Member Since: 10/9/2003
Band Members:
All about: the music son -- reading erayhthang -- shooting hooks and blocking shots, shiiit anything to do with basketball (especially the Warriorrrrrrs!) -- sleepin on the beach -- climbing higher than "civilization" to kick it with the trees and rocks -- cinematic escapes -- ahi poke --metaphysical mind explorations -- drankin -- sleepin in -- dreamin -- chavelas -- double checking queens and kings with bishops and knights -- fo twomp -- eating fruit -- astrology -- scratching my booty -- making beetz -- puttin words together in magical succession -- creating pleasant vibrations -- internet crack -- everything else you wanna know, you're just gonna have 2 holla at me, cool?
Influences: Favorite Music-----Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, the Funk Brothers, Bjork, DJ Shadow, Tribe Called Quest, Saul Williams, Bob Marley, Lee Perry, Portishead, Lauryn Hill, Shuggie Otis, Donny Hathaway, Madlib, Sade, Beatles, George Martin, Roy Ayers, Stevie Wonder, Sade, Roots, Common, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Prince, Sade, Jazzanova, Sade (did I say that b4?), Redman, De La Soul, Fela Kuti, D'Angelo, Blackalicious, Martin Luther, Goapele, Platinum Pied Pipers, Sly Stone, Funkadelic/Parliament, Goodie MOb, Outkast, ?uestlove, Esthero, Killah Priest, Sun Ra, Devin the Dude, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, that geeky 80's singer on the reeeal men of geeeniuuus commercial, Beck, Jill Scott, Crown City Rockers (Mission), Ozomatli, Le Mans, Tommy Guerrero, Lali Puna, Phil Spector, Scarface, Gangstarr, Guillermo Scott Herran (Prefuse, Savath & Savalas), Cody Chestnutt, Mary J. Blige, Kraftwerk, 1977, Sub Ren, Parallax, Audio Pharmacy, Rage Against the Machine, Mickey & the Soul Generation, Subcontents, Sam 7, Jorge Ben, Astrud Gilberto, EPMD, Eric B & Rakim, Run DMC, Wu-Tang, Mamaz, Phill mother fuckin Collins, Boot Camp Click, Yma Sumac, Hiero, Earth Wind and Fyah (hot flame), O'Jays, Third Sight, Scratch Pickles, Organized Konfusion, DJ Zeph, Pharcyde, Alkoholics, Eligh, DJ Spooky, M.I.A.(pull up tha peepl!), Scarub, Grouch, Donald Byrd, Ani Difranco, Jurrasic 5, Freestyle Fellowship, Project Blowed, Esoin, Pink Floyd, Edwin Starr, Stax, Motown, Digable Planets, Santana, Count Five (San Jo!), Quannum, JayDee, Herbaliser, DJ Krush, Fingerbangerz, Bill Withers and many many more to be named later....
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movies....Freestyle, Style Wars, Freshest Kids, Wild Style, Scratch, Slam, Bowling 4 Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, City of God, Half-Baked, Holy Grail, Magnolia, Major League, Matrixes, Pi, Harold & Kumar, Amelie, Kung-Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, God of Cookery, Tricky Brains (Steven Chow's the shit!), Boogie Nights, Life Aquatic, Crouching Tiger, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Gia, Ong Bak, Dirty Pretty Things, Ghost World, Crash, Star Wars, What the Bleep Do We Know?!?, The Corporation, Orgazmo, Hotel Rwanda, Old Boy, Fighter in the Wind, Motorcycle Diaries, the Beatles Anthology, Born Into Brothels, A Dirty Shame, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed ...
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books...Celestine Prophecy, Stupid White Men, Black Elk Speaks, New Astrology, Song of Solomon, Culture Jam, Said the Shotgun 2 the Head, Conversations with God, Illusions, Chariots of the Gods, Alan Watts, Dreaming War (Gore Vidal), Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Adbusters, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Edgar Cayce, Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha, Koran, Tich Nat Han, Mom and Pop menus. Mmmm hm.
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