This song is pretty straight forward. There was this weird period of time where people were looking for Elvis like bigfoot, and he's saying that's ridiculous people elvis is dead. The song is not anti-elvis, it's anti-stupid.
@@sonyapeach never heard of Elvis being in the KKK. Culture Vulture? Not really. Elvis was a poor white kid who grew up around poor black folks. His parents were share choppers. He grew up in that environment.....no different than Eminem.
"Elvis isn't dead, he just went home!" Great band, great song. And it isn't a slam on Elvis, it's a slam on people profiting off of Elvis' death. Vernon Reid could shred with the best and Corey Glover's pipes are out of this world!
I don't know why people freak out that they're black. If you think about it, black musicians are the perfect fit for rock. And then there was Jimmi Hendrix. Originator.
Even before Jimmi. "Black" Blues bands paved the way for rock and roll. Rock N roll has its roots in "black" music. Although now "blacks" are associated with hip hop and rap.
True (I'm old enough and a music fan to know). All American popular music has a connection or roots in black music, including disco, electronic dance, etc.
RainPoetry Hi! Love your position on this issue. I think that a an all black band playing music that tangents other music cathegorised as "heavy metal" is noteworthy on at least two accounts. First, the illusion of separetedness from other humans because of their skincolur and secondly because of proclaimed, by the Elite, ideas that each so called race is limited to a certain expression. Living color transcends all that. Wake up and enjoy living on this planet..
I can't believe I never heard this song until today. All the truth bombs & a Little Richard cameo appearance!!! One of the TRUE Kings of Rock along with so many other black performers & writers. And I love LC ❤️
@@clownlung Living Colour brought some avant-garde to the mainstream. Then again, there are some avant-garde metal bands that are so out there that they don’t really resemble metal much in the traditional sense- which is not a knock against them. For instance, the band Igorr makes Mr. Bungle look like Nickleback.
Will Calhoun has to be one of the most underrated drummers ever. So talented, and you never here his name mentioned when talking drummers. Us drummers who bought these CDs when they came out know! Plus his solo disc from 100 years ago is outstanding.
Don't mean to sound racist but I love black people doing rnr this is awesome. My mom is 57 years old and she's a huge fan of elvis Presley. She even went to Memphis to see his mansion and stuff
Fact: little Richard was the real king of rock. He couldn't make it big back in the 50s because of the color of his skin so elvis made it big because he was white. He stole that from mr. Tutti frutti little Richard.
Mike Martin actually it's "for the pelvis of Elvis, too dangerous for the masses". I played the hell out of this song when I had the CD back in the day.
@@mariaemma16 Yeah people like to play Victim, even though they got to make up the oppressor(Even when they owe that same symbol most of what they got)
Apparently, Richard saw the Band opening for the Rolling stones, went backstage and went "Hey you fellaz, I'm one of those glamour boys you sang about!" So with the man's approval in the bag, they asked him to contribute to this song and seeing as how Richard knew Elvis personally, he readily agreed.
BOXING KING MUHAMMAD ALI: "I'm Black, I'm an Islamic, I'm 100% different from you. I’ll tell the world Elvis was the greatest of all time. I'm a Muslim who's black who stands up for what he believes. I don't have to say what I don't feel, I'm not false, I don't have to say this. I have no Bosses. I'm free. He to me, is one of the greatest singers, actors and all round men of all time." - THE GREATEST Muhammad Ali
I've listened to this song for 29 years - and only just now noticed Maceo on sax... How in the world did I miss that? Still a great song after all these years!
THE LEGEND Mr BB KING spent A LOT OF TIME WITH ELVIS: 'Before Elvis we had Little Black Sambo, separate black restrooms and water fountains, and colored events that kept us away from the whites', BB King noted as he mention that Presley would attend events especially designated just for African-Americans. In June 1956, Presley ignored Memphis's segregation ordinances by attending 'Colored Night' at the local fairgrounds amusement park. The following December, King was there as Presley opened up almost unbreakable racial barriers by attending and supporting the segregated WDIA black radio station's annual fund-raising event for 'needy black children' at Memphis' Ellis Auditorium. King wrote in his autobiography that he 'liked Elvis. I saw him as a fellow Mississippian. I was impressed by his sincerity. When he came to the Goodwill Review (the event WDIA fund raisers of 1956 and 1957), he did himself proud'. 'The Goodwill Revues were important', he wrote. 'The entire black community turned out. All the DJs carried on, putting on skits and presenting good music'. In his autobiography, King said he held no grudges because 'Elvis didn't steal any music from anyone. He just had his own interpretation of the music he'd grown up on, same is true for everyone. I think Elvis had integrity'. 'If anyone says Elvis Presley was a racist', charged B.B. King in the 2010 interview. 'Then they don't know a thing about Elvis Presley or music history. 'Many nights after we finished our sets and I'd go up to his suite', King stated. 'I'd play Lucille (on Elvis' guitar) and sing with Elvis, or we'd take turns. It was his way of relaxing'. 'I'll tell you a secret', King winked and laughed. 'We were the original Blues Brothers because that man Elvis knew more blues songs than most in the business - and after some nights it felt like we sang everyone one of them." 'Let me tell you the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism', The King of the Blues, B.B. King said, 'With Elvis, there was not a single drop of racism in that man. And when I say that, believe me I should know'.
