Elvis Presley and the Impulse Towards Transculturation
Rob Bowman, Crawdaddy!, Spring 2000
ELVIS WAS A hero to most but he never meant shit to me/You see straight out racist the sucker was simple and plain/Motherfuck him and John Wayne.
Public Enemy, 'Fight the Power' (1988)
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