Did Black Folks really create Country Music? That’s what shea butter twitter is claiming now.

[Formerly Black Trash]

A simple google search doesn’t give you “Country music came from Black artists” Its not a simple answer. Did black people influence what we know as country music? Yes… but it’s not “our music”.

Black Artists Built Country Music—And Then It Left Them Behind

A new Ken Burns documentary explores African-American influences on country music's origins, long before the rise of Lil Nas X

time.com

We made the roots

 

[Apollo Creed]

Yeah she will.

Longevity, and hasn't dropped a bad album.

"not a bad album" and timeless album are not one in the same.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Crystal Gayle is a whole white woman and Elizabeth Cotten played Piedmont-style blues

you expected consistency from a white washed flunkie breh. mfer really threw black people under the bus and here his ass posting a white bytch.

 

[Fillerguy]

Its cacs have done a number on us. The bestie boys would have created rap by 2060

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

I've seen Coli militants claim brehs were the inventors of every medium and form of entertainment that's
been created.

I got negged because I said a cac created basketball

 

[RickyDiBiase]

"not a bad album" and timeless album are not one in the same.

they don't have to be

look at Prince.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Its cacs have done a number on us. The bestie boys would have created rap by 2060

Dudes up here doing but but but

Not even reading the sources

 

[Dynamite James]

If Usher had came out with a country album MF would have clowned him If beyonce was a new artist’ guaranteed most R&B fans (Her base genre) would think that shyt she just put out was trash.

 

[Mystic]

Y'all really hate country music in this bytch?

 

[NobodyReally]

The Black Origins of Country Music​

Black artists have played a prominent role in country music from its beginnings to today​

By FAIRPLAY, JME STAFF

Credit: Courtesy of FairPlay
June is Black Music Appreciation month. This month we’ll be celebrating the musical contributions of Black artists, including those from Jacksonville. And, with the help of our friends at FairPlay, we’re offering readers a deeper look into the Black origins of various popular music genres, from country to shoegaze, punk, reggaeton and more.
From the African origins of the banjo — an instrument whose sonic signature is audible in country music to this day — to the influence of Black musicians on early country stars like The Carter Family and Hank Williams to the exposure popular R&B and soul musicians brought to the genre, Black artists have played a prominent role in country music from its beginnings to today.
The melodies of many early country hits were lifted from hymns performed by Black ministers in the South.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

I ain’t never seen nobody say black folks created country music until about a week ago

Now I heard we created rock and roll all my life

I’ve been hearing this all my life. They coined the term “country” for white folks but nothing about it was originated by white folks.

 

[NobodyReally]

Now that that has been established. get with the new Black country!

 

[BonafideDefacto]

So black people invented singing and music




I'm just fukking with yall.

No one created country music because it's origins have no invention. It was a style that was sang from cacs to nikkas in the frontier way before the Civil War Era.

 

[The Fade]

I’ve been hearing this all my life. The coined the term “country” for white folks but nothing about it was originated by white folks.

Yeah genre names are formed by media people.. sometimes to shyt on the music but it’s used for commercial purposes. Sonically there is clear blues stylings.

War Pigs is a metal song but Ozzy Osborne is doing a straight slave holler through the song, and metal comes from blues. The pop rock like Imagine Dragons does still do the black call and response style with their guitars. Guitar solos come From jazz improv solos. Once you know, you don’t stop hearing black influence in modern music. It’s atomized within the Geist of it

 

[the elastic]

Crackers mad