writing, poetry, spoken word, true hip hop not that crap that tends to get played on mainstream corporate radio, youth empowerment
more folks interested in community building, the arts, the greater good...anyone that can hold up a decent conversation and still be genuine.
ben harper, tribe called quest, black eyed peas (pre-fergie), james brown, gnarls barkeley, goodie mob, outkast, fiona apple, etta james, aretha, jungle brothers,
anything with bruce lee, classic 80's flics, an inconvenient truth, brotherhood of the wolf, walmart:the high cost of low prices, love jones, dead poets society, finding forrester, clerks, whale rider, billy elliott, scent of a woman, run lola run, my bodyguard, ammett otter's jugband xmas, fresh, scent of a woman, where the river runs black, fight club, sideways, vision quest, the crow, beautiful girls, brotherhood of the wolf
that 70's show, animal planet, the learning channel, bill nye the science guy, fat albert and the cosby kids, smallville, lost,
my ishmael, it, the speed of light, cathce in the rye, lord of the flies, kite runner, refusing to be a man, henry V, anything by bell hooks, too many others to name and many, many chapbooks by many, many slam poets
bell hooks, kevin powell, my brother, my mom, my sister, the kids I work with and many more...