As for Elvis, his first big hit was Blue Moon of Kentucky, a famous bluegrass song. I think also his first #1 song was I Forgot to Remember to Forget which was a Country song and was #1 on the Country charts, that was before he even released his first rock and roll album. His nickname was the Hillbilly Cat and he made appearances playing Country on the Louisiana Hayride and the Grand Ole Opry.      And what about hip-hop? Is rap a form of original black music? ALL of the electronic tools used by rappers - drum machines, synthesizers, sequencers, samplers etc. were created by Whites and Asians. The rappers even take samples from White rock music.    So very true, and not only the machines and equipment but the techniques and very sounds/beats themselves.   The funny thing is, the rap beats that they used in their old skool, original rap music of the early 1980s were ripped off from the pioneering Electronic/Synthpop group Kraftwerk! Germans!:D The song that is generally now considered the first true hip-hop song is Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa. He took the beat from the songs Numbers and Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk and combined them together and just rapped over it. He was sued by Kraftwerk and they won the lawsuit, in the credits for the song it now has to mention Kraftwerk:clink It's ironic but without Kraftwerk there would be no hip-hop/rap music as we know it. Thieving, copy cat negroes.... Like you say...monkey see, monkey do...    From Kraftwerk's page on the kikeapedia...      Afrika Bambaataa ’s  Planet Rock  (1982) was a major defining hit for  hip-hop  and the birth of  electro music , which contains elements of 'Trans-Europe Express and Numbers. Legal action was pursued against Bambaataa and won for the blatant use of these particular sounds and melodies without giving proper credit to the group. Since the lawsuit, proper credit is now given on the song’s writing credits. Numerous artists have continued to  sample  and pilfer various elements from Kraftwerk's catalog.    Europeans like Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder were the original beat makers, they started all of the Electronic dance music, they were the pioneers of that music, and the beats the Blacks used in old school 80s hip hop were influenced by and in some instances copied sampled directly from them. I know this is supposed to be about rock and roll but since I brought it up these are the two Kraftwerk songs that were ripped off by Afrika Bambaataa for his ground breaking hip hop song, the first rap song to use electronic beats, before that they just rapped over ripped off funk, soul and rock beats.    recorded way back in 1976...no one at that time was doing anything close to this, except maybe the Italian producer, Giorgio Moroder. They were light years ahead of the times. The beat of this song was supposed to simulate the sound of traveling on a train.     YouTube - #11 Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express                   YouTube - Kraftwerk - Numbers                So as you can see...even hip hop is not a purely Black originated form of music! Reciting simplistic, trashy, vulgar, spoken word poetry over stolen aka sampled beats/music...wow, how creative.:rolleyes: