Music:
Al Green, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, ATCQ, A-Trak, The Beatles, Big Black Lincoln, Blackstar, Bob Dylan, Boot Camp Clik, Chromeo, Coldplay, Common, The Dears, The Doors, Dwele, Feist, Foreign Exchange, Gang Starr, Ghostface, Handsome Boy Modeling School, iLiKETRAiNS, Jimi Hendrix, La Rocca, Little Brother, Kanye, K'Naan, Kobayashi, MF Doom, Mos Def, My Architects, Nas, N.E.R.D., Neverending White Lights, Pangea Project, Pilate, Radiohead, Rhymefest, Seu Jorge, Stevie Wonder, Sublime, Talib Kweli, Tanya Morgan, Tumi and the Volume, Wordsworth, Zaki
Movies:
Bend it Like Beckham, City of God, Closer, Fresh, Garden State, Wild Style
Books:
Bomb The Suburbs, Brave New World, A Complicated Kindness, The Coldest Winter Ever, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Tipping Point, Warrior of the Light