White People Didn't Steal Rock.

[MikeBrownsJob]

It was never "black"..Whites stole rockabilly and that's where the confusion comes in. Rockabilly definitely influenced the British invasion but white people themselves innovated to what made it popular. Please someone show me where black people in mass were making the rock music we are referring to. You can't because we weren't making it. Big Joe Turner, Chuck Berry are rockabilly artists and that's where your Elvis' come from and Carl Perkins.





Hendrix had to leave and reintroduce himself. It's like Bob Marley. Eric Clapton introduced him to American audiences. Black people didn't get hip until Clapton made "I Shot the Sherriff"..


A scene from the new documentary, “Marley,” shows an all-white crowd gathered to watch Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley perform in the U.S. in the late 1970s. Even though Marley was influenced by American rhythm and blues artists, his own music was slow to catch on with African-Americans during his lifetime.

“He had issue with it,” Marley’s son Ziggy Marley told “Nightline,” “because he wanted African-Americans to hear his message.”

Yeh your mom and pops might have put ya'll on Marley but they probably only got hip after Clapton introduced it. Black people were into soul and from there came funk and R&B..Our parents weren't listening to no Lou Reed, CCR. It was Stevie Wonder, O'Jays, etc.

 

[MiC]

Race based threads on the coli never seem to produce a positive discussion. Would be nice if it could but doesnt seem to

 

[Still Benefited]

Aint Elvis considered the King Of Rock N Roll though


If he came from nikkas sound like nikkas invented that shyt to me

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Aint Elvis considered the King Of Rock N Roll though


If he came from nikkas sound like nikkas invented that shyt to me

And that's laughable because there is nothing rock n roll about Elvis. Just like I don't view Chuck Berry as rock n roll.

 

[stealthbomber]

And that's laughable because there is nothing rock n roll about Elvis. Just like I don't view Chuck Berry as rock n roll.

well your views are against the entirety of music listeners

edit: actually that whole post is

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

well your views are against the entirety of music listeners

edit: actually that whole post is

Not at all. Usually when black people are referring to the sound that "white people" stole it's almost always in reference to the british invasion which in it's early days was influenced by rockabilly but morphed entirely into a different sound that in mass black people were not producing at all and more importantly a sound that black people weren't even listening to.

 

[Mr. Negative]

If you honestly feel like white people "stole" Rock 'n Roll, then grab The Band's dicography, pick up a banjo and do something about it.

 

[stealthbomber]

Not at all. Usually when black people are referring to the sound that "white people" stole it's almost always in reference to the british invasion which in it's early days was influenced by rockabilly but morphed entirely into a different sound that in mass black people were not producing at all and more importantly a sound that black people weren't even listening to.

i see what you're saying but thats like saying black people didn't start chillwave, basically a spawn of hip hop instrumentals with vocals sprinkled in. if there was no rap (and electronic to some extent), there would be such thing as instrumentals, thus no chillwave.

we can argue all day whether it would have happened anyway, but thats not the point. black people pioneering rock n roll, helped the movement start in the uk, which eventually turned into its own sound.

 

[alpo]

Kill yourself

 

[Nino Brown]

Looks @ thread starters rep

 

[retroracer]

I like how you are completely ignoring the fact that the bands that were part of the British invasion were based almost entirely off those guys' love for blues music.

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[Isaiah Bradley]

Future thread subject about HipHop
The reality is that if/when HipHop further branches into another form, that is heavily supported by non-blacks, then the same rational OP is pushing will be applied

 

[DaveyDave]

Not at all. Usually when black people are referring to the sound that "white people" stole it's almost always in reference to the british invasion which in it's early days was influenced by rockabilly but morphed entirely into a different sound that in mass black people were not producing at all and more importantly a sound that black people weren't even listening to.

no, they're usually referring tot he fact that white bands would redo a song COMPLETELY, a 100%, no changes cover except whiter and less "threatening" to the average listener (at least in the eyes of the label heads & parents) so the black version of the song was ignored or people didn't even know it existed, therefore people didn't know of the talent that was around making these songs.

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

I like how you are completely ignoring the fact that the bands that were part of the British invasion were based almost entirely off those guys' love for blues music.

So they were influenced. Lol That's an entirely different thing. Stole or stealing is implying that black people had ownership of the artform and white people came and took it out of their hands.