All Time includes all the way up to today.
Memphis doesn't have a stronger black musical legacy than (no order) LA, NY, Atlanta, Chicago, off rip. So then you're looking at the next level, does Memphis really have a stronger black catalogue than Philly, New Orleans, Houston?
Musically it might make the Top 10, but I don't think it's Top 5.
Black history and culture in general. Memphis' strongest claim to fames:
•being the major city and economic center of the Delta South, so blacks from all over the Delta tri-state flock to Memphis
•notable in the Civil Rights era
•imported blues from Mississippi and became a music city, which later turned Memphis into a blues hotspot, then a rock n roll hotspot, then a funk/soul hotspot, with famous artists and labels headquartered in Memphis
•later became a notable hip hop city
•Memphis is a basketball city from the ground up and every layer of the city is intertwined with basketball
These are Memphis' highlights. Is it enough to be a Top 10 black city historically, I'm not sure.
