Alive: Jay-Z, Russell Simmons, Michael Jordan, Nas, Louis Farrakhan, Jim Brown, Ice Cube, Devin The Dude,Snoop Dogg, Scarface........matter of fact HipHop as a whole no matter what CNN says. Really anybody successful who inspires me to go hard at what I do wheather they are famous or not.Dead: Nat Turner, Jack Johnson, Marcus Garvey, MLK, Malcom X, Huey P. Newton, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Curtis Mayfield, Walter Payton and many other heros who paved the way for inovative people of the present and future