Who wants to be like Russel Simmons?

[KENNY GUIDO]

The Laws of Success...In Music and Beyond! with Def Jam Founder RUSSELL SIMMONS
New York Classes: Course 5057NY Section A

They call him "The CEO of Hip Hop.

" Donald Trump says he's "the ultimate businessperson."

He created the world's #1 urban brand: Def Jam
Records. And in this exclusive Learning Annex class, Russell Simmons is going to share with you his life-altering Laws of Success!

Whether you want to make it as a recording artist, songwriter, music or movie producer, fashion designer or entrepreneur -- media mogul and mega-successful entrepreneur Russell Simmons has been there, done that, and will tell you how to succeed. He'll teach you to tap into your own inner strength to achieve your goals.

Russell brought hip-hop into the mainstream by releasing the first records by LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, and Public Enemy. His resume takes up pages: Def Jam Recordings, Phat Farm, Baby Phat, Run Athletics, Def Jam University clothing lines; plus, the Simmons Lathan Media Group. HBO's "The Def Comedy Jam" and "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," and numerous other ventures in the financial services industry, mobile communications and philanthropy.

What do YOU want to do? Access your own God given talent that is already inside you to create whatever you can imagine in the outside world!

Then he'll open the floor to a Q&A session. His answers will help you follow your dreams -- breaking into the record business, starting your own clothing line, mass marketing your product or just becoming an empowered person ready to achieve ANY GOAL!

[KENNY GUIDO]

I love the way he tries to say that he made the beastie boys! way to go, russ.:rolleyes:

[Brother McDuff]

i wonder if his class teaches you how to make countless enemies and backstab business partners as well.

[KENNY GUIDO]

or how to rob young, white rappers!

[dirtydan11]

who's white? :eek:

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

LL Cool J.

[ggirlballa]

shut up guys that shit went down 20 years ago, get over it.:rolleyes:

[funk63]

who's white? :eek:

you, probably.

[Brother McDuff]

shut up guys that shit went down 20 years ago, get over it.:rolleyes:


russel simmons' cutthroat business ethic goes far beyond his dealings with the beasties, friend.

[KENNY GUIDO]

russel simmons' cutthroat business ethic goes far beyond his dealings with the beasties, friend.


exactly. Fuck, I still hear bad shit about him in the industry.

[Lex Diamonds]

Russ is where he is today cuz of his cutthroat business ethic. Love it or hate it he has helped make hip-hop as popular as it is today, and let's not forget we would probably not have the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC without his business sense.

[Justin]

Russ is where he is today cuz of his cutthroat business ethic. Love it or hate it he has helped make hip-hop as popular as it is today, and let's not forget we would probably not have the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC without his business sense.


We may have not had Pauls Boutique if it wasnt for Russell Simmons "cuttroat business sense."

:rolleyes:

[Lex Diamonds]

We may have not had Pauls Boutique if it wasnt for Russell Simmons "cuttroat business sense."

:rolleyes:
What has that got to do with what I said?

Way to be overwhelmingly irrelevant and worthless.

[Lo_Lyfe]

That although he bought the world Beastie Boys, his raping of their income caused them to fuck off and birth Paul's Boutique from their creative vagina. Might not have happened otherwise.

Well I figure that's what he means.

[Brother McDuff]

let's not forget we would probably not have the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC without his business sense.


a good point, yes, but that doesn't make his business sense honorable.

[KENNY GUIDO]

Russ is where he is today cuz of his cutthroat business ethic. Love it or hate it he has helped make hip-hop as popular as it is today, and let's not forget we would probably not have the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC without his business sense.

RUN DMC & the Beastie Boys were already in the industry when Russ started Def Jam.

[KENNY GUIDO]

We may have not had Pauls Boutique if it wasnt for Russell Simmons "cuttroat business sense."

:rolleyes:


true but maybe we would have had the full version of DESPARDO!

[KENNY GUIDO]

That although he bought the world Beastie Boys, his raping of their income caused them to fuck off and birth Paul's Boutique from their creative vagina. Might not have happened otherwise.

Well I figure that's what he means.

I read in an interview Paul's Boutique would have been created although years later if they would have stayed with Def Jam.

[Brother McDuff]

if the beastie had stayed with def jam it would have stunted their musical growth for sure. i don't think russel would have ever gone for the shift to instruments. they probly would have made them make the same record over and over again.

[Lo_Lyfe]

I read in an interview Paul's Boutique would have been created although years later if they would have stayed with Def Jam.
Thinking about it, how do you suppose this is even remotely possible?

[KENNY GUIDO]

Thinking about it, how do you suppose this is even remotely possible?

Im sure they would have bumped into the dust brothers sooner or later and they would been like "hey, we got this sound you should check out". The beasties knew about thier work a year after LTI was released and dug thier style. but like brother Mcduff said previously, Russel would have held them back saying shit like "your not being true to hip hop if you pick up youre instruments".

[KENNY GUIDO]

if the beastie had stayed with def jam it would have stunted their musical growth for sure. i don't think russel would have ever gone for the shift to instruments. they probly would have made them make the same record over and over again.


Licensed to ill-the remix

Licensed to ill-party edition

Licensed to ill-dance edition

[Brother McDuff]

Thinking about it, how do you suppose this is even remotely possible?


i have to agree with Lo Lyfe on this one. if it wasn't for the def jam split, the beasties quite possibly would have never moved to California in search of a new sound. furthermore, if they did remain at def jam for another 4 years or two albums or so, the heavy sampling aesthetic that made paul's boutique so groundbreaking would have already been brought to the forefront by another group of artists by that point.

not to mention that the availability of the dust brothers would be completely different when it comes to who they may have worked with otherwise or if they were even interested in the bboys, considering that it's likely the beasties would've gotten stale and lost their marketability if they festered around on the def jam lineup for another coupla albums.

[Brother McDuff]

in my opinion, the def jam split pretty much saved the the beasties' career. or made their career, however you wanna look at it.

without the shift of thought and style that ensued (one that was unlikely to happen under the Simmons and Cohen regiment), they would have fallen off a long, long time ago.

[KENNY GUIDO]

i have to agree with Lo Lyfe on this one. if it wasn't for the def jam split, the beasties quite possibly would have never moved to California in search of a new sound. furthermore, if they did remain at def jam for another 4 years or two albums or so, the heavy sampling aesthetic that made paul's boutique so groundbreaking would have already been brought to the forefront by another group of artists by that point.

not to mention that the availability of the dust brothers would be completely different when it comes to who they may have worked with otherwise or if they were even interested in the bboys, considering that it's likely the beasties would've gotten stale and lost their marketability if they festered around on the def jam lineup for another coupla albums.

the beasties said they heard the dust brothers sound prior to moving to LA. they has also said that if they stayed with def jam, Pauls would have came out much later.

[MaestroDenis]

In all of this hatred of Def Jam, please don't forget they did produce Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" back in '88, equally as groundbreaking and innovative in its sampleheavy production, much like Paul's Boutique.

MD

[KENNY GUIDO]

In all of this hatred of Def Jam, please don't forget they did produce Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" back in '88, equally as groundbreaking and innovative in its sampleheavy production, much like Paul's Boutique.

MD


Theres not a lot of hatred towards Def Jam.....just hatred towards Russ!:D

[Club Molecule]

who's white? :eek:

Professor Griff. And he's Jewish, just in denial.

[Jmoney77]

exactly. Fuck, I still hear bad shit about him in the industry.
WORD!