Ray Charles was asked if Elvis was "The King"... He said, "Of what?"

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All facts. They love our art, but they hate us.

It's in their DNA to rob and pillage, so they do the same thing with our music that they did with our land and spirituality. They stole it, and then claimed it as their own.

That Elvis shyt is still going on today. This Trump-loving middle-aged cac bytch at my job LOVES Post Malone :snoop:.

I remember when Eminem came out, cacs who claimed to hate Hip-Hop were blasting his shyt the most :mjpls:.

The same goes for singers. Adele has a nice vocal timbre, but she has limited range and is flat/pitchy at times. There are countless Black singers better than her, but she's promoted as this elite vocalist. Shyt, you could walk into any Black church on Sunday and find better.

It's like Paul Mooney said, everybody wanna be Black, but nobody wanna be Black.
 

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We are lucky to witness the media try and do the same in this era wit Marshall, and be loud in enough in number & have other platforms to kill that plan quick. :camby:

I’d say they succeeded with Em, a lot of rappers call him 1 of the great and he’s in that stereotypical top 5 wit Nas, BIG, Jay an Pac even tho he don’t deserve it
 

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:mjpls:Of course your c00n ass thinks that Elvis is the king, that MJ is a pedophile, and that Eminem is the GOAT rapper.



:philjacksonlol: I mean they don’t call you @Sunc00n for nothing.



:philjacksonlol::philjacksonlol::philjacksonlol:

I don't think Elvis is king of anything, nor do I think Eminem is GOAT.

I simply thought it was kinda funny that somewhere in America, there is a young man thinking to himself, fukk, I wish Ray Charles could see lol

Like I resonate with that, I too wish Ray Charles had vision, it's just kinda funny to say that outta nowhere.

Oh and you can hop off my dikk at any time playboi.
 

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the part he said about white girls swooning for Nat King Cole, and that creating problems was real shyt.

Billy Eckstine was whiteballed from the music industry because this photo ran in the press
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Eckstine was the subject of a three-page profile in the 25 April 1950 issue of LIFE magazine, in which the photographer Martha Holmes accompanied Eckstine and his entourage during a week in New York City.[9] One photograph taken by Holmes and published in LIFE showed Eckstine with a group of white female admirers, one of whom had her hand on his shoulder and her head on his chest while she laughed. Eckstine's biographer Cary Ginell, wrote of the image that Holmes "...captured a moment of shared exuberance, joy, and affection, unblemished by racial tension."[10] Holmes would later describe the photograph as the favorite of the many she had taken in her career as it "...told just what the world should be like".[10] The photograph was considered so controversial that an editor at LIFE sought personal approval from Henry Luce, the magazine's publisher, who said it should be published.[11] The publication of the image caused letters of protest to be written to the magazine, and singer Harry Belafonte subsequently said of the publication that "When that photo hit, in this national publication, it was if a barrier had been broken".[12] The controversy that resulted from the photograph had a seminal effect on the trajectory of Eckstine's career. Tony Bennett would recall that "It changed everything...Before that, he had a tremendous following...and it just offended the white community", a sentiment shared by pianist Billy Taylor who said that the "coverage and that picture just slammed the door shut for him".[13]
 
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