Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists by Sacha Jenkins

Eventually, there were Ego Trip books ( ego trip's Book of Rap Lists and ego trip's Big Book of Racism) and Ego Trip television series - all carried by VH1. The magazine published 13 issues during the next four years -with content spanning everything from rap to skateboarding to punk rock to interviews bearing Count Chocula's byline. In June 1994, following a falling out between Akhigbade and Jenkins, Jenkins and Wilson co-founded ego trip magazine. Beat Down's music editor was future blogger Elliott Wilson. In 1992, Jenkins and childhood friend Haji Akhigbade established Beat-Down Newspaper, a very early hip-hop newspaper.

In 1988, Jenkins published his first 'zine- Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language-one of the earliest magazines dedicated to graffiti art. In 2000, Jenkins was awarded a fellowship to the Graduate School of Journalism via National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. Afterwards, he attended Brooklyn College and City College of New York. Jenkins graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Woodside, New York in 1990. The couple have two children, Djali Brown-Cepeda (Jenkins' stepdaughter) and a son, Marceau. Jenkins is married to author/filmmaker Raquel Cepeda. Sacha's mother, Monart, who is of Haitian origin, is a painter who has exhibited her work in galleries in Washington, D.C. That same year Horace died of a heart attack. Horace Byrd Jenkins III won Emmy Awards for his contributions to the TV programs 'The Advocates,' 'Sesame Street,' and '30 Minutes' (CBS TV series), and was a pioneer in the TV magazine format with the program 'Black Journal.' Under the name Horace Jenkins, he wrote and directed the feature film Cane River (1982). (Horace was a professor of communications at Howard University.) Jenkins, along with his mother, Monart, and his sister, Dominique, moved to Queens, New York in 1977. After his parents' separation, Jenkins' father, Horace Byrd Jenkins III, moved to Harlem. The Jenkins family lived in Silver Spring, Maryland until Sacha Jenkins was seven years old. Sacha Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 22, 1971. Currently, Jenkins is the creative director of M* Appeal magazine. In 2007, he created the compe*ion reality program 'ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show,' which was carried by VH1. In 1994, Jenkins co-founded ego trip magazine.

While still in his teens, Jenkins published Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language, one of the earliest 'zines solely dedicated to 'graffiti' art. Sacha Jenkins (born 1971) is an American television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures.

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists by Sacha Jenkins