TRACE MAGAZINE

I'd like to meet:

TRACERS COOL + EXCITING PEOPLE NEW ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHERS FASHIONISTAS

Music:

Anything that will make us bob our heads....Including (in no particular order) Mary J. Blige, Lupe Fiasco, vintage reggae, dancehall remixes, Gnarls Barkley, Common, Prince, Beyonce, Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, Tupac, Biggie, Sade, Lauryn Hill, Wayne Wonder, Sean Paul, Gwen Stefani, Diana Ross, Madonna, Miriam Makeba, Queen Latifah ("Ladies First") Snoop, Daddy Yankee, Wu-Tang Clan (esp. our special contributing editor RZA), Juelz Santana, Nina Simone, Amel Larrieux, Platinum Pied Pipers, The Roots, Jay-Z, Hugh Masekelah, Nas, Kelis, Kanye West, Rihanna, Pitbull, Buena Vista Social Club, Elephant Man, Sizzla, Al Green, Barry White, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, Alice Smith, OutKast, Alice Russell, Black Spade, Tiombe Lockhart, Spankrock, Bloc Party, The Clipse, The Neptunes, Meshell N'degocello, Ben Harper, Citizen Cope, Stones Throw crew, Sly and the Family Stone, Rolling Stones, Rick Ross, Johnny Osbourne, Run DMC, Salt N Pepa, Barrington Levy, Damian Marley... OK, we have to stop now.

Movies:

City of God, La Haine, Donnie Darko, Virgin Suicides, KIDS, Colors, Blow Up, Wild Style, Basquiat, Casino, Goodfellas, Amelie, Jules and Jim, Sid and Nancy, Bonnie and Clyde, Lost in Translation, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Boyz in the Hood, The Lover, The Cook The Thief The Wife and Her Lover, Madonna Truth or Dare, Raising Victor Vargas, Hustle and Flow, Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Fucking Amal, Heathers, Pulp Fiction, Oldboy, I'm Gonna Git U Sucka, anything by Spike Lee, Michel Gondry, Kurosawa, David Lynch, Bergman, Wong Kar Wai, Lars Von Trier, Pedro Almodovar, and Jim Jarmusch

Television:

TRACE TV

Books:

Buy Now: 10 YEARS OF TRACE

Buy Now: TRANSCULTURALISM

Heroes:

Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, Ray Charles, Ibraheim Ferrer, Richard Avedon, Langston Hughes, Andy Warhol, Maya Angelou, Oprah, Zora Neale Hurston, Billie Holiday, Jamel Shabazz, Aaliyah, Nikki Giovanni, Grace Jones, Tina Turner, Assata Shakur