Free Republic

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--Most of the general public appreciates the importance of good music as an important tenet of a thriving and healthy culture. For at least two decades, the public has been either repelled by, or simply remained indifferent to, music and entertainment of the Hip-Hop culture. Except for a few challenges to it that were resisted by cries of constitutional liberties, the Hip-Hop industry has literally rolled on and flourished under its own momentum. Now that community, under the leadership of its music mogul Russell Simmons, is making yet another social leap by preparing to mobilize Hip...