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Originally posted by Kayhan
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From early in his career, Elvis credited much of his success to pioneering black musicians. In June 1956, he made the following statement about rock ’n’ roll to a reporter in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man for more years than I know. They played it like that in the shanties and in their jukee joints, and nobody paid it no mind ’til I goosed it up. I got it from them. Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel like old Arthur felt, I’d be a music man like nobody ever saw.”
Can't stand how he addressed us as "colored folks", dat bish