Djing, cooking, playing spades, watching boxing, shoe shopping and celebrating alcohol-related holidays.
I'd like to meet:
Steve Stoute, Jay-Z, Tom Joyner, Oprah (but I'd probably be too starstruck to ask all the questions I have) Redman, Adalaide Brown (the only? Black woman boxing judge), any of the members of ego trip, Bobbito (I always wanted to sit in on one of his soundchecks) one of my great grandmothers, everyone really... the beautiful people who listen to my show, people who blog, self-proclaimed nerds, bartenders tend to be some of the coolest people on earth-they have the greatest stories, speaking of good stories, Old people! Suprisingly cool celebs whose vocabularies go past 'cop my album', and people who actually read all the ish on my page...
Music:
EARTH WIND AND FIRE, 8BALL AND MJG (JG's deep ass voice almost shorted a sub in the studio one day-true story!), NAS, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, REDMAN (it still aludes/irritates me how I haven't met him yet-i guess the closest I'll get is a myspace add, ain't that a b****?..), WU-TANG (I thank my ex-boyfriend t-90 for introducing me to the the 36 chambers), SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE ("skin I"m in" 1 min intro of drum and horns until sly opens his mouth and let's his soul out-it's beautiful thing), BOOTSY COLLINS (I hate to say this, but I liked acid-head bootsy-check out scenery and vanish in our sleep), YO GOTTI, JOI, SANDRA ST. VICTOR (thin line between love and hate sndtrk-'come over'-her range is beastly!), MACY GRAY (am I macy's only fan? my friends won't let me bump macy in the car-busters), ERYKAH BADU (the only person I've heard do justice to a chaka song) E-40 (lemme tell you about 40-water, I came of age bumping carlos rossi and 1 luv so he was already endeared to me, but now he's #1 on my list of celeb drinking potnas (true story.), DJ QUIK (especially when I was going thru my lil g-phase) SAM AND DAVE, PUBLIC ENEMY (ok, so pe, run dmc and fresh prince was my first concert-how about years later after I'm in radio, I finally get to speak to mista chuck-he tells me he missed his flight and that was someone in the crew lip syncing his verses-chuck d broke my heart y'all!), FIRST CHOICE, BOBBY WOMACK, KELIS, PRINCE, JIMI HENDRIX, SADE, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN, DEFTONES, AL GREEN, OUTKAST, CURTIS MAYFIELD ( i abused new world order for a year strait), AVERAGE WHITE BAND, 3-6 MAFIA, BEASTIE BOYS, RICK JAMES (if you've never heard slow dancing featuring chaka khan-slap yourself and head over to itunes), CHAKA KHAN (even though for the longest I didn't understand a lot of her lyrics) ATMOSPHERE, OTIS REDDING (my fam has actually heard me belt out tenderness at the top of my lungs-hammered), OUTKAST, CRU, TELA, WOMACK AND WOMACK, EVELYN CHAMPAGNE KING (caught her live a few years back-she still got it!), MINNIE RIPPERTON, PATTI LABELLE (why does Patti make you feel like everything is going to be okay?-Somebody loves you baaaaabaaaaay...whoa whoa whoa!), DJ SQUEEKY, BANANARAMA ("I heard a rumor!"), LEVEL 42, DAVID RUFFIN (I swear, I'm still looking for a common man; one who'll neva change-one single grain of sand) EVENESCENCE, SLIM HARPO, METALLICA, BROOKE BENTON (me and dad still sing the bo-wevil song), LUDACRIS, TOO-SHORT, DAZ (okay, tied with 40 for the celeb drinking potnas), AARON HALL, GUY, ABOVE THE RIM SOUNDTRACK (WHY WAS THAT THE BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACK EVER?!) FOURPLAY, BONEY JAMES, CLIPSE, N.E.R.D.(I wish I could tell you about the first time I heard 'in search of' but then I'd have to kill you-also met Pharrell some years back-cooler than a polar bear's toe nails), LENNY KRAVITZ (great music to shoot pool too-'if you can't say no'), UGK, SCARFACE, C-BO (DOES ANYONE ON MYSPACE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND MURDER THAT HE WRITT?) MC BREED AND DFC, SLUM VILLAGE, PAC, BUSTA RHYMES, BIGGIE, AND WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE...AND 80'S/90'S HOUSE, GHETTO HOUSE AND THE HELLA EARLY STUFF THAT IS REALLY DISCO.
Movies:
Everything by Quentin Tarantino especially True Romance
Carlito's Way
The Godfather Trilogy
Scarface, Departed-that's easily a new classic,
The Last Don (from Mario Puzo)
*notice a trend here?* Bourne Identity and Supremacy, Lock stock and two smoking barrels, snatch, anything with Delroy Lindo or Denzel in it
ooh, and comedies...really stupid ones too...Harold and Kumar go to White Castle (well, up until the cheetah scene) anything with Vince Vaughn or Will Ferrell, Half Baked, Tommy Boy's "Kung Faux", Romantic comedies are on hold-cause there's nothing romantic or funny about being single =)
I'm also a bit of a kung-fu junkie: Master Killer (the 36 chambers), Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Master of the flying guillotine (you gotta have a drink with this movie), Snake in Eagle's shadow, 5 deadly venoms, Bruce Lee's Game of Death (the fight scene with a blind Kareem Abdul Jabbar?-classic!)
Television:
Boondocks..(obviously), Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Family Guy, Girlfriends (re-runs with Toni), World news and documentaries (reuters, pbs, bbc etc), and anything on animals.Check me out!!! I'm Rick James!!! LOL
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http://www.myheritage.com
Books:
The Bible, Ego trips big book of rap lists, Omerta by Mario Puzo. Magazines: Black Enterprise, Lucky, Time and Scratch.
