DefJamMobile, Kimora Lee Kitty, Interviewing Russell

Here’s what I don’t get about the current announcements regarding the partnership between American Greetings/AG Interactive and Def Jam Enterprises to create DefJamMobile.  Didn’t they announce that last year?

Maybe they’re just finally launching the project, though it’s weird to see the early history erased.  In any case, in a coup for AllHipHop.com, they’ll be providing the daily news for subscribers.

In related news of the Simmons family, Kimora Lee has signed a two book deal with Regan Books to produce a lifestyle book for women followed by a children’s book, both due in 2006.  Ms. Simmons and Sanrio have also thoughtfully provided the Hello Kitty Collection by Kimora Lee Simmons.  What an inspiration to us all!

Speaking of inspiration, while Talking Hip Hop Business is off to a slow start, there are a variety of reasons I’m not itching to interview the big guys like P. Diddy and Russell Simmons.  For one thing, they all talk in sound bites.  I also don’t believe that they are willing to respond to tough questions, not that anyone seems to be asking any.  But, I think this account of a phone interview with Russell pretty much sums things up.  I’d just become another cog in his marketing machine.