The alleged hip-hop influence in the music of Nine Inch Nails, and especially the works of its mastermind Trent Reznor, is stronger than one would think. Already out is the word that NIN's first album, pretty hate machine, was originally called straight outta mercer, and that Trent Reznor had ties to the homeboys of N.W.A. (the rap band, not the airline).

While researching this supposed NIN-rap connection, undergraduate sociology students at the University of Oregon discovered the rough sketches of song lyrics, written in a freestyle-rap style, which were presumably altered and modified to more "pop" form for use in PHM. These scribbled words were found inside the album jacket cover of Trent's old George Clinton/P-Funk records and were painstakingly transcribed by the aforementioned sociology students for worldwide distribution:

BFPT 407 ["Research and Seminar"]:

da only time

Yo! I be blitzed, and I just wanna be with you
I don't even wanna be thinkin' 'bout hangin' out with you and shit
I be puttin' my hands on Heaven and da big-ass Sun and da chilly Moon and them Stars
But the D wants to do me in da back of his Benzo
Ain't nuthin' quite like da feel of new, fresh dopin' shit

Maybe I be illin'
maybe I be illin'
maybe I be illin' being with you and shit
maybe I be illin'

Dis be da only time I feel like I'm in da house and shit...

Yo! I'm tellin' you, man! I jus' found everything i need, y'know what I'm sayin'?
Your eyes be covered in sweat, your veins be full of red, they all be listenin' to me and shit
Yo! I just wanna rap it up and be getting down in it, until I get broke
I don't give a motherfucking fuck 'bout no morals and shee-it
Ain't nuthin' quite like da feel of new, fresh dopin' shit

Maybe I be illin'
maybe I be illin'
maybe I be illin' being with you and shit
maybe I be illin'

Dis be da only time I feel like I'm in da house and shit...

-- m.c. death (in da haus!)