Elvis wasn't a bad musician

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Elvis was a white southerner. There's no way that he didn't harbour at least some animosity towards African Americans, especially the more talented ones that he ripped from.

Nah....Elvis came up in a time where shytting on Blacks earned you brownie points but he never did. Not saying he was Team Black....but I don't think he sat around thinking about or hating us like that.

John Wayne? Now that cac was racist as fukk.

 

[Spence]

Yeah, he wasn’t bad because all his shyt was stolen from Black

 

[J.E.T.S]

I have never in my life willingly listened to an Elvis Presley song.

I had no choice growing up in Memphis. Little J.E.T.S would be with granny up in Sears copping my Easter Sunday pastel blue suit with white dress shoes & the next thing you know, an associate done turnt up “Jailhouse Rock” on ya ass.

 

[Fill Collins]

Chuck D recanted his lines about Elvis in that track a long time ago

Elvis was a white southerner. There's no way that he didn't harbour at least some animosity towards African Americans, especially the more talented ones that he ripped from.

If anything, his manager, that fakkit Tom Parker was the racist one, he was an illegal immigrant from the Netherlands () and scammed his way thru the south networking with segregationist politicians

Parker made back room deals with governors looking to stop desegregation early and explicitly banned Elvis from speaking up politically or associating w/ Black ppl too openly

Best thing about Elvis was his fat ass dying on the toilet

His voice not deteriorating as he died in real time would be the best

I have never in my life willingly listened to an Elvis Presley song.

What you want, a boutonniere? Now's your chance

 

[feelosofer]

Elvis was talented but what he took from Black writers and artists mars his legacy.

 

[Fill Collins]

Yeah, he wasn’t bad because all his shyt was stolen from Black

He had a Black writer on hire, Otis Blackwell, a lot of his well known hits were by him

 

[Fill Collins]

Elvis was talented but what he took from Black writers and artists mars his legacy.

Elvis was a hillbilly trapped in a 360 deal, he sang what was given to him and only put his foot down once in 1968

After that he didn't even do rock n roll, he regressed into a ballad singer for women

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Elvis was never a bad artist. It was the propping up by the industry and white masses that was the problem

If Elvis was black, he would get way more love in our community. And ironically, he would not be considered "iconic" today. He wouldn't have even got nearly the amount of attention he did decades ago. That's the real core issue

 

[Fill Collins]

If Elvis was black, he would get way more love in our community. And ironically, he would not be considered "iconic" today. He wouldn't have even got nearly the amount of attention he did decades ago. That's the real core issue

That's a product of the time, a fukked up one

Difference between now and then, music was way more segregated, it's OK for little Timmy and Rebecca to listen to Black music, but back then the color line was a very real, non-abstract thing

Also, Black folk are fickle when it comes to music, that's the price we pay for being universally looked at as cool...ain't no brehs listening to Frankie Lymon, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Josh White, Johnny Ace, Bo Diddley, Chubby Checker...you get me, like THAT

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

That's a product of the time, a fukked up one

Difference between now and then, music was way more segregated, it's OK for little Timmy and Rebecca to listen to Black music, but back then the color line was a very real, non-abstract thing

Also, Black folk are fickle when it comes to music, that's the price we pay for being universally looked at as cool...ain't no brehs listening to Frankie Lymon, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Josh White, Johnny Ace, Bo Diddley, Chubby Checker...you get me, like THAT

Facts. And out of all those artists, I only heard of Little Richard from some artist's 2000s-2010s song I can't remember which one

I never heard Chuck Berry's name until Eminem said it, and spoke on this very issue on Royce's Allegory interlude




The irony


I've never heard of any of those other artists. And I'm a 26 year old black man. Imagine how little the majority of these listeners and people as a whole know about these black pioneers

 

[Remote]

Chuck D recanted his lines about Elvis in that track a long time ago

When?

Because in this video (5:30ish mark) he doesn’t recant shyt.

 

[tuckgod]

 

[Fill Collins]

I've never heard of any of those other artists. And I'm a 26 year old black man. Imagine how little the majority of these listeners and people as a whole know about these black pioneers

I ain't really listen to them like that until like three years ago and I'm 25

Chuck Berry's called the pioneer of rock n roll, but out of them I fw Bo Diddley the best

Messed around with guitar effects, used an African drum beat, and named that same song after himself in the 50s

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

When?

Because in this video (5:30ish mark) he doesn’t recant shyt.

He was done with the attention and the ACCLAIM Elvis got opposed to the pioneers that came before him. I watched that segment of the video

Not once did he call Elvis a racist. He's lamenting the racist society of America that has only grown older

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

I ain't really listen to them like that until like three years ago and I'm 25

Chuck Berry's called the pioneer of rock n roll, but out of them I fw Bo Diddley the best

Messed around with guitar effects, used an African drum beat, and named that same song after himself in the 50s

These are the type of threads we need on here. Ignore the posters who don't think critically and aren't open to learn anything