One of my favourite quotes of all time was by Little Richard when talking about Jimi Hendrix. “He was a star. When I got him he was a star. Sly told you that everybody is a star. The only problem is some people haven’t been put in the dipper and pulled back on the world. That’s what the answer is. You got to be placed into the dipper and pulled back down on the world, and then men will see your good works and glorify god, Jehovah.” RIP Sir
People are really arguing that this is a diss song about Elvis? Really? What about the line "Elvis was a hero to most but that's besides the point." The line "Elvis was a hero to most" comes from "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, "Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me you see". Corey uses the first part of that line to say that it doesn't matter what he was to someone in particular. This is about living off the dead, that's it. Listen to what Little Richard says here.
I find it so ironic that there's an In Living Colour sketch where Jim carry plays a news reporter who just found Elvis. and this is a band called living colour saying Elvis is dead.
Jeez, I grew up listening to this sound in the 90s and without seeing this I would die without knowing that it's the great Little Richard rapping. Thank you RUclips for the revelation
In my h/o Will Calhoun is literally the best Rock Drummer since The Great John Bonham. (I leave Peart out only because he is Way more prog than straight up Rock) Sonic Boom remains in "Rare Air"
They went about 10 notches past everything. They did show this on mtv back then. Banned and a lot of white people stopped listening to the music and started listening to what was programmed into them. They are still here i never left
HERE ARE THE FACTS: The great legends of color in his era: BB King - Jackie Wilson - James Brown were there to witness Elvis‘ creativity. He was a one-of-a-kind super talent that grew up in the black community during the Great Depression and segregation in the deep South. Born in 1935 in a shack his father built (no electricity or plumbing). His twin brother died at birth. The Presleys were so poor that they buried his stillborn twin brother in a shoe box. So Elvis experienced the depths of poverty from the day he was literally born. He grew up playing with black friends on the streets and in black and white southern Baptist churches, in the poorest mixed and black neighborhoods in Tupelo -- a potentially deadly activity back in the 1940s-60s down South. Elvis' support for the civil rights movement was real and is not known by the greater population in America. The new Elvis 2022 movie examined this part. This is why almost all black musicians from that era absolutely loved Elvis because he was able to take that Memphis sound all around the country and then the world. Little Richard credited Elvis Presley multiple times for opening up the door for black music and creating a path that he could travel and so he could make his mark. Clearly a terribly racist time Elvis put poverty and racial socialization on his platform. But he did it all through Music and his behind the scenes actions alone. He never got political I think that’s what actually made him so powerful and able to succeed. FAMOUS QUOTES BY THE MOST KNOWN BLACK MEN and WOMEN OF THE 1940s-80s and beyond WHO ACTUALLY KNEW ELVIS: JOHN LEE HOOKER - "Elvis was a really good friend of mine.... He was the king." -- John Lee Hooker MUHAMMAD ALI - 'Elvis was my close personal friend. He had a robe made for me. I don't admire nobody, but Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know. We must understand, Elvis did lot for poor people, he cared for people, he had a good heart, he just wasn't a person who was great with talent, but he was great in spirit and with God in his heart. I wouldn't praise nobody if he don't deserve it, because I am the greatest of all time in boxing, in boxing. I said boxing ! But I'm telling you, I'm Black, I'm a Islamic, I'm 100% different from you. But I’ll tell the world Elvis was the greatest of all time. I'm a Muslim who's black who stands up for what he believes. I don't have to say what I don't feel, I'm not false, I don't have to say this. I have no Bosses. I'm free. He to me, is one of the greatest singers, actors and all round men of all time.” ~ "THE GREATEST" MUHAMMAD ALI. BB KING: 'Let me tell you the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism', The King of the Blues, B.B. King said in 2010. 'With Elvis, there was not a single drop of racism in that man. And when I say that, believe me I should know'. -- BB KING The "GODFATHER OF SOUL" JAMES BROWN: “I wasn’t just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him … I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There will never be another like that Soul Brother”. During Elvis' private family wake, James was the LAST ONE TO LEAVE. 3 hours and 30 minutes later -- it took several of his security guards to help him out of the room. James was devastated -- James and Elvis sang Gospel together many a night to all hours of the morning at each others' homes. James Brown was considered family by the Presleys they were so close. JACKIE WILSON: "A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied from Elvis." --- JACKIE WILSON (Elvis quietly paid for Jackie's medical expenses until the day he passed away in 1977. Before Jackie's stage accident he would carry a small signed photo of Elvis in his pants pocket. Every day, bar none.) RANDY JACKSON (of the Jackson 5): "Elvis used Rock and Roll music to bridge the gap between whites and minorities. He was a wonderful person." LITTLE RICHARD "He sung my Tootie Fruti & by him singing it, made it bigger & made ME bigger" And then he said: “I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road...”- Little Richard CISSY HOUSTON: "Elvis loved gospel music. He was raised on it. And he really did know what he was talking about. He was singing Gospel all the time - almost anything he did had that flavor. You can't get away from what your roots are." - Cissy Houston (The Sweet Inspirations co-founder & member & sang vocals for Elvis, also mother of Whitney Houston)
I think some people need to realize that this is not Living Colour making an Elvis hate song or anything. Just had to get that out there. Love the song!
