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Music:
the coup, a tribe called quest, talib kweli, immortal technique, lou reed, c rayz walz, creature, michael franti & spearhead, rob sonic, dead prez, bob marley, dennis brown, living color, bob dylan is the GREATEST song writier EVER...FACT!! duo live, ray charles, grand agent & old man...philly heads know NAME!!, divine, joan osborne, sophie b. hawkins, shawn colvin, joan baez, joni mitchell, the rollins band, the goats, bad brains, stevie ray vaughn, albert collins, gatemouth brown, nina simone, ella fitzgerald, minnie ripperton--try this...if you're ever angry at the one you love, hold hands, strip to your drawers, and and sing "loving you is easy cuz you're beautiful!!" at the top of your lungs...no one can stay mad after about 10 continuous minutes of that!! jimi hendrix--electric ladyland is one of the greatest albums ever; run dmc, rakim, wu-tang clan, stronghold nyc, the fugees, norah jones, the grateful dead, dead kennedys, kool keith, too short, del the funky homosapien--"i wish my brother george was here" is a CLASSIC!!-- de la soul, the beatles--let's be truthful, some of the best songs ever written and certainly some of the worst--;the rolling stones, peter tosh, black uhuru (always had a thing for puma jones...); natalie merchant; 10,000 maniacs, rem, radio active, zion i; guns n roses; ricanstruction; jerry garcia band; melvin seales; bo diddley; charles mingus; public enemy...greatest hip-hop group/collective...EVER!!!; grand master flash & the furious five...runners up; treacherous 3, the cold crush bros.; ice cube...pre-2000; dr dre; bigg snoop dogg; outkast; dungeon family; willie nelson, patsy cline, merle haggard; mountain bros.; robert johnson; eric sermon; epmd; 3rd world; krs1 & bdp; black rob--life story was slept on...; johnny cash is the MAN...musically & politically, check it out...; janis joplin; eric clapton; traffic; lightnin hopkins, willie dixon, gladys knight; david ruffin--LOVE me some beggin' dave...Common Man is one of all-time favorites!!;velvet underground; nico; the new york dolls; concrete blonde; irving berlin--listen to "russian lullaby"; madonna; marvin gaye; etta james; roberta flack; carole king; ghostface; nas; jay-z--even though nas burnt his ass down & his "retirement" was maaaad corny!--; the notorious b.i.g. is the GREATEST rapper ever; tupac; digital underground; shock g; the ghetto boys; mr. scarface aka brad jones; anthony hamilton; jaheem; not a big r & b fan at all...SOUL music was sooo much better; ornette coleman; sun ra's arkestra; fela kuti; hugh masakela; cannonball adderly; nat adderly; roland kirk--go buy "kirk's work"...RIGHT NOW!!!; john coltrane; pere ubu; fairport convention; the lox; dinah washington; billie holiday; charlie parker; ahmad jamal; sonny rollins; buddy guy; professor longhair; dr. john; los lobos; the neville brothers; woody guthrie; leadbelly; nirvanna; hole; the roots; antibalas; the allman brothers; frank zappa; the mothers of invention; led zeppelin; badu; l boogie; johnnie taylor; aretha franklin; david grisman; miles davis; chick corea; max roach; bayard lancaster; macy gray; naughty by nature; redman; meth; zion i; cannibal ox; stevie wonder; johnny winter; victoria williams; sade & dizzy gillespie...
Movies:
dead poets society, the godfather, tequila sunrise, tombstone, barfly, network, the omen, the exorcist, pulp fiction, kill bill vol.II, bonnie & clyde (1967...the beginning of my "thing" for faye dunaway...), the eyes of laura mars, excalibur, british humor & sci-fi are COMPLETELY lost on me..., salvador, beyond rangoon, hotel rwanda, don't look back, pinero, el norte, el mariachi, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, dead presidents, jackie brown, a bronx tale, the godfather 2, witness to the mob, american me, stand & deliver, the matrix, my own private idaho, drugstore cowboy, rumblefish, which way is up? (RIP richard pryor...one of my heroes...),running scared, jfk,white men cant jump, natural born killers, less than zero, bird...forrest whitaker KILLS IT!!, the graduate, valley of the dolls, cotton comes to harlem, sweet sweetback's badass song, history of the world part I, the natural, hoosiers, bull durham, bait, lady sings the blues, mohogany...billy dee williams' bad acting aside..., frida, everybody's all american, american beauty, romero, basquiat, butch cassidy & the sundace kid, the hustler, the sting, dead prez: bigger than hip-hop, i know i'm not alone, the good, the bad, & the ugly, a fistfull of dollars, pale rider, the outlaw josey wales, midnight in the garden of good & evil, unforgiven, young guns, a place in the sun, raging bull, prizzi's honor, half baked, letter to the president (i'm featured in an interview clip...)& anything by the incomparable vanessa del rio...love her work!!!
