Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
Russell SimmonsI'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.
Russell SimmonsHip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.
Russell SimmonsI think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.
Russell Simmons