Listening to good music,practicing smoke O's, reading, writing, learning, dancing like I'm at the club when I'm in my room, growing, gassing niggas up, movie watching,being the best smart-ass I can be, laughing as karma shits on people, people watching, life watching,lettin' hoes know what it's hittin for, working on my masterpiece, giving cops the finger, cussing out the customer service people at cingular,air guitar, figuring out the best ways to rip of Uncle Sam, finding God in myself, OBS knows even though words remain unsaid, everything is understood, seen?, reading The Souls of Black Folk to my 7 year-old brother, doing the Wop, singing loud as hell in the car, tattoos, making prank calls from unblocked numbers, spittin' fiyah("didn't mean to hurt your feelings. get ur weight up,homie.lol") , braiding hair&twisting locs, making it do what it do, baby
Langston Hughes, Bob Marley, Maxine Waters, Bill Gates, myself, Alice Walker, Curtis Mayfield, Oscar Wilde, Micheal Jordan, Stevie Wonder,Zora Neale Hurston, Shakespeare, Sean Connery, Jimi Hendrix, Slash from Guns'n'Roses, Aaron McGruder, Micheal Eric Dyson, Scarface(the one from Houston, not Cuba), Spike Lee, Jean Grae, Audre Lourde, Jessica Care Moore, Jawanza, Kunjufu, Johnny Cash, Bono, Otis Redding, Gordan Parks, Marcus Garvey, Sam Cooke, bell hooks, Willie Nelson, C.S. Lewis, Marvin Gaye, Sam Greenlee, Angela Davis, Assata Shukur, Johnny Cochran, Eldridge Cleaver, Iceberg Slim, my match, Ursula Rucker, Mos Def, Cornel West, the black lady who wrote The Matrix, T.I., Che Guevara, all 5 Deadly Venoms, Isabel Allende, Samuel L. Jackson, Jada Pickett, Claude Brown, Amy Tan, Micheal Moore, Frankie Beverly, Al Pacino, Octavia Butler, Carter G. Woodson, Malcom X, AZ, Mary J. Blige, Willie Lynch, Denzel Washington, a Love Supreme, Elaine Brown, Santana, Kwame Ture, Pam Grier, Machiavelli(the Prince), Sun Tzu, Sonia Sanchez, my seeds and their seeds, Antonio Banderas, Lenny Kravitz, Sanaa Lathan, Huey Newton, Toni Morrison, Gil Scott-Heron, Saul Williams and my Maker....SHOUT OUT Dred Poet Society, The Lush Life Entertainment Group, all the RBGs, the eastside("everybody loves the girls from the eastside), the westside(Zone 3 wht's happenin'), Pretty Girls with Bad Attitudes(who don't give a fuck) and FlameThrowers Inc
Outkast, Coldplay, John Coltrane, Killer Mike, Jill Scott, Mozart, Ice Cube, Aerosmith, Kilo Ali (i'm from Atlanta), John, U2, Santana, Otis Redding, Bobby Marley, T.I., Little Brother, Trina Broussard, Lenny Kravitz, Jay-Z, Norah Jones, Raheem DeVaughn, Scarface, the Impressions, Goapele, Green Day, Billie Holiday, Willie Nelson, Bach, N'Dambi, Illogic, 8Ball and MJG, Anthony Hamilton, Leela James, Johnny Cash, Maze, Guns'n'Roses, Sizzla, Planet Asia, John Mayer, Rhian Benson, Nas(pre-Nastradamus), Los Lonely Boys, Vevlet Revolver, Charles Mingus, Marvin Gaye, Alanis Morissette, Goodie Mob, Dizzee Rascal, Mary J. Blige( i grew up in the 90's), Backyard Band, Julie Dexter, Blackstar, Foxy Brown, N.W.A, Teedra Moses, Pete Rock, Alicia Keys, UGK, Rick James(bitch), Sleepy Brown, Avril Lavigne, Les Nubians(I have no idea what they're saying but it sounds beautiful), Cee-Lo, Maroon 5, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Prince, Jean Grae, Joss Stone, The Isley Brothers, Lizz Wright, Dilated Peoples, The Streets, Buju Banton, Cool Breeze(Eastpoint's Greatests Hits), AZ, Stevie Wonder, Vikter Duplaix( I just like to say his name), Esthero, Sam Cooke, Al Green, dead prez, Peter Tosh, Bone(the very first one), Donny Hathaway, Miles Davis, Gwen Stefanai, Anita Baker, Young Jeezy, Vivian Green, Res, Kanye West, No Doubt, John Legend, Sade
The Color Purple, El Che, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Napoleon Dynamite, the Matrix trilogy, Wild Hearts Can't be Broken, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, House of Sand and Fog, City of Angels, Sweetback's Badasssss Song(and Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento, Hero, Bowling for Columbine, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Women of Brewster Place, Belly(even though it's just a long ass video), The Five Heartbeats, Dead Presidents, Fahrenheit 9/11, everything by Spike Lee, Juice, Sliding Doors, Requiem for a Dream, Clara's Heart, Osama, Lean on Me, Half-Baked, Trainspotting, The Long Walk Home, Roots(but not the special holiday ones, those were wack), Gladiator, Breakin', Ocean's Eleven, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Blow, Casino, anything by Quentin Tarantino, The Breakfast Club, A Time to Kill, New Jack City, Stand and Deliver, Purple Rain, Superfly, 21 Grams, City of God, Eve's Bayou, Sparkle, Carman(Dorothy Dandridge, not that mess with Beyonce), Imitaion of Life, Shottas, 5 Deadly Venoms, Love Actually, Cooley High, The Boondock Saints, Harlem Nights, Cleopatra Jones, Carlito's Way, Lady Sings the Blues, Reservoir Dogs, Coming to America, Donnie Brasco, Scarface, Dancehall Queen, Fight Club, Rockers, Mahogany, Usual Suspects, Love Jones, Foxy Brown, Goodfellas, Third World Cop, A Bronx Tale, Slam, Harder They Come
It's the tool of the devil,lol. I'm not a random tv watcher but I will pause for Good Times, In Living Color, New York Undercover, Wheel of Fortune,the X-Files, reruns of My So-Called Life, Jeopardy, Law and Order,Flavor of Love and CSI. I must admit that Being Bobby Brown and America's Next Top Model are my guilty pleasures, shhhh don't tell anybody.
Reading is fundamental. I wouldn't list it if I haven't read it. Ain't no future in frontin'.Manchild in the Promise Land, The Learning Tree, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Bartlett's Familar Quoatations, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Fire Next Time, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Langston Hughes Reader, Women, Race and Class, Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion, anything by Amy Tan, They Came Before Columbus, the Complete Idiot's Guide to....(fill in the blank), The 48 Laws of Power, To be Young, Gifted and Black, The Chronicles of Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time, The Invisable Fist, Che: Self-Portrait, The Autobiography of Malcom X, The Prince, The Book of Five Rings, anything by Isabel Allende, Live From Death Row, The Art of War, Blood in My Eye, Soledad Brother, The Life of Pi, How to be a Villian, Worst-Case Scenario series, The Art of Seduction, Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism, Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, Brave New World, anything by Octavia Butler, Alas, Babylon, The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth, The Prisoner's Wife, Seize the Day, A Taste of Power, The Souls of Black Folks, Should America Pay, Dreads, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave, The Alchemist
Anyone who has ever struggled, dreamed, fought and died for something worthwhile, Main(R.I.P.), Great-great Grandma Cora Brown for making me unafraid of guns, Amir (you're the bestest). "One man's terrorist is another man's hero."