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Biggie (of course!), Talib, Common, the Roots, the JazzyFatNastees, FloBrown, the mighty Mos Def, Public Enemy, Keith Sweat, all the Native Tounges Movement artists, Fela & Femi Kuti, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Anthony Hamilton, Goapale, J Live, T-Love, K-os, Thelma Houston, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Prince, a lot of the old R&B/Soul giants, and most any good Reggae/Dancehall/Lover's Rock
Different things: Most of Spike Lee's flicks,a lot of Hitchcock, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (classic!), Hav Plenty, Shadow of the Vampire, Baby Boy, Nowhere, Old Boy, Alien, Blow Up, Waking Life, Manchurian Candidate (original), Godfather (Original and 2), Goodfellas. Almost any good Black movies, Dramas, good Sci-fi/Fantasy and anything Sanaa Lathan is in ;) newly discovered fav flix: Paris, Texas; Fresh; Happiness (unfortunately, nothing that's been in the theatres)
Sopranos, (R.I.P), CSI (the real one), Law and Order C.I., Rescue Me (best show on tv), Entourage, the West Wing, Buffy, Angel, LOST, Soul Food, Chapelle's Show (R.I.P), The McGaughlin Group, and 30-Minute Meals
most anything from Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Walter Mosley & Peter David, My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due, Seventh Child by Rondell Collins (Malcolm X bio), Bailey's Cafe by Gloria Naylor, HUGE Langston Hughes fan, James Baldwin - The Devil Finds Work is among my favs, Malidmo Patrice Some's books on life and ritual
my parents; writers Donald Bogle, Octavia Butler, Zora Neale Hurston; historians Ivan Van Sertima, Walter Rodney, Dr. Ben, Dr. John H. Clarke; photographers Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks, David LaChapelle, Barron Clairborne