It's not. they're saying don't make money of Elvis' good name saying he's alive when he's obviously not. Bit like the Church saying Jesus lives when he never did.
@@Hellwyck it’s not the church saying Christ lived, it’s literally every historian ever existed. He did live, that’s not up for debate. Whether he died and then lived again, that’s what is super debatable.
@@Hellwyck It's both. Elvis is dead (literal), so stop making up stupid tabloid stories. Elvis is dead (metaphorical) the white fandom that embraced his music and cult of persoanlity but not the black roots that it came from is dead too. "I've got a reason to believe, we all won't be received, at Graceland (No not you my brother!)... it's pretty damn clear and I'm kind of realizing after all these years that some folk heard that plain as day and some folk couldn't hear it at all.
Exactly, it's making fun of the conspiracy theories & not trashing Elvis and also, yes, there were some CRAZY souvenirs being sold!...For a long time after Elvis died, there were a lot of people who didn't think he was dead, that's the joke, and that's what they're talking about, today you can still find an occassional article or site saying he's still alive, in fact there's people who do not think Jim Morrision from The Doors is dead, however, there were A LOT more "National Enquirer" type magazines w/headlines saying Elvis was alive. I also know of a couple of other songs that have "Elvis is dead" in the title from the 80s & early 90s.
"He went through the test, he's outta this mess/Be my guest and let him rest!" I quote those lyrics anytime the media scrounges around for whatever dirt is left about Elvis/Marilyn Monroe/JFK/Princess Diana.
Una de mis bandas favoritas "de siempre". Con esta canción cargada de matices vocales y rítmicos: mezclando heavy, hard y rasgos de otros subgéneros del rock unidos a la maestria de las cuerdas vocales de Corey Glover: combina los pasajes de la canción con una "pasmosa naturalidad"; la guitarra afinada en tono medio con un sonido perfecto en los riff y las partes en las que interviene con acento distorsionado;la batería es genial con un sonido metálico y ligeramente "seco y destemplado": un sonido muy difícil de "sacar a la percusión bien tocada" crea un ambiente perfecto; el bajo "toca las 4 cuerdas" de una manera totalmente acoplada con la percusión; el saxo está en unos agudos geniales que es una parte "integral" del ritmo base: no es un simple adorno..... Y la participación especial?... Alguien puede ofrecer más?.... O es solo mi opinión?.... Ustedes que piensan sobre esta banda?....
Living Colour=Awesome Little Richard=Legend Little Richard appearing in a Living Colour song/video...If I can quote Little Rich himself, Whooo Baby, I just felt my big toe rise!
I'm sick and tired of black people disrespecting Elvis although he was too kind to them ...I LOVE black artists but u need give Elvis due respect ...He was the greatest in his time no matter what u say ...He was infeluenced by some black artists but this doesn't make them better than him ..MJ was infeluenced by many white artists and then became greater
This band made at least three of the greatest albums in rock history Stain, Time's Up, and Vivid, the best song about the 9/11 attacks (Flying), and one of the best live rock albums ever made (The Paris Concert). Growing up in the 80s I was a huge Midnight Oil and U2 fan and then I saw the music video for Middle Man. Living Colour had a huge impact on my life.
Desde mi punto de vista, lo que entiendo que dice la canción es que le hicieron muchísima fama a Elvis incluso cuando estaba muerto y la banda en su opinión cree que hay muchos artistas de esa época que son mejores y tiene razón encima esos artistas eran de piel negra pero como en esa etapa de la historia estadounidense existía el racismo, muchos de esos artistas no fueron valorados como debieron serlo. Para mí más que nada es como una crítica hacia el racismo más allá de que mencione a Elvis
Además Elvis se hizo conocido como muchísimos artistas por ser una persona de piel blanca que hacía música creada por la gente de piel oscura. De hecho lo mejor de la música fue creada por los africanos y se los debemos; en vez de actuar de manera racista hacía esa gente deberíamos estar agradecidos por la música maravillosa que crearon y que muchos blancos utilizaron y la modificaron para hacerse conocidos
They weren't "underrated" back in the day....they just quit. I remember quite a few positive reviews and record/CD sales for them in post 93, then they stopped after the True Lies soundtrack in 94. They are still around after they re-grouped in 2000 and have two very good CD out that you should look into. But don't assume that because you haven't heard too much about them Now that they were not appreciated, they were.
