60.00% - Black American culture built the soundtrack of the 20th century — rock, hip hop, jazz, blues, soul, R&B — and mainstream culture's acknowledgment of that influence is still catching up.
40.00% - Black artists have historically been filtered and blocked from the mainstream by gatekeepers who preferred white artists performing similar material — that's the documented history of American popular music.
Elvis Presley repeatedly took material from Black artists who could not reach mainstream audiences.
37.50% - Black American culture built the soundtrack of the 20th century — rock, hip hop, jazz, blues, soul, R&B — and mainstream culture's acknowledgment of that influence is still catching up.
37.50% - Calling Elvis the king of rock and roll erases the artists he learned from and built upon — the crown is debatable at minimum.
25.00% - Black artists have historically been filtered and blocked from the mainstream by gatekeepers who preferred white artists performing similar material — that's the documented history of American popular music.
100.00% - Elvis Presley repeatedly took material from Black artists who could not reach mainstream audiences.
0.00% - Elvis habitually ripped off black artists.
50.00% - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music