Music... Music... Music... More Music... And did I mention music? I'm a music junkie... Aside from music, I love poetry... basketball... soccer... running... lifting weights... art... spoken word... martinis and baileys (I'm not an alcoholic... I swear!!!)... Conscious literary pieces (somebody please help motivate me to finish reading the WEB Dubois and Cornell West reader... I feel like I've been reading them for 8 years)... Pool... Spades... Additionally, I just love being in good company and in good spirits... I love laughing and making others laugh...
God...
Here it goes... Stevie Wonder... The Stylistics (Hurry Up This Way Again, Break Up to Make Up, and One Night Affair are CRAZY!!!!!!)... Little Brother (I never would have thought a sound like theirs could come out of NC)... Justus League... Res... Eric Benet... Raheem DeVaughn... Amel Larrieux... Groove Theory... Martin Luther... The Isley Brothers... Rahsaan Patterson... Anita Baker... Sade... Luther Vandross (Curl ain't quite right... big Luther....)... Mos Def... Pharaoh Monch... 9th Wonder (He is a GREATTTTTTTTTTT producer... oh my gosh... Have you heard the Minstrel Show? The Chittlin Circuit? Or The Listening? Just a few things you might want to give rotation to in your cd players or ipods)... Talib Kweli... Nicolay... Jay Z... Nas... Notorious BIG... Vivan Greene... Floetry... Adriana Evans... Tribe Called Quest... Eric B. & Rakim... EPMD... MC Lyte... Van Hunt... Lenny Kravitz... Jaguar Wright... Musiq... Jill Scott... Sade... Glenn Lewis... Lizz Wright... John Coltrane... Dancehall/Dub/Soca/Roots (too many artists to list)... (A song can be made out of ANYTHING these days... "True I'm the doctor, I'm nuh actor n the business this is the factor /Yuh little and yuh cute yuh want a man why don't yuh come yah /Yuh want a man to wuck yuh right someone to love yuh proper /If a the work to mek yuh splirt then I will pop off yuh skirt /Yes mi nah go run leave mi shirt")... lol... Etc etc etc...
Coming to America (Know every line)... Coach Carter... Scarface... Usual Suspects... Casino... Million Dollar Baby... Best Man... Love and Basketball... Love Jones (Fell in love with Sonia Sanchez after I heard one of her poems here...)... Passion of Christ (Cried for 3 days after seeing this movie for the first time...)... Goodfellas... Kings of Comedy... A Bronx Tale... Brown Sugar (When did you fall in love with "hip hop"?)... Bamboozled (Don't you just love that "Black" song? lol...) Etc...
Chappelle Show... Martin... Bernie Mac Show... Girlfriends... Everybody Hates Chris... Scrubs... Etc...
Dark Waters (WEB DuBois)... WEB DuBois Reader... Cornell West Reader... Our Kind of People... DaVinci Code... Etc...
God... His only son, Jesus Christ... and my mom and dad...