Hip Hop Wired reports that Russell Simmons is joining up with Stan Lathan again to produce a comedy series that might top the original Def Jam bit.
But that's a sidebar as far as I'm concerned.
He and Hov, to the best of my understanding, are bidding or had been bidding on a contract that would permit the awarded firm so many thousands of lottery terminals at a horse racing facility in NY.
Jay-Z's bid--in collaboration with the Aqueduct Entertainment Group (AEG)--won. According to Hip Hop Wired, the partnership Hov has with AEG is under federal investigation because Gov. David Patterson has a 7 per cent stake in AEG. (Keep it real: NY Post and the federalies know just as well as anybody that a federal investigation is the biggest, fattest, obese-est hypocriticism that could be executed.)
Nevertheless, Simmons claimed it wasn't "good for the people"--because his bid ain't win.
Headscratcher of the ungodly hour:
What's the ultimate goal of this venture, family?
How are we staying awake in the midst of this?
What "people" are you speaking on behalf of?
I feel like they're expecting people to read this the way the Congressional Black Caucus does following that Times article: yeah...we drink, we smoke, we gamble, we're owed by those who benefit from that reality--but can we build?
Listen--I'm not hating. I'm asking.
*sighs...
In the meantime, cue Lupe.
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