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Sticky Fingaz
Jones at the 79th Annual Academy Awards Children Uniting Nations/Billboard afterparty, February 25, 2007
Background information
Birth name	Kirk Jones
Also known as	Sticky
Born	(1973-11-03) November 3, 1973 (age 38)
Origin	New York City, New York, USA
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper and actor
Years active	1988–present
Labels	Virgin Records, Bat Squad
Associated acts	Onyx, Gangreen, Omar Epps, Lost Boyz, X-1, Big Pun, Eminem, Mobb Deep, Noreaga, Wu-Tang Clan
Website	http://www.stickyfingaz.com

Kirk Jones (born November 3, 1973) ^[1] better known by his stage name, Sticky Fingaz is an American rapper, actor and a member of the Onyx. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his television roles as Private Maurice "Smoke" Williams on the 2005 FX drama Over There, his recurring role as rapper Kern Little on The Shield, and as the title character in the 2006 Spike action-horror-drama Blade: The Series.

L.A. 2003

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Mixtapes[link]

• 2010 "God of the Underground (The Official Mixtape)"

Appearances[link]

• 1993 "Judgment Night" (from the Judgment Night soundtrack)
• 1993 "Livin' Loc'd" (from the Bo$$ album Born Gangstaz)
• 1995 "Live!!!" (from the soundtrack of The Show)
• 1995 "Evil Streets (Remix)" (featuring Method Man)
• 1996 "Thangz Changed" (from the Sunset Park soundtrack)
• 1996 "Thugz Cry (Freestyle)" [Featuring Flesh-N-Bone & Wish Bone]
• 1998 "Massive Heat" (from the Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz album Make It Reign)
• 1998 "Strange Fruit" (from the Pete Rock album Soul Survivor)
• 1999 "Buck 'Em" (from the Snoop Dogg album No Limit Top Dogg)
• 1999 "New World Disorder" (from the Biohazard album New World Disorder)
• 2000 "Remember Me?" (from the Eminem album The Marshall Mathers LP)
• 2001 "Get It Up (Remix)" (featuring Xzibit, Method Man & Redman)
• 2001 "Thug Warz" (from the Fredro Starr album Firestarr)
• 2002 "The Rah Rah Nigga" (from the MC Eiht album Underground Hero)
• 2003 "All Out" (from the Fredro Starr album Don't Get Mad Get Money)
• 2004 "Man Up" (from Def Jam Fight For NY OST)
• 2007 "QB Meets Southside" (from the Mobb Deep album The Infamous Archives)

Also featured on the GangStarr track "Full Clip"

Music Videos[link]

• 2001 "Give It Up"
• 2003 "Can't Call It"

Filmography[link]

• Clockers (1995) as Scientific
• Dead Presidents (1995) as Martin
• Ride (1998) as Brotha X
• Le New Yorker (1998) as Harlem Homeboy
• In Too Deep (1999) as Ozzie
• Game Day (1999) as Willie
• Black and White (1999) as Himself
• Next Friday (2000) as Tyrone
• True Vinyl (2000) as Power Z
• The Playaz Court (2000) as T-Bone
• Boricua's Bond (2000)
• The Price of Air (2000) as D
• Lockdown (2000) as Broadway
• Lift (2001) as Quik
• MacArthur Park (2001) as E-Max
• Flossin (2001) as Himself
• L.A.X. (2002) as Leon
• Reality Check (2002) as Brock
• Hot Parts (2003) as Toby
• Malibooty! (2003) as Raymond
• Ride or Die (2003) as Demise
• Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003) as Cedric
• Gas (2004) as Craig
• Doing Hard Time (2004) as Eddie Mathematic
• Flight of the Phoenix (2004) as Jeremy
• House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim (2005) as Dalton
• Nite Tales: The Movie (2008) as Dice
• Dough Boys (2009) as Deuce
• Karma, Confessions and Holi (2009) as Rich Smooth
• Breaking Point (2009) as Richard Allen
• Steppin: The Movie (2009) as Cedric
• A Day in the Life (2009) as Stick (Also Director)
• Once Fallen (2010) as Leshaun
• Hard Breakers (2010) as Shay
• Caught on Tape (2010) as Mark
• Immortal Cycle (2010) as Wade

Television[link]

