M.O.P. — “Salute”

To “plead the Fifth” (as in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution) is to refuse to answer a question in court because the answer may incriminate you. It is used colloquially to mean refusing to answer a potentially embarrassing question

Run-DMC was a seminal early rap group, and gave its DJ Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell almost equal billing with its two rappers, Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels

Your rock band might be good, but it doesn’t have the power of our music and message — or, as they would later put it, Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age

Chuck expressing his frustrations at the political system and the corruption and racism therein

PE’s influence and ideas are spreading across the country, so there is no excuse for not being aware

LL was, of course, the one to originally rock the bells

Just a few years after recording this, PE would stage a mock demonstration at a video shoot for their song “Fight the Power”

Members of the extended PE family include Chuck, William “Flavor Flav” Drayton, Terminator X, the controversial Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin, the group’s “media assassin” Harry Allen, the production team “The Bomb Squad”, and the group’s “security force”, the S1W’s (short for “Security of the First World”)

Rappers, despite running in the same circles as rock stars, will never get accepted as “real musicians” by them