My Favorites

Ok so here are a couple of my favorite things:

Movies:

• Pulp Fiction
• The Usual Suspects
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Goodfellas & Casino
• Selena
• The Five Heartbeats
• The Wedding Singer
• Soul Food
• Face Off
• Anything with Al Pacino or Robert DeNiro

*All time Favorite: 

Television:

• Living Single
• ER
• (that's really the name of the show:)
• WCW Monday Night Nitro (yeah, I know that it's fake, but it's good!)
• Soul Train (the hippest trip in America)

Cartoons:

• The Simpsons
• Daria
• Looney Tunes(especially Tweety)
• Dexter's Laboratory
• King of the Hill
• Animaniacs

• David Spade, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers,Chris Farley, and Phil Hartman (R.I.P)
• Sinbad
• D.L Hughley
• Steve Harvey & Cedric the Entertainer

Music

• Hip Hop/Rap
• A Tribe Called Quest
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• The Roots
• Black-Eyed Peas
• Busta Rhymes & Rampage
• Missy "Misdeameanor" Elliot
• Timbaland & Magoo
• The Fugees (together as well as the solo joints)
• The Beatnuts, Big Punisher, and Fat Joe
• L.L. Cool J
• Beastie Boys & House of Pain
• Camp Lo & Da Lox
• Cypress Hill
• Smooth R & B
• 112
• Prince
• K-Ci and Jo-Jo
• Backstreet Boys (I know what you're thinkin', but they really can sing!)
• Jon B. & Brian McKnight
• Mary J. Blige, Billy Lawrence, and Veronica
• BLACKstreet
• Tony!Toni!Tone!
• 98 degrees (Three words: Blue-Eyed Soul)
• Playa & Boyz II Men
• Rahsaan Patterson & Maxwell
• N'Sync (Don't be fooled, they gotz skillz)

Even some pop/alternative music:

• Smashing Pumpkins (the Punkins are tight, for real!)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Under The Bridge")
• R.E.M. ("Everybody Hurts" & "Losing My Religion")
• Elton John ("Goodbye Yellow Brick Road")
• No Doubt ("Don't Speak", I still get chills!!)
• Matchbox 20 ("Push" & "3 a.m.")
• George Michael (need I say more?)

Let's take it back to the Old school...

Movies:

• Car Wash & Coolie High
• West Side Story
• Breakin' , Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo & Beat Street
• Carmen Jones & Cleopatra Jones
• The Goonies
• Mahogany
• Superfly & Shaft
• Saturday Night Fever (aw yeah!!)
• Scarface
• The John Hughes '80s classics: "Pretty in Pink", "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", and "Weird Science"
• Purple Rain
• Coming to America, Trading Places, and Fame

*All Time Favorite: Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon*

Television:

• The Smurfs
• The Snorks
• SchoolHouse Rock
• Gummi Bears
• Jem and the Holograms
• He-Man & She-Ra
• Kids Incorporated
• Tom & Jerry
• The Jetsons & The Flinstones
• G.I. Joe
• Voltron & Transformers
• Fraggle Rock
• Good Times, The Jeffersons, & Different Strokes
• Dallas & Knight Rider
• Wonder Woman & What's Happening?
• 227 & Yo! MTV Raps (with "Ed Lover dance" Wednesdays)
• Silver Spoons, Head of the Class, and The Facts of Life
• Perfect Strangers & 21 Jump Street
• The Wonder Years & In Living Color
• A Different World & The Cosby Show
• Fat Albert
• Benson
• Fame

Music:

• Run DMC & Slick Rick
• Brand Nubian
• Boogie Down Productions ("Self Destruction")
• Public Enemy & Big Daddy Kane
• Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew
• Full Force & Guy
• Lisa Lisa & the Cult Jam
• The Time & The Police
• Eric B. & Rakim
• Gangstarr & Biz Markie
• Al B. Sure! 
• Another Bad Creation
• New Edition (rememeber "Candy Girl"?)
• Bell Biv Devoe (who could forget "Poison"!)
• DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
• De La Soul & The Jungle Brothers
• Leaders of the New School (Before Busta hit it big!)
• Early Micheal Jackson (Thriller & Off the Wall)
• Jackson 5
• Hall & Oates
• Marvin Gaye & Curtis Mayfield
• Duran Duran, Culture Club, Wham! (any '80's pop music)
• Diana Ross & Stevie Wonder
• And we can't forget about...

Toys:

• Pogoballs
• Rollerskates
• Sit-N-Spin
• Slip N' Slide
• Big Wheels
• Cabbage Patch Kids
• LEGOS!

One Hit Wonders that I really liked:

• Vanilla Ice ("Ice Ice Baby" was the bomb)
• M.C. Hammer
• Young MC
• J.J. Fad ("Supersonic")
• 3rd Bass ("The Gas Face")
• Ready for the World ("Oh Sheila" & "Digital Display")
• Kris Kross ("Jump Jump")
• Oran "Juice" Jones ("I Saw you and him, walkin' in the Rain")

So what can I say I'm stuck in a time warp. I'm a child of the eighties. A product of my environment.

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