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On My Grind With Russell Simmons: Episode 1

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Should Julie be a celebrity blogger on Global Grind?

-Russell Simmons

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  • This whole Katie Rost, Julie Henderson thing is really immature. Regardless of race, it's still two grown-ass women fighting and bickering over a man. I don't care if you are white, black, asian, etc... Ladies have some dignity about yourselves. I love Russell Simmons with all my heart. I love his views and concerns with todays issues surrounding the black community and humanity as a whole. But, it's pretty clear that he is still sowing (his not so young) wild oats and has a love for women (Of all nationalities). Russell has dated all kinds and I believe will continue to do so after Julie Henderson (She's just the flavor of the month). I just laugh every time one of the online media sources post a picture of Russell with a new young (or younger) woman :) He's the Hugh Hefner of the black community and I still love him. But let's not make it a race thing. If Julie Henderson has some meaningful and informative blogs than by all means let her blog. But if it's geared to random "I feel the plight of the poor black community bullsh*t", that no one wants to read about, Boot her ass. But we need to give her a chance, she's young and still learning. So in the words Russell, "Namaste". (Because Russell will surely see the goddess in another woman in a coulple of months :)
  • Sure, it would be fun to have a daily douse of BS and how much she knows about the black community after dating a millionaire who is black. Dating you must be tuff in the ghetto in the Hamptons. Ducking bullets and pool guys with damp towels. Oh the horror! We need her voice! Teach us sister! Please teach us how to keep a man! I mean a Black Man!
  • This recent blog effort was a nightmare, but if Julie were open and ready to learn and listen about others and their lives, then she would be ok as a celebrity blogger on Global Grinds.
  • Why not?? You can always learn something daily.I would continue to reinvent myself I say go for it.I love blogging also.10-16 checkn out
  • Russel was able to handle Julie, he could handle Vanilla Ice.
    But I don't think Vanilla Ice even knows about Global Grind. NewYorker, let's quit while we agree on something. Love and piece, David.
  • Should Julie be a celebrity blogger on Global Grind?
    YES --- Why?

    [paraphrased] from yesterdays apparently long winded blog.

    Studying a white models view of Hip Hop could be valuable in determining demographics.
    In re: to my "resume/essay," when I address a fortune five hundred board meeting to brief them with an informative "essay." My "resume," is routinely required or they don't give me an audience. I give the same respect to Global Grind.
  • Dear, NewYorker in Re: to, more of a resume/essay.
    When an un band comes to me to get a week in post production in a studio with expensive editing bays and personnel that don't give away their hard learned talent for free, I apreciate from them, "more of a resume/essay."
    I freely provide glimpses into my, "resume/essay," before I expect them to listen to my boring, un'insightfull droll. Sorry I put you to sleep. But your opinion is as important as mine.
  • Stick to modeling....LOL...but just because of this video she probably would get alot of views.
  • Should Julie be a celebrity blogger on Global Grind?
    YES --- Why?
    A cold reality in life is this, everything that survives to be multiplied, needs money, money is generated through the use of wise business acumen. To put it simply, the wider the foundation, the broader the base, the chances of survival increase the chances of survival and expansion. Hip hop must propagate to survive the numbing effect of bland "copy-catting," or it would eventually become a watered down tool of a boring business model in a marketing scheme in New York, L.A. etc. This may seem like an oxymoron. But I would rather see what I label the, "emerging White hybrid exploitation of Hip Hop." We need Hip Hop to stay under the watchful eye of Russel Simmons, Global Grind, so that a "ring in the nose control mechanism," can be studied by the experts as Hip Hop melds into the mass populous.
    I was art director for Annenberg Communications, USC for 8 years. I designed curriculums, published books for the leading communications Profs of the world. I listened, I learned, I applied. Hip Hop will be teaching health, Math, educating in all arenas. It will help elect Presidents at the rate it is progating. I want to study what a white, female, super model thinks about Hip Hop and how she would try to manipulate a juggernaut like the Hip Hop community. It would be the business model everyone in business would pay millions of dollars to obtain. I am attaching Hip Hop To my Math education co. to revolutionize math scores in the L.A. school system over the next 10 Years, because it makes math fun. The rythm and sound of Hip Hop unlocks the mind so teaching can pe poured in like water. Madison Avenue is getting the picture. Let Russel control the river.
    David Cook Real Love Song. Real Love Song Media, Mortensen Jazz Math.com [MortensenMathDirect.tv]
    • WOW!

      Stick to writing curriculum your post is way to much - more of a resume/essay. I regret reading the full post cause it really don't said much.
  • Then why complain where is hip hop going and that rap is dead and falling off it's roots. If you can't be sincere to hip hop than why should it be sincere to you. YOU GET WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT. If you start with crap you will end up in a sh*tty mess. I don't think you should contribute to that! If you went for a job and was ask what do you know about the job or the business, an you Laugh and tell the boss you know more about his business that he started, and still leave the question unanswer ! Please and you would be looking at the want ads again. You want someone to help contribute growth to your company not to flush it down the toilet.