• Platinum playing "Grady Rhames" as a regular major cast member.
• New York Undercover (1995) playing "Khail" in episode: "You Get No Respect" (episode # 1.17)
• New York Undercover (1997) playing "Assassin" in episode: "No Place Like Hell" (episode # 3.23)
• 413 Hope St. (1997) in episode: "Lost Boys and Gothic Girls" (episode # 1.8)
• Nash Bridges (1999) playing "Mario Baptiste" in episode: "Get Bananas" (episode # 5.8)
• The Parkers (1999) playing "'D' Dwayne" in episode: "It's a Family Affair" (episode # 1.11)
• 18 Wheels of Justice (2000) playing "Shooter" in episode: "Two Eyes for an Eye" (episode # 1.11)
• The Twilight Zone (2002) playing "Rickey" in episode: "Harsh Mistress" (episode # 1.13)
• Just Cause (2002) in episode: "Fading Star" (episode # 1.11)
• The Shield (2002–2006) playing "Kern Little" in episodes: "Dawg Days" (episode # 1.4), "Carnivores" (episode # 1.11), "Inferno" (episode # 2.11) "Playing Tight" (episode # 3.1), "Blood and Water" (episode # 3.2), "Of Mice and Lem" (episode # 5.10).
• Over There (2005) playing "Maurice (Smoke) Williams " as a regular major cast member.
• Blade: The Series (2006) playing "Blade".
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2007) in episode: "Flipped" (episode #6.14) playing undercover detective "Harry Williams"
• Burn Notice (2009) (Season 2 Episode 11) as Felix Cole
• NCIS Los Angeles (2010) as Rashad "Slide" Hollander
• Rizzoli & Isles - television series Season 1 Episode 10 (2010)
• NYC 22 - "Firebomb" (Ep 1.02) as Monsta White

Video games[link]

• Def Jam: Fight for NY (2004) as Sticky (Himself)
• Def Jam: Icon (2007) as Wink

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Official Myspace
• Sticky Fingaz at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Kirk "Sticky" Jones at blackfilm.com's site Blade: The Series Interview
• Sticky Fingaz interview with Peak Street magazine (2008)

External links[link]

• Sticky Fingaz at the Internet Movie Database

John Reed
Reed in 2007
Born	(1969-02-07)February 7, 1969 TriBeCa, New York City
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupation	novelist
Website
http://www.johnreed.org

John Reed (born February 7, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice (2000), Snowball's Chance (2002) with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole (2005), and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare (2008). His fifth book, Tales of Woe (2010), is a collection of twenty-five stories, chronicling true stories of abject misery.

Biography[link]

Born in 1969 in New York City, Reed is the son of artist David Reed and Judy Rifka.^[1] He attended Hampshire College, and received a Masters in Fine Art in Creative Writing from Columbia University.^[2] He teaches at The New School.

Reed was an early contributor to, and subsequently an editor with, Open City, a New York literary journal published by Robert Bingham, who later founded the book series.

Works[link]

He is affiliated with the New York Press and The Brooklyn Rail. "Americans are extremely sophisticated in terms of narrative forms," said Reed in an interview. "We see it in commercials, we see it on TV, we see it in movies. But the narrative forms we're talking about are three acts, five acts, depending on how you want to look at it. They're all based on a Christian model of sin, suffering, redemption; which is not a large model."^[3]

A Still Small Voice[link]

A Still Small Voice (Delacorte 2000, Delta 2001), Reed’s first novel, is a historical novel based on the life of a girl growing up in Kentucky from 1850-1870.

Snowball's Chance[link]

Snowball's Chance (Roof Books 2002/2003), Reed’s second novel was a controversial send-up of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and ended in a cataclysmic attack on the “Twin Mills” (reminiscent of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center). It became a bestseller in the field of books by independent literary publishers.^[4]

The Whole, or, Duh Whole[link]

Wikinews has related news: John Reed on Orwell, God, self-destruction and the future of writing

John Reed discusses politics after 9/11 and Reed's take on Orwell's neoconservativism.

Reed between BOMB magazine's senior editor Monica de la Torre and editor-in-chief Betsy Sussler.

The Whole, Reed’s third novel, parodied MTV and was released in 2005 by MTV Books (Simon & Schuster). The novel described a gigantic hole that appears in the middle of the country, which engulfs four states.

