Russell Simmons: A Hip-Hop legend
“In any new business, someone has to have vision”(Russell Simmons pg 221). A vision is exactly what Russell Wendell Simmons had when he first started in the music business. Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture. When no one outside of inner-city New York had even heard of hip-hop, Simmons saw the seeds of a global force that would change the way people talk, dress, listen to music, and choose the heroes they hung on their walls. Simmons is the founder or cofounder of numerous successful companies and philanthropic organizations, including Def Jam Records, Phat Farm clothing, the dRush Advertising Agency, and Rush Philanthropic. At the same time he has broadened his interests and influence and pushed hip-hop to new plateaus of power. Russell Simons is an inspiration to contemporary young man because he is a gifted entrepreneur in the American music, comedy, and fashion industry. Russell Simmons did not invent rap, but he is more than any other individual, responsible for the music’s astonishing success. As a young man, he heard a thriving, vibrant music in the ghettos and solid middle-class black neighborhoods l
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