Last year I was inspecting some goods being loaded into an export container. The loaders were young men, black and white. I joshed them about loading 16 tons and they didn't get it.
They had loaded more than 16 tons apiece and what did they get? Literally sore arms and backs.
In Knoxville Tennessee, barely 60 miles from his Bulls Gap home there was no knowledge of Tennessee Ernie. In a hiphop world, he is unknown