My Q&A with Russell Simmons

I interviewed Russell Simmons the other day(s) and we just published the Q&A on Time.com.

He's cool but it was a minor ordeal trying to deal with him. In response to one question he can fly off into a dozen tangents so that became interesting. But the real headache happened because this interview wound up being a phoner, and although I was on a landline, he was on his cell doing five other thngs at once including riding in a car, speaking with the driver, hollaring out the car window (at a cop). My luck would have it that his cell phone signal would drop out and it took me over a week to lock down another good time to rap with him. I wound up getting enough from him to impress the entertainment editor so check it out: Russell Simmons: Reality TV Good for My Kids