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Where do I start y'all? Heavyweight(such a conceited bastard), Little Brother, Median, A Tribe Called Quest, Souls of Mischief, Metric, De La Soul, Mos Def, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Common, Platinum Pied Pipers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, St Germain, Jack Johnson, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Etta James, Nina Simone, ME, Pharoahe Monch, Dwele, J Dilla, Slum Village (Elzhi whussgood fam!), Kev Brown, Incubus, Madlib, The Flaming Lips, Marvin Gaye, Willie Hutch, Metric, Leslie Feist, Broken Social Scene, John Mayer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc, etc....
Memento, The Way of the Gun, City of God, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Usual Suspects, The Bicycle Thief.......and anything I've had to script, storyboard, shoot, edit & squeeeeze into a letterbox
Anything on IFC, HBO or ESPN
Omerta, 48 Laws Of Power, Spike Lee Interviews, The Millionaire's Secret, Shot By Shot, Tales of the 4th Grade Nothing
Besides my pops??? Charlie Parker, the great jazz saxophonist. His creativity and innovation reshaped a whole genre of music. Whoa! Now that's influence. John Coltrane, another sax wizard that carried Bird's torch and legacy.