Russell Simmons appeared on Bill O'Reilly's program to speak about recent issues, debating the relationship between police departments and African-American communities.

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A recent discussion on CNN demonstrates why hip hop music and culture continues to get a bad rap, and the real problems affecting America, continue to be ignored.

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Meyhem Lauren joins the growing backlash against hip hop journalism by non-hip hop journalists with a track aimed at music site Pitchfork.

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For the love of God (and hip hop), people need to stop believing (and blindly spreading) everything they fu*king read on the internet. Bloggers, you are the worst offenders. And larger sites like Global Grind, once again prove to be incompetent, evil and dangerous, and deserve to be shut down.

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In their typically sloppy attempts to establish themselves as more than simply a gossipmongering, content-regurgitating aggregator, GlobalGrind committed a journalistic error of the highest magnitude. It's not the first time.

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