CM Punk introduced me to this band...i'm 27...i really missed out man...but thats what I love about music..always some new amazing band you've never heard and can dive totally into. Every song I'm hearing is amazing as all hell.
1:07 even to this day, I thought that line was funny and I'm still looking for that Uptown Comedy Club skit between Monteria Ivey and Jim Breuer with the aliens and Elvis, if anybody can find it!
Living Colour was a great band IMO. The Stained LP was my fave (and the heaviest). I read all the comments and ask why should race even matter? Hirax, Fishbone, Sepultura? Rob Halford's gay.... If It's good, if it rocks....
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This song is pretty straight forward. There was this weird period of time where people were looking for Elvis like bigfoot, and he's saying that's ridiculous people elvis is dead. The song is not anti-elvis, it's anti-stupid.
Your right, it’s not anti anything, it just speaking the truth about him and society. He was a culture vulture and a racist he was a KkK member too.
@@sonyapeach I wish
@@sonyapeach never heard of Elvis being in the KKK. Culture Vulture? Not really. Elvis was a poor white kid who grew up around poor black folks. His parents were share choppers. He grew up in that environment.....no different than Eminem.
Elvis is hangin with Jim Morrison and Tupac...in Key West.
@@sonyapeach the song is anti-stupid. Apparently you're not. You're also anti-truth. 🙄🤦🏼
Yo Corey, man?
Yeah what's up?
I saw Elvis the other day...
GET OUTTA HERE MAN!
Who is good kitty?
My favorite introduction 👏🏻🤘🏻
"Elvis isn't dead, he just went home!"
Great band, great song. And it isn't a slam on Elvis, it's a slam on people profiting off of Elvis' death. Vernon Reid could shred with the best and Corey Glover's pipes are out of this world!
I don't know why people freak out that they're black. If you think about it, black musicians are the perfect fit for rock. And then there was Jimmi Hendrix. Originator.
Even before Jimmi. "Black" Blues bands paved the way for rock and roll. Rock N roll has its roots in "black" music. Although now "blacks" are associated with hip hop and rap.
True (I'm old enough and a music fan to know). All American popular music has a connection or roots in black music, including disco, electronic dance, etc.
Yea Lenny Kravitz is pretty good too
RainPoetry Hi!
Love your position on this issue. I think that a an all black band playing music that tangents other music cathegorised as "heavy metal" is noteworthy on at least two accounts. First, the illusion of separetedness from other humans because of their skincolur and secondly because of proclaimed, by the Elite, ideas that each so called race is limited to a certain expression. Living color transcends all that. Wake up and enjoy living on this planet..
R.A.T.M
I can't believe I never heard this song until today. All the truth bombs & a Little Richard cameo appearance!!! One of the TRUE Kings of Rock along with so many other black performers & writers. And I love LC ❤️
Damn right and the funk, good lord the funk!
Why would black people care who the king of rock is. It's not even a genre they like.
Living Colour. The only metal band that can make a sax solo fit in a metal song. you rock forever.
That's the ONE AND ONLY Maceo Parker on Sax.
As much as I love Living Colour, I wouldn’t say they are the only band who can pull it off. It’s just not something that is done commonly.
@@waverlyking6045 yeah, it's pretty common in avant-garde metal songs too
@@clownlung Living Colour brought some avant-garde to the mainstream. Then again, there are some avant-garde metal bands that are so out there that they don’t really resemble metal much in the traditional sense- which is not a knock against them. For instance, the band Igorr makes Mr. Bungle look like Nickleback.
@@waverlyking6045 both Igorrr and Mr. Bungle are great tho :)
Will Calhoun has to be one of the most underrated drummers ever. So talented, and you never here his name mentioned when talking drummers. Us drummers who bought these CDs when they came out know! Plus his solo disc from 100 years ago is outstanding.
Loud and groovy, like John Bonham
If James Brown would have played rock...THIS is what it would have sounded like! Living Colour....one of the best bands ever
....James Brown did play rock tho
And his saxophonist played on this track.
Don't mean to sound racist but I love black people doing rnr this is awesome. My mom is 57 years old and she's a huge fan of elvis Presley. She even went to Memphis to see his mansion and stuff
And that dancer diggin it
James Brown was good friends with Elvis and spoke very highly of the guy.
The Godfather talks about the King:
ruclips.net/video/i9SEpujPoLc/видео.html
Rest in Power to the King Of Rock, Little Richard
Amazing.
Amazing Jesus is risen.
Fact: little Richard was the real king of rock. He couldn't make it big back in the 50s because of the color of his skin so elvis made it big because he was white. He stole that from mr. Tutti frutti little Richard.
