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 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.
Black American culture's influence on mainstream American pop culture is consistently undercredited.
23.08% - Jazz, hip hop, rock and roll, gospel, blues — none of these would exist in their American form without immigrant and diaspora communities.
23.08% - Elvis took sounds and specific recordings from Black artists who couldn't reach mainstream audiences — he was talented, and he habitually ripped people off.
23.08% - 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.
15.38% - American culture has dominated the world stage for a century, in large part because America absorbs and amplifies contributions from everywhere.
15.38% - Calling Elvis the king of rock and roll erases the artists he learned from and built upon — the crown is debatable at minimum.
100.00% - Black American culture's influence on mainstream American pop culture is consistently undercredited.
0.00% - The influence of black culture on American pop culture is under appreciated.
50.00% - Tiki culture