Old Skool Hip-hop, MC Lyte, Run DMC, Boogie Down Productions, KRS One, Black Thought, Mos Def, JD of course ;), Bow Wow aka Shad Moss. I love R&B and the Blues, my fav artists are Patti Labelle, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Faith Evans, R. Kelly, Blackstreet, Jodeci, Silk, Joe, Ginuwine to name a few.
Books
Anything written by Langston Hughes, E. Lynn Harris, Omar Tyree, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker & Sidney Sheldon
Movies
Any Spike Lee joint ever created, The Joy Luck Club, Waiting to Exhale, Training Day, Carmen Jones, Guess who's coming to dinner