Chuck Berry i saw in 2005 in my hometown,Trani,Apulia/Puglia,southern Italy.came James Brown too but no money (i had)😐
Grande Riccardino(🇮🇹translat(ion)
RIP, Little Richard. The architect of RnR.
Him, Jerry lee Lewis and Chuck berry . Oh, and Link Ray for the distortion.
Maceo Parker's participation puts this composition over the top.....
Little Richard, RIP. You King, you Legend.
"There are 15,000 Elvis impersonators! Of course you saw him coming out of a Baskin Robins in Des Moines!" ~ some stand-up comic in the '80s
"Elvis the pelvis,too dangerous for the masses". Favourite line to me.
Mike Martin actually it's "for the pelvis of Elvis, too dangerous for the masses". I played the hell out of this song when I had the CD back in the day.
my favorite line is : I've got a reason to believe
We all won't be received at Graceland !
@@mariaemma16 A re-working of a Paul Simon lyric.
@@mariaemma16 Yeah people like to play Victim, even though they got to make up the oppressor(Even when they owe that same symbol most of what they got)
@@countfloydschillerhorrorth2090 What the hell are you on about?
LITTLE RICHARD rapped on this?????
Mind BLOWN😯😯😯
John Erkman at least it's not Mickey Rourke trying to rap on a David Bowie album. that was actually so laughable, it actually made me ill.
yes!
Maceo Parker - Saxophone, too
Apparently, Richard saw the Band opening for the Rolling stones, went backstage and went "Hey you fellaz, I'm one of those glamour boys you sang about!"
So with the man's approval in the bag, they asked him to contribute to this song and seeing as how Richard knew Elvis personally, he readily agreed.
Lol at least it’s not the cheesy white guy rapping in Roll the Bones by Rush
I LOVED how they went from this song right into TYPE, one of my favorite songs from them. This band is one of the best, but underrated bands out there
Sounds like Prince and Van Halen in the same band! WOW
These guys get me going, I have rarely loved a band so much!
and they had Little Richard guest star in it, who is influence to both Prince and VH, so it kind of came full circle.
That's a good description. Amazing band!
Underrated band for sure. Love em
BOXING KING MUHAMMAD ALI: "I'm Black, I'm an Islamic, I'm 100% different from you.
I’ll tell the world Elvis was the greatest of all time. I'm a Muslim who's black who stands up for what he believes. I don't have to say what I don't feel, I'm not false, I don't have to say this. I have no Bosses. I'm free. He to me, is one of the greatest singers, actors and all round men of all time." - THE GREATEST Muhammad Ali
I've listened to this song for 29 years - and only just now noticed Maceo on sax... How in the world did I miss that? Still a great song after all these years!
Man that snare sound. Love this track.
This song ALWAYS has to be immediately followed by TYPE!....
YES!
XXXCCELLENT CALL!!
Rest in Peace Little Richard, may Elvis greet you at the pearly gates.
THE LEGEND Mr BB KING spent A LOT OF TIME WITH ELVIS: 'Before Elvis we had Little Black Sambo, separate black restrooms and water fountains, and colored events that kept us away from the whites', BB King noted as he mention that Presley would attend events especially designated just for African-Americans.
In June 1956, Presley ignored Memphis's segregation ordinances by attending 'Colored Night' at the local fairgrounds amusement park. The following December, King was there as Presley opened up almost unbreakable racial barriers by attending and supporting the segregated WDIA black radio station's annual fund-raising event for 'needy black children' at Memphis' Ellis Auditorium. King wrote in his autobiography that he 'liked Elvis. I saw him as a fellow Mississippian. I was impressed by his sincerity.
When he came to the Goodwill Review (the event WDIA fund raisers of 1956 and 1957), he did himself proud'. 'The Goodwill Revues were important', he wrote. 'The entire black community turned out. All the DJs carried on, putting on skits and presenting good music'. In his autobiography, King said he held no grudges because 'Elvis didn't steal any music from anyone. He just had his own interpretation of the music he'd grown up on, same is true for everyone. I think Elvis had integrity'.
'If anyone says Elvis Presley was a racist', charged B.B. King in the 2010 interview. 'Then they don't know a thing about Elvis Presley or music history. 'Many nights after we finished our sets and I'd go up to his suite', King stated. 'I'd play Lucille (on Elvis' guitar) and sing with Elvis, or we'd take turns. It was his way of relaxing'. 'I'll tell you a secret', King winked and laughed. 'We were the original Blues Brothers because that man Elvis knew more blues songs than most in the business - and after some nights it felt like we sang everyone one of them."
'Let me tell you the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism', The King of the Blues, B.B. King said, 'With Elvis, there was not a single drop of racism in that man. And when I say that, believe me I should know'.
Criminally underrated album.
Criminally underated band
The first one is great too but I think time's up might be a little better.
