As a huge Velvet Underground fan growing up, I don’t think I’ve ever read anything about Lou Reed that didn’t make him sound like a massive, self-entitled, narcissistic, dickhead.
Also I can’t help but feel that him inducting Zappa into the Hall of Fame after Zappa’s passing, was a snide little fuck you to Zappa, an artist whom he had a long standing bit of jealousy for.
One thing that I learned from Cisco about samples is always clear them. His line in The Thong Song “Living La Vida Loca” cost him a lot of money because he never cleared it with Ricky Martin. So, clear those samples gang.