60.00% - Elvis took sounds and specific recordings from Black artists who couldn't reach mainstream audiences — he was talented, and he habitually ripped people off.
40.00% - 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.
Calling Elvis the "king of rock and roll" elides the Black artists he learned from and built upon.
100.00% - Calling Elvis the "king of rock and roll" elides the Black artists he learned from and built upon.
0.00% - Elvis was not “the king”
50.00% - The Byrds