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To: JEB who wrote (312992)	11/1/2002 1:19:14 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Democrats mourn loss of Jam Master Jay... Here are some comments from leading Democrats after the shooting death of pioneering rap DJ Jam Master Jay: Al Gore: I ... traveled the world with this man, this man discovered me, and passed the tape on ... This is not a good day for the music, because this guy epitomized what the music should do. You feel good about a song. Run-DMC epitomizes that. Walter Mondale: "They represented everything good and positive about hip-hop ... Before the media rushes to attribute this to East Coast-West Coast violence, they should examine Run-DMC's two decades of contributions and Jam Master Jay's personal character." Hillary Clinton: "He changed the direction of music, put rock into rap and gave it a whole new persona. It totally blew my mind." Ted Kennedy: "These guys were so influential ... They were the first to wear what they wanted to wear and not conform to, you know, what everybody else was doing in terms of the clothes they wore and stuff like that. They were the first to bring the streets to rap." Bill "P. Diddy" Clinton: "He led the way for a whole new genre of talent ... He was a great man who will be deeply missed." Jerry Brown: "It's a terrible loss ... If Jam Master Jay and Run-DMC hadn't looked out for us way back when, I don't know where we'd be now." Mrs. Paul Wellstone: "Every time we ran into Jay, he was really cordial, he was nice, showed us crazy love... Then 15 minutes later, you see him on stage, really cuttin' it up. Really talented guy, really cool guy." Janet Reno: "This is not a person who went out looking for trouble ... He's known as a person that builds, that creates and is trying to make the right things happen."