Market trends, cultural research, experimenting with cooking exotic foods (indian, malaysian, thai, cuban, egyptian, vegan, vegetarian, and select fusion dishes), as the saying goes "i'm on my grind cuzzin," new music (ala euro-garage, lounge, electronica, soul, hip hop, dancehall, lovers rock, reggae, and select jazz vocal and instrumental), shoe collecting, searching for fresh jeans, sippin' on topshelf spirits and liquors... yadidimean!
Networkers alike:i-mate JASJAR wholesellers Earnest Sewn Energie (60sixty) Black bottom box Nike retailers (to all existing) Gucci (real) wholesellers Louis V (real) wholesellers Bounty Hunter camp Diggers Society members (250 a pop) TheHundreds camp Palis Michael Minieri big up Futura Stash WIM-one (where u at homie) O.G. FSC/KTD/GO/AF Crew Nom de Guerre (dope font homie) Recon homies (Colin big up) Triple Threat homies (Fran good lookin') To all the faker collabo ONLY companies eat SPAM and eggs, get your cholestrol up and die at an early age.
This list should cover a wide enough range: Stat Quo, Freeway, Styles, Jada, Little Brother, M.O.P., Mos Def (selective tracks from The New Danger), the Roots, Talib- "Beautiful Struggle," De La Soul- "The Grind Date" Oh and of course Rass Kass, RZA, GZA, & Ghost, 2Mex, Saafir, C.L. Smooth, Mobb Deep.... Chronic album (classic), Quannum (Solesides), Slum Village, Scarface, Show n' A.G., Dead Prez (RBG'z), 3rd Bass, KMD, Organized Konfusion, Freestyle Fellowship (of course), Casual, Gangstarr, Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip, Hezekiah, Jadakiss, Styles P, Fat Joe, Fiddy Cent, Young Buck (selective tracks from the 1st album), the Game, Baby Blak, Compton's Most Wanted (MC Eith-ype) NWA, Consequence, Lupe Fiasco, De La Soul, Dead Prez (DP'Z) Del n the Yay Area homies, Ghostface, Lil Wayne (Carter 1 & 2), Jeezy, The Alchemist, Kool G. Rap, Daddy Kane, older Pharcyde, Project Blowed old school homies, Dip Set & State Prop camps Cam'Ron, Juelz, Freeway, Beanie Sigel, Peedi Peedi "Crack," Bun B., Gift of Gab, Gravediggaz, MF Doom n Zeb Love X (R.I.P.) Dilla (R.I.P.), Stonesthrow camp, Jaylib, Quasimoto, for the soul= Dwele, Van Hunt, J*Davey, Amp Fiddler, Donnie, John Legend, Eric Roberson, Faith Evans, Mary J., Neptunes, Floetry, Lizz Fields, Platinum Pied Pipers "Triple P", Raheem DeVaughn, Raphael Saadiq, Anthony Hamilton, Sleepy Brown, Syleena Johnson, Teedra Moses, Tweet, Carl Thomas, Bobby V, Peven Everett, Spacek, Res,(Production crews that are nice right now) -- Neptunes, Trackmasters, Midi Mafia, Scott Storch, Buckwild, Just Blaze, Eminem (Renegade w/ Jay), Ric Roc, Sean T., Kanye, Kedar Massenburg, Havoc, Primo, Salam Remi, Large Professor, Shock-G, Evidence (Dilated Peoples), Omid (Beneath the Surface, LA underground), Josef, Madlib, MF Doom, 9th Wonder, James Poysner, Questlove, Jay Dilla...Soul/Lounge/R&B music i'm feeling: Nelly Furtado -- beautiful woman!, Teedra Moses, Raphael Saadiq "Ray Ray," Allen Anthony- "Oakland International," John Legend, Liz Fields, Jill Scott, Ms. Badu (Erykah), Jazzyfatnasties, Jazzanova, Bilal --MOST SLEPT ON LADIES YA'LL NEED BILAL IN YOUR LIFE TRUST ME! R. Kell- "Happy People," Foreign Exchange- "Connected," Anthony Hamilton, D'Angelo (with shirt on), Amp Fiddler (Waltz of a Ghetto Fly), Rhian Benson, Jahiem, Dido, Spacek,Sade, Amel Larrueax, Grove Theory, Joi (broken up), Res, Vinija Mojica, Leela James, Syleena Johnson, Sleepy Brown, Mary J., Faith, Platinum Pied Pipers... there is more believe it or not...If you are up on some of these groups we'll get along....
Asian (international) martial arts films, obscure documentaries...
Get of the couch potato-heads... TV is largely counterproductive and the influences it supports can subliminally make you lazy, stop being brainwashed by Disney and the "WB" network. Those reality shows aren't my reality? Get off that hype and don't be a sheep lead to the grazing fields...
Anarchist Cook Book, Behold a Pale Horse, The Willie Lynch Chronicles, The 4 Agreements, The Art of War, Complex, XXL, Rap Pages (dopest deceased hip hop mag) Vibe (funnystyle but its hip hop), the Source (up til 94')... Hustler, XLR8R, VICE, Frank, Black Tail (yee!)...
Grandparents, The Mack, Black Superman, Bishop (black X-Man), Storm, X, Fredric Douglas, Harriet T., Rosa P, the slaves who've all made the "Middle passage," the mestizo's who fought the pillaging pilgrims, the native man of the land, the Chinese immigrants who were bombed in tunnels to help make railroads across the U.S., Obama Barrack, Dead Prez, Negro League baseball players, Hank Aaron, and all the people down for the struggle, white, black, asian, blasian, purple, yellow, black, or blue from the past to the present! 1 luv