Music:
The Screamers - The Germs - The Weirdos - The Minutemen - Gun Club - Circle Jerks - Crime - The Urinals - X -The Testors - Richard Hell and the Voidoids - The Contortions - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - The Nerves - Mission of Burma - Human Sexual Response - Bad Brains - Nation of Ulysses - ESG - Pere Ubu -The Swell Maps - The Fall - The Au Pairs - Pop Group - A Certain Ratio - Delta 5 - The Lurkers - Essential Logic - Maximum Joy - The Slits - The Ruts - The Adverts - Wire - The Mekons - 999 - The Boys - New Town Neurotics - Eater - CockSParrer - Radio Birdman - The Birthday Party - The Stranglers - Television Personalities -Le Shok - Arab on Radar - GoGoGoAirheart - Kill Me Tomorrow - The Futures - The Get Hustle - The Plot to Blow up the Eiffel Tower - Dmonstrations - Antioch Arrow - The Vogue - Chromatics - Swing Kids - The Locust - Fatal Flying Guilloteens - Shoplifting -Herbie Hancock - Gil Scot-Heron - Miles Davis - John Coltrane - Ornette Coleman - Thelonius Monk - Jimmy Smith - Curtis Mayfield - The Meters - Headhunters - Parliament - Nina Simone - Shuggie Otis - Sam Cooke - Marvin Gaye - Fela Kuti -Mos Def - Talib Kweli - Eric B. & Rakim - Boogie Down Productions - Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth - GangStarr - A Tribe Called Quest - KMD - Pharoahe Monch - MF Doom - J Dilla - Madlib - Clipse - Saigon - Nas - Consequence - MC Serch - Main Source - Raekwon - Ghostface - Organized Konfusion - Black Sheep - Slum Village - Black Moon - Brand Nubian - Lootpack - Public Enemy - D Block - Jadakiss - Slick Rick - Run DMC - Ultramagnetic MC's - Kool G Rap - The Roots - Strong Arm Steady - Sa-Ra - Big L - Company Flow - EPMD - Sir Menelik - Freeway - M.O.P. - Dead Prez - Clinton Sparks - Mark Ronson - Hi-Tek - Q-Tip - Kid Capri - Large Professor - Prince Paul -
Television:
NOW: The Boondocks - Ego Trip's: The White Rapper Show - Entourage - The Daily Show - Colbert Report - Chappelle Show -OLD: The Muppet Show - Saturday Night Live '75 - '93 - The Richard Pryor Show - The Cosby Show - A Different World -
Books:
Lipstick Traces (by Greil Marcus) * On the Edge (by Carl Husemoller Nightingale) * The Autobiography of Malcolm X (by Malcolm X with Alex Haley) * The Dutchman (a play by Amiri Baraka) * Poems of Madness (a collection of poems by Ray Bremser) * War All the Time (selected poems by Charles Bukowski) * The Bald Soprano (a play by Eugene Ionesco) * A Spy In the House of Love (by Anais Nin)
Heroes:
John Coltrane - Richard Pryor - Gil Scott-Heron - Joe Strummer - DJ Kool Herc - Afrika Bambaataa - Jean-Michael Basquiat - Fab Five Freddy - Futura 2000 - Tinker Hatfield - Iceberg Slim - Lester Bangs - KRS One