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With

the 2nd Hip-Hop Summit being days away, Talib

Kweli, Queen Pen

and

Keith Murray joined Russell Simmons on an upcoming edition

of BET’s Rap City,

to talk about the Summit and taking back responsibility.

"The Summit is

needed to put order into the positive progression of the

Hip-Hop culture,"

Keith Murray said.

The 2nd Hip-Hop

Summit, which takes place on June 12-13, is a closed door

meeting of the music industry’s most powerful figures. On

the agenda are focusing on keeping Hip-Hop in order, as

opposed to having forces from outside the culture do it,

fighting censorship and getting rid of some of the redundancy

that seems to be plauging Hip-Hop.

"I love

Hip-Hop," Kweli said. "I think that the Hip-Hop

summit is solution oriented and anything towards a solution,

I am down with!"

People who have

lent their vocal support include Harry Belafonte, Jim Brown,

Bill Cosby, Sonia Sanchez, Kwesi MFume and Martin Luther

King III.

Companies

Sponsoring the Summit are:

Motown Records

So So Def Records

Rush Communications

Phatfarm

Priority

Jive Records

Island/Def Jam Records

Aftermath Records

allhiphop.com

Bad Boy Records

Flavor Unit Records

Rawkus Records

Universal Music

RIAA

Kaotic

Arista

Atlantic Records.

Co-sponsors

are:

The Britto Agency

Urban League

SCLC

The National Action Network

Blacksmith Entertainment

VIBE Magazine

Terror Squad

360 HipHop.com

BET.com

University Music

Rap A Lot Records

The Source Magazine

Nkiru Center for Education & Culture

The Schomberg Center for Research and culture

Million Family Movement

Vanguard Media

Loud Records

Support these

companies, as they are supporting a positive change in Hip-Hop.