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% - Elvis took sounds and specific recordings from Black artists who couldn't reach mainstream audiences — he was talented, and he habitually ripped people off.
Black artists have historically been filtered out of the mainstream by gatekeepers preferring white performers.
33.33% - Elvis took sounds and specific recordings from Black artists who couldn't reach mainstream audiences — he was talented, and he habitually ripped people off.
33.33% - Jazz, hip hop, rock and roll, gospel, blues — none of these would exist in their American form without immigrant and diaspora communities.
33.33% - 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.
100.00% - Black artists have historically been filtered out of the mainstream by gatekeepers preferring white performers.
0.00% - Historically, black artists’ potential influence was diminished by gatekeepers.
50.00% - Blackface