Does SOHH respect Elvis?

[kid_wizard]

???

[TheGhostOfSHAWN22]

F&ck Elvis

[Voltron]

great artist.

[TheGhostOfSHAWN22]

great artist.


Explain This? :huh:

[pl2584]

the eninem of his day got rich by tappin into black culture.

[A Can Ov Juice]

F&ck Elvis

[kid_wizard]

the eninem of his day got rich by tappin into black culture.
So you think he had no appreciation for the music? No talent? He was just leeching because he knew he'd get rich?

Honestly, I have no opinion on dude. It's just not something that's ever been on my mind. But I was just thinking recently and wanted to get some people's perspective on it.

[Clem]

He never meant **** to me. Fuuck Elvis.

[eckohed]

Not as a person but I enjoy some of his music, and he was revolutionary as a symbol of entertainment. Not that his style of music and dance was completely his own, but the fact that he was accepted by pop culture in his era is a big reason why entertainment has progressed in the way that it did.

[x2y]

Chuck D-

Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant ---- to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother---- him and John Wayne


Mos Def

I said, Elvis Presley ain't got no soul (huh)
Chuck Berry is rock and roll (damn right)
You may dig on the Rolling Stones
But they ain't come up with that style on they own (uh-uh)
Elvis Presley ain't got no SOULLLL (hell naw)
Little Richard is rock and roll (damn right)
You may dig on the Rolling Stones
But they ain't come up with that **** on they own (nah-ah)

[kid_wizard]

^^^Do you have any of your own thoughts on the subject?

Also, I've heard people say Elvis was racist, but what is this based on? It seems to me that he had a greater appreciation of black music and culture before it was the cool thing to do.

[x2y]

^^^Do you have any of your own thoughts on the subject?

Also, I've heard people say Elvis was racist, but what is this based on? It seems to me that he had a greater appreciation of black music and culture before it was the cool thing to do.
No not really I never cared for Elvis, his music, movies or his impersonators. Though I find it interesting that he has left such a lasting impression on America.

http://villagebroadsheet.com/content/view/225/63/

Elvis was a racist. Back in June of 1957, while in Boston (or during an interview with Edward R. Murrow on CBS), he uttered the now-infamous declaration, “The only thing ******s can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes.” Pretty indefensible, right? This one sentence confirms the deeply-rooted belief that Elvis was a cynical racist who “stole” everything he knew from the black man, became an international celebrity, and laughed a nasty laugh all the way to the bank. That quote makes me hate Elvis, and everything he did.

[dAt N1ggA]

Atleast Elvis admitted to getting his music from blacks. But fukk dat crakka (no racist to my white friends on here)

[kid_wizard]

No not really I never cared for Elvis, his music, movies or his impersonators. Though I find it interesting that he has left such a lasting impression on America.
wow @ that racist comment. I'm gonna look into this a little more before I believe it 100%, but that's discusting.

[Emperor85]

if chuck d can addmit that elvis was talented and respect him for that so can i

[dAt N1ggA]

I stole this from an another message board

"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 juke 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 all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw." -- Elvis

"I loved it. It wasn’t the ordinary church music. It was borrowed from the Negroes and had a rolling thythmic style. It depended on the preacher. Sometimes you’d get one of those quiet ones who’d lead the singing and then it all came out pretty dull. But the smart ones knew how to whip up a congregation. They’d swing and jump, cuttin’ up all over the place. I learned from them" –- Elvis

"Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music, that was music to me. We borrowed the style of our psalm singing from the early Negroes. We used to go to these religious singings all the time.I loved the music. It became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing” –- Elvis

[JUSE_HEDD]

He put Rock N Roll In a spot that none of the African American aritst at the time ever could....truthfully he's the king of Rock n Roll...I could care less about his music or what he did but, that's what made him the greatest.

[O-Zone]

F&ck Elvisbasically

that culture vulture gets no love

[Walk Wit Me]

I stole this from an another message board

"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 juke 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 all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw." -- Elvis

"I loved it. It wasn’t the ordinary church music. It was borrowed from the Negroes and had a rolling thythmic style. It depended on the preacher. Sometimes you’d get one of those quiet ones who’d lead the singing and then it all came out pretty dull. But the smart ones knew how to whip up a congregation. They’d swing and jump, cuttin’ up all over the place. I learned from them" –- Elvis

"Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music, that was music to me. We borrowed the style of our psalm singing from the early Negroes. We used to go to these religious singings all the time.I loved the music. It became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing” –- Elvis


:laugh: @ this n1gga saying negroe alot :laugh:

[ILLFiL A BLuNT]

f*ck elvis that thievin racist

he reps a pathetic generation gap

[macknific]

:laugh: @ this n1gga saying negroe alot :laugh:
would it be better if he just said ****** all the time?

[Dtecs]

F&ck Elvis

[Emperor85]

He put Rock N Roll In a spot that none of the African American aritst at the time ever could....truthfully he's the king of Rock n Roll...I could care less about his music or what he did but, that's what made him the greatest.


it was only acceptable cause he was white and most white parents at the time forbid their children to listen to "n1gger" music as you crackas put it

he aint the king of sh1t

[JUSE_HEDD]

it was only acceptable cause he was white and most white parents at the time forbid their children to listen to "n1gger" music as you crackas put it

he aint the king of sh1t

I was kiddin man chill out..just wanted to spark a debate

[yaga]

"...what the f*ck did you just say about the King?"

Elvis was an icon. Great, dumbed down music.

[Clem]

In the Funk World

If Elvis Presley/ is
King
Who is James Brown,
God?

- Amiri Baraka

[Muse]

I respect him... honestly you'd think in this day and age of information, people would base their opinions on more than just a quote or two from their favourite rapper taken out of context or some unproven statement he suppos-edly made. If you think he's overrated thats one thing, but I still think he was definitely talented (aside from the hits, he had some gems), and a genuinely decent person from what I've heard.


http://www.elvis-express.com/racist.html

[Protoman]

F&ck Elvis

[rap sux]

the eninem of his day got rich by tappin into black culture.
Wrong. Em respects the music, is talented and respects the culture. Elvis did none of that.

[_OrgaN!zedNYC_]

he aint the king of sh1t