All the World's a Grave[link]

Reed, in a new work, returns to the overhaul of canonical English writers in All the World's a Grave, fall 2008, Penguin Books. The work, subtitled "A New Play by William Shakespeare", is a tragedy in five acts, a "mash-up" constructed of lines drawn from five Shakespeare tragedies and one Shakespeare history; Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo & Juliet and Henry V. In the "literary trick" (as described by Page Six of The New York Post) Shakespeare's lines are rearranged into a wholly new story, in which Prince Hamlet of Denmark goes to war to claim his bride and the daughter of King Lear, Juliet. Upon a triumphant return home, Hamlet discovers that his mother has murdered his father, and married Macbeth. Visited by his father's ghost, and goaded by the opportunistic Lieutenant Iago, Hamlet is driven mad by the erroneous belief that Juliet is having an affair with General Romeo.^[5]

References[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: John Reed (novelist)

External links[link]

• John Reed's website
• All the World's a Grave, book website.
• Kill the beavers!, The Daily Telegraph, November 22, 2002.
• John Reed: Saint George and the Damn Truth, Moby Lives, Nove,ber 10, 2003.
• John Reed: The Whole, an excerpt, Brooklyn Rail, January 2005.
• Dinitia Smith: A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell, The New York Times, November 25, 2002.
• Cathy Young: Blaming the Victim, Reason.com, December 3, 2002.
• Andrea Scrima: Review of Tales of Woe, Rumpus, November 16, 2010.
• Interview with Arthur Phillips on rewriting Shakespeare

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Rah Digga (born Rashia Fisher) is an American rapper. Well known as a long time member of the Flipmode Squad,^[1] a hip hop group led by Busta Rhymes, she parted ways amicably with the group in 2007.^[2] She has been called "one of rap's most prominent women MCs"^[3] by Allmusic and "one of hip-hop's most skilled female MCs" in the book How to Rap.^[1] Rah Digga is a resident of Newark, New Jersey.

Musical career[link]

Rah Digga was born in New Jersey and went to study electrical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.^[3] She learned how to rap by studying the raps of KRS-One, Rakim, and Kool G Rap of the Juice Crew.^[1]

She starred in the movie Thirteen Ghost, and she worked with hip-hop group Twice the Flavor before joining the Outsidaz,^[3] leading to a feature on the track "Cowboys" from the Fugees album The Score.^[3] Being seen by Q-Tip at the Lyricist Lounge lead to her meeting with Busta Rhymes, and joining his Flipmode Squad,^[1][3] later appearing on "numerous Busta Rhymes albums".^[1][3] Her debut solo, Dirty Harriet, was released in 2000 featuring Busta Rhymes and Eve.^[3] She also worked with Bahamadia on the track "Be Ok" from Lyricist Lounge, Vol. 1.^[3]

Her second album Everything Is A Story was due to be released on J Records in 2004, but for unknown reasons was not released. Many songs from the album had leaked to the internet in an unofficial 23-track album of unreleased material, and in 2010 Rah Digga released her own version of the album, featuring unheard tracks from the album not present on the leaked version. Rah Digga released a new album, Classic, on September 14, 2010. Production was handled by Nottz, and a promo single was released entitled "This Ain't No Lil Kid Rap".

On December 6, 2011, Rah Digga released a new single, "Made MC", available for download at iTunes.^[4]

Film[link]

Rah Digga was cast in the film Thirteen Ghosts in 2001.

The same year, Rah Digga also appeared alongside Beyoncé and Joy Bryant in MTV's Carmen: A Hip Hopera.

Awards and nominations[link]

• BET Awards
  • 2006: Video of the Year ("Touch It (remix)"), Nominated
  • 2006: Best Collaboration ("Touch It (remix)"), Nominated
  • 2004: Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, Nominated
  • 2002: Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, Nominated

• BET Hip Hop Awards
  • 2006: Hip-Hop Video of the Year ("Touch It (remix)"), Nominated
  • 2006: Best Collabo ("Touch It (remix)"), Winner
  • 2006: People's Champ Award ("Touch It (remix)"), Nominated

• MTV Video Music Award
  • 2006: Best Hip-Hop Video ("Touch It (remix)"), Nominated

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Dirty Harriet (2000)
• Classic (2010)

Singles[link]

• "Tight" (1999)
• "Imperial" (1999) #16 Hot Rap Singles
• "Break Fool" (2000) #15 Hot Rap Singles
• "Party and Bullshit 2003" (2003)
• "Make It Hot"/"See It In Your Eyes" (2005)
• "New Shit" (2008)
• "Warning Shots" (2010) (street leak)
• "This Ain't no Lil' Kid Rap" (2010)
• "Classic" (2010)

Guest starring[link]

"U Never No" by DJ King Sams featuring Rah Digga, Mario Winans, Bobby Valentino, Junior Reid, Young Buck, Red Cafe, Smitty, Roco and others.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Hiponline.com
• Hiphopgame.com
• Hiponline.com
• Montrealmirror.com
• Rah Digga interview by Rashmi Shastri
• Undergroundgirlsofhiphop.com
• Rahdiggamusic.com