  Those black people were influnced by white people, they used white scales, tunings, instruments etc, they copied white folk music. Without white people, no rock n roll/blues.   Without White people the only music they would be making would involve beating wildly on a drum made of a hollowed out stump and animal hide and shouting and stomping their feet.:) TRUTH! Just go to modern day Africa and see for yourself! The only thing musically the Blacks brought to America from Africa was a seemingly natural knack for rhythm(a common trait in primitive, tribal people, Whites outgrew that phase long ago), and alot of shouting and hollering. Oh and the proto-type for the banjo (which was created by a White man) which itself had been introduced to West Africans by Arabs and Berbers. Everything else they picked up from Whites. I really don't think Blacks have hardly any sense of melody and harmony, only rhythm and shouting. Blacks in America were assimilated into White culture although they don't like to admit it. But they have retained their natural instinct for primal rhythms and loud shouting and hollering.    Just listen to Little Richard...what does he do? Pounds on his piano as hard as he can and shouts idiotic things and noises at the top of his lungs, like bop wop a loo wop! tooty fruity! or just, woooo! lol. What did Louis Armstrong do? Just blew on his horn as hard, loud and fast as he could and would shout out nonsensical scat talk now and then. What did Chuck Berry do? He sang about his ding a ling and installed cameras in the woman's bathroom at his restaurant he owned or whatever it was.:rolleyes: What do rappers do? Rip off beats from European Electronic musicians, rock stars, funk and r&b songs and talk crap over them. Personally, I could do without all of this. But that's just me.     No Black people, no Elvis? I beg to differ, Elvis's first #1 single was a Country song, before he ever even released a rock and roll album. He probably would've played rock and roll regardless of any Blacks, he said himself my stuff is just hopped-up Country, but if not he would've went on to become a Country star or Pop star anyhow. He was already making hit singles and making appearances on the Grand Ole Opry before he went rock and roll. Who cares about Elvis anyways? I wouldn't miss him. Lets put it this way...no White people=no Little Richard, no BB King, no Ray Charles, no Louis Armstrong, no Miles Davis, no Stevie Wonder, no Black man's Blues, no Funk, no R&B/Soul aka Black Pop music, and believe it or not, no rap/hip-hop as we know it because the first rappers ripped off Kraftwerk's Electropop/Synthpop beats to rap over back in the early 80s, those old school hip hop beats of the 1980s wouldn't have existed without Kraftwerk. They would have just been rapping over stolen Funk, R&B and Rock beats.