>Speaking about his early days as a DJ on a black radio station in Memphis, King recalled "The station manager told them don't bother correcting me if I couldn't speak proper English. I never could. You can't sing the blues if you speak properly. That's why a lot of white folks can't do blues. They don't got the pain or pride or heartbreak of being black."[87]He was right and it was why white British men grabbing their crotches and saying "BABY BABY BABY" 20x a song couldn't sing the blues either for that matter.
>>130253798> "whites don't understand the blues"> literally plays most of his career to 95% white audiences with white blues opening acts.
>>130253944All of his relevant career when he made all of the music anyone actually cared about was pre-white fanbase though.
>>130253798>He was right and it was why white British men grabbing their crotches and saying "BABY BABY BABY" 20x a song couldn't sing the blues either for that matter.RENT FREE
>>130253960none of that is relevant today or even the past 50 years to anyone but whites
>>130253981>none of that is relevant today or even the past 50 years to anyone but whites
He’s right you know
>>130253798Wouldn't he also say (if still alive) the few blacks who still play the blues also don't have the old feel either? His observation probably is more based on the fact that the record business exploded from a backwater where most of the players grew up poor into a mega industry in 60s and 70s where most players grew up middle class?I mean you could probably say the same about country music. The trailblazers almost all grew up dirt poor, until middle class kids took over when it became big.
>>130254086you could have argued that rap also died from becoming a plaything of middle class hipsters starting with Kanye
>>130253798>>130254071>>130254086True dat. The best artists were working class chuds.
blues is horse dook anyway
>>130253798>the black man's lament, using all the white man's inventionshttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v6dV3fQLzpM&ra=m
>>130254234
>caring about blooz lyrics>caring about lyrics at allThat's nice and all but has this nigger written a riff as cool as Heartbreaker?
>>130253960Do you actually have data for that or do you just assume?
>>130253981That's not true, im sure 5 seconds of a king riff was stolen for a hip hop beat.
>>130253798Zepsissies... what's our response?
>>130255425by black nerd, Kanye, who actually knows history from more than five years ago.
