Publishing better books than anyone else.
Mystikal, Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Wu-Tang, Led Zeppelin, Big Pun (R.I.P.), Kool G Rap, Dipset, Dipset!, Eminem, Otis Redding, The Beatles, Rakim, Nina Simone, David Bowie, Slick Rick, Mahalia Jackson, The Jungle Brothers, Hank Williams, N.W.A., Elton John, Public Enemy, Bad Brains, Notorious B.I.G. (R.I.P), Al Green, too many more to mention...
Just about anything directed by Martin "Godbody" Scorsese, THIS IS SPINAL TAP, STYLE WARS, SERPICO, THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, THREE EVIL MASTERS, TAXI DRIVER, REPO MAN, AMERICAN HISTORY X, DOWNTOWN 81, too many more to mention...
Kill your television. Reading is fundamental.
We didn't publish these, but The Judge says they're tight and a'ight:SUCKER'S PROGRESS and THE FRENCH QUARTER by Herbert Asbury, HELLFIRE, DINO, and THE DEVIL AND SONNY LISTON by Nick Tosches, GOODBYE COLUMBUS by Philip Roth, ABSALOM, ABSALOM! and THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner, SWEET SOUL MUSIC by Peter Guralnick, HELTER SKELTER by Vincent Bugliosi, THE EARL OF LOUISIANA by A.J. Liebling, UP IN THE OLD HOTEL by Joseph Mitchell, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN by Jonathan Lethem, CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, THE SIGN AND THE SEAL by Graham Hancock, ITALIANS FIRST! By Arturo Barone, truly too many more to mention…
Afrika Bambaataa, Aldo Manuzio, Nick Tosches and Jesus.