HipHop:
Alchemist
DJ Premier
Pete Rock
Necro
Ill Bill
Saigon
Vanderslice (duh)
Goretex
Ghostface Killah
M.O.P.
Mobb Deep
R&B:
Bobby Womack, The Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Z.Z. Hill , The Commodores, Average White Band, Barry White, Isaac Hayes, Leon Haywood, Tyrone Davis, Stevie Wonder, LTD, Donny Hathaway Etc Etc ETC
Movies
American Psycho, Crash, The Core, The Matrix series, Love & Basketball (yea it's a chick flick fuck you!), The Island, Major League, The Warriors, The Longest Yard, Shawshank Redemption, Memento, Casino, Heat, Raging Bull, Breakfast Club, Back To School, Old School, Ferris Buellers Day Off, First Time Felon, Boyz N The Hood, 25th Hour, American History X, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Police Academy series, Beverly Hills Cop series................ Any 1970s Kung Fu movie with dubbed voices..... ETC ETC.....
Television
Prison Break, 24, House, Numb3rs, Family Guy.
Thats about it for new TV, then you go into classic TV and i'm watchin Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, Married With Children, Beavis and Butthead, Three's Company, Sanford & Son..... Shit like that.....
Books
I haven't been much of a book person lately but i've been known to read some Eric Lustbader for my fiction (lots of martial arts based shit), and Greg Palast for some humor mixed with political non-fiction/investigative reporting, and for the straight up scientific non fiction Dr Leonard Horowitz.
I have a new one.... Dean Koontz is the MAN... and i'm officially scared of that guy... he must be a psycho with half the stuff he writes about...
Heroes
Al Bundy, Mumia Abu Jamal, George Carlin, Gil Scott Heron, Rodney Dangerfield, That guy on CNN that proclaimed white people should be exterminated from the earth in a calm tone like he didn't just call for genocide of an entire race lol.