Television:
the sopranos, football, basketball, baseball, sports period!...cnn...i'm a news JUNKIE! alright, alright...my girl's got me watching will & grace and the shit is funny, ok?...real time w/ bill maher, the history channel, tv land, nick at nite, sanford & son, good times (any dude claiming that he never had a thing for thelma evans is a damn liar!!), i can't get down with reality tv of ANY kind...cheers may be the best written show ever..., all in the family is the most politically daring show ever on a major network...the social commentary / indictment is biting...to bad it goes over so many heads..., sex & the city (my girl again...), i will watch ANYBODY'S vh1 behind the music speacial, chappelle's show...and let's be real...it couldn't be a surprise to ANYONE that the crocodile hunter finally got it...it was only a matter of time! and finally...will SOMEONE PLEASE shoot dog, the fucking bounty hunter?!?!?
Books:
Books: love in the time of cholera & one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez; tropic of cancer by henry miller; the diary of anais nin by anais nin; what's my name fool? by david zirin; hey rube, generation of swine, & fear & loathing in america by hunter s. thompson; the souls of black folk by web dubois; the wretched of the earth by franz fanon; the autobiography of malcolm x by malcolm x w/ alex haley; who shot ya? by ernie panniccioli w/ kevin powell; survival is still a crime, live from death row, & faith of our fathers by mumia abu jamal; prison writings: my life is my sundance by leonard peltier; silence of the lambs, red dragon, & hannibal by thomas harris; the outsiders & rumblefish by se hinton; soul on ice by eldridge cleaver (pure brilliance before the brother took COMPLETE leave of his senses!); soledad brother & blood in my eye by comrade george jackson; assatta by assatta shakur; the quotable rebel by teishan latner (i'm pretty heavily quoted in here...); the open veins of latin america by eduardo galeano; che by jon anderson; bolivian diary by che guevara; everybody was kung fu fighting by vijay prashad; can't stop, won't stop by jeff chang (anyone considering writing a hip-hop book should read this first...and then decide if yours is necessary!); the baraka reader by amiri baraka; short eyes by miguel pinero; magical urbanism by mike davis; pacifism as pathology by ward churchill (man, i got love for ward...even if i don't always agree with him!); poemas y anti-poemas by nicanor parra; native son, black boy, & rite of passage by richard wright; go tell it on the mountain & notes of a native son by james baldwin; black girls learn love hard by ras baraka; no one here gets out alive; catch a fire; what to the slave is your 4th of july? by frederick douglass should be required reading to live on planet earth!! a hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich; lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry, & my name is rigoberta menchu by rigoberta menchu...Authors: amiri baraka, amina baraka, jeremy m. glick, octavia butler, harry allen, audre lourde, ras baraka, jerry gant william carlos williams, james joyce, ernest hemingway, langston hughes, lorraine hansbury, oscar wilde, alexander dumas, sonia sanchez, ed bullins, pedro pietri, piri thomas, garcilaso de la vega, luis de gongorra, sor juana inez de la cruz, ts eliot, willie perdomo, & walt whitman...
Heroes:
honestly, my biggest heroes are my children...having me as a father IS NOT the easiest thing in the world, they may very well be the only people on earth who get me 100%...and they love me anyway...i want to be like them!many of my uncles...real men's men in a time where that sort of thing was impressive to a young boy...my mentors...chuck d, amiri & amina baraka, kiilu nyasha...mom, auntie, & pop.....“When white people arrived here They had the bible in their hands And we had the land. Together we prayed Closing eyes, joining hands. But when we opened our eyes We had the bible in our hands While they had the land"
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