Random Quote: Russell Simmons...

...expressed his feelings about Barack Obama's call for rappers to reform their lyrics in a recent interview with the New York Times:

Deborah Solomon: What do you make of Barack Obama, who recently said that rap musicians should reform their lyrics?

Russell Simmons: What we need to reform is the conditions that create these lyrics. Obama needs to reform the conditions of poverty. I wish he really did raise his money on the Internet, like he said. I wish he really did raise his money independently.

DS: What are you saying? I think about one-fourth of his campaign contributions came from small donations made over the Internet, even though he collected more than any other Democratic candidate from Wall Street people.

RS: So at the end of the day, he’s controlled, too. That’s my point. He’s a mouse, too, like everybody else.