writing. painting. playing piano. drinking. fighting. being with my friends. gettin my learn on. dancing. being a frump. running. yoga. doing my nails. watching movies. talking. debating. baseball.
strictly hip hop. nas. lil kim. outkast. wu-tang and their solo careers. pappoose. wyclef. k'naan. biggie. saigon. M-1. immortal technique. MIA. bustah. gravediggaz. diabolic. pharell. lady sovereign. ludacris. army of the pharoes. mc lyte. rakim. ice cube. mary j. blige. talib kweli. MF doom. mos def. tupac. bob marley. damian marley. stephen marley. ziggy marley. tribe called quest. akon. rah diggah. fugees. and so on..
fight club. everything is illuminated. american psycho. the devil wears prada. hotel rwanda. inside man. bad boys I and II. crash. a league of their own. THE BELIEVER. secretary. catch a fire. capote. boondock saints. in plane sight. hustle n flow. united states of leland. all things johnny depp. the last king of scotland. good will hunting. the beach. john hughes movies. spike lee joints. newsies. the notebook. v for vendetta. disney. office space. die hards. godfathers. four brothers. training day. waiting. jarhead. sin city. clerks. HIGHER LEARNING. godfather. munich. juice. blood diamond. whatev.
def poetry jam.. friends.. scrubs.. and of course, guilty pleasure, all the MTV challenges (inferno, gauntlet, etc).
ethridge knight. ee cummings. alex haley. langston hughes. black ice. sylvia plath. w.b.yeats. james joyce. robert frost. charles bukowski. alfred lord tennyson. amiri baraka. ras baraka. amina baraka. truman capote. allen ginsberg. suheir hamad. dylan thomas. sekou sundiata. joan baez. simone de beauvoir. ts elliot. edgar allen poe. walt whitman. nikki giovani. lemon. sonia sanchez. maya angelou. s.g.gribouski. bum rush the page. autobiographies (especially malcolm x and assata shakur). roots. faces at the bottom of the well. all god's children. ragtime. why we can't wait. and a hard rain fell. all souls. calls to revolution.