Fill Collins
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Doesn't call him racist
Elvis wasn't a bad musician
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Doesn't call him racist
Zeppelins 1 Cover Jam>>>Elvis original catalog
”i was born in darkness, I fought my way up out of the blueeeeeee yeaaa
”
“Let me tell you girl, you ain’t seen nothing yet, there’s not a thing in this world that I could never get, as long as I have you
”
Dude could write lowkey
Edit: NVM A dude named Roy Turk wrote it
fukk Elvis, Illiterate hillbilly chomo glittery hip swangin fat fukk
@Drinky Crow
”i was born in darkness, I fought my way up out of the blueeeeeee yeaaa
“Let me tell you girl, you ain’t seen nothing yet, there’s not a thing in this world that I could never get, as long as I have you
Dude could write lowkey
Edit: NVM A dude named Roy Turk wrote it
fukk Elvis, Illiterate hillbilly chomo glittery hip swangin fat fukk
@Drinky Crow
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Hollywood Co
Primetime Reppin
An Elvis celebration thread on a Hip Hop messageboard is a wild thing to see. Those pics with Ali saved this thread and that Ray Charles Bob Costas interview sums up Elvis’s relationship to black folks and our music in real time.
He’s not worthy to be highlighted in our culture.
He’s not worthy to be highlighted in our culture.
Fill Collins
Able to get note from doctor
Zeppelins 1 Cover Jam>>>Elvis original catalog
”i was born in darkness, I fought my way up out of the blueeeeeee yeaaa”
“Let me tell you girl, you ain’t seen nothing yet, there’s not a thing in this world that I could never get, as long as I have you”
Dude could write lowkey
Elvis ain't write dikk, he was basically forced out of creative control and had to get most of his songs from a b-tier songwriting firm, Hill & Range
One of his weed careers, Lamar Fike, had a stake in that company and kinda fukked him over on that
LZ is great though, a breh, forgot his name atm, played drums for them at Farm Aid (or Live Aid) too, we're everywhere
A message board who has a majority of users that don't like to read extensively and can't have discussions that are deeper than how they feel about thread titles is a wild thing to see
It's gotten to a point where I have to make threads and consciously dumb them down. Make them more accessible. Consciously make them easy to understand. And some of my threads still have the same posters who make dismissive statements like this
It's not an Elvis celebration thread. There is no celebration of anything. Nuance man. That's the last time I'll ever say the word Nuance on here. There's nothing more I can do
@Justin Timberlake
You can add his pops to the mix as well as they both worked hand in hand in swindling him. The
Fill Collins
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A messageboard where 30+ y/o men big up thot rap, drill, and Canadians who sing about stuff that would impress middle schoolers
Rock n roll is hip hop, Black ppl play music on a grid, other races just make noise, and we gave non-Blacks rhythm lessons for nothing
I said he wasn't bad; didn't say he was the king of rnr (he isn't), I ain't even say good
As far as I'm concerned, he died in 1970, lost all his integrity and dignity, a true example of wasted talent
Fill Collins
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Vernon was a lazy piece of shyt, he forced Elvis to rehire Tom Parker
Nkrumah Was Right
Banned
Him too! And LBJ!
That’s from 2002 and doesn’t recant anything.
Doesn't call him racist
What I posted is far more recent and he explicitly stands by it.
Hollywood Co
Primetime Reppin
I’m not one to make statements like this but I felt some type of way seeing this thread. Not that Elvis never needs to be spoken on in a music forum but this particular artist was propped up above many more talented musicians of his time and most of those folks were Black.
Yes, nuance is needed in music discussions but to get a full thread of Elvis’ music and catalog in this forum is just odd to me and it looks out of place especially considering how he was viewed by his Black contemporaries.
Fill Collins
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If you want to hear another musician who actually called for desegregation and wrote his own music, check out this thread on Johnnie Ray, he came right after Sinatra and right before Elvis, was America's first pop star
www.thecoli.com
Anyone hear about Johnnie Ray? (cac singer from the 50s)
I was going through a box of records I got and there was this single (side b): I looked the guy up, turns out he was a deaf farm boy from Oregon who moved to Detroit to sing and play piano (he got a hearing aid), On top of that, he was everything cacs want you to think Elvis was: He openly...
www.thecoli.com
Fill Collins
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Not saying he was this John Brown figure, but he wasn't Pat Boone either, a lot of his Black contemporaries weren't particularly negative against him either
James Brown was one of the first people to attend his funeral and BB King wouldn't shut up about how they were friends
BulletProof
Just a B@stard Living in a Suit
Micheal Jackson died his cause of deathMichael Jackson bought his music catalog
Michael Jackson fukked his daughter
Michael Jackson bought his home Graceland