taken. When it first burst onto the scene in the 1980s, it was a powerful, even revolutionary new medium of expression born of the frustrations and deprivations of the black urban experience.
Simmons has consistently pushed that idea, organising Def Poetry sessions and mixing his music producing career with civil rights advocacy, including The reaction has been building for some time. When Michael Richards, the white comedian best known for playing Kramer on the US sitcom Seinfeld, was autumn, it prompted several black commentators to wonder whether everyone many rap songs - an unexpurgated version for CDs, often with a warning attached, and a clean version for the airwaves in which the lyrics have either been changed, erased or bleeped out.
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