@@mikereiss4216 They cut loose on Time's Up. Vivid was radio friendly, but live omg they were monsters on stage! Especially Will.
One of my favourite quotes of all time was by Little Richard when talking about Jimi Hendrix.
“He was a star. When I got him he was a star. Sly told you that everybody is a star. The only problem is some people haven’t been put in the dipper and pulled back on the world. That’s what the answer is. You got to be placed into the dipper and pulled back down on the world, and then men will see your good works and glorify god, Jehovah.” RIP Sir
People are really arguing that this is a diss song about Elvis? Really? What about the line "Elvis was a hero to most but that's besides the point." The line "Elvis was a hero to most" comes from "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, "Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me you see". Corey uses the first part of that line to say that it doesn't matter what he was to someone in particular. This is about living off the dead, that's it. Listen to what Little Richard says here.
"a black man taught him how to sing and then he was crowned king."
Was writing songs too for $40
I find it so ironic that there's an In Living Colour sketch where Jim carry plays a news reporter who just found Elvis. and this is a band called living colour saying Elvis is dead.
... with Richard Penniman AND Maceo Parker!!!! True class!
Jeez, I grew up listening to this sound in the 90s and without seeing this I would die without knowing that it's the great Little Richard rapping. Thank you RUclips for the revelation
Headbanger's ball a million years ago.
Quite superb
I saw Elvis, today at the Post Office!
+Scot Morley fuck off m8
get outta here man!
"I saw Elvis the other day."
"Get outta here, man!"
What an excellent song with a great riff
This is What inspired me to continue in MY music. And That Band was legendary for the Riffs on the Guitar. Pure Energy
The legendary Maceo Parker.
I'm watching all of their videos just in a raw,, best quarantine ever!
Just another example of the Rock Drumming Virtuosity of Mr. William Calhoun...
"Sonic Boom" !!!
anofi berry I started following him the first time I heard Vivid. Insanely good drummer. Technical and soulful.
In my h/o Will Calhoun is literally the best Rock Drummer since The Great John Bonham. (I leave Peart out only because he is Way more prog than straight up Rock) Sonic Boom remains in "Rare Air"
Bad ass song. Little Richard, too! Great sax solo.
TEMAZOOO!!!
I love this.
it's funky it's funny it's real.
why is this not on TV?
They went about 10 notches past everything. They did show this on mtv back then. Banned and a lot of white people stopped listening to the music and started listening to what was programmed into them. They are still here i never left
It probably was 30 years ago.
These have got to be the best lyrics of that decade.
I heard this song when I was a kid, thanks to my brother. Had to find it!
Love love LOVE this band!!!!!!
I was brought to this band by cm punk. I love how lil Richard was in this. 1000% great
Be my guess let him rest, R.I.P Little Richard
It's amazing how good this song is... and the video too!
HERE ARE THE FACTS: The great legends of color in his era: BB King - Jackie Wilson - James Brown were there to witness Elvis‘ creativity. He was a one-of-a-kind super talent that grew up in the black community during the Great Depression and segregation in the deep South. Born in 1935 in a shack his father built (no electricity or plumbing). His twin brother died at birth. The Presleys were so poor that they buried his stillborn twin brother in a shoe box.
So Elvis experienced the depths of poverty from the day he was literally born. He grew up playing with black friends on the streets and in black and white southern Baptist churches, in the poorest mixed and black neighborhoods in Tupelo -- a potentially deadly activity back in the 1940s-60s down South. Elvis' support for the civil rights movement was real and is not known by the greater population in America.
The new Elvis 2022 movie examined this part. This is why almost all black musicians from that era absolutely loved Elvis because he was able to take that Memphis sound all around the country and then the world. Little Richard credited Elvis Presley multiple times for opening up the door for black music and creating a path that he could travel and so he could make his mark.
Clearly a terribly racist time Elvis put poverty and racial socialization on his platform. But he did it all through Music and his behind the scenes actions alone. He never got political I think that’s what actually made him so powerful and able to succeed.
FAMOUS QUOTES BY THE MOST KNOWN BLACK MEN and WOMEN OF THE 1940s-80s and beyond WHO ACTUALLY KNEW ELVIS:
JOHN LEE HOOKER - "Elvis was a really good friend of mine.... He was the king." -- John Lee Hooker
MUHAMMAD ALI - 'Elvis was my close personal friend. He had a robe made for me. I don't admire nobody, but Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know. We must understand, Elvis did lot for poor people, he cared for people, he had a good heart, he just wasn't a person who was great with talent, but he was great in spirit and with God in his heart. I wouldn't praise nobody if he don't deserve it, because I am the greatest of all time in boxing, in boxing. I said boxing ! But I'm telling you, I'm Black, I'm a Islamic, I'm 100% different from you. But I’ll tell the world Elvis was the greatest of all time. I'm a Muslim who's black who stands up for what he believes. I don't have to say what I don't feel, I'm not false, I don't have to say this. I have no Bosses. I'm free. He to me, is one of the greatest singers, actors and all round men of all time.” ~ "THE GREATEST" MUHAMMAD ALI.
