Dee-1 Wins One-on-One Mentoring Session With Russell Simmons

@Jpipe.. Never under-estimate the power of MOooolah!.. Russel Simmons is going get real with him as soon as he's done smiling and shaking hands and gettin the butterflies out.. If i know him he gone say it straight up: Listen, I like your style, i had a chance to listen to your latest work, your hot and gaining momentum, but your not getting the targeted media audience, you are going to have to change your flow, your character, your style, your lyric's and water it down a bit to get the cash flow in.. This is business, it's how it work, once you get your money, then go back to your own style.. Now Russell is a real ass nigga he might just tell him: FUK THE INDUSTRY! AND DO YOU! and DO IT WHILE YOUR STILL HOT! BECAUSE YOU ARE ONLY TEMPORARY UNTIL THE NEXT HOT THING STEP ON SCENE!.. that means less mixtapes, no more Myspace submission, if you consider yourself a real elite artist you going to have to leave amature shit alone, STAY OFF MYSPACE! let your fan's create myspace Fan-pages.. Stay off Facebook, let a staff member respond to those, stay off twitter, let your marketing team handle that, stay off Youtube, let your marketing staff handle that. You get your ass in the studio and put out something Album quality and test the market with it.. Virally spread yourself out there with leaks and let the industry find you.

idt he gon change on the strength of him being a teacher. How he gon teach & expect kids to get right if he doing the same thing he telling them not to. MAN YALL BETTER GET ON THE BANWAGON..

I second that...the industry needs change RIGHT NOW. Hopefully he stays true to his words whenever he gets his deal but I think everybody knows how the 'decisions makers' do it.