  • Peace* Hmmm... Something in me is kinda leaning toward what Brett posted. Lol! Fo' real, though- Go ahead, and let ole Julie try to drop some jewels on Hip Hop and see what comes out of it. Anyone who understands the roots of Hip Hop knows that it's about hustlin'. So, let's not knock Julie's hustle- But, in line with this, if her blogs are WHACK, then the plug needs to be pulled on her stuff asap! SHOW & PROVE Julie!



    Peace*
    • Hip Hop aint about HUSTLIN'... Can we see your Hip Hop credentials? Hip Hop is the music, the style, the lingo, etc. Hustle aint got nothing to do with it!
    • Peace* Beloved, having been born in the Tomkin projects in Bklyn, NY and pretty much raised in Rosedale, Queens, NY, while Hip Hop was coming to birth, I think I've got a pretty good hands on what Hip Hop is. (smile) Four elements of Hip Hop are: DJing, Rhyming, B-Boying & Graffitti, right? (smile) Brother Russell initially threw parties to make tings happen back in the day. So, too, did Puffy. Flash, Grand Wizard Theadore, et al, all started out (hustling/grinding it out) doing block parties and tings on school play grounds w/ an extension cord plugged into city owned electrical outlets. (smile) I was there, man. Me? I penned the first book(s) ever done by one of the five percent (Gods/Earths). See: Thy Kingdom Come, Take A Second Look, etc. (smile) So, if the woman wants to show & prove, then let her be. (smile)



      Peace
    • While you originated in Brooklyn and did your stompin in Queens, I was born and raised in HARLEM and did a lot of time in the South Bronx. Been to the street jamns with the milk crates filled with Albums and jamms at the Rucker & watched the best Basketball ever. Rocked the mic back in the day at the age of 12 and had a notebook of ryhmes. Been to the $1 parties after hours & only 13years old. Wore the gear, talked the talk and walked the walk. Partied with Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Andre Harrell being Dr. Jekyll) Ice Skated at the Lasker Skating Rink in Central Park with Mr. Hyde while the DJ blasted the beats. Owned several pairs of shell top Adidas and sported them in Hollis before they were up on the in Queens. I AM HIP HOP! Also familiar with 5% Love hell or write :)
    • Peace! That's wassup! Back in nem dayz Hip Hop was very pure! (smile) Yeah, I had enuf shell top addiddas, kango hats, alpaca sweaters, british walkers, playboys, mock-neck shirts, leather gloves w/ da zippers on 'em, gold rope chains & medallions, etc! Lol! Use to love to watch the DJ(s) cut up "We ARe People," "Toys in the Attic," the "Star Wars" theme song, and so on! A good friend of mine in 90210 was real good w/ Andre when he was prez of Motown back in the early 1990s. When I went to Syracuse University my boyz and I always preached that Hip Hop was the Black man's oil fields! Respect to u!



      Peace
    • Peace to you my brother :)

      Yeah I loved to hear Apache and Frisco Disco cut-up. Remember Starski and Disco Fever??? British Walkers was the move and AJ Lesters. BTW - Im a female but dudes I rolled with back in the day were real G's not like the fake ones you see on the G's to Gents show. They was Ballers for real!
    • Peace! Absolutely nothing can compare to when bonified DJs cut up joints like Apache, Frisco Dicso, etc! If a cut came on the radio before I left out to go to school, I'd have to bust some quick moves on my mother's livingroom rug real quick! Lol! I thik it was Starski who performed at my frat's boat ride one year. We're wild; and he was wild! Thik that might have been the one (say back in '87) where MJ got grilled by da bruhz so hard while he was pinned up against the rail of the boat on the 2nd level- I had to back them up off of him! Lol! I honestly think that we need more genuine movie that depict those old school dayz in Hip Hop so that the children of today will know some of the other untold stories. Since you are a woman, did you where those BIG gold earrings? (*"



      Peace
    • Peace & blessings brother...



      You know I was down with the earrings. I remember homegirls would hammer them to make them flat, they would rock them with their name on the Bamboo earrings. I had the name chain, two finger ring, nuggett rings & ropes. Lyrics back then were more positive. Stop the violence with all the rappers: MC Lyte {{{funky fresh dress to impress ready to party... there's only one disco, they'll close one more - you aint guarding the door so what you got a gun for?}}} MC Lyte was the bomb back then - 10% Diss --- Paper Thin... I enjoyed the old school hip hop movies with Run DMC --- The Breakin Movies were OK. Back in the day, Harlem Week was the place to be at Grants Tomb--- I met Big Daddy Kane. Kool Moe D went to Norman Thomas with my sister. I met Dougie Fresh & Slick Rick, I saw chill will walking down the street and I recently saw Biz Markie in Maryland.
    • Peace* Home girlz use to rock those farmers, brothas did, too. Yes. The lyrics more much more truthful and raw, no chaser! And MC Lyte was on like that! I'm working on a film with a good friend, now. It'll be the sequel to his first film, PAID IN FULL. Should prove to be very enlightening! Sound track should be powerful, too. (*"



