Pop Culture
Cotton Candy, the movie featured Howard’s
American Graffiti co-star Charles Martin Smith.
62. Erica Abi Wright is better known to music fans as Erykah Badu. Her original stage name was Apples, one half of the hip-hop duo the Def Ones, while attending Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
63. The Old 97’s make an appearance (and serve as a fairly major plot point, in the 2006 film
The Break-Up. Producer and star Vince Vaughn is a noted longtime fan of the 97’s. Their “Timebomb” was used in his 1998 movie
Clay Pigeons.
64. KNON was the first radio station to play hip-hop in Dallas.