I see you forgot.

Next time someone disrupts your rally, you gotta get in that ass, Bernie…

That's possible:

Also, regarding whether or not Elvis gave credit where it was due:

Perhaps "recanted" was too strong a word, but he has certainly clarified and qualified those lines over the years.

For sure. Have you heard the new CB? It's gotten some OK reviews, but the songs I've heard haven't really grabbed me (but it's possible the whole thing works better together). If I see it cheap I might pick it up.

I'm sure this joke has been made, but Flav should form a supergroup with Ben from the Bosstones and Bez from the Mondays.

It was that, but there was also a "quote" that Elvis by all appearances never said that was at that time nonetheless still widely-attributed to him in the black community (Ancient Shenanigans mentions it elsewhere).

I'm starting to think this "Inspectah Deck" has no forensics or carpentry training whatsoever!

The influence, particularly of the Bomb Squad, cannot be overstated, and pops up in unexpected places. Kevin Shields has talked about PE blowing his mind; the idea that without PE, we'd have no Loveless (which certainly goes for "dense", and flirts with hip-hop drumbeats) is strange but possibly true. Same goes for…

I think you might be missing my point.

Kind of like The Velvet Underground, yanno?

Ah, now we're getting somewhere! Still subjective, obviously, but at least not glib substance-free dismissals of one of the more innovative and influential musical acts of the last few decades, or ending with an airy wave of the "etc."

Well that's settled then.

TPE are better on the page than in the ear, more important than good, etc.

Yeah, every time this comes up, I feel compelled to point out that by all accounts, Elvis was about as far from racist as would have been possible for a white man from that time period to be. Also, Chuck D later recanted those "racist" lines.

The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself!"

The A.V. Clu-ah fuck it

The Limbs Lie Down On Broadway

Jesus: the original celebrity who didn't let a little thing like "death" stop his career in showbiz.