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Kool Bob Love @ APT Vinyl Is Forever 7/28
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Kool Bob Love @ APT Vinyl Is Forever 7/28's Interests
General
i'd love to have a chocolate chip cookie right now
Music
Rich Medina, DJ Spinna, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Gil Scott-Heron, Labelle, Minnie Riperton, George Benson, Donny Hathaway, Level 42, Sting, Osunlade, Kenny Dope, Louie Vega, Tato Torres y YERBABUENA, Eddie Palmieri & the Harlem River Drive, Mongo Santamaria, Nicola Conte, Red Astaire, Syreeta Wright, Air (Embryo Records), DJ Sucio Smash, DJ Eli, DJ Eclipse, DJ Lord Sear, DJ Citizen Kane, DJ Roc Raida, DJ Premier, DJ Pete Rock, DJ Stretch Armstrong, Large Professor, Nas, Organized Konfusion, Public Enemy, Kool G. Rap, Common, the Roots, Treacherous Three, Run DMC, Ultra Mag, De La, Bran Nubian, Sy Smith, Nadirah Shakoor, Jill Scott, Patato y Totico, dead prez, Soul Searchers, James Brown, Antibalas, Daktaris, Myriam Makeeba, Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen, Fela, Jamiroquia, Brand New Heavies, Sade, Angie Stone, Donnie, D'Angelo, Dwele, Platinum Pied Pipers, Jon Lucien, Jiva, Build An Arc, Sharon Jones, Mos Def, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Chumbo Silva, Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc, Giles Peterson, Mad Mats, DJ Typhoon, Candela Recordings (Viejo San Juan), Lenar/Soul Fire Records, Cymande, Baby Huey, Black Heat, Lenny Kravitz, Incognito, Jhelisa, Ubiquity Records, Tru Thoughts Records, Kajmere Records, Reel People, Jag, De Lata, 4hero, Sean Escroffrey, Yoruba Records, GAMM Records, Raw Fusion Records, Stones Throw Records, ABB Records, Choklate, Motionlab, Randy Watson Experience
Movies
"Yo Soy Boricua!" (documentary), "Palante, Siempre Palante!" (documentary), "Dave Chapelle's Block Party,"
"Hoosiers," "One on One," "Hoop Dreams," "And 1 Mixtape Vol. 1," "Coach Carter," "Sunset Park,"
"Style Wars," "Wildstyle," "Freshest Kids," "Freestyle," "Breath Control,"
"The Battle of Algiers," "Motorcycle Diaries," "Raising Victor Vargas," "Central Station," "City of God," "Black Orpheus (the original)," "Buena Vista Social Club," "Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Jails, Hospitals, & Hip Hop: The Movie," "Il Postino," "Hair," "Planet of the Apes," "Serpico," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3," "Prison Song," "Eddie Murphy's Raw," "Volver," "East of Havana," "Bling," "Bella," "Gunnin' For That #1 Spot," "La Misma Luna," "Maldeamores"
Television
"It's the Shoes," "And 1's Streetball," "Summerball," "Global Invasion," not a TV person at all other than the shows i've worked on.
Books
"Albizu Campos/Puerto Rican Revolutionary," "Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture 1960-1987," "All About Love," "The Kite Runner," "The Alchemist," "Siddhartha," "Heaven Is A Playground," "The In-Your-Face Basketball Book," "Big Game, Small World," "When I Was Puerto Rican," "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life," "Subway Art"
Heroes
Ramona Eliza Garcia-Zayas-Ortiz y Ramon Garcia-Ortiz (RIP), Pedro Albizu Campos (PR Revolutionary-RIP), Roberto Clemente (PR Baseball Legend and Activist-RIP), Stevie Wonder, Earl "The Goat" Manigualt (Playground Basketball Legend-RIP), Crazy Legs, Rich Medina, Rosie Perez, Richie Perez (PR Activist-RIP), Rita Moreno (PR Actress, first entertainer to ever win a Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar), Gordon Parks, and You (for reading this far!)
Kool Bob Love @ APT Vinyl Is Forever 7/28's Details
Kool Bob Love @ APT Vinyl Is Forever 7/28's Schools
Wesleyan University
Middletown,Connecticut
Graduated: 1988
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Sociology/Basketball in the Small Gym
Minor: Mocon Dining Hall
Clubs: Varsity Basketball '87-'88
Cycling Club '86-'87
Ajua Campos
1984 to 1988
Lower Merion Hs
Ardmore,Pennsylvania
Graduated: 1984
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: ABC-LM House, Varsity Baskeball '82-'83, '83-'84
"it's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me . . . and i'm feeling good." nina simone.
job titles include DJ, writer, basketball player/performer/announcer, magazine editor at large, TV personality/creative producer, photographer, designer, consultant, actor, and dancer.
i don't own a cellphone, and love getting up to flip over a vinyl record to hear the second side of an album.
Who I'd like to meet: positive, progressive, independent and open-minded people, and the genius who invented odwalla mango tango juice
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Hola Bob! despues de estudiar durante años esos discos que me marcaron..uno se da cuenta porque te nombran en casi todos,eras la pieza fundamental para que salieran todos esos discos,también me quedo con esa epoca de fondle..em con cosas tan buenas de the cenobites,scienz of life.......Respeto Bob,y el hip hop sigue vivo!
Hermano. Last night I had a quesito hand delivered to me in a ziploc bag...straight from a bakery in Arecibo called La vida. My man...i was transported instantly to the beach on your page. Pa'lante Siempre! Que Viva Puerto Rico! Que Viva!!
TIO - Sunday was loco mangg! JA JA! I loved meeting Mona too - AHHH! I think I got some phone calls the next day - WHOOPS! ;) Besos a ti para siempre. Back in LA recuperating. See you soon. Hugs.
Yo Bob the tunes were so good last night from Happy Feet I left the party soak and wet from sweat. It's always coke cola with you fam nothing but the real thing. Thanks again
shook ones, stick em, hand on the pump, the hot 8 brass band, then jump off into a realm of unknown cultural funk, soul, house and tribal drums. the quintessential way for my wife and i to jump off the summer. THANKS FOR A CLASSIC NIGHT.
The movie trailer looks great Mr Garcia.Cant wait to see the whole thing.Hope all is good and Officer Pat Mcgroin hasn't been harassing you.But whats the good word home piss?
Peace and Blessings as always Bob.Keep inspiring the people.
Bobitto you and Spinna were crazy on SATURDAY!!!!! Every year I am never disappointed. Please let me know how I can get the Another Star mix you did. It was absolutely insane!!!!
I spread the word about Happy Feet and my brother went in SF, he loved it!!!! You and Rich are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank God we have Rashida and Trinidad in LA, but you guys need to bring it out west more often!!!
Thank you so much Break a down in Toronto!! it was really re-energized me to see you in 13 years ago in OSAKA JAPAN with DJ StrechArmStrong at that time! Music reconnected people who live with music.
BOB - hot track - i always love the tracks on your pagina - NYC/LA reunion in full effect come next week YEEEEHAW! besos. been practicing my dance moves all week.
