Bad Brains' influence was and still is huge. My experience of BB's records is far from original. I was one of the many lives changed by the black Rasta punk band's music—its heaviness, its energy, its originality. "Pay to Cum," "I Against I," "Re-Ignition," "Return to Heaven"—these tracks exploded my understanding of culture. It was not fixed, it was not genetic, it was not destiny; it was fluid, mercurial, plastic. Culture was, for me and many others, permanently un-grounded by not only BB's attitude and mode but also the preternaturally elastic voice of it's frontman, Paul "HR" Hudson, the subject of the documentary Finding Joseph I. by Charles Mudede