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Russell Simmons, Patti Smith Hit NYC Gala

June 3, 2009

It’s a great day to be a New Yorker!

Especially when Russell Simmons and Patti Smith are talking shop at the Gordon Parks Awards Foundation Gala Tuesday night!!

“I haven’t written a music note in awhile,” Simmons tells me, when I tell him about my music blog Poison Ivy.

But Simmons is still very much in the music loop with Globalgrind, his fantastic hip-hop site we told you about back in January.

“We’ve grown 400 percent in the last six months,” the Def Jam mogul says.

Patti Smith was much less talkative, tip-toeing her way around the black tie event in a pair of blue jeans and a sports coat.

“Who’s that woman being photographed?” a pair of dressed up glitterati asked me when I snapped this pic.

“Don’t stare too long,” I said. “That’s Patti Smith.”

Russell Simmons Named Editor-in-Chief of Globalgrind.com

January 29, 2009

Russell Simmons has been named Editor-in-Chief of Globalgrind.com, a hip-hop site focused on news, gossip, sports and “politricks.” Seriously.
The Def Jam co-founder called a press conference yesterday at the Bryant Park Hotel in New York to inform folks of his “new day job.”
Simmons had apparently been investing in Globalgrind for years and decided it was time to take things into his own hands.
We’ve never heard of this site, but maybe that’ll change??
Best of luck, Russ!!