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Take A Stand Records will be looking for hip-hop artists with street music without offensive lyrics.

Take A Stand Records is about arming our communities with knowledge and putting money and real estate back into their hands. I am collaborating with the NAACP to do my part.

Let's address the problems and negative individuals but not tear down the entire hip-hop industry. Only God can judge us. I commend Russell Simmons for stepping up and it's time for more of us to take a stand. Unity is key and knowledge is power. Come to spread the knowledge to our community. Don't let the dream die, its time for us to Take A Stand.



The STOP Campaign is an initiative of the NAACP Youth & College Division that seeks to “STOP” the demeaning images of African Americans in the media, . http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2007-04-23/index.htm http://www.naacp.org/get-involved/activism/petitions/stop-campaign/index.php



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Simmons: Three epithets should be banned from rap music USA Today - Apr 30, 2007 The recommendations drew mixed reaction and come two weeks after some began carping anew about rap lyrics after radio personality Don Imus was fired by CBS . Blacks also are longtime critics of rap, hip-hop, forum shows Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - Apr 19, 2007 . rappers who use similar language? Well, they have, but relatively few people listened to their cries for a stop to the words and images depicted in rap . Music Execs Discuss Rap Lyrics By MARCUS FRANKLIN The Associated Press Wednesday, April 18, 2007; 10:40 PM NEW YORK -- In the wake of Don Imus' firing for his on-air slur about the Rutgers women's basketball team, a high-powered group of music-industry executives met privately Wednesday to discuss sexist and misogynistic rap lyrics. Don’t Blame Hip-Hop By KELEFA SANNEH Published: April 25, 2007 Hip-hop has been making enemies for as long as it has been winning fans. It has been dismissed as noise, blamed for concert riots, accused of glorifying crime and sexism and greed and Ebonics. From Run-D.M.C. to Sister Souljah to Tupac Shakur to Young Jeezy, the story of hip-hop is partly the story of those who have been irritated, even horrified, by it. After Imus storm, rap at the fore POSTED: 12:34 p.m. EDT, April 16, 200 NEW YORK (AP) -- Fighting in vain to keep his job, radio host Don Imus claimed that rappers routinely "defame and demean black women" and call them "worse names than I ever did." 'No more hip hop cursing' 25/04/2007 09:17 - (SA) New York - Prominent US hip-hop executive Russell Simmons on Monday recommended eliminating the words "bitch," "ho" and "nigger" from the recording industry, considering them "extreme curse words." Apr 26, 2007 7:58 pm US/Central Campaign Against Offensive Rap Underway In Hurst (CBS 11 News) HURST A local teacher has started a campaign to silence offensive lyrics, especially in rap music. The movement is underway on the Tarrant County College campus in Hurst. Powerful Music Executives Meet to Discuss Rap Lyrics WLTX.com, SC - Apr 20, 2007 (New York) -- A group of music executives have begun the discussion about rap lyrics and whether sexist, anti-woman songs with cursing should be toned down. A Record Label for Responsible Hip Hop Artists