BB KING: 'Let me tell you the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism', The King of the Blues, B.B. King said in 2010. 'With Elvis, there was not a single drop of racism in that man. And when I say that, believe me I should know'. -- BB KING
The "GODFATHER OF SOUL" JAMES BROWN: “I wasn’t just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him … I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There will never be another like that Soul Brother”. During Elvis' private family wake, James was the LAST ONE TO LEAVE. 3 hours and 30 minutes later -- it took several of his security guards to help him out of the room. James was devastated -- James and Elvis sang Gospel together many a night to all hours of the morning at each others' homes. James Brown was considered family by the Presleys they were so close.
JACKIE WILSON: "A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied from Elvis." --- JACKIE WILSON (Elvis quietly paid for Jackie's medical expenses until the day he passed away in 1977. Before Jackie's stage accident he would carry a small signed photo of Elvis in his pants pocket. Every day, bar none.)
RANDY JACKSON (of the Jackson 5): "Elvis used Rock and Roll music to bridge the gap between whites and minorities. He was a wonderful person."
LITTLE RICHARD "He sung my Tootie Fruti & by him singing it, made it bigger & made ME bigger" And then he said: “I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road...”- Little Richard
CISSY HOUSTON: "Elvis loved gospel music. He was raised on it. And he really did know what he was talking about. He was singing Gospel all the time - almost anything he did had that flavor. You can't get away from what your roots are." - Cissy Houston (The Sweet Inspirations co-founder & member & sang vocals for Elvis, also mother of Whitney Houston)
MEGA--If Corey is singing, I'm listening! Guys are unreal!
Bought the album when it came out on vinyl. This song is better than I remembered
Happy Birthday Elvis 2023 !
I think some people need to realize that this is not Living Colour making an Elvis hate song or anything. Just had to get that out there. Love the song!
Truth
Elvis was a hero to most
But that's beside the point
A Black man taught him how to sing
And then he was crowned king
It’s a Zombie Elvis hate song.
It seemed more like a "Let Elvis rest in peace and stop cashing in on him" song
Little Richard knew Elvis personally, he wouldn't have contributed to this song if it had been an Elvis bashing song.
i love this band!!!
i like how this band tells how we as people idolize certain people
It's not.
they're saying don't make money of Elvis' good name saying he's alive when he's obviously not.
Bit like the Church saying Jesus lives when he never did.
@@Hellwyck it’s not the church saying Christ lived, it’s literally every historian ever existed. He did live, that’s not up for debate. Whether he died and then lived again, that’s what is super debatable.
@@Hellwyck It's both. Elvis is dead (literal), so stop making up stupid tabloid stories. Elvis is dead (metaphorical) the white fandom that embraced his music and cult of persoanlity but not the black roots that it came from is dead too. "I've got a reason to believe, we all won't be received, at Graceland (No not you my brother!)... it's pretty damn clear and I'm kind of realizing after all these years that some folk heard that plain as day and some folk couldn't hear it at all.
The real king of rock.. Mr. Chuck Berry.. architect of rock Little Richard ..Godmother of rock sister Rosetta Thorpe.
Yeah they 3 loved Elvis, some black people now are crazy about it
Thank You for this Song.
...didn't realize Maceo Parker was on this track... Top shelf!
Yup, Maceo blow yo horn!
Elvis has left the building!"
("Elvis deixou o prédio!").
I don't think the point of this song was to trash Elvis, dudes.
Nope, the point was to make fun of the fact that there were so many people making money off his name and likeness. Such as with Elvis toilet seats.
Exactly, it's making fun of the conspiracy theories & not trashing Elvis and also, yes, there were some CRAZY souvenirs being sold!...For a long time after Elvis died, there were a lot of people who didn't think he was dead, that's the joke, and that's what they're talking about, today you can still find an occassional article or site saying he's still alive, in fact there's people who do not think Jim Morrision from The Doors is dead, however, there were A LOT more "National Enquirer" type magazines w/headlines saying Elvis was alive. I also know of a couple of other songs that have "Elvis is dead" in the title from the 80s & early 90s.
Excellent tune 😎❤️
"He went through the test, he's outta this mess/Be my guest and let him rest!" I quote those lyrics anytime the media scrounges around for whatever dirt is left about Elvis/Marilyn Monroe/JFK/Princess Diana.
I love this song
Still slaps!
