| Influences | New York City, Run DMC, De La Soul, Jimi Hendrix, A Tribe Called Quest, The Doors, Paul Robeson, Led Zeppelin, Red Alert from HCHS Courtyard (and the other one too), Organized Konfusion, Critical Mass, Wu-Tang Clan, Black Sheep, Sade, Sly Stone, James Brown, Iman, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Harlem lambsbread, Overnight Ak, Miles Davis, Peter Tosh, Antonio Vivaldi, Jungle Brothers, INXS, Public Enemy, 40 ozs. of Ballantine, our parents, Twisted Sister, OutKast, Jay-Z, private school girls on 92nd St., The Meters, KMD, Fela Kuti, Yo-Yo Ma, Yo Mama, winter BBQs, Mike's bags, David Dinkins, The Police, Rick Rubin, Tears for Fears, Heather Hunter, Simon & Garfunkel, Giuliani protests, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Fats Waller, The Muppets, Rick James, Stephen Sondheim, Pauly Wallnuts, Pharcyde, George Michael, Stevie Wonder, Red & Meth, Michael Jackson, Patty Labelle, Panama Red, Marvin Gaye, Kenny Loggins, Duke Ellington, LL Cool J, The Beatles, KRS 1 and BDP, Octagon Park, Young MC, Nat Adderley, Juice (the movie), Stephan Grappelli, James "BUDROCK" Freshly The Third, Cazamajor Bobrun, Soundgarden, RHCP, Django Reinhardt, Arliss Michaels, Johnny Walker Black, Robin Byrd & Channel J, Rogers & Hammerstein, Peter Gabriel, ARA and Brown Cow Milk products, Prince, 101 and Lex., John Coltrane, Living Color, Robert Johnson, St. Ides, Eddie Murphy, Muddy Waters, Barby Ames, Tower Isle Jamaican Beef Patties, M-M-M-Max Headrom, Duran Duran, Supinder, Grand Daddy Purps, Bupinder, and Baljinder, Rakim, the 4/5/6 train, the A train, Rock Steady Crew, Thelonious Monk, Pete Rock, Nas, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sizzla, Siggy Freud, the Freedom Tunnel, Uptown Manhattan, Beer, Lady Smith Black Mambazo, Mike Tyson, Jack Bauer, police brutality, Prince, Bon Jovi, NWA, Revelation, Jungle Bros., Macon St. nicks, New Jack City, the Brooklyn dead tracks, Ramsey Lewis, Michael Jordan, Ghetto Chinese, "We Buy Gold" crackweed, Donald Byrd, Shinehead, King Sunny Ade Jr., Yellowman, Capleton, Einstein, J-Dilla, David Bowie, C. Zeta Jones, R. Dawn Chong, 2 Live Crew, Mars, Larry David, H. Berry, M. Bellucci, J. Pinkett pre-Smith, Billy Joel, old school N. Campbell, Central Park, Superman, Post Haze, all the Spanish music playin in the Heights that we can't name, ourselves |