Writing, Poetry, Teaching, Education, I'm a real life fucking B-Boy(Dancing), Graffiti, etc., etc., blasay, blasay. 12 Oz Prophet (Channel Zero, step up your e-cred game bitches!!)
I'd like to meet:
Your mama. Oh...and probably your sister.
Music:
Israel Kamakawiwo,,ole, Turntabilism (JS-1, Scratch Picklz, Z-Trip), Jack Johnson, Ten Feet, or any other contemporary Hawaiian/Island music, Motown, Hip-Hop, The Dead Milkmen, Zeppelin, some Pink Floyd, Jim Croche, Old 8-bit Nintendo soundtracks, and a bunch of other odd things.
Movies:
Juice, Slam (Im so typical), The Warriors, Wyld Style, Turk182, The Shawshank Redemption, and an indie film called Pi (as in the math symbol), Freeway (HA!), Things to do in Denver when you're dead, State Your Name, and this little documentary about me-solo squad and my boy King Zone(Denver)-World Class Writers.
Television:
The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, The Ultimate Fighter, The Wire, Everybody Hates Chris, Goodtimes, What's Happenin', Most HBO Documentaries, "IZ" The Man Behind The Music, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and any other program that might steadily rot my brain allowing me to escape reality for brief periods of time.
Books:
My book (of course you dummy) The Blackbook Poems, Grand Central Winter, Lost in the City, The Isis Papers (not for the weak minded or faint of heart in regards to race issues), The Eye of the Prophet, anything by Iceberg Slim a.k.a Robert Beck (but most prevalently The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim), and anything by Donald Goines, Bomb the Suburbs, No More Prisons, Our America, There Are No Children Here, and about 2 million others...
Heroes:
Me, Myself, and I, Malcolm, Martin, Kennedy, Clinton, LEE STRINGER!!! (Author of Grand Central Winter... one of the best books ever written), William "Upski" Wimsatt, any of the "back pack" hip-hop artists who have actually made a successful living at being themselves. There are more but I can't think of them right now.