I LOVE THIS
The same band that created "Cult of personality" ... everything makes sense
Awesome bass lines
i love elvis ! - and i also like the song from living colour -
Una de mis bandas favoritas "de siempre". Con esta canción cargada de matices vocales y rítmicos: mezclando heavy, hard y rasgos de otros subgéneros del rock unidos a la maestria de las cuerdas vocales de Corey Glover: combina los pasajes de la canción con una "pasmosa naturalidad"; la guitarra afinada en tono medio con un sonido perfecto en los riff y las partes en las que interviene con acento distorsionado;la batería es genial con un sonido metálico y ligeramente "seco y destemplado": un sonido muy difícil de "sacar a la percusión bien tocada" crea un ambiente perfecto; el bajo "toca las 4 cuerdas" de una manera totalmente acoplada con la percusión; el saxo está en unos agudos geniales que es una parte "integral" del ritmo base: no es un simple adorno..... Y la participación especial?... Alguien puede ofrecer más?.... O es solo mi opinión?.... Ustedes que piensan sobre esta banda?....
Awesome song & never gets old!
Living Colour=Awesome
Little Richard=Legend
Little Richard appearing in a Living Colour song/video...If I can quote Little Rich himself, Whooo Baby, I just felt my big toe rise!
I'm sick and tired of black people disrespecting Elvis although he was too kind to them ...I LOVE black artists but u need give Elvis due respect ...He was the greatest in his time no matter what u say ...He was infeluenced by some black artists but this doesn't make them better than him ..MJ was infeluenced by many white artists and then became greater
This band made at least three of the greatest albums in rock history Stain, Time's Up, and Vivid, the best song about the 9/11 attacks (Flying), and one of the best live rock albums ever made (The Paris Concert).
Growing up in the 80s I was a huge Midnight Oil and U2 fan and then I saw the music video for Middle Man. Living Colour had a huge impact on my life.
Yo Corey Man... You guys GOTTA play this on this TOUR with Extreme... PLEEZE & Thank YOU!!
I didn't know this song existed! It's freakin' fantastic! "ELVIS esta muerto!"...
I love do love this. But much more I love the way ‘type’ comes straight in within half a second of it ending. (On the album)
Always loved these guys. Black version of RHCP.❤️
No advertisement.... YES!
underappreciated living colour. how many more songs/groups/artists are out there that are unknown.
Desde mi punto de vista, lo que entiendo que dice la canción es que le hicieron muchísima fama a Elvis incluso cuando estaba muerto y la banda en su opinión cree que hay muchos artistas de esa época que son mejores y tiene razón encima esos artistas eran de piel negra pero como en esa etapa de la historia estadounidense existía el racismo, muchos de esos artistas no fueron valorados como debieron serlo. Para mí más que nada es como una crítica hacia el racismo más allá de que mencione a Elvis
Además Elvis se hizo conocido como muchísimos artistas por ser una persona de piel blanca que hacía música creada por la gente de piel oscura. De hecho lo mejor de la música fue creada por los africanos y se los debemos; en vez de actuar de manera racista hacía esa gente deberíamos estar agradecidos por la música maravillosa que crearon y que muchos blancos utilizaron y la modificaron para hacerse conocidos
Common people,Elvis isn't dead,he just left the building. ;-)
Why are you targeting people who aren't rare?
Oh, sorry... by the way it's spelt COME ON or C'MON, not COMMON.
I sent this to a 55 year old black man yesterday. He is still crying.
Love it
is this a man maceo(!) from latter part free blowing?
then is good
Wow, I kinda Love this! What a singer, whew!
They weren't "underrated" back in the day....they just quit.
I remember quite a few positive reviews and record/CD sales for them in post 93, then they stopped after the True Lies soundtrack in 94. They are still around after they re-grouped in 2000 and have two very good CD out that you should look into. But don't assume that because you haven't heard too much about them Now that they were not appreciated, they were.
As far as I’m concerned, any band that’s made it into a GTA soundtrack has proven their value.
Funky as hell...thanks guys.
HELL YEAH LIL RICHARD SPITTIN OUT RAPS LIKE JAY ZZZ
That's cool. Bananas and peanut butter in the shopping cart.
💞💖💕💓💗❤ Living Colour 😀
CM Punk introduced me to this band...i'm 27...i really missed out man...but thats what I love about music..always some new amazing band you've never heard and can dive totally into. Every song I'm hearing is amazing as all hell.
Elvis aint dead, he just left the building
these guys are my favourite band-they absolutely killed it!!
THIIS MUSIC STILL LIFE🤘🇵🇱😊
Elvis was a hero to most
But that's beside the point
a recall to "fight the power"
...which Chuck D has repeatedly retracted. He got that one badly wrong but The King had the last laugh.
I didn't expect a to jam that hard WHOA!
1:07 even to this day, I thought that line was funny and I'm still looking for that Uptown Comedy Club skit between Monteria Ivey and Jim Breuer with the aliens and Elvis, if anybody can find it!
Wow!! :-) I forgot about Little Richards Rap!!!!
Living Colour was a great band IMO. The Stained LP was my fave (and the heaviest). I read all the comments and ask why should race even matter? Hirax, Fishbone, Sepultura? Rob Halford's gay.... If It's good, if it rocks....
*is* a great band.
Thank you.