And covered Patti Smith's "Rock and Roll Nigger" for the evident sheer sake of using the N-word.

(Smith was applying the word metaphorically, in the sense of "outcast", to herself [see also Yoko Ono and John Lennon's "Woman is the Nigger of the World"]; whether this is something that people who aren't themselves black--which is to say, people who have self-applied the label and can doff it at will--ought to be doing is a whole 'nother kettle of debate.)