ditto that, and I have never been able to stomach Elvis. I can appreciate the argument of the street poet being a big Lou Reed fan, and I have occaisionally heard some that can use that verse with a tempo that makes the lyric musical, but its too infrequent to be anything but accidental. The rock and roll animal is the 'Original Rapper' grab a copy of 'New York' listen to it front to back. That is what rap is trying to capture when they talk about music of the street.