Hip hop, reggaetón, ethereal pop/rock, film, travel,literature, dance, poetry, fiction, pilates, fashion, graffiti, boxing, photography, TV, dancing, cooking, shopping, etc., etc.
I'd like to meet:
Interesting folks, business connects. FELLAS, DO NOT hit me up with no game — seriously, don't bother...
Music:
So much ground to cover on this one --
Lately, the rap playlist goes a little something like this: Lupe Fiasco (he's the TRUTH, ya heard?), Lil' Wayne ("Hustler Muzik" gets play on the daily — it's become one of those motivation songs), TI (he's my dude- he's got the swagger and the flow. Word), The Clipse (you already know!!), Fat Joe (Joey Crack is baack with the real BX shit!), Da Backwudz (I really, really like these guys), Busta Rhymes (the new album's got that bangin' joint with Q-Tip), Ghostface (Fishscale should've sold more units), The Roots (Game Theory is quite possibly their best album ever), Little Brother (The Minstrel Show is a work of art — period), Nas (Illmatic, of course... Nasir Jones is quit epossibly the greatest lyricist of all time... Well, him and Pac ), Talib Kweli (I really hope people stop sleeping on him... He's one of the greatest MCs — smart, eloquent, and a killer flow), Tupac (feeling pretty militant lately), Biggie ("Gimme the Loot," "Suicidal Thoughts," and "Warning" on repeat), Jay-Z (I'm having a Reasonable Doubt throwback moment), Common (Be and One Day It'll All Make Sense), 50 Cent (the G-Unit Radio mixtape is hilarious)... I'm still waiting for a real classic to come out — Lupe, TI, and Ghostface had some gems, but it's been pretty sloooooow....
On the R&B tip, I'm feeling Anthony Hamilton, Lyfe Jennings, Meagan Rochelle, Deemi, Conya Doss, Raheem Devaughn, Heather Headley, Chris Brown, Ne-Yo, Trey Songz, Anthony David, Darien Brockington, Vivian Green, Keyshia Cole, Janelle Monae, Amel Larieux, Jaheim, Mary J, and I'm bringing back Lauryn, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Brownstone (why did they ever break up?!) and even Sade (she makes the sexiest music ever).
And then there's my quirky loves: Esthero, Morcheeba, U2 (I'm die-hard with it), Bjork, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Radiohead, Portishead, Coldplay, James Blunt, Fiona Apple, Kelly Clarkson (not afraid to admit it!), Zap Mama, etc.
And of course... my reggaetón playlist — Daddy Yankee, Voltio, Tego Calderón, Ivy Queen, Hector El Bambino, Wisin y Yandel, Alexis y Fido, Arcangel y De La Ghetto, Zion, etc.
There's so much more... Music's like my oxygen...
Movies:
City of God, Amores Perros, Crash, 21 Grams, American Beauty, Fight Club, High Fidelity, Friday, Menace II Society, Go, Pulp Fiction, Scarface, Goodfellas, The 25th Hour, Bamboozled, Love Jones, Love & Basketball, House of Sand and Fog, Tupac Resurrection, United States of Leland, Old School, Almost Famous, All About My Mother, The Notebook, Bridget Jones' Diary, How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days, Traffic, Sex and Lucia, Carandiru, The Dancer Upstairs, Moulin Rouge, Memento, I Like It Like That, Office Space, etc.
Television:
The Sopranos, Entourage, Heroes, Ugly Betty, Big Love, CSI, Law & Order, American's Next Top Model (a sick addiction), and lots of BET/MTV
Books:
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: When The Rainbow is Enough, Spidertown, Drown, The House on the Lagoon, 100 Years of Solitude, The Alchemist, The 5 People You Meet In Heaven, Blindness, Love In The Time Of Cholera, Eleven Minutes, Black Noise, Subway Art, Getting Up, White Teeth, Women With Big Eyes...
Heroes:
The social/political ones are fairly obvious: Malcolm X, the Young Lords, Pedro Albizu Campos, the Panthers, Muhammed Ali, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Medgar Evars, Nelson Mandela, Assata Shakur, Che Guevara, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Simone de Bouvoir, etc.On the literary tip, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rosario Ferre, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni (my son is named after her.... she's my icon), Paolo Coelho, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Isabel Allende, James Baldwin, and Jose Saramago.
