Honesty is what Elvis lacked in that he paid no tribute to the originators who kept Rock ‘n’ Roll going before it became mainstream and hit the airwaves. When it became mainstream it was seen as a rebellious music that had young teeny-boppers in the air dancing profusely to the point where the teen girls constantly had their skirt-tails in the air showing their skimpies and tighty-whities. Fact of the matter is that Rock ‘n’ Roll started as much like rap did. It was a rebellious type of music that was dually a voice for the then younger generation, because of the norms of the time the youth were to be seen not heard and so had no voice.

Equally without a voice were the minority, African-American blue-collar laborers. These working, lower-class impoverished African-American men, women, and children worked so vigilantly from the week’s beginning to the week’s end that they were too tired to indulge in any leisure beyond literally rocking to a rhythm in a rocking chair and rolling those weekend rhythms over into the coming weeks’ work which they enhanced with Rock ‘n’ Roll that started out as a tune, a mere hummed tune that was effectively the then version of no-doze. Those tunes were so spiritually inclined that their fatigued bodies rocking and reeling about on tired rubbery legs could just barely complete their tasks. When tired individuals work expeditiously still, they are said to be rolling or on a roll, hence the inception of Rockin’ and Rollin’ later to become the markettable music Rock ‘n’ Roll. All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy and so came the Chuck Berry classic “go, go Johnny go, go, go Johnny go, go, go Johnny go, go, go”. So Chuck Berry is the inspiration behind the girl’s Rock group The Go-Gos. Not to mention the other founding contributors such as Fats Dominoe with the classic “Blueberry Hill” where he found his thrill and the awesome to this day Muddy Waters’s “Green Onions” guitar and organ theme. Little Richard was knockin’ em out with “Good Golly Ms. Molly” and “Long Tall Sally”, whaaaaaat!!!!!!!, tsssssssk, and Thomas Everstein says that Elvis founded what? Where do you think Elvis got his soulful pelvis grinding from, moving his hips and all, that came from the smoky grooves of the bluesmen’s jawnts back when the club was just a shack, yo go peep the Ralph Macchio and Joe Seneca movie “CrossRoads” with Jamie “Jersey Girl” Gertz, that movie is awesome. Also peep the movie “The Five Heartbeats”, those movies will give you some genuine history of the origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Rock ‘n’ Roll is the progenitor of Rap, Rock, Grunge, Heavy Metal, Gothic, and Death Metal just as Blues gave rise to Rock ‘n’ Roll and R&B (Rhythm and Blues). The one star is because just as Mick Jagger and Tina Turner give proper mention to their genres previous greats so should Elvis until then, he has no standing if he does not mention those who created the platform upon which he was even heard, even Eminem mentioned the phenomenon whereby he might be perceived as an Elvis, who capitalized off of the music of African-Americans, calling himself the King and then posing as the founder of the music without thanking them for allowing him to learn the fundamentals of their grass-roots artform. Elvis is the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll mainstream radio cross-over. When you dis Rap you dis yourself. Its a wrap.
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