Russell Simmons sold Def Jam for $120 million and built a $340 million empire on a broken promise
Russell Simmons turned a Queens street hustle into a $340 million empire that invented the hip-hop economy. What he left behind tells a harder story.
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Russell Simmons turned a Queens street hustle into a $340 million empire that invented the hip-hop economy. What he left behind tells a harder story.