Elvis invented Rock & Roll

[Vonte3000]

http://www.complex.com/music/2014/07/variety-headlines-twitter-reacts/


According to Cynthia Littleton, one of three editors-in-chief at Variety, Elvis Presley "invented" rock 'n' roll. Didn't you get the memo? Nevermind that rock's 1950s origins are hardly so singular and tidy. Nevermind that the incomparable Chuck Berry and lesser Little Richard are, at this point, comically under-acknowledged pioneers of the genre. Never mind that the Variety essay dedicates a paragraph to Chess Records and nonetheless fails to credit signee Chuck Berry for, well, anything.

What matters, we guess, is that Elvis was the first rock megastar.

Even the white people were against this shyt

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Which coli c00n/cac wrote that article?

 

[ThaRealness]

Everyone knows that Macklemore invented Rock n Roll

 

[Leatherface]

That shyt is crazy....and when I was coming up it was somewhat rare to see a black kid into rock...they took it, but its almost like we didn't give a fukk.

 

[same damn lo sweater]

this song goes hard

 

[HowardHughes]

they took over rock now rap is next mark my words.

 

[ThaRealness]

they took over rock now rap is next mark my words.

Bruh... people have been saying this for 20 years

 

[DrX]

this song goes hard

 

[Vonte3000]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[HowardHughes]

Bruh... people have been saying this for 20 years

other than the states most white people dont listen to rap except maybe cacmore nd em.

this wasnt the case 5-10 years ago

 

[HowardHughes]

 

[same damn lo sweater]

lmao. you got me there.

but variety's a trade magazine for people working in hollywood. has zero impact on young music listeners

 

[DrX]

he go elvis daddy

 

[Mandarin Duck]

they took over rock now rap is next mark my words.

Bruh... people have been saying this for 20 years

They already did.
In the 50's a majority of people literally didn't want to see black people on tv or hear them on the radio.
Now and days music executives realize we don't need whites to pretend to do black music(although there still are Em's, Justin Timberlakes, etc).
As long as we still control it

 

[Hannibal Fox]

Jerry Butler has to be up there when it comes to the sheer power of his voice, incredible singer.