      Peace
    • Farmer jeans and the trouser pants with the straps hanging. Straight leg pants and the color socks 2 pairs at once... & can't forget the fat laces...
    • Peace* I went to Springfield Gardens H.S. in Queens. In the latter part of my senior year my after school job was at Selbie's shoe store on 34th Street in "money-making" Manhattan, NY! (*" I use to rush (via bus/train) to work so I could watch the fly young ladies as the left Norman Thomas HS! Lol! Good friend of mine use to snap ALOT of pictures of folks (still does) in the NYC! In one of his photo essay books he's got alot of pics of headz rockin' da straight legged pants (which, by the way, are back in style)! I use to rock sharkskin pants, a leather bomber w/ a apple jack styled kango hat! Don't see that type of fashion among the youth in nowadays.



      Peace
    • My homegirl from Queens was the first one to ever have a leather bomber jacket before they started making all the colors. I remember I wanted one and she took me to Macy's but they were not selling them anymore. I got a navy blue one years later that I rocked with my georgetown hoyas Nike hightops navy blue/gray - I was into the college basketball. Anyways 34th street was the bomb for shopping and 86th Street for the movies.
    • Peace* So, I see you and I appear to have dwelled in parallel universes, so to speak, back in the day. Lol! Georgetown Hoyas paraphernalia- The Hoyas remain the arch nemesis of the Orangemen* Lol! In nowadays me still love Hip Hop, though. I like conscious rhymes vs. the top 40 isht. Ever been to LOVE in DC?



      Peace
    • Never been to LOVE but surely did go to a Georgetown Game :) I am currently living in Suburban Maryland. I hated it at first but now I really love it but I will always be a NEWYORKER. Orangemen are cool and so are the Red. My same friend that I spoke of from Queens, her brother was the head coach for St. Johns (Rutledge) - now he is a faculty member. My sister went to Cornell in Ithaca and I went with her to watch them play Columbia University. They are definitely not known for their basketball teams but it was a fun atmosphere.
    • Peace* I live in (what is deemed to be) southern MD now. Yeah... I will always be a native New Yorker. "..You should know the score by now---You're a Native New Yorker*)))))" Remember that one! (*"

      So, is Russell going to let this woman have a try? If she has observed any of this discussion, then perhaps she's learned a little about the birth of Hip Hop culture (i.e. fresh clothes, musical appetites, etc.). (*"



      Peace
    • OMG! We were supposed to meet, right here, on this site. I can't believe you live in Maryland too - but we NewYorkers are everywhere. Homegirl just moved next door to my house is from Brooklyn. Where are you located in Maryland?
    • YOU GREW UP RIDING THE SUBWAY

      RUNNING WITH PEOPLE

      UP IN HARLEM

      DOWN ON BROADWAY

      YOUR NO TRAMP

      BUT YOUR NO LADY

      TALKIN THAT STREET TALK

      YOUR THE HEART & SOUL

      OF NEW YORK CITY



      OHHHHHHHHHHHH



      WHERE DID ALL THE YESTERDAY'S GO...



      I'M A NATVIE NEWYORKER
    • Peace* I live near THE BLVD (Largo/Hyattsville area).

      Guess we need to start our own New Yorker Club, huh? (smile) That's wassup. Love that snippet from "Native New Yorker". (*"



      Peace
    • Do you ever listen to Russ Parr & the dude Burner that always call in from HIGHattsvylle lol :)
    • BTW

      I live in Columbia, which was designed to mimic New York City's South Street Seaport. It start out to be nice but now the small time thugs are tryna take over. It's still a beautiful place to live. I love the grass & the trees and the farms with the cows and the horses. We never had that in the NYC. The first time I saw a real horse was in times square when I was very young my father loaded up the Cadillac and drove us downtown to see the Lights. It was beautiful.
    • Peace New Yorker* [Am listening to the Underground Crew's "Feel the Melody" house cut- Do you like House music?] I came up in the five percent w/ RZA, Freedom (Williams), King Sun, Big Daddy Kane, Just-Ice, etc. Freedom was the only one who did that Hip House type of isht alot, and still does + alot more.



      Peace
  • You don't want to jepardize the authenticity of your site!
  • Why not, i think she should. Can't judge a book by its cover!!
  • She can blog about the white perspective on what she believes hip hop is I guess. I think the you should get the celebrity bloggers who suppose to be blogging to start their blogs before adding her.
  • go to laskittlez.com













    But aneway...IN WHAT WAY IS SHE HIP HOP? KILL THAT. But..Everyone deserves a chance...Probation period russell, see how people vibe to her and from the comments...U talkin to a hip hop community...All we